Work notes of an experimental artist.
Sensory overload, the zombie apocalypse and need for baking.
New York based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates immersive, audiovisual installations and performances.
Between 1992 and 2003 he worked collaboratively within the artist duo „Granular-Synthesis”. Hentschläger’s
works have characteristically been visceral and immersive, as in ZEE and FEED, with extreme perceptual effects, composed from
light, sound and fog. These works physiologically affect the viewer's experience. His real-time generated CLUSTER series builds
on the uncanny, by portraying 3D representations of humanoid creatures that can only exist in dynamic flux, seeming to swirl
and flow like the wind, apparently unhinged from the screen. His most recent body of cinematic work including MEASURE and
ORT is tracing the concept- and appropriation of nature in the Anthropocene.
Most recently, in 2017, he premiered
SOL, an immersive audiovisual installation in total darkness at Halle Berghain, Berlin and ORT, a public project, a 360 projection
onto Oscar Niemeyer’s "Le Volcan" building in the center of Le Havre, France.
Selected presentations include the
Venice Biennial, the Venice Theater Biennial, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, PS1 New York, FuturePerfekt New York, MAC - Musée
d'Art Contemporain Montreal, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, National Art, ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,
Museum of China Beijing, National Museum for Contemporary Art Seoul, ICC Tokyo, Arte Alameda Mexico City, MONA – Museum of
Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Sharjah Art, UAE and the
Power Station of Art, Shanghai.
From 2013-2018 he taught
as a full time Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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