Oliver Dorfer studied sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Today the artist, who has received many awards, can look back on countless solo and group exhibitions in galleries at home and abroad.

Different parameters, linked innovatively to each other, characterize Oliver Dorfer’s new works: in the creation process he combines traditional and currently available techniques and, at the build-up of his individual set of motifs, concentrates on regulating elements that are disparate and deriving from most divers sources into one plausible composition. Computer-assisted, he arranges the image layout his work is built upon, based on hand sketches and with additional image matter that comes from his archive or which he has found on the internet or while studying various print media. In this way, Dorfer constructs narrative artworks, engineered between aggression and melancholy, latent threat and irony, whose details, disintegrating, melting into one another or rigorously separated, all claim attention individually.

The new works from the series the dotproject, never shown before, give the "dot", as a stylistic device, a central task. The works derive their narrative power and visual poetry from the use, condensation and superimposition of dots and dot weaves. In this series of works, dots form the backbone of the narrative and give Dorfer's latest project its name: the dot-project.