| Dates: | born 1970
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Hans Schabus
Born 1970, Watschig, Austria. Lives and
works in Vienna, Austria
Selected solo exhibitions
attitudes espace d'arts contemporains,
2006, Geneva, Switzerland
Kasseler Kunstverein, 2006, Kassel,
Germany ...should I leave or should I
go... 2006, Gaileria Zero, Milan, Italy
The Last Land. 2005, Venice Biennale,
Hofmann-Pavilion. Venice, Italy
All Up in Flames, 2005, Engholm
Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
The Rendezvousproblem, 2004,
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Astronaut (Be Right Back) 2003,
Secession, Vienna, Austria
Transport, 2003, Kunstverein Bonn,
Bonn, Germany
Rest in Piece. 2002, Statements, Art
Basel 32, Kerstin Engholm
Galerie, Vienna, Austria
/ Don't Look Back, I Look in Front, 2001,
James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Just Because I'm Paranoid Doesn't
Mean there is Nobody After Me, 2000,
Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne,
Germany
Selected group exhibitions
Why Pictures Now, 2006, MUMOK
(Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig), Vienna, Austria
onestar stop 2006, Art Metropole,
Toronto, Canada Condicion postmedia,
2006, MediaLabMadrid, Madrid, Spain
Biennale Urbi & Orbi 2006, Sedan,
France
Night Sites, 2005, Kunstverein Hannover,
Hanover, Germany The Pantagruel
Syndrome, 2005, T1 - Turin Triennial
Threemuseums. Turin, Italy
Touristclass, 2005, Malmo Art Museum,
Malmo, Sweden
blickwechsel, 2004, Museum Moderner
Kunst Karnten Klagenfurt, Austria
White Spirit, 2004, Frac Lorraine, Metz,
France
Les Temps Modernes. 2004, Galerie de
Multiples. Paris, France Coming Out -
Surrounding. 2003, Kunstlerhaus
Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria Zugluft -
Kunst aus Wien 2003. ABB-Halle,
Zurich, Switzerland Freundschaftsspiel
2003, Camera Austria, Aktuelle Kunst in
Graz, Graz. Austria Artissima, 2002,
Turin, Italy
Cite des Ondes - 5th Manifestation des
Arts Electronique, 2002, Montreal,
Canada
Manifesta 4, 2002, European Biennial of
Contemporary Art, Frankfurt, Germany
S.O.S. - Zur Rettung der MAK-
Sammlung, 2002, Museum fur
angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Bin gut platzierter Helm ist wie ein
beruhigender Blick, 2001, Kunsthalle
Numberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Fouri di Qui, 2000, Austrian Cultural
Institute, Rome (catalogue)
Zugang Bergheimer StraBe, 2000,
Galerie Eboran, Salzburg, Austria
Further reading
Sonia Campagnola, 'Hans Schabus: Dig
Your Own Hole' Flash Art, 243 (July-
September 2005), pp. 92-4
Maren Lubbke-Tidow, '"Re-
Presentations'", Camera Austria
International, 87(2004), pp. 19-30
Jasper Sharp, The Last Land' Art Review
(June 2005), pp. 59-63
Vitus H. Weh, To Shoot or To Look - The
Last Land', spike art quarterly, 4
(Summer 2005), pp. 54-61
LuisaZiaja, 'Hans Schabus',
contemporary. 27. 74 (2005), pp 94-8
| | | Source: | "Liverpool Biennial Liverpool 06", exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | In common with many artists in the
exhibition, Hans Schabus works by
undertaking painstaking personal
research into the context for his
commission, the end result being an
appropriation by the artist of the
circumstances with which he is faced.
The viewer is then presented with an
amalgam - in the form of a sculpture,
film, installation or intervention - of the
experience of the artist's personal
journey and the documented or
recreated history of the place.
This process makes an art of irony and
detachment impossible: we have to
accept a world founded on beliefs, or we
will take nothing from the experience.
For Schabus, the work of art is an
instrument for thinking, certainly, but
also for emotional and physical/aesthetic
exercise. In attempting to take hold of
these instruments, we automatically lay
out a structure for the way in which we
experience the world.
The way offered to us by Schabus
normally involves a journey or exploration
of some kind, and, despite the grandeur
of a project such as his transformation of
the Austrian Pavilion in the 2005 Venice
Biennale into a mountain, is personal
and meditative in kind rather than
spectacular and collective. Lewis Biggs | | Description Source: | "Liverpool Biennial Liverpool 06", exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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