Heidulf Gerngross

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Heidulf Gerngross (* 1939 in Kötschach ) is an Austrian architect , artist and editor of a cultural magazine.

Heidulf Gerngross: Archiquanten lamp , shown at the Biennale für Lichtkunst Austria 2010

life and work

Heidulf Gerngross was born in Kötschach in Carinthia in 1939 . He completed architecture studies in Vienna and Graz as well as a degree in painting in Tokyo . He did his postgraduate studies (Urban Design) at UCLA Los Angeles , which he completed in 1971 with a Master of Science in Urban Land Economics. In 1976 he founded the Gerngross-Richter architectural office with Helmut Richter. Together with Robert Schwan he founded the Gerngross Atelier, Der Gerngrossraum, Gerngross ST / A / D. He invented the Archiquanten (architectural particles for the proportioning of architectural making) in 1995. A year later he caused a sensation with several projects in his Gerngross workshop in Vienna, including the 1st Vienna Loft and the Friedrich Kiesler School in Vienna-Leopoldstadt. In 2002 his contributions casa privata and aula discorsiva were shown at the 2002 Venice Architecture Biennale . The architectural model capella bianca was then purchased by the MAK .

Since 2003 Gerngross has been the publisher of the print medium ST / A / R , Urban Planning, Architecture, Religion. The film The Archistrator, Heidulf Gerngross from RAUM.FILM. Vienna was presented to the public in 2004 in the Topkino Wien.

In 2008 he received the City of Vienna Prize for Architecture .

Heidulf Gerngross lives and works in Vienna and Melk . With three women, Gerngross has a total of six children who were born between 1962 and 2006.

useful information

Gerngross column by Franz West

On August 28, 2007, a column by the artist Franz West was unveiled at the foot of the Rahlstiege in Vienna , with an egg perched on top. The Gerngross lettering is mirror-inverted on this. The lettering does not refer to the nearby Gerngross department store , but to the artist Heidulf Gerngross.

Exhibitions, loudspeaker readings, architectural campaigns (excerpt)

  • 1968–1978 Volksbuch-Raumalphabet (first computer novel in the world);
  • 1978 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for 25 years , participation; Carinthia;
  • 1979 clay monument . Participation in the Styrian Autumn together with Valie Export and Helmut Richter
  • 1980 Volksbuch Ars Electronica , Linz ;
  • 1993 Weinviertel Photo Weeks (1989–1993) . An interim balance. Lower Austrian State Museum .
  • 2001 liquid Künstlerhaus Wimmer - Cooper - Gerngross, Künstlerhaus , Vienna;
  • 2001 Heidulf Gerngross, architecture performance , MUMOK (Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation), Vienna
  • 2002 8th International Architecture Biennale , Venice; Acquisition of the “Capella Bianca” exhibit at the Venice Biennale 2002 (architectural model) by the MAK Collection for Contemporary Art;
  • 2003 ST / A / R presentation, ArchitekturZentrum Wien;
  • 2003 A Design now: Contemporary Design in Austria , Austrian Cultural Forum, New York;
  • Franz West in conversation with Heidulf Gerngross, Kunsthaus Bregenz ,
  • 2004, no man's land. Models for the public space Künstlerhaus Wien
  • ST / A / R newspaper presentation. Museum of Applied Arts, MAK, Vienna;
  • 2005 The Encyclopedia of True Values , forum experimental architecture, Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • ARTmART 2007 , Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2008 The Viennese art scene comes to Linz with a few Russians , gallery ARTPARK Linz
  • 2009 The game of the mighty . Heidulf Gerngross archives Franz West's Nageltower. MAK Vienna
  • 2010 Postsuprematist data sheets - Friedrich and Lilian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna

literature

  • Heidulf Gerngross: Volksbuch . Rhombus-Verlag, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85394-009-9
  • 1993 Catalog: Lower Austrian State Museum: River. Weinviertel Photo Weeks (1989–1993). An interim balance. Ed. Office of the Lower Austrian Provincial Government.
  • Heidulf Gerngross: ABC des Raumes Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, Weitra 2014, ISBN 978-3-99028-424-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nextroom database (accessed on October 4, 2009)
  2. ↑ Kulturaxe (accessed October 4, 2009)
  3. ↑ Nextroom database (accessed October 4, 2009)
  4. ↑ Prize winners - Prizes of the City of Vienna (accessed on February 9, 2017)
  5. ^ Report on Franz West's Gerngross column on ORF (accessed October 4, 2009)
  6. ^ Report in ORF Kultur in Basis Archive Vienna
  7. ↑ Press release MAK  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mak.at  
  8. ↑ The game of the mighty. MAK Vienna  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mak.at  
  9. ↑ Vernissage , the magazine for current exhibition events, issue 294, pp. 50–51, with colored images

Web links

Commons : Heidulf Gerngross  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Gerngross, Heidulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kötschach