Foto: Adrian Talmon
artist, professor, head of the Institute of Art and Design 1, Vienna University of Technology
1964 born in Vienna
1984/89 Mag.art at University of Applied Art, Vienna
1989 study at Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (NL) bei Guillaume Bijl und Henk Visch
1991-2002 free lance artist, living in Berlin and Eichgraben
1991 Chicago grant of the Federal Ministry of Education and Art
1994/95 DAAD grant, Berlin
1995 Mies van der Rohe grant, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
2009 Appraisal price of the Federal State of Lower Austria
2002 Professorship for Visual Language, at Institute Art and Design at the TU Vienna,
since 2007 head of Institute Art and Design at the Technical University Vienna
Since 2012 member of Public Arts Commitee of Lower Austria
Since 2010 member of the research project „Planning Unplanned_Towards a New Positioning of Art in the Context of Urban Development“
Christine Hohenbüchler works in a team with her twin sister Irene. Together they temporarily expand their personal work, which often addresses issues in the historical and socio-political arena through collaborative processes with other groups and individuals.
They engage in an intensive dialogue with their partners and jointly create large scale installations. The two sisters refer to this way of collaboration as „multiple authorship“ and use the term as a central idea in their work. The work with institutions outside the art context and the “marginalized” arena in the semi-public sphere is not seldom received a provocation – which is never intended – and contribution polarizing the audience and the art scene.
5 most important invitations to performances, presentations or exhibitions
2014 „…flieg Vogel flieg….“ B1| A40 Die Schönheit der großen Straße (D)
2013/14 „wir wollen BMX“ Paradise – Enterprise Judenburg (A), im Rahmen
von Paradise Enterprise, transparadiso (Barbara Holub/ Paul Rajakovics)
2008 „… in circles …“ collaboration with Gilbert Bretterbauer,
Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössischer Kunst, Münster (D)
1999 „Offene Handlungsfelder“, Venice Biennial, Austrian Pavilion, Venice (I)
1997 documenta X, „HERBAR 13“, collaboration as „multiple authorship“
with Lebenshilfe Lienz, Kassel (D)
5 most important awards
1991 Chicago grant of the Federal Ministry of Education and Art
1994/95 DAAD grant, Berlin
2009 Honorary Prize of the Federal State of Lower Austria
2008/2012 member of Public Arts Commitee of Lower Austria
Since 2010/12 member of the Study Commission and Faculty Comission, Vienna University of Technology
5 most important projects funded in the past
2010 Planning Unplanned_ Towards a New Positioning of Art in the Context of Urban Development, arts based research project by Barbara Holub, in the frame of “Innovative Ideas”, Vienna University of Technology; funding sum: Barbara Holub’s position as assistant professor
2010–2013 „Der Scheinwerfer“, cooperation of the Housing Company SEG Vienna and the Institute of Art and Design 1
Since 2009 cooperation of the Fundermax Company and the Institute of Art and Design 1; Production budget: approx. 70.000 €
2006 Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler: public art project for the therapy-garden Schiltern, Festival der Gärten (festival of gardens) (A)
1999 „Offene Handlungsfelder“, Venice Biennial, Austrian Pavilion, Venice (I)
Key international cooperation partners in the last 5 years
Georg Winter (artist, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken) (D)
Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau (CH)
Angelika Nollert (director, Neues Museum Nürnberg) (D)
Marion Ackermann (curator, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (D)