Kurt Hentschläger
CV
Born Linz, Austria. Currently lives and works in Chicago.
Studies at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
1984-1989: Machines sculptures, Experimental Film & Video, 2D computer animation
1989-1992: Cofounder of “Pyramedia”, Viennese Media Art Collective. Experimental Video.
1993-2003: Granular-Synthesis – Performances and Installations, with Ulf Langheinrich
2003- Audiovisual Performances-, Immersive Installations- & Public Projects
Selected presentations - Kurt Hentschläger
2010
ZEE & CLUSTER WAVE Exhibition / INDAF, Seoul ZEE FILE Festival, Sao Paulo CLUSTER NEMO Festival, Paris ZEE “dynamic (in)position”, LABORATORIO ARTE ALAMEDA, Mexico City VIEW Tom Bradley International Terminal Public Art project @ the Los Angeles Airport
QWARTZ Electronic Music Award, Paris FILE PRIX LUX Award, Sao Paulo
2009
FEED Festival de OTONO, Madrid ZEE FUTUREPERFECT, New York FEED TODAY’S ART, Den Haag FEED TRANSART, Bolzano SCAPE PA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS Museum, Philadelphia FEED FIGUREN THEATER Festival, Erlangen ZEE STRP, Eindhoven FEED ELEKTRA Festival Montreal
2008
KARMA/X LES IMAGES DES NUIT - Le Grand Palais, Paris ZEE / RANGE WOOD STREET Galleries, Pittsburgh KARMA / cell SYNTHETIC TIMES, National Art Museum of China, Beijing ZEE TIEFENRAUSCH, OK-Center, Linz FEED ELEKTRA Festival Montreal SCAPE SONIC ACTS XII - The Cinematic Experience, Amsterdam FEED NEW TERRITORIES, New Moves Int., Glasgow FEED Festival MOIS MULTI 9, Québec
2007
FEED STRP Festival Eindhoven KARMA / live NIME conference, New York KARMA / live DIAPOSON, New York KARMA / cell BODY MEDIA, O Art Center, Shanghai FEED HAPPY NEW EARS Festival / Budakunstencentrum Kortrijk FEED ARS ELECTRONICA Festival Linz FEED SONAR Festival Barcelona FEED ELEKTRA Festival Montreal
2006
FEED EMPAC RPI Troy, NY "N" Temps d'Images - Tanzhaus Düsseldorf (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) FEED IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht KARMA / cell PANORAMA, Le Fresnoy – Tourcoing FEED EXIT Festival – Paris FEED VIA Festival – Maubeuge KARMA SWITCHING WORLDS: Desires and Identities / ACF – New York "N" NEW NATIONAL THEATER TOKYO (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) FEED NETMAGE 06 Festival – Bologna
Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy – Studio National Des Arts Contemporain
2005
FEED THEATRE BIENNIAL – Venice KARMA DIGITAL PARADISE - Municipial Museum, Daejon Korea “N” Theatre du Chatelet, Paris (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) “N” LEIPZIG OPER, Leipzig (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj)
Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy – Studio National Des Arts Contemporain
2004
KARMA / Cave ARS ELECTRONICA Festival – Linz “N” THEATRE DE CHAILLOT, Paris (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) “N” MONTPELLIER DANSE, Montpellier (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj) “N” DANSE A AIX Festival, Aix en Provence (Collaboration with Ballet Preljocaj)
2003
NATURE04 LILLE 2004, European Cultural Capital, public project
Selected presentations – Kurt Hentschläger / “Granular-Synthesis”
2010
MODELL5 - install MATIÈRE-LUMIÈRE, Borusan Müzik Evi, Istanbul POL MAPPING Festival, Geneva AREAL FABBRICA EUROPA 2010 - XVII Edition , Florence
2009
POL – install LE VOLCAN, Le Havre GS-Retrospektive STRP, Eindhoven FELD “SOUNDS AND VISIONS”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2008
POL ROMA EUROPA Festival, Rome POL - install ELANDSCAPES / Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai MODELL 5 - install LES VOIX MAGNETIQUES / Tri Postal, Lille MODELL 5 - install ROTTERDAM FILM Festival, V2, Rotterdam
2007
MODELL 5 BODY MEDIA, O Art Center, Shanghai AREAL IBOS TARBES, Tarbes
2006
LUX What Sound Does a Color Make? Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore FELD CODE BLUE, Millenium Museum Beijing SWEETHEART 40 JAHREVIDEOKUNST DEUTSCHLAND / ZKM – Kunsthalle, Bremen MODELL 5 SLOWTECH, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Taipei MODELL 5 VEO, Valencia Escena Oberta Festival / Greenspace – Valencia AREAL SONIC ACTS / Paradiso – Amsterdam
2005
AREAL ALEXANDER KASSER Theatre, Montclair FELD CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES, Santa Cruz de Tenerife FELD GABINETE LITERARIO, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria AREAL DISSONANZE Festival, Rome LUX WHAT COLOR DOES A SOUND MAKE / Eyebeam – New York
2004
LUX Z33, Hasselt AREALight EXIT Festival, Creteil, Paris LUX Arborescence Festival, Aix en Provence MODELL5 ACMI, Australien Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne FORM ACMI, Australien Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2003
LUX GALLERIA LIA RUMMA, Milano SINKEN ACF - Austrian Cultural Forum, New York <360.2> ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal LUX LABORATORIO ALAMEDA, Mexico City LUX IEAR, RPI Troy AREAL D-Motion, Halle
2002
FELD MUSICA PER GLI OCCHI, Bolzano WIDE TRANSFORMING MODERNITY, ACF New York MODELL5 SCHIRN KUNST HALLE, Frankfurt am Main <360> VILLETTE NUMERIQUE, Paris FELD 2002 MEDIA ART / Special Effects, Municipal Museum, Daejon Korea AREAL FORMAT 2000/Brugge 2002, Brugge MINUS WIEN MODERN Festival, Vienna AREAL Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden
2001
RESET AUSTRIAN PAVILION, 49th BIENNIAL, Venice MODELL5 ARENA, Center for Contemporary Music, Dresden MODELL5 Göteborg ART SOUNDS, Göteborg
2000
NOISEGATE MUSIQUES EN SCÈNE / MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, Lyon AREAL MUSIQUES EN SCÈNE / MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, Lyon POL EXIT Festival, Créteil POL VIA Festival – Maubeuge NOISEGATE CREATIVE TIME Inc / In the Anchorage, New York NOISEGATE NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR PHOTO FILM & TV, Bradford MODELL 5 ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal AREAL ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal FELD WOOD STREET Galleries, Pittsburg POL MUFFATHALLE, München POL WIEN MODERN Festival, Vienna POL NETMAGE Festival, Bologna FORM PS1-Clocktower, New York FELD OK Center, Linz
1999
PS1 Grant PS1, New York MODELL 5.7 ATONAL Festival, Berlin NOISEGATE KUNSTVEREIN Hannover SINKEN VIA Festival, Maubeuge (with Art Zoyd and Lille National Orchestra) SINKEN LE NOUVEAU SIÈCLE, Lille (with Art Zoyd and Lille National Orchestra) NOISEGATE MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, Montréal MODELL 5 install FACE TO FACE – FONDATION BEYELER, Basel SINKEN PALACIO DE BELLA ARTES, Mexico City (with Art Zoyd and Mexico National Orchestra) SINKEN DONAU Festival, St Pölten (with Art Zoyd and Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester) POL 2.0 ZEITFLUSS / Salzburg Festival, Salzburg FORMEN ZÜRCHER THEATER SPEKTAKEL, Zürich FORMEN FESTIVAL D'AUTOMNE À PARIS, Créteil FORM RECOMBINANT / Ars Electronica Festival, Linz POL 2.0 TAKTLOS Festival, Bern POL 2.0 ELEKTRA Festival, Montréal
Austrian Federal Grant for Fine Arts
1998
NOISEGATE Premiere - MAK, Vienna NOISEGATE MARSTALL, Munich MODELL 5.7 RECOMBINANT, Miami NOISEGATE EXIT Festival, Créteil NOISEGATE VIA Festival, Maubeuge NOISEGATE TRANSPENNINE, Hull AREAL V VERGESSEN, St. Veit MODELL 5.7 DIVE INTO THE FUTURE – LISBOA’98, Lisbon POL ISEA 98, Liverpool POL ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Linz NOISEGATE STEDELIJK Museum / De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam POL ROOT 98, Hull POL ZKM, Karlsruhe MODELL 5 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Seoul
1997
MODELL 5.7 DE IJSBREKER, Amsterdam MODELL 5.7 ACREQ, Montréal SWEET HEART KUNSTSTÜCKE ORF, Austria X–TENDED THRILL ICC, Tokyo AREAL A STEIRISCHER HERBST, Graz
1996
MODELL 5.6 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, Budapest MODELL 5.6 VISAS Festival, Maubeuge MODELL 5.6 EXIT Festival, Créteil MODELL 5.6 ELEKTRA, Oslo MODELL 5.6 MARSTALL, Munich MODELL 5.7 38èmes RUGISSANTS, Grenoble MODELL 5.7 RECOMBINANT, Los Angeles, San Francisco
1995
MODELL 5.1 SKUC, Ljubljana MODELL 5.2 MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna MODELL 5.3 SPRING PROJECT, Vienna MODELL 5.4 ARTEC 95 – City Museum, Nagoya MODELL 5.3 KLANGART, Osnabrück MODELL 5.5 ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz MODELL 5.5 KUNSTVEREIN Hannover MODELL 5.5 ISEA 95, Montréal MODELL 5.5 MANCA Festival, Nice MODELL 5.5 DEAF 95, Rotterdam
GRAND PRIX Open Competition ARTEC 1995
1994
MODELL 3.2 FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR, Nancy MODELL 5 ICA, London MODELL 5 ROOT 95, Hull
1993
MODELL 4.1 WRO 93, Wroclaw MODELL 3.1 AUSTRIAN AVANT GARDE, Antwerpen MODELL 3.1 LES HALLES, Bruxelles MODELL 3.2 AVE Festival, Arnheim MODELL 4.2 DIAGONALE, Salzburg
Austrian furtherance prize for new media art
1992
MODELL 3.0 TANZSPRACHE, Vienna MODELL 4.0 MEDIENBIENNALE, Leipzig MODELL 3.1 ZEITSCHNITT, Vienna MODELL 3.1 TRANSIT / ORF, Innsbruck
DVDs
GRANULAR SYNTHESIS – IMMERSIVE WORKS A DVD compilation containing extracts and documentation of Granular Synthesis’ work over ten years. Publication: ZKM Karlsruhe / Distribution: CANTZ
INDEX 003 / GRANULAR SYNTHESIS – REMIXES FOR SINGLE SCREEN 3rd volume of a collection of 15 DVDs, presenting major contemporary Austrian film and video artists. It includes RESET, 2001, 25 min, and MODELL 5, 1994, 30 min Publication and distribution: ARGE INDEX (Medienwerkstatt Wien & Sixpackfilm)