Hans Weigand

Hans Weigand (born June 26, 1954 in Hall in Tirol ) is a contemporary Austrian lithographer, graphic artist, painter, photographer, object artist and musician.

Live and act

Hans Weigand grew up in Absam Tirol. 1978 - 1983 he studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Oswald Oberhuber .

Shaped by the West American art scene - in 1999 he realized the installation "Life / Boat" with Raymond Pettibon and Jason Rhoades at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles - and the musical subculture, Hans Weigand picked up on personalities from the media and pop culture. As a border crosser between visual and applied art, he explores the identities and projection surfaces of society and reacts to everyday phenomena, which he takes to absurdity in seemingly utopian scenarios. Motifs from religion and war, disaster and violence scenes, borrowings from comics and film, the world of surfers, natural backdrops and urban landscapes result in a panopticon of the present.

In this way he gets to grips with banal everyday phenomena, for example with dime novels and film classics (“Cotton 2001”), and always works out common codes and structures. Numerous collaborations complement Weigand's cross-genre work concept.

Weigand works in art and music in parallel, founded the duo "Avoi-dance" with Heimo Zobernig and the band "Crincum Crancum" with Raymond Pettibon , Albert Mayr and Johann Neumeister. His work has been shown in international solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums since 1978. He lives and works in Vienna and St. Martin an der Raab

Quote

“Wood for the palaces! The invention of the woodcut, letterpress printing and etching has accelerated and revived the dawn of the Renaissance no less inexorably just as digital technologies renewed image production at the end of the 20th century. Nevertheless, the traces of old prints hardly signal the force with which the “speaking sheets” intervened in the imagination and created an uncontrollable forum for people's ideas. The grain of the wood or the coarse contours in the hatching of a fabric look more like outdated remnants today, properties of outdated stuff that is at best still valued, cared for and preserved in a rural setting. With the exhibition that will open on February 1, 2014 in the rooms of Niklas Schechinger Fine Art, Hans Weigand thwarted all these beautiful things that were taken for granted. His canvas prints, carved reliefs and carnival monsters conjure up the village garb of tradition without further ado, but just as vehemently confront the hallmarks of old technology with the icons of extremely mobile modernity. In the pigment layer of his canvases, the fragments of sunken printing ink meet the mobility of the latest Photoshop programs, the idol of a rock star meets the melancholy of the lonely silver surfer, the uproar of a wooden drapery mixes with the silhouette of the house in which Hitchcock holds his mother's corpse of a psychotic killer. No surface detail in the artist's objects can be certain of its identity or function. Waves may be piled up from fire and smoke, the peaceful sleep of a saint made from the thick skin of a homeless person, the concrete pillars of blind high-rise bureaucracy made from the wood of a raft that has not carried a shipwrecked person ashore for a long time. The Klötzler from Absam in Tyrol will show this unpredictable background of the pictures right before your eyes. For the first time outside of their traditional area and in a wooden paneling that was designed by an artist, they show in the exhibition Wood the Palaces how much this material, in which pictures, instruments and furniture found a new face centuries ago, is still suitable for dancing can bring. "

- Text: Roberto Ohrt (born 1954 in Santiago de Chile, has lived in Hamburg since 1968 and has been writing about art since 1990)

Art in public space

Hans Weigand - SOCIAL (1999), SOWI Innsbruck
Artistic lighting design Parkhotel (Hall in Tirol) 2003
"Art in Architecture" in Kaltenbach 2018
"Wellenbrecher" by Hans Weigand; Sculptures in public space, quarter 2 2014

Awards

1993 outstanding artist award - fine arts, Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture, Vienna
2004 Art Prize of the State of Tyrol for contemporary art

Exhibitions (selection)

Since 1978 his work has been shown continuously in international solo and group exhibitions in galleries and renowned museums.

1998 Hans Weigand SAT Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
1999 MAK-Schindler House, Los Angeles
2000 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
2001 Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna; Secession, Vienna
2002 Hauser and Wirth Collection, St. Gallen; Museum Ludwig , Cologne
2003 Galerie Ascan Crone Andreas Osarek, Berlin; Picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2005 Gallery 500 and PICA - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland / USA; Innsbruck Art Space; Hans Weigand - From here to there, courtyard gallery of the Neue Galerie Graz

2006 HANS WEIGAND a retrospective personal. Art space Innsbruck

2008 Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Malmö Konsthall , Arndt & Partner, Zurich

2009 Kunsthaus Zug

2010 Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum , Innsbruck; Vortex, MAK - Museum of Applied Arts Vienna; Dark Surfing With Sigmund, ACLA, Los Angeles; Deep Water Horizon, University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA; Galerie Konzett, Vienna

2012 Hans Weigand, Gabriele Senn Gallery, Vienna; Go West, Marenzi Gallery, Leibnitz; Vinofaktur, Vogau; Z in vortex. Galerie Z, Hard, Tyrol; “Dark Surfing with Sigmund” & More, Galerie Konzett , Vienna

2013 "Interstellar Overdrive" Art at the Border, Jennersdorf; Hans Weigand, Hotel Bates, Atelier Contemporary, Graz

2015 Hans Weigand SURFING, 21er Haus , Vienna

2016 “After The Gold Rush” in the RLB Art Bridge.

