Christoph Steffner

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Christoph Steffner (born October 25, 1961 in Altenmarkt im Pongau ) is an Austrian installation artist and draftsman .

Life

Steffner begins his academic training with a degree in mechanical engineering in Salzburg and economics in Linz before turning to art. He studied with Laurids Ortner ( Haus-Rucker-Co ) at the University for Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz and at the University of the Arts in Berlin and graduated in 1993 with Dieter Appelt's master class. In the 1990s he lived mostly in Madrid . He currently lives and works in Berlin and Salzburg (Land) .

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Kinetic and cybernetic installations and machines form the main work of Steffner in the 1990s. Systems and media that are confronted with themselves and are caught in procedural and visual cycles and games are characteristic. With the drawings, there was a tendency from the start to work in series and blocks. A number of film machines have been produced since 1987, of which “African impression machine” in 1988 in the Kulturhuset , “Vorspiel” in 1992 at Ars Electronica and “Filmmaschine 4 / Black Square” in 2008 in the Berlin Academy of the Arts in the exhibition “Notation”. The entire film material is shown simultaneously and spatially. Steffner's public space installation “Zimmer” (1997) is one of the seven works by Austrian artists in the government district in St. Pölten . The cage-like room, which is located below street level and is fully furnished, is exposed to a temporal process of decay and weathering, i.e. temporal destruction, which identifies the "room" as a contradicting place of questionable protection. The work asks about categorical properties of public and private in an alleged public place and contrasts this space without utopia and future with the newly created country house , whereby in the exhibition catalog the curators were criticized that it was " very regrettable and a great lack of curatorial intervention is that the work could be installed on the edge of the government district and not in its center. "

In 2002 the artist Christoph Steffner started to build a huge object, "his" mobile house. In 2003 it was exhibited in the courtyard of the Tuscany wing , in 2004 in the courtyard of the Traklhaus . Spiderhouse " is the first realized work in a series of mobile dwellings and vehicles with which radically light, flexible and aesthetic living environments are targeted, because Spaceship Earth is the exceptional, lively and only possible wonder home far and wide" .

literature

  • Ars Electronica 92: The World from Inside - Endo & Nano. Peter Weibel, Karl Gerbel, Linz 1992. ISBN 3-901196-04-8
  • Time sculpture, exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Gallery. publications N ° 1 Library of the Province, Linz 1997. ISBN 3-85252-162-9
  • Public Art Lower Austria volume 4. Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 1998. ISBN 3-85437-143-8
  • Susanne Neuburger, A Guide to Contemporary Art Projects in Public Space. Falter Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Vienna 2001. ISBN 3-85439-282-6
  • Notation. Calculus and form in the arts, exhibition of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. Hubertus von Amelunxen , Dieter Appelt, Peter Weibel in collaboration with Angela Lamert, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-88331-123-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elenora Louis: Christoph Steffner, Vorspiel, Ars Electronica Archive
  2. ↑ adk.de, notation (PDF; 6 kB)
  3. ↑ Christoph Steffner, Zimmer, publicart.at, Lower Austria Culture
  4. ↑ Spiderhouse, Traklhaus ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.salzburg.gv.at
  5. ↑ mobile buildings and vehicles
personal data
SURNAME Steffner, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenmarkt im Pongau