2024

November 15 to 17, 2024
EGO - interactive installation
Digital Body Festival at Hackney Wick, London / UK

July 2 to August 25, 2024
EGO - interactive installation
FILE Festival Sao Paulo / Brazil

2023

October 6 to 8, 2023
DOPAMINE - interactive audiovisual installation
White Night, Kosice / Slovakia

September 29 to October 1, 2023
DOPAMINE - interactive audiovisual installation
White Night, Bratislava / Slovakia

March 24, 2023
FACING LIFE [In Doc Tri Nation]
interactive audiovisual installation
international gallery space Centrul de Interes
Cluj-Napoca / Romania

2022

September 23 to 25, 2022
EGO - interactive installation
White Night, Kosice / Slovakia

September 16 to 18, 2022
EGO - interactive installation
White Night, Bratislava / Slovakia

April 15, 2022
DOPAMINE - interactive installation
international gallery space Centrul de Interes
Cluj / Romania

2021

October 26 to 29, 2021
EGO - interactive installation
DA-Fest international digital arts festival
Academy Gallery, Sofia / Bulgaria

October 21 to 24, 2021
DANCING HOUSE - interactive projection mapping
DARK Festival, Arnsberg / Germany

July 23 to October 24, 2021
EGO - interactive installation
Macao International Art Biennale
Mong-Ha Villas, Macao / China

March 16 to October 4, 2021
EGO - interactive installation
exhibition: Seductions of Light
Media Art in Dialogue with Nature and Society
Staatliches Museum Schwerin / Germany

March 13 to August 1, 2021
EGO - interactive installation
exhibition: MirNs
New Media Gallery
Vancouver / Canada

March 13 to June 12, 2021
EGO - interactive installation
exhibition: expocollective#18 - Me, Myself and I
Saint-Ex, culture numérique
Reims / France

March 13 to June 13, 2021
EGO - interactive installation
Humans/Machines exhibition
Le Pavillon, Namur / Belgium

2020

September 22 to 26, 2020
DANCING HOUSE - interactive projection mapping
FACYL Festival de las Artes y la Cultura de Castilla y León
Patio Escuelas Mayores, University of Salamanca / Spain

January 23 to 26, 2020
DANCING HOUSE - interactive projection mapping
International Light Art Biennial EVI LICHTUNGEN,
Hildesheim / Germany

2019

November 1, 2019
ENTITATIVITY - interactive installation
organised by Spatiu Intact
Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca / Romania

November 1, 2019
pla[y]net B - interactive installation
with students of the Master Digital Interactive Arts
Spatiu Intact, Centrul de Interes
Babes-Bolyai-University Cluj-Napoca / Romania

2018

November 1 to 3, 2018
DANCING HOUSE at LUZA '18
Algarve International Festival of Light
Câmara Municipal de Loulé / Portugal

July 18 to 22
three interactive installations
Electric Castle Festival, Cluj / Romania

July 14 to August 19, 2018
EGO - interactive installation
POLYLUX - Positionen zur Medienkunst
Schloss Plueschow - Mecklenburgisches Kuenstlerhaus
Plueschow / Germany

July 14, 2018
DANCING HOUSE - interactive projection mapping
opening of POLYLUX - Positionen zur Medienkunst
Schloss Plueschow - Mecklenburgisches Kuenstlerhaus
Plueschow / Germany

June 28, 2018
DANCING HOUSE - interactive projection mapping
Performance Europe 2018
Bialik Square, Tel Aviv / Israel

2017

November 9, 2017
subterranean interactions
interactive performances and installations
with multimedia master students of Babes-Bolyai-University Cluj
catacombs of the Art Museum in Cluj-Napoca / Romania

September 29, 2017 to January 28, 2018 - extended until Feb 11
DANCING HOUSE - interactive projection mapping
“best-of” lichtsicht 1–5, lichtsicht 6 projection biennale
Bad Rothenfelde / Germany

August 10 to 13, 2017
DANCING HOUSE - interactive projection mapping
Palacio Nacional de Sintra
EGO - interactive audio-visual installation
MU.SA - Museu de Artes de Sintra
Aura2017 Festival, Sintra / Portugal

July 12 to 16, 2017
ENTITATIVITY - interactive audio-visual installation
EGO - interactive audio-visual installation
IS THAT YOU? - interactive light and sound sculpture
Electric Castle Festival, Banffy Castle, Cluj-Napoca / Romania

April 27, 2017 to October 8, 2017
VISAGE R-0-R, interactive audio-visual installation
ERROR 404: TERRITORIES OF ABSENCE - Curator: Horea Avram
Artists: Alexandru Antik (RO), Gary Hill (US), Kinema Ikon (RO), Mihaela Kavdanska (RO/BG/AT), Yann Le Guennec (FR), Klaus Obermaier (AT), Pipilotti Rist (CH), Dilmana Yordanova (RO/BG)
+ opening performance FACELESS by Klaus Obermaier
Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana,
Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania

2016

November 3, 4, 7 and 8, 2016
EGO, interactive installation
KIKK international festival of digital and creative cultures
Namur / Belgium

October 28, 2016
Is That You? - interactive light sculpture
with students from Babes-Bolyai-University and guests
Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj-Napoca / Romania

2015

December 2 to 4, 2015
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Effusion: code and meaning production
2nd performing arts, science and technology forum
Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi Centenario
San Luis Potosi / Mexico

December 2 to 4, 2015
EGO, interactive installation
Effusion: code and meaning production
2nd performing arts, science and technology forum
Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi Centenario
San Luis Potosi / Mexico

October 10, 2015
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Biela Noc / White Night, Erdody Palace
Bratislava / Slovakia

October 9 to 11, 2015
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Light.Move.Festival, Lodz / Poland

July 24 and 25, 2015
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Gutshaus Landsdorf / Germany

May 14 to 17, 2015
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Palais Stutterheim, Figurentheater-Festival Erlangen / Germany

May 8 to 17, 2015
four interactive installations:
Face IT / EGO / ENTITATIVITY / BB
Redoutensaal Foyer, Gummi-Wörner
and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen
Figurentheater-Festival Erlangen / Germany

May 1 to 31, 2015
featured artist, Public Art Screens: Rhythm is a Dancer
i/o/lab Center for Future Arts, Stavanger / Norway

March 20, 21 and 26, 27 and 28, 2015
Face IT, interactive installation
STRP Biennale Festival, Eindhoven / The Netherlands

January 29 to February 1, 2015
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Light Festival Ghent / Belgium

2014

October 4, 2014
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
White Night, Kosice / Slovakia

September 27 and 28, 2014
exhibition: Artists and Cities
Linzer Kunstsalon, Landesgalerie Linz / Austria

September 5 to 26, 2014
Artists, Boobs and Cities
ARTISTS - portraits of artists
BB - interactive installation
CITIES - condensed urban landscapes
solo exhibition at Kunstverein Paradigma
Linz / Austria

2013

October 31 to November 3, 2013
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Face IT, interactive projection and sound installation
Canal Sainctelette, Festival des Lumières Bruxelles / Belgium

September 27 to October 6, 2013
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
International forum for light in art and design
LichtRouten, Luedenscheid / Germany

August 1 to 4, 2013
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Colours of Cluj, Cluj-Napoca / Romania

May 4, 2013
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Noche en Blanco, La Ermita, Barranco, Lima / Peru

2012

November 17 and 18, 2012
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
Sukiennice, Main Market Square
Festival Materia Prima, Krakow / Poland

June 21 to 24, June 28 to July 1, July 5 to 8, 2012
DANCING HOUSE, interactive projection mapping
ArtOrt, Heidelberg / Germany

2011 - 2012

October 1, 2011 to January 8, 2012
DANCING HOUSE, premiere, interactive projection mapping
LichtSicht, 3rd Projection Biennale
Kurmittelhaus facade, Bad Rothenfelde / Germany

October 1, 2011 to January 8, 2012
YouShape, interactive installation
LichtSicht, 3rd Projection Biennale
Gradierwerk, Bad Rothenfelde / Germany

2011

September 23, 2011
social patterns, video and sound installation
TEC ART ECO Festival, open air
MAGA Museum, arena space big wall, Gallarate / Italy

May 27, 2011
social patterns, video projection and sound installation
facade of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Bialystok / Poland

2010

September 24, 2010
social patterns / DOPE, doors of perception
video and sound installations
Ruhrlights: Twilight Zone in Duisburg
Ludwigturm, Garten der Erinnerung, Duisburg Innenhafen
RUHR.2010, Duisburg / Germany

September 17-19, 2010
DOPE, doors of perception
RUHR.2010, projection on city hall tower
Ruhrlights: Twilight Zone in Muelheim-Ruhr / Germany

September 17, 2010
RUHR.poetry, interactive video and text installation
opening project of Ruhrlights: Twilight Zone
RUHR.2010, Ringlokschuppen, Muelheim-Ruhr / Germany

June 26 to July 31, 2010
SEOUL II - digital photography, gelatin silver print
synchronisation - group exhibition
Gallery Hartmann, Vienna / Austria

July 1, 2 and 3, 2010
LEGS, interactive installation
RUSKAJA, interactive projection mapping
with F. Cavallari, M. Menegon, M. Piazza
Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma / Italy

May, June, July, 2010
SOCIAL PATTERNS, video installation, premiere
22 Media Poles with LCD screens
U-Street, Gang-Nam, Seoul / South Korea

2009

August 7 to October 25, 2009
APPARITION, video installation
Incheon International Digital Art Festival
Incheon / South Korea

2008

February 13 to April 27, 2008
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS, video installation
100 Best Designs of the Year 2007
Design Museum London / Great Britain

2007 - 2008

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS, stereoscopic video installation
museum of the future, Ars Electronica Center, Linz / Austria

2007

November 9 to 18, 2007
SHINE ON, public sound and video installation, expanded space
GLOW, forum of light in art and architecture
Eindhoven / The Netherlands

2007
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS, stereoscopic video installation
Austrian Parliament, Vienna / Austria

September 5 to 11, 2007
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS , stereoscopic installation
Ars Electronica Center, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz / Austria

2005

September 16 to 26, 2005
SHINE ON, public sound and video installation, expanded space
PARKLANDSCHAFTEN, Luedenscheid / Germany

July 16, 2005
D.A.V.E., interactive flash installation
ImpulsTanz Festival
Arena, Vienna / Austria

2004

September 17 to October 3, 2004
BELOW, space intervention
old storage hall of the railway station
LichtRouten, Luedenscheid / Germany

2002

March 23 and 24, 2002
D.A.V.E., interactive flash installation
intermedium2, ZKM, Karlsruhe / Germany

2001

July 22, 2001
SHINE ON, sound and video installation, premiere
wedding festival at Castle of Katzlsdorf / Austria

1997

August 14-24, 1997
Kunst.Über.Leben, Festival of Regions
interactive installation and CD-Rom
with thousands of pupils of music schools
Main Square Linz and 16 locations in Upper-Austria

1995

May 15 to 20, 1995
IMMATERIAUX, interactive laser and sound installation
Kenkeleba Gallery, New York City / USA

March 28 to April 2, 1995
IMMATERIAUX, interactive laser and sound installation
Sudhaus Gallery, Tuebingen / Germany

1995
IMMATERIAUX, interactive laser and sound installation
Lentos Museum, Linz / Austria


Klaus Obermaier studied visual arts at the University of Art and Design Linz/Austria and has been trained as a graphic designer at the HTL Linz.
Since 2005/2006 he is visiting professor at the University IUAV of Venice teaching directing and interactive arts, since 2013/2014 he is also visiting professor at Babes-Bolyai-University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He holds lectures and workshops at international universities and institutions.









projects
DOPAMINE
interactive audiovisual installation
WAITING FOR THE END
audiovisual installation
FACING LIFE
IN DOC TRI NATION

interactive installation
DANCING HOUSE
interactive projection mapping,
sound installation
EGO  
interactive installation
Le Sacre du Printemps
dance, orchestra,
real-time generated stereoscopic proj.
4 COLORS  
interactive audiovisual installation
VISAGE R-0-R
interactive audiovisual installation
HEAVY-HEADED /
DADA-MINDED
 
interactive performance
with audience participation
TRANSCRANIAL  
Klaus Obermaier
Daito Manabe
Kyle McDonald
ENTITATIVITY  
interactive installation
TAKE A NUMBER,
LEAVE YOUR HEAD
 
an interactive club piece with drinks, dance and DADA
ARTISTS, BOOBS & CITIES 
portraits of artists,
interactive installation,
condensed urban landscapes
FACE IT
interactive projection and
sound installation
THE CONCEPT OF …
interactive performances
TWILIGHT ZONE
opening performances, installations.
RUHR.2010
SOCIAL PATTERNS
public video installation.
Seoul, South Korea
SHINE ON
video/sound installation
BELOW
space intervention, LICHTROUTEN
APPARITION
interactive dance, body projection mapping 
Ars Electronica 2004
Oedipus Reloaded
interactive theater
Ruhrtriennale
MARIA T
with Alexander Balanescu and Balanescu Quartet
VIVISECTOR
video, dance, music
unique body projection mapping
actOpera
Linzer Klangwolke 2000
an interactive game for 60000 people
D.A.V.E.
video/dance/music
unique body projection mapping
jobOpera
Linzer Klangwolke 1998
stereoscopic laser, giant videos and projection mapping
metabolic stabilizers
video/music/dance
immateriaux
interactive music/laser performance and installation
the cloned sound
kronos quartet
interactive music and visuals,
Ars Electronica 1993
swim
art ensemble of chicago and the german chamber philharmonics