Klaus Pobitzer

Klaus Pobitzer (* 1971 in Schlanders in South Tyrol ) is a South Tyrolean artist living in Vienna and Schlanders .

Career

From 1995 to 2000 he completed a diploma course with Gunter Damisch and Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

Work characteristics

Installations and conceptual projects in public space, computer drawings, ready-mades, sculptural objects, actions, performances, videos and conceptual art (especially via social media); Equipment and design for architectural projects.

Focus

Figure installations

Since 2000, a constant in Pobitzer's work has been the installation of large figural, computer-drawn objects in public places or for exhibition spaces. Projects in the area of ​​urban public were among others. a. Realized in Palermo, Wrocław (Poland), Sorrento (near Naples), Innsbruck, Milan, Balaklava (Crimea / Ukraine) or Busan (Korea), exhibitions in Ghent and New York, in Vienna for the Leopold Museum in the Vienna Museum Quarter and the Kunsthalle Vienna . The basis is created in digital drawings, mostly full-length portrait or group photos, which are scaled for the installations up to a height of 30 m.

Actions / Performances

Some of the performative projects that Pobitzer places in public space apply the same motif and dramaturgical material to different environments. The herd of gorillas that took part in a guided tour of the city in a boat in Ghent ( Close but no sigar 2006) proclaimed a banana republic in Bleiburg (Carinthia) and on Karlsplatz a year later ( All about Bananas , 2007). The performance Habs-Burger ( Salotto.Vienna , Triest, 2014), which symbolically recounted the fate of the Habsburg Empire on the occasion of the commemoration year at the beginning of the First World War , by feeding the double-headed eagle as a minced loaf to two viewers blinded by star throwers, took place in a larger one Its continuation in the Habsburgerstand project ( [habːsˈbøːɐ̯ɡɐːstand] , in cooperation with Julius Deutschbauer, 2015). A yellow car with its own emblem tried for a month to be a foreign body in the eyes of tourists and locals, for whom the remaining artefacts and icons of the Habsburg monarchy had long ago become a consumer item or dust catcher. In public places in Vienna that are associated in a certain way with the Habsburg legacy, such as Schönbrunn Palace , the Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof or the Votive Church , a production facility for inedible meat, burnt biscuits and grotesquely obsessive ones opened up in everyday reality Poetry readings and jam sessions as well as small artistic events, which also gave the audience the opportunity for creative self-production.

Social sensation sculptures

The Habsburg project thus also joins the Social Sensation Sculptures so named by Pobitzer , objects of different compositions that intend to offer the viewer resistance by standing in their way on the one hand in their ancestral surroundings and on the other hand as one Expressing a topic directly from this environment that has either been forgotten or consciously suppressed. Logically, some of them deal with Pobitzer's South Tyrolean homeland. Already the first video presentation defined as a social sensation sculpture , or were they maybe colorful? , addressed a child abuser who was allowed to do mischief unmolested in Schlanders. Most recently, the performance Lumina Nigra ( Bozen, Museion , 2014) took the inclusion of the first colored South Tyrolean among the Tyrolean shooters as an ironic survey of the legends and traditions of the South Tyroleans.

Cartoons and Hidden Object GIFs

Since 2017, Pobitzer has been combining iconic portraits of politicians and other people from the media - often only temporary - of public interest with irritating accessories to overcrowded group pictures under the pseudonym Felix Grütsch for the Austrian daily Der Standard under the pseudonym Felix Grütsch. Pobitzer expanded this concept - also as Felix Grütsch - for the 2019 Berliner Festspiele with the event theme Palast der Republik to an approx. 8 m long wall frieze The Wall of the Turn - everything creak! , in which characteristic personalities of the late 1980s conglomerate into a confusing iconography of the turning point. With the design options that the TikTok video platform offers its users, Pobitzer adds moving parts to the fixed images of his Wimmel cartoons and uses them to create Wimmel GIFs that add a surprising level of commentary to the collages.

Works and projects in solo exhibitions

• The wall of the turning point - everything creak! , 2019, Berlin, Berliner Festspiele
• [habːsˈbøːɐ̯ɡɐːstand] - A pre-résumé , together with Julius Deutschbauer and Panos Mylonos. 2015, Vienna, Galerie Steinek
• [habːsˈbøːɐ̯ɡɐːstand] . Installation / performance in public space together with Julius Deutschbauer. 2015, Vienna
• Lumina Nigra . Performance, Long Night of the Bolzano Museums. 2015, Bolzano, Museion
• People . 2012, Bolzano, Museion , Passage
• Wall design of the rental car headquarters of Vienna International Airport / Skylink. Architectural art. 2012, Vienna International Airport, Skylink wing
• Cameras . 13 motifs as part of the anniversary celebrations "10 years of WestLicht" and "20 years of the Leica Shop" and the exhibition opening POLAROID [IM] POSSIBLE - THE WESTLICHT COLLECTION. 2011, Vienna, Galerie Fotomuseum Westlicht
• Snap shots . 2010, Schlanders (South Tyrol), Schlandersburg Castle Library
• Fashion for Architecture . 2010, Vienna, Rinderhalle St. Marx. Curator: Jürgen Weishäupl [1]
• Tribute to Michael Jackson . Computer print / acrylic on canvas. 2009, Vienna, Galerie Suppan Contemporary
• Togo . 2008, Milan, Triennale di Milano. Curator: Davide Gianella
• Dance of Death, homage to Albin Egger-Lienz . Installation on the occasion of the Albin Egger-Lienz exhibition. 2008, Vienna, atrium of the Leopold Museum [2]
• Twilight . 2007, Antwerp, Annie Gentils Gallery
• Leogolf . Object and performance with Rudolf Leopold's VW Golf. 2007, Vienna, Leopold Museum [3]
• All about bananas . Performance in public space. 2007, Bleiburg / Pliberk (Carinthia) and Vienna, Karlsplatz . Kunsthalle Wien [4] (subtitle in banana script)
• City scan ; BAR code . 2006, Gent, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK). Curators: Philippe Van Cauteren, B. Ieemans [5]
• Close but no sigar . Performance. 2006, Ghent [6]
• Faccettace . City installation. 2006, Sorrento (Napoli), 5th Sorrento Carnevalè. Curator: Jürgen Weishäupl [7]
• People . 2005, Milan, Nuova Fiera di Milano, Rho-Pero. Curator: Jürgen Weishäupl [8]
• Uomini di Palermo . Figurative city installation. 2005, Kalsa, Palermo. Curator: Jürgen Weishäupl
• Vampires (Vampires) , 2003, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
• oo0o00o0oo . 2002, Innsbruck, Stadtturmgalerie and University Clinic (installation on the north facade)
• am hunting , 2002, Anversa / Antwerp, Galerie Annie Gentils
• One of two things that go toghether . 2001, Vienna, Kunsthalle 8
• The red visitor and his plants . Installation for the opening of the "Long Night of Museums". 2001, Vienna, atrium of the Leopold Museum . Paper collages, 17 and 10 m high, made from A4 prints of computer drawings. Curators: Romana Schuler, Goschka Gawlik
• Magottn . 2000, Silandro / Schlanders, Altes Obstmagazin

Publications

• Weirdly Young - Children and Adolescents in Contemporary Art. Texts by Oliver Zybok, Iris Kettner, Andrea Lehmann, Katharina Mayer, Alex Morrison, Klaus Pobitzer, Santeri Tuori, Yoshitomo Nara, Elke Keiper, Bernhard Fuchs. 64 pp., 37 Farbillstr. Freiburg / Breisgau: Modo 2005 [9]
• Klaus Pobitzer, Lucas Gehrmann, Klaus Pobitzer - oo0o00o0oo. With texts by H. v.Amelunxen, B. Huck, P. Krajewski, H. Salden, H.-J. Hafner, R. Leinemann. Vienna: Triton 2004.
• Klaus Pobitzer, uomini di palermo. Accompanying publication to the city installation in Kalsa, Palermo, with texts by Andrea Bruciati, Ralf Leinemann and Jürgen Weishäupl. Photos by Sandro Scalia, Franco Speroni and