2017 Hans Weigand: The playmates of the sea, Galerie Senn; Hans Weigand - On the road again, Gerberhaus Fehring - Culture and Communication, Petra Werkovits Fehring

2018 ERWIN WURM / HANS WEIGAND, Galerie Gaudens - Pedit (Kitzbühel)

performance

2014 "Demon Brothers" by Hans Weigand, 21er Haus, Vienna

music

In the 1980s, Hans Weigand played guitar in the legendary Viennese artist band Pas Paravant . In the 1990s he met the American illustrator Raymond Pettibon . Together with Pettibon, a dazzling figure of the West Coast underground, the Tyrolean artist Hans Weigand founded the band Crinkum Crankum. According to Weigand, music has accompanied him since he was a young boy. For a while, according to the artist, he even flirted with a career as a rock musician.

MAK NITE © SPECIAL, RAYMOND PETTIBON (Los Angeles) & HANS WEIGAND (Vienna) (2010)
Hans Weigand - OUT OF THE DARK @ Galerie Crone (2011)
HANS WEIGAND - Demon Brothers, Performance 2014
HANS WEIGAND | SURFING: Feature for the exhibition "HANS WEIGAND - Surfing" in the 21er Haus, Vienna (2015)
MAK RADIKAL 001 Raymond Pettibon & Hans Weigand (2015)
2018 double life - visual artists make music, mumok Vienna

Public collections

Generali Foundation
Belvedere digital collection , Vienna
Hauser and Wirth Collection, St. Gallen;
Cserni Collection
RLB Art Bridge Innsbruck

literature

Swan, stick on! A fairy tale selection. Illustrations by Hans Weigand. Ludwig Pechstein (Ed.) Knabe, Weimar 1976.
Hans Weigand (Ed.): Galerie Grita Insam ; Weigand Hans (Illustrator) Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna 1988.
White light, white heat , Hans Weigand. (Ed.) EA Generali Foundation 1990, ISBN 978-3-901107-01-6 .
Hans Weigand - Achim Kubinski New York 1993 , Wienna Art - Art Edition, 1993.
Thomas Locher, Hans Weigand: Salzburger Kunstverein , (ed.) Catalog design: Hans Weigand and Gregor Eichinger, ISBN 978-3-901264-05-4 .
Life / boat , Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades Hans Weigand, Cornerhouse Publications 1999, ISBN 978-3-88375-536-6 .
Hans Weigand, SAT. Exhibition MAK Gallery , Noever, Peter (Ed.) Oktagon-Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 978-3-89611-033-6 .
Hans Weigand: Cotton 2001 - Jerry Cotton 2002 ', Walther König, Cologne 2002, ISBN 978-3-88375-581-6 .
Hans Weigand. Monograph. Carsten Höller (Ed.) Walter König, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-86560-020-2 .
Hans Weigand: Panorama II , Ermacora, Beate (eds.) And Hans Weigand; Walther König. Innsbruck, Gallery in the Taxispalais, 2009.
Hans Weigand: Surfing. Exhibition in the 21er Haus, Agnes Husslein-Arco and Mario Codognato and Mario Codognato (eds.) Belvedere 2015, ISBN 978-3-902805-72-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Weigand, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter, graphic artist, sculptor, musician and action artist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hall in Tirol

[1] Hans Weigand - SOCIAL (1999)

[2] Parkhotel (formerly: Turmhotel Seeber) 2003

[3] The Empl company opens "Art in Architecture" in Kaltenbach 2018

[4] Sculpture project in Viertel Zwei in Vienna 2014

[5] Hans Weigand SAT, Museum Abteiberg 1998

[6] Hans Weigand - From here to there, 2005 Graz

[7] HANS WEIGAND a retrospective personal. Innsbruck Art Space 2006

[8] Hans Weigand: Interstellar Overdrive, Art on the Border 2013

[9] Feature for the exhibition “HANS WEIGAND - Surfing” in the 21er Haus

[10] 21er house - Hans Weigand. Surfing Hieronymus Bosch, remixed

[11] Hans Weigand "After The Gold Rush" in the RLB Art Bridge. 2016

[12] Hans Weigand: The Playmates of the Sea 2017

[13] Art makes music: Hans Weigand visits Christine Scheucher

[14] RAYMOND PETTIBON (Los Angeles) & HANS WEIGAND (Vienna) 2010

[15] Hans Weigand leads through his exhibition "Out of the Dark" in the Galerie Crone, Berlin.

[16] HANS WEIGAND - Demon Brothers, Performance 2014 in the 21er Haus

[17] Feature for the exhibition "HANS WEIGAND - Surfing" in the 21er Haus 2015

[18] 001 // RAYMOND PETTIBON (Los Angeles) & HANS WEIGAND (Vienna) Films, Music and more

[19] Participating artists / musicians and bands, mumok 2018

[20] Generali Foundation Collection

[21] Digital Belvedere

[22] Cserni Collection

[23] RLB Art Bridge Innsbruck