Mario Pfeifer was born in 1981 in Dresden, Germany. His work explores representational structures and conventions in the medium of film, in locations ranging from Mumbai to California to the Western Sahara. Conceiving each project out of a specific cultural situation, he researches social-political backgrounds and weaves further cross-cultural art historical, filmic and political references into a richly layered practice, ranging from film and video installations to photographs and text installations. Often, Pfeifer collaborates on publications that reconsider these projects, offering research materials and critical investigations by writers and thinkers of related fields, concerning issues suggested in his projects for a wider social-political discussion. After his studies in Leipzig (HGB) and Berlin (UDK), Pfeifer graduates from Willem de Rooij's class at Städelschule Frankfurt in 2008. He is a Fulbright fellow in Los Angeles (California Institute of the Arts) in 2008/09. Further grants and projects lead him to Bangkok, Mumbai, Marrakesh, Beirut, Tierra del Fuego, Santiago de Chile, and New York. In 2018 he participates in the 10. Berlin Biennale. Pfeifer lives in Berlin.

Full Biography

• Mario Pfeifer, 2013-2018

• Mario Pfeifer, 2007-2013

• Mario Pfeifer, Sticker Art, 2013

• On Fear and Education, Disenchantment and Justice, Protest and Disunion in Saxony / Germany  ›  Dec 1, 2016 – Apr 15, 2017

• Antirepresentationalism 2: Trouble with Realism. Conceptual and Socially oriented Art in Leipzig 1997–2009  ›  Oct 17 – Nov 21, 2009

• Antirepresentationalism 1: Politics of Redescription. Conceptual and Socially oriented Art in Leipzig 1997–2009  ›  Sep 4 – Oct 10, 2009

• Approximation In The Digital Age To A Humanity Condemned To Disappear  ›  May 2 – Jun 25, 2015

• Out Of The Dark  ›  Jun 26 – Jul 31, 2016

• A Summer Of Films  ›  Jun 28 – Jul 26, 2015

• A Formal Film In Nine Episodes, Prologue & Epilogue  ›  Sep 10 – Oct 28, 2011

• Antirepresentationalism 3: Issues of Empathy Conceptual and Socially oriented Art in Leipzig 1997–2009  ›  Nov 28, 2009 – Jan 15, 2010

• Was euch am Leben hält, ist, was bei uns zu Asche zerfällt *  ›  Sep 8 – Nov 10, 2018

• LISTE BASEL 2016  ›  Jun 14 – Jun 19, 2016

• SUMMER FILM FESTIVAL AT KOW  ›  Jun 28 – Jun 28, 2015

• THE ARMORY SHOW NEW YORK 2016  ›  Mar 3 – Mar 6, 2016

• LISTE BASEL 2015  ›  Jun 16 – Jun 21, 2015

• ART COLOGNE 2015  ›  Apr 16 – Apr 19, 2015

• ART COLOGNE 2013  ›  Apr 19 – Apr 22, 2013

• INDEPENDENT NEW YORK 2013  ›  Mar 7 – Mar 10, 2013

• LOOP BARCELONA 2012  ›  May 31 – Jun 2, 2012

• LISTE BASEL 2011  ›  Jun 14 – Jun 20, 2011

• ART DÜSSELDORF 2017  ›  Nov 17 – Nov 19, 2017

• VIENNA CONTEMPORARY 2018  ›  Sep 26 – Sep 29, 2018

• ARTISSIMA TURIN 2018  ›  Nov 2 – Nov 4, 2018