Artist Statement
ONE THIRD
A project about food waste
2011 - 2012
According to a UN study one third of the world's food goes to waste - the largest part thereof in the industrialized nations of the global north. Equally, 925 million people around the world are threatened by starvation.
The series ‚One Third‘ describes the connection between individual wastage of food and globalized food production. Rotting food, arranged into elaborate still lifes, portrays an abstract picture of the wastage of food whilst the accompanying texts take a more in depth look at the roots of this issue.
‚One Third‘ goes past the sell by date in order to document the full dimensions of the global food waste.
1996 - 2005 Landscape Architecture, University of Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria (Diploma 2005)
2005 - current Freelance Photographer between photojournalism and free projects.
Klaus Pichler has had no photographic education at all and he likes it this way.
Auszeichnungen / Awards
2012 2nd Prize 'International Portfolio Review', Vienna, Austria
2012 3rd Prize 'Photo Annual Awards', Teplice/Prague, Czech Republic
2011 2nd Prize 'Bratislava International Portfolio Review', Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Shortlist 'Objektiv - Austrian Press Photo Award 2011'
2011 2nd Prize 'Photo Annual Awards', Teplice/Prague, Czech Republic
2011 2nd Prize 'best in show' Award, 'Provocation' exhibition, New York Photo Festival, New York
2005 Kunstpreis der Stadt Knittelfeld
Ausstellungen / Exhibitions
2013 (upcoming) 'One Third' (solo exhibition), Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2013 (upcoming) 'One Third' at 'Food', San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
2013 (upcoming) 'gestochen scharf. Das Tattoo in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
2013 (upcoming) 'One Third', (solo exhibition) EIKON Schaufenster, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
2013 (upcoming) 'Skeletons in the Closet', FetArt Circulations Festival, Paris, France
2012 'ANEW', United Photo Industries Gallery, New York, USA
2012 'Selected ::: Austrian Photography', Galerie 33 Temporary Con:Temporary, Vienna, Austria
2012 photo_graz Selection 012, ESC im LABOR, Graz, Austria
2012 'Dust', Galerie am Lobkowitzplatz, Vienna, Austria
2012 'Skeletons in the Closet', (solo exhibition), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria
2012 'One Third' (solo exibition), United Nations FAO Headquarter, Rome, Italy
2012 'Menschenwürde contra Zynismus', St. Leopold Friedenspreis, Stift Klosterneuburg, Austria
2012 'Lodz in Vienna', Galerie dasviadukt, Vienna, Austria
2012 'review - preview', Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2012 'Still Life', Black Box Gallery, Portland, USA
2012 'Simple, Houston International Centre for Photography, Houston, USA
2012 WestLicht Photo Auktion, Galerie WestLicht, Wien Österreich
2012 Kuala Lumpur Photo Award Show, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2012 'Dust' at We Bandits, Brick 5, Vienna, Austria
2012 'Dust', Preview of the new Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2012 'Travel', Hotel Villa Kastania, Berlin, Germany
2012 'Skeletons in the Closet', 'on screen - Contemporary Austrian Photography', Fotohof Galerie, Salzburg, Austria
2012 'Dust' (solo exhibition), Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna
2012 'Skeletons in the Closet', Photo LA, galerie OPEN booth, Los Angeles, USA
2011 'Fürs Leben gezeichnet' book presentation, galerie OPEN, Berlin, Germany
2011 'Form Life', Die Ausstellungsstrasse Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2011 'Pichler/Stöbich. Bilder' together with Martin Stöbich, Feschmarkt, Ragnarhof, Vienna, Austria
2011 'Skeletons in the Closet', Delhi Photo Festival, New Delhi, India
2011 'Middle Class Utopia', galerie OPEN, Berlin, Germany
2011 'Dust', CHIC Art Fair, Paris, France
2011 Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 'Skeletons in the Closet', Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2011 'Skeletons in the Closet', Sélection Prix Voies Off 2011, 'Voies Off' Festival, Arles, France
2011 'Skeletons in the Closet', Objektiv - Austrian Press Photo Award Exhibition, Metropol, Vienna, Austria
2011 'Whose self-portrait? The subject behind the camera', Joy Wai Gallery, New York, USA
2011 'Skeletons in the Closet', Photo Annual Awards exhibition, Teplice, Czech Republic
2011 'Skeletons in the Closet' (solo show), anika handelt Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2011 'Provocation' Exhibition, PowerHouse Arena, NYPH - New York Photo Festival, New York, USA
2011 'Etchings' (solo show), a story of your life Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2010 'Selected Works 2007 - 2010', Teeenitus Festival, Alte Parteischule, Erfurt, Germany
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