Herwig Steiner Vita

born in Austria

Study of history at the University of Vienna, studies of architecture (with Gustav Peichl)
and sculpture (with Bruno Gironcoli, Diploma 1986) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

Exhibitions (selected)

Füger Prize

Spirit and Form, Vienna
Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Innsbruck
New Approaches in Austrian Sculpture,
Galerie Maerz, Linz
Erimitage, room installation, Steyr/A

Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris
Working grant in the fine arts, awarded by the City of Vienna
Fine Art‘s Prize of Lower Austna

On Paper, Galerie Lang, Vienna
Balanceakte 88, International Art from Lower Austria

Galerie Ariadne, Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts, Theseustempel, Vienna
Austrian Museum of the 2lst Century. A 60-Days Exhibition (curated by Oswald Oberhuber), Vienna

In Context, Travelling exhibition, National Museum, Beograd
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Museum of Fine Art, Skopje
U Hybernu Art Center, Praha
Pawilon Wystawowy Biura Wystaw Artystycznych Art Centre, Krakow National Gallery, Bratislava
Kunstverein Erfurth, Germany
Dum Urneni Art Centre, Brno
Galerie Altnöder, Salzburg
Tamas Hencze und Herwig Steiner, Fészek Galeria, Budapest

Theatre of Fading Ideas, Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum/Blaugelbe Galerie, Vienna
Contemporary Art from the collection of the City of Vienna

Surface Radicale, Grand Palais, Paris
Individual Positions – Young Austrian Artists (curated by Lóránd Hegyi), Convention
Art Center, Los Angeles/USA

Sighart House, PaIm Springs/PaIm Desert/USA
Academy of Applied Arts, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
Galerie Piltzer, Paris
Confrontations, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Museum of the 2Oth Century, Vienna
Galerie an der Brücke, Spitalskirche, Lienz
Ideas Imagenes Identidades, Centrecultural Teclasala, Hospitalet/Barcelona

Fet a Europa, Art International dels 90, Centrecultural d‘Alcoi/E
Herwig Steiner, Colorstudies, Espai Pascual Lucas,
Arte Contemporaneo, Valencia/E

Henninger Haus, Seefeld/München
Attitudes, beurs voor jonge Kunst, Knokke/B
Art/Media intervention/Text-Artwork-M ultiple(s)
Edition, Real Art/Cimal, Valencia/E
Aspect-Color, Galerie Insitu, Aalst/B
A Pascual Lucas, Espai Lucas, Valencia/E

Hedendaagse Kunst uit Oostenrijk, Cultureel Centrum de Werf, Aalst/B
Henninger-Haus, Seefeld/München
Posiciones del Arte Austriaco Actual, Sala Parpallo, Valencia/E

Herwig Steiner, Attrappen, In Situ Gallery, Aalst/B
Montrouge – Vienne, Art contemporain, Paris
Prix de Peinture, Montrouge/Paris
Des Eisbergs Spitze, Museum auf Abruf, Kunsthalle Vienna
Henninger-Haus, Seefeld/München

Links, Schilderkunst in extremis, Art-Centre
Sitta rd, Provinciehuis Maastricht/NL
Henninger- Haus, Seefeld/München

Pre-prints, Royal Nepal Academy,
Bhanubhakta Hall, Kathmandu
Positions of recent Austrian painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta;
Royal Nepal Academy, NAFA Hall, Kathmandu
5 Colorstructures, Art in public space, a permanent exhibition from the collection of the NO Landesmuseum,
Neues Amtsgebäude Bezirkshauptmannschaft, Wiener Neustadt/A
Notes, zwei Textarbeiten, Art in public space, a permanent exhibition from the collection of the NO Landesmuseum, Lesesaal, NÖ Landesarchiv St. Pölten/A
Collection of the Ministery of Art, Kameliterhof, St. Pölten/A

Pre-Prints, Kunsthalle.tmp Steyr/A
Sophokles, Ödipus, Naso meet Münchhausen, a temporary project in public space, Vienna
Paradise/Paradise, Academy of Fine Arts, New Delhi

Textfields/Battleflelds Discourses – Yugoslavia, Muzej Istorije Jugoslavije, Beograd

Attack‘, Art and War in the Age of Media, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

Home With No Walls, World Social Forum 2004, Mumbai
Propaganda Series, floor installation, Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Handlungsanweisungen, art in public space, Kunsthalle Wien, Kariplatz Wien, Vienna
Verstanden -Missverstanden, Stellungnahmen von Künstlern, Karmeliterhof, St. Pölten/A

Gesetz und Verbrechen / Not one more execution!, 2 permanent installations, Stephansplatz 6, Vienna

Visit Pol Pot, Mailart, Along Veng, Cambodia
Negative Formulierung, Installation, Haus Heiligeneich /A

Ehem. Residenzpost, München/D
“Dem Bild die Gedärme herausreißen“, FORUM FROHNER/ Kunsthalle Krems, Krems/A
Pictorial Space, Cultural Forum, Belgrade/YU,
Elektraren Tatranskje Galerie Poprad/SK

Varosi Muveszeti Museum, Györ/H