Galerie Krinzinger

Hanakam & Schuller’s ongoing work with moving image and digital animation techniques continues in their new series of PAN AUs as transmedia photographic works. From the motifs of various botanical details from Mallorcan gardens, the duo has compositing software read out motion track vectors for facial recognition. From this vague composition of faces and mimic elements, coded in so-called AUs (Actions Units), Hanakam & Schuller develop mask-like colour fields, which they apply to the photographs with acrylic medium. In doing so, they reverse the usual process of motion tracking – the translation of human facial expressions onto non-human characters – and thus pose topical questions about our dealings and the nomenclature of „more-than-human“.

Markus Hanakam (b. 1979 in Essen, BRD) and Roswitha Schuller (b. 1984 in Friesach, Austria). Both artists live and work in Vienna (Austria). Many of the artifacts of Hanakam & Schuller, an artist duo that lives in Vienna, are shapeshifters, changing their outer form and then reappearing in a variety of contexts. As artists and explorers, Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller redesign the rules of the fine arts for their own purposes and create unconventional arrangements and new world designs in videos and objects. They also work with applied art forms. Both artists attended the class for art and design from 2002-2007 and the class for sculpture from 2006-2009 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Roswitha Schuller received her Ph.D. in Art sociology in 2012. The artists have been working together since 2004. Hanakam & Schullers works have been shown in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Eyebeam art and technology center in New York, Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture, Vienna’s MAK, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, and Tokyo’s National Art Center. Their video— animation The Borgia Device (Second Day) is part of the show ANTHROPOCENE ON HOLD — 20 artists address the impact of a global pandemic on arts ecosystems and earth’s resilience and sustainability — by PCAI Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative in Piraeus, Greece, curated by Kika Kyriakakou, accompanied by a catalogue with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadim Samman, Selina Nwulu (2020–21) a solo show at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 2022, in 2023 they were part of the CCA Antrax artist-in-residence Program followed by an exhibition.

Galerie Krinzinger was founded in 1971 by art-historian Dr. Ursula Krinzinger. Since then, she has organized at least 500 exhibitions of national and international artists, mounting solo, group and thematic shows. The main interest and source of the gallery program stems, on the one hand, from international performance and body related art (Marina Abramovic since 1975, Chris Burden since 1992), on the other hand, from Viennese actionism (Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl since 1975). Additionally, the gallery has been working with national and international artists such as Jonathan Meese, Gavin Turk, Eva Schlegel, Mark Wallinger, Thomas Zipp and others for over forty-five years. The latest additions to the gallery program result from Ursula Krinzinger’s research in Asia and the Middle East (Kader Attia, Waqas Khan, Maha Malluh, Sudarshan Shetty, Zhang Ding). This thematic focus has consequently been present for 12 years. Besides the gallery program, Ursula Krinzinger organizes and curates exhibitions in various spaces outside the gallery, including the gallery’s second space: Krinzinger Schottenfeld, which was founded in 2002 as Krinzinger Projekte. Internationally orientated, group and topic exhibitions define the program, which quickly earned an international reputation. Housed in a separate building, Krinzinger Schottenfeld joins Galerie Krinzinger in inviting young national and international artists to take part in the gallery’s artist-in-residence program, which currently includes destinations in Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Sri Lanka. For more than forty-five years, Galerie Krinzinger has regularly participated in the world’s most important art fairs, among them: Art Basel, Arco Madrid, The Armory Show New York, Art Dubai, FIAC, Frieze