Alexander Karner

Alexander Karner (* 28. May 1963 in Vienna ) is an Austrian painter and conceptual artist , who at the Neoinformellen counts and postmodernism belongs. Alexander Karner lives and works in Vienna.

Life

Alexander Karner was born in Vienna in 1963 and grew up in Penzing . He spent his childhood without kindergarten on the one hand in the butcher's shop and the slaughterhouse with his grandfather and on the other hand with the street children of the 1960s in the suburbs of Vienna. The daily observations in and at the psychiatry at the “Steinhof” shaped him as well as later the “gangs” of the so-called youngsters in Ottakring.

But Alexander Karner also visited and observed the Austrian sculptor Franz Masser (1933–1997) in his neighborhood and later in the studio right next to the grammar school, the Croatian sculptor, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Nikola Vujasin.

After the early death of his 5-year-old brother, the subsequent serious illness of his mother, from which she never recovered and a serious traffic accident in 1984, Alexander Karner turned to painting; at the same time he attended lectures at the philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna.

In 2002, Alexander Karner met Hermann Nitsch during a lecture in Vienna - he had been interested in his pouring pictures since his youth - and then went on to study at the Städelschule in Frankfurt / Main, first in Hermann Nitsch's class and later with Simon Starling.

In 2007 he led a course for "Large Format Painting" at the International Summer Academy in Dresden.

job

His groups of works are characterized by a specific material aesthetic. Since 1992 paintings, drawings, graphics, material pictures and objects, sculptures, spatial works and interdisciplinary concepts have been created.

Best known are his work groups of amorphous "roses" (oil / paraffin on metal, since 1997), his work group of "key accumulations" (synthetic resin, keys on metal, since 1999) and his work group of frottages, printed from his "conceptual key accumulations “(Graphite, oil and synthetic resin on paper, linen and cotton, since 2001).

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2017: Galerie Felix Höller Vienna
• 2015: Kunstraum David, Vienna, "Breaking taboos and / or retabuing"
• 2009: Galerie Studio 18, Vienna
• 2009: Galerie Kunst & Handel, Vienna
• 2009: Galerie Kunst & Handel, Haus Frey, Graz
• 2005: Galerie Appel / Frankfurt am Main, "Alexander Karner, neo-formal painting, key accumulations, frottage on canvas"
• 2003: House Wittgenstein Vienna, "Alexander Karner, Material Sensitivity / Painting, New Works and Catalog Presentation"
• 2001: Kunstraum David, Vienna; "Key experiences"

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2017: Galerie Ursula Stross, Graz
• 2015: Infeld Collection, House of Culture, Halbturn / Austria
• 2013: Museum Würth, Künzelsau / D, “AEIOU Österr. Aspects in the Würth Collection "
• 2011: Art Association Villa Weiss / Ligist / Styria
• 2010: Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels Vienna
• 2009: Deutschlandsberg Castle Museum, "Masterpieces from Austria"
• 2009: Künstlerhaus Vienna "Hermann Nitsch, role models, contemporaries, teaching"
• 2008: Museum MUSA Vienna, "ViennArt"
• 2007: Landesmuseum Lower Austria, "The love of objects"
• 2007: Museum of Contemporary Art Admont
• 2007: Artmark Gallery Vienna, "Rose oh pure contradiction"
• 2006: Kunsthalle Krems Factory, project "(art) work is (art) progress"
• 2006: Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
• 2005: Artroom Würth, Böheimkirchen / Lower Austria
• 2005: Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz

Public collections

Germany

• Museum Würth
• Museum artwork

Austria

• Museum Belvedere Vienna, Collection of Contemporary Art
• Lower Austria State Museum
• Burgenland State Gallery
• Upper Austrian State Museum
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Admont

literature

• Autumn Salon Krakow 2000, Krakow Culture Center , exhibition catalog, edited by Amir Khatib, EU-MAN, Helsinki 2000
• The language of the material , catalog of works, edited by Karl A. Irsigler, Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2003, with contributions and texts by Hermann Nitsch, Konrad Paul Liessmann, Burghart Schmidt, Markus Mittringer, Sonja Traar and Elisabeth Voggeneder ISBN 3-85415-343- 0
• the outside of inside, The Manege City Art Hall , exhibition catalog, St. Petersburg, ed. Amir Khatib, EU-MAN, Helsinki 2001; ISBN 951-98845-0-5
• Irritation Variation Intuition , Judith P. Fischer, Markus Hofer, Alexander Karner, art room Würth, Ed. Monika Bachler, Würth Ges.mbH, Böheimkirchen 2005
• Industrial aesthetics and urban morbidity , Ed. Elisabeth Voggeneder, Investkredit, Vienna 2005
• The love of objects, aspects of contemporary sculpture, exhibition catalog, Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, Alexandra Schantl, Springer Verlag Vienna, New York, 2008; ISBN 978-3-211-73219-9
• Accumulations Transformations , Ed. Elisabeth Voggeneder, Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2008, with texts by Hartwig Knack, Alexandra Schantl and Elisabeth Voggeneder, ISBN 978-3-85415-420-4
• Insight Outlook Overview , Collection Würth 3, Ed. C. Sylvia Weber, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2008, ISBN 978-3-89929-135-3
• Nitsch, role models, contemporaries, teaching , exhibition catalog, edited by Peter Bogner, Künstlerhaus Vienna 2009; ISBN 978-3-900354-17-6
• AEIOU Austrian Aspects in the Würth Collection , exhibition catalog, Museum Würth, Ed. C. Sylvia Weber, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2014, ISBN 978-3-89929-272-5

Web links

• Alexander Karner's website
• Alexander Karner at artitious.com
• Alexander Karner at artfacts.net
• Emergence of Projects (eop )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Nitsch: Vorwortl . In: Charles A. Irsigler (ed.): Alexander Karner catalog of works, the language of the material . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2003, ISBN 3-85415-343-0 , p. 96 .