About
Susanna Hofer lives and works in Vienna and Pack/Styria. Her work centers on botanical constructions, literary object symbolism, and sculptural thinking, situating itself between still life, tableaux vivants, and commercial photography. Through collecting, arranging, and archiving everyday objects, she translates between media to produce precisely composed images that move between surreal poetics and socio-documentary reflection.
Expanding the genre of still life through installative approaches, she draws on elements from nature and material culture, employing the visual language of product and advertising photography. Her practice investigates the immanent qualities of objects as well as their symbolic, cultural, and social meanings. Displaced from their original contexts and reconfigured in unfamiliar constellations, these objects acquire a renewed poetic agency.
Alongside her artistic work, she is active in editorial design for magazines and works within still life and documentary photography.
In 2025, she was awarded the Austrian State Scholarship for Photography.
WORKED WITH
Brut, Zeit Magazin, Zeit Verbrechen, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Die Zeit, FAZ Quarterly, Das Magazin, Der Freitag, Gossamer, Spike Art Magazin, Monopol, Hohe Luft Magazin, STILL Magazin, Zweikommasieben, Missy Magazin, die Epilog, Tanzquartier Wien, Vöslauer
EXHIBITIONS
2026, Everyday Mythologies, Angelika Kaufmann Museum, Vorarlberg, AT
2025 What the Mountains hold, Bodo, NOR
2025 We Curatorial, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE
2025 INNUMERABLE PETALS, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT
2025 WAS IHR WOLLT, Kunsthalle Graz, Graz, AUT
2025 Kunstraum Steiermark, Joannum, Graz, AT
2024 European Eyes on Japan, Europäische Kulturhauptstadt Salzkammergut:
Everything up to yesterday was just a prologue, AT
2024 Vienna Contemporary, AT
2024 MATERIAL TRACES, KS Contemporary, Feldbach, AT
2024 INNUMERABLE PETALS, Zeta Contemporary Art Center, Tirana, ALB
2023 Parallel Vienna, Kunstraum Steiermark, AT
2023 Bec/Bijelina, Bijlina, BIH
2022 Kommod, Dunkelblau riecht salzig, gelb schmeckt bitter, Vienna, AT
2021 New views on same olds, Xhibit, Vienna, AT
2021 Die Götting von Barbara Zeman, Performative Reading with Barbara Zeman and Daniel Ferstl Mumok Vienna, AT
2020 Church of Ego, Austrian Cultural Forum Serbia, Belgrad, SRB
2020 A Still Life of Bread an Butter Vienna Art Week, Vienna, AT
2018, YHYFIHM, Voies Off des Rencontres d’Arles, FR
2018 Soil isn´t a document, WHITEDWARF PROJECTS, Vienna, AT
2017 Tools of enlightenment, European Forum Alpbach /group, AUT
PUBLICATIONS
Heuer Heiter, self-published, 2023
Well Well Wellness, self-published, 2022
DISZIPLIN, Pool Publishing, 2020
Temporäre Unordnung, De Gruyter, 2020
Looking Glass, Photographic Essays on the Mechanisms of Life, De Gruyter, 2019
Dreaming Is Okay, self-published, 2019
You have your Family I have mine, Vol I-III self -published 2014-2017