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= Olaf Holzapfel =

Olaf Holzapfel (* 1967 in Dresden) is a conceptual artist from Germany.

Education and teaching
Olaf Holzapfel studied Painting from 1996 to 2001 at Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. From 2001 to 2003 he was a master student in the class of professor Ralf Kerbach. From 2001-2002, he studied at The National Institute of Design (NID) at Singanapali Balaram, Ahmedabad, India, and resided as Artist in Residence at Columbia University New York.

From 2006 to 2008 Holzapfel was teaching as a visiting professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and from 2008 to 2010 as a visiting professor for Sculpture at the HfbK Hamburg. In 2001, Olaf Holzapfel received the Hegenbarth Fellowship and in 2002 he received a scholarship from the Philip Morris Art Fund and the DAAD as well. In 2014, he was awarded the Gerhard Altenbourg Prize. Holzapfel participated in documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens. He lives and works in Berlin.