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Photo: Markus Wörgötte
Photo: Markus Wörgötter
Heinrich Dunst
born 1955 in Hallein, Austria
lives and works in Vienna, Austria
But what actually is being manifested? Isn’t painting in its various forms the constant reference to what differs from it, is absent from it?”
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Heinrich Dunst studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Peter Weibel and Bazon Brock. He was awarded the Österreichischer Kunstpreis (Austrian art prize) in 2016. Heinrich Dunst combines pictorial, sculptural, and language elements in his works to create intermedial intersections. His “meta-linguistic” spatial interventions and performances navigate the gap between what is visible and what can be expressed in language, the impossibility of translating one form into another, and the contexture of spatial presentations. His conceptual approach is rooted in concrete poetry, the Viennese art scene of the 1980s, which strove to expand abstract painting into the exhibition space, and artistic positions like Marcel Broodthaers, who investigate how words and images are perceived. Dunst lends these perspectives new currency by questioning the clarity of the references they evoke, thereby exposing the foundations of art. Selected exhibitions: Kunstraum Pro Arte, Hallein (solo) (2019); Gallery of Contemporary Art, České Budějovice (solo) (2018); mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (group) (2018); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (group) (2017); Nationalgalerie Prag, Prague, with Franz West, (solo) (2016); Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (group) (2016); Belvedere, 21er Haus, Vienna (group) (2016); Kunsthalle Krems (group) (2016); Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (solo) (2015); Ludwigforum Aachen (group) (2015); Secession, Vienna (solo) (2014); MAK Museum for applied art/contemporary art, Vienna (solo) (1997); and Artothek, Cologne (solo) (1996). Selected museum and private collections: Belvedere, Vienna; Generali Foundation, Salzburg; Kunsthaus Bregenz; MAK Museum for applied arts, Vienna; mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Neue Galerie Graz; Gabi and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, Herzogenrath; and Sigrid and Franz Wojda Collection, Vienna.
Selected Works
Heinrich Dunst
untitled, 2023/2024
mixed media
3 parts, pigment print, acrylic on aludibond (54 x 44 x 3 cm), plywood (65 x 53 x 8,5 cm), acrylic on aludibond (54 x 44 x 3,5 cm)
Heinrich Dunst
Objekt, 2023
acrylic on aludibond
70 x 57 x 2,5 cm (27 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 1 in.)
Heinrich Dunst
untitled, 2023
pigment print on paper on aluminum and acrylic on aluminum
2 parts, each 58 x 40 x 1,5 cm (22 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Heinrich Dunst
die Arbeiter, 2022
digital print mounted on dibond, acrylic
35 x 39 x 1,5 cm (13 3/4 x 15 3/8 x 5/8 in.)
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Public Exhibitions
Gallery Exhibitions
Exhibition
29 May – 24 Jun 1995
Heinrich Dunst
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Exhibition
10 Sept – 16 Oct 1993
Heinrich Dunst
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Group Exhibition
24 Jan – 18 Mar 1992
Abstrakte Malerei zwischen Analyse und SyntheseAlan Charlton, Lydia Dona, Heinrich Dunst, Stephen Ellis, Helmut Federle, Gaylen Gerber, Franz Graf, Callum Innes, Imi Knoebel, Jonathan Lasker, Brice Marden, Joseph Marioni, Jürgen Meyer, Sigmar Polke, David Reed, Gerhard Richter, Perry Roberts, Robert Ryman, Adrian Schiess, Günter Umberg, John Zinsser
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Exhibition
4 Sept – 7 Nov 1991
Heinrich Dunst
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
Exhibition
9 Jun – 11 Jul 1987
Heinrich Dunst
Heiner Blum
Grünangergasse 1
1010 Vienna
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