Helmut Machhammer

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Sculpture "Change", created in 1995 from Krastal marble during a Krastal sculpture symposium, set up in the Europapark on the east bank of the Wörthersee , Waidmannsdorf district in Klagenfurt , Carinthia

Helmut Karl Machhammer (* 1962 in Kalwang ) is an Austrian sculptor .

Live and act

Helmut Machhammer was born in 1962 in the market town of Kalwang in Liesingtal and attended, among other things, the HTL Ortweinplatz in Graz from 1976 to 1980 , where he was taught by Josef Pillhofer (1921-2010), among others . He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Joannis Avramidis (1922–2016) until 1985 . Early in his career he received various awards, such as the Theodor-Körner Prize in 1986 or the Prize of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce in 1989. In the 1980s, the native of Styria moved to Carinthia , where he settled in the Krastal settled down. Machhammer still lives and works today (as of 2017) in the Krastal, as well as in St. Margarethen ob Töllerberg near Völkermarkt , but also in the federal capital Vienna . In 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2012 and 2016, he appeared as the organizer of the Krastal sculpture symposium . He has been an active member of this symposium since 1979. The main theme in his works is man ; his primary material is marble , especially the Krastal marble in his adopted home Carinthia. In his works entitled “Purzeln”, which were exhibited several times in German-speaking countries, he produced three-dimensional abstract bodies in such a way that they repeatedly reveal new views and new content by rotating the figure. This interactive process also contributes significantly to the understanding of the sculpture. This interplay between material, form and content is an important point in all of Machhammer's work. He not only works with marble or stone, but also with layered wooden planks, metals twisting through the room or devoting himself to unconventional ice cults (“Fire Cubes”).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016:

Sculpture drawings, Kunstraum Ewigkeitsgasse, Vienna

Participations (selection)

  • 2016:
  • 2015:
  • 2014:
    • bv annual exhibition, Alpen-Adria Gallery, Klagenfurt
    • 47th Sculptor Symposium Krastal, artwork Krastal, meeting
    • Walker Gallery, Ebenau Castle, Feistritz im Rosental
    • Blau, BV Galerie, Klagenfurt
    • Economy presents art, Kulturni dom, Bleiburg
    • Art Cocktail, Galerie Berndt, Wolfsberg (with Pepo Pichler, Karl Schüssler, Gustav Janùs, Valentin Oman, Ernst Gradischnig, Roger Gressl, Hans Staudacher, Alfred Haberpointner, Gotthard Schatz, Alois Köchl, Lisa Huber, Ingrid Marquardt, Kevin A. Rausch)
  • 2013:
    • The city as a gallery, St Andrae number 56
    • Staudacher versus sculpture - Feilacher Schatz Machhammer, Galerie Atelier Berndt & Offnerplatzl, Wolfsberg
    • Drifting market, Westhagen market square, Wolfsburg (Germany)
    • Hotel Obir, Reception, Hotel Opir-Galerie opening credits, Bad Eisenkappel
    • Gabelhofen Castle, art on closed, (catalog), Fohnsdorf
  • 2012:
    • Factory instead of lock, for VW Coaching, Wolfsburg (Germany)
    • Symposium Krastal, bedrock, (catalog)
    • Art Association Carinthia, Structure & Immateriality, (catalog)
  • 2011:
    • Lana art, sculptures along the way, Lana, I
    • Art Association Carinthia, Klagenfurt
    • BV annual exhibition, Alpen Adria Gallery, Klagenfurt
    • Gallery opening credits, Bad Eisenkappel
    • Reart, St. Stefan near Wolfsberg
    • Artwork Krastal, Sculptor's House and Sculpture Street, Krastal near Villach
  • 2010:
  • 2008:
    • K08 - Art from Carinthia after 1945, (catalog), artwork Krastal, Krastal near Villach
  • 2007:
    • Worldpool, Sculptor Symposion Krastal, (catalog)
  • 2006:
    • Solisombra, Galerie Walker, (catalog), Schloss Ebenau, Feistritz im Rosental
    • Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, (catalog), Klagenfurt
  • 2005:
  • 2004:
    • Insite out, Daniel Henry Kahnweiler Foundation, (catalog), Rockenhausen (Germany)
  • 2003:
    • stone washed, Museum M and Mistelbach urban space, Mistelbach
  • 2002:
    • europe art languages, Paco Milano sud, (catalog), Milan (Italy)
    • Otto Eder Hommage - artist encounters, Sculpture House Krastal, (catalog), Krastal near Villach
  • 2000:
  • Miscellaneous:

Work in public space; also in the sacred area (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • 1986: Theodor Körner Prize
  • 1989: Prize of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce
  • 2002: Carinthia Promotion Prize

gallery

  • Sculpture "Male Figure" from 1986 from the series "Holiday Landscape with Culture" at the western entrance to Sattendorf

  • Sculpture "Purzeln-Cumulet" from 1998 in the Langenhagen city ​​park

  • Sculpture “Purzeln” Bad Helmstedt city ​​park

Web links

Commons : Helmut Machhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Machhammer on krastal.com, accessed on September 24, 2017
  2. ↑ Castle: Apprentices Make Art , accessed on September 24, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Machhammer, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machhammer, Helmut Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalwang , Austria