BEATRIX SALCHER
 
http://www.okular.com
http://www.glassbrains.com
Vitae
   
2004 - present Visual artist in Santa Barbara (USA) and Leiden (NL)
2004 - 2008 Web designer/ illustrator at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
1998 - 2004 Visual artist in Innsbruck (A)
2002 - 2004 Fashion design teacher at the HBLA, Innsbruck (A)
2000 - 2001 Visual artist in Oxford (GB)
1992- 1997 Visual artist in Duisburg (G)
1995 Guest artist in Scuol (CH)
1990- 1991 Fashion illustrator for Michel Schreiber, Paris (F)
1987- 1988 Fashion designer/illustrator at Vicky Mora, Tyrol (A)
 
2000 - 2001 Web design education at the WIFI, Innsbruck (A)
1989- 1991 Art studies at the Ateliers Beaux Arts , Paris (F)
1982- 1987 Fashion design/art studies at the Modeschule der Stadt Wien im Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna (A)

Awards - fellowships

2008 Art Award, "Views & Visions: The Shoe", Westmont College (USA)
2003 "Förderpreis des Landes Tirol für Bildende Kunst 2002" (Scholarship for Fine Arts 2002 given by the Federal state Tirol), Innsbruck, (A)
2000 Shortlist, "Sciart" with the project "Quantum Art", (with Prof. D.Bouwmeester), London (UK), (www.sciart.org and catalog)
1999 Art Award, "Kunst und Bau" ("Art and Architecture"), University of Innsbruck, (A)
1996 Art Scholarship "W.A. Mozart prize", J. W. v. Goethe Foundation, Bâle (CH)
1996 Art Fellowship, Austrian Artist Association Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck (A)
1995 Art Scholarship, "BINZ 39", Foundation Binz, Zürich (CH)

Selected exhibitions
   
2014 "Aufbruch - die Lage bestimmt" or "glassbrains", Art Exhibition Hall "Kunst im Gang", University of Innsbruck (A), (solo exhibition)
2012 "255 K. 20 Jahre Galerie im Andechshof", Museum of the Town of Innsbruck (A), (catalog)
2010
"Views & Visions: Travellers", Reynolds Gallery (USA)
2008
"Views & Visions: The Shoe", Reynolds Gallery (USA)
2003 "Kraftwerk peripher", TIWAG, Hydropower Plant Imst (A), (catalog)
2003 "IN SANGUINE VITA ET MORS", Art Exhibition Hall "Kunst im Gang", University of Innsbruck (A)
2002 "14 ways to sleep", Nothburga Gallery, Innsbruck (A) (solo exhibition)
2001 "quantum teleportation", (with Prof. D.Bouwmeester), Science Museum, London (UK)
2000 "tirol.2000", Art Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Art History, Innsbruck (A)
1999 "Zeitenwende Zeitenende", Art Exhibition Hall in the Convent of Wilten, Innsbruck (A), (catalog)
1998 "Blick in die Natur²", Art Exhibition Hall of the Faculty of Art History, Innsbruck ( (A) (solo exhibition)
1998 "collezione tirolo", Complesso Monumentale del S.Michele a Ripa, Rome (I), (art video und catalog)
1998 "Tirol Direct Madrid", MEC, Sala Millares, Madrid (SP), (catalog)
1996 "EUROPAS WEGE", Land (and) Art in 10 European countries
1995 INN", Annual Art Exhibition of Tirol, Convent of Stams (A) (catalog) (solo exhibition)
1994 "licht und schatten", Academy of Music Remscheid (G), (catalog) (solo exhibition)
Premiere of 7 music compositions made for the exhibition
1993 "DAS FRAUENZIMMER", Andechshof Gallery, Innsbruck (A), (catalog) (solo exhibition)
1993 "fest am Boden", Boden 4, Wörgl (A), (catalog)
1992 "Kunst in Tirol im 20. Jahrhundert", Art Exhibition Hall of the University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck (A), (catalog)
1991 "BeziehungSweise Zärtlichkeit", Museum Grünes Haus, Reutte (A), (catalog) (solo exhibition)

Works in public collections

Kunstankäufe des Bundes, Artothek des Bundes (National Art Collection of Austria)
Kunstankäufe des Landes Tirol (Federal State Art Collection of Tyrol)
Sammlung der Stadt Innsbruck (Municipal Art Collection of Innsbruck)