Galerie Krinzinger

Ins Unendliche (To Infinity)
2007
neon, aluminium
350 x 220 x 180 cm
© Galerie Krinzinger and and the artist
With her artistic oeuvre Brigitte Kowanz assumes a unique position in contemporary art. Her work can be described as conceptual poetry. Since the 1980s, light, which she explores in relation to space and in combination with signs, codes and language, has been central in her work. For Brigitte Kowanz light was a means for transcending boundaries and elaborating artistic expression. She questions the conventional understanding of imagery and painting and forged a new integrative relationship between work, space and viewer. Light makes everything visible, while at the same time remaining invisible itself. Light defines places but has no place itself. Kowanz explored the unfathomable and ephemeral with analytic passion. Light is impossible to pin down, light is in flux, light is certainly ubiquitous. Tapping into the conceptual dimension but also the poetic allusions of her objects and installations, the artist examines the mechanisms of language.
Brigitte Kowanz (1957 – 2022, was born, lived and worked in Vienna, AT) She Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1975 to 1980 and was a professor there from 1997 to 2021. In 2009, she was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts and in 2017, she represented Austria at the 57th Venice Biennale, together with Erwin Wurm. In 2018 she was awarded the German prize for light art, and in 2019 the Cairo Biennale Prize. Selection of institutional solo – and group exhibitions: From April 29 until July 24, 2022, Brigitte Kowanz: ISTR at Schlossmuseum Linz, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (s), 2020, Lichtparcours 2020, Braunschweig, 2020 (g), Kunstmuseum Celle, 2018 (s), San Clemente Palace, Venice, 2017 (g) Glasstress 2017, 57.La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, 2017 (g), Light Show, CorpArtes, Santiago de Chile, 2016 (g), Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, 2013, (g), MACRO Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea di Roma, 2012 (g), Borusan | Contemporary, Istanbul, 2012 (s), MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, 2010 (s), Oberes Belvedere, Vienna 2008 (s), Kunsthalle Krems, 2007 (s), Seccession, 1993 (s) Biennale of Sidney, 1990 (g), Biennale São Paulo, 1987 (g), Aperto, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice 1984 (g), Heute, Westkunst, Cologne, 1981 (g), Nuove Imagine, Triennale, Milan, 1980 (g) In addition, Brigitte Kowanz developed well over 50 installations for public spaces, mist recently at Zurich SBB (2021) or on the roof of the Leopold Museum in Vienna (2020).
Galerie Krinzinger was found in 1971 by Ursula Krinzinger in 1972 the gallery moved to Innsbruck and since 1986 it is located in Vienna’s first district. Today the Gallery is run by Ursula Krinzinger and her son Thomas Krinzinger. In 2002 Krinzinger Schottenfeld (formerly Krinzinger Projekte) as an experimental exhibition space and as the first of four Artist in Residency locations opened its doors in the seventh district in Vienna. Since then the Gallery has founded the Krinzinger Residencies with further studios in Hungary, Sri Lanka, and Croatia. Initially the Gallery was based on Viennese Actionism and international performance and body related art and a very early focus on feminist art. Since its early years the Gallery is producing and curating not only prominent Solo Exhibitions, but also thematic group exhibitions of historic importance, for example Zur Situation und Kreativität der Frau (1975), Artist Festival in Brdo (1976), Zur Definition eines neuen Kunstbegriffs (1979), Neue Strategien NYC I (1986), Manierismus subjektiv (1987), Fluxus subjektiv (1990), LAX (1992), UK Maximum Diversity (1998), Berlin Binnendifferenz (2000), post_modellismus (2005), curated by_ (2009–2020), to a passer by (2019), and a great number of renowned Solo Exhibitions with international artists represented by the gallery such as Marina Abramović, Atelier van Lieshout, Kader Attia, Gottfried Bechtold, Monica Bonvicini, Günther Brus, Chris Burden, Angela de la Cruz, Zhang Ding, Secundino Hernández, Waqas Khan, Brigitte Kowanz, Maha Malluh, Jonathan Meese, Otto Mühl, Hans Op de Beeck, Meret Oppenheim, Eva Schlegel, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Mithu Sen, Sudarshan Shetty, Daniel Spoerri, Gavin Turk, Erik van Lieshout, Martin Walde, Mark Wallinger, Zhang Wei, Lois Weinberger, Thomas Zipp.
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With her artistic oeuvre Brigitte Kowanz assumes a unique position in contemporary art. Her work can be described as conceptual poetry. Since the 1980s, light, which she explores in relation to space and in combination with signs, codes and language, has been central in her work. For Brigitte Kowanz light was a means for transcending boundaries and elaborating artistic expression. She questions the conventional understanding of imagery and painting and forged a new integrative relationship between work, space and viewer. Light makes everything visible, while at the same time remaining invisible itself. Light defines places but has no place itself. Kowanz explored the unfathomable and ephemeral with analytic passion. Light is impossible to pin down, light is in flux, light is certainly ubiquitous. Tapping into the conceptual dimension but also the poetic allusions of her objects and installations, the artist examines the mechanisms of language.
Brigitte Kowanz (1957 – 2022, was born, lived and worked in Vienna, AT) She Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1975 to 1980 and was a professor there from 1997 to 2021. In 2009, she was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize for Fine Arts and in 2017, she represented Austria at the 57th Venice Biennale, together with Erwin Wurm. In 2018 she was awarded the German prize for light art, and in 2019 the Cairo Biennale Prize. Selection of institutional solo – and group exhibitions: From April 29 until July 24, 2022, Brigitte Kowanz: ISTR at Schlossmuseum Linz, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (s), 2020, Lichtparcours 2020, Braunschweig, 2020 (g), Kunstmuseum Celle, 2018 (s), San Clemente Palace, Venice, 2017 (g) Glasstress 2017, 57.La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, 2017 (g), Light Show, CorpArtes, Santiago de Chile, 2016 (g), Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, 2013, (g), MACRO Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea di Roma, 2012 (g), Borusan | Contemporary, Istanbul, 2012 (s), MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, 2010 (s), Oberes Belvedere, Vienna 2008 (s), Kunsthalle Krems, 2007 (s), Seccession, 1993 (s) Biennale of Sidney, 1990 (g), Biennale São Paulo, 1987 (g), Aperto, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice 1984 (g), Heute, Westkunst, Cologne, 1981 (g), Nuove Imagine, Triennale, Milan, 1980 (g) In addition, Brigitte Kowanz developed well over 50 installations for public spaces, mist recently at Zurich SBB (2021) or on the roof of the Leopold Museum in Vienna (2020).
Galerie Krinzinger was found in 1971 by Ursula Krinzinger in 1972 the gallery moved to Innsbruck and since 1986 it is located in Vienna’s first district. Today the Gallery is run by Ursula Krinzinger and her son Thomas Krinzinger. In 2002 Krinzinger Schottenfeld (formerly Krinzinger Projekte) as an experimental exhibition space and as the first of four Artist in Residency locations opened its doors in the seventh district in Vienna. Since then the Gallery has founded the Krinzinger Residencies with further studios in Hungary, Sri Lanka, and Croatia. Initially the Gallery was based on Viennese Actionism and international performance and body related art and a very early focus on feminist art. Since its early years the Gallery is producing and curating not only prominent Solo Exhibitions, but also thematic group exhibitions of historic importance, for example Zur Situation und Kreativität der Frau (1975), Artist Festival in Brdo (1976), Zur Definition eines neuen Kunstbegriffs (1979), Neue Strategien NYC I (1986), Manierismus subjektiv (1987), Fluxus subjektiv (1990), LAX (1992), UK Maximum Diversity (1998), Berlin Binnendifferenz (2000), post_modellismus (2005), curated by_ (2009–2020), to a passer by (2019), and a great number of renowned Solo Exhibitions with international artists represented by the gallery such as Marina Abramović, Atelier van Lieshout, Kader Attia, Gottfried Bechtold, Monica Bonvicini, Günther Brus, Chris Burden, Angela de la Cruz, Zhang Ding, Secundino Hernández, Waqas Khan, Brigitte Kowanz, Maha Malluh, Jonathan Meese, Otto Mühl, Hans Op de Beeck, Meret Oppenheim, Eva Schlegel, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Mithu Sen, Sudarshan Shetty, Daniel Spoerri, Gavin Turk, Erik van Lieshout, Martin Walde, Mark Wallinger, Zhang Wei, Lois Weinberger, Thomas Zipp.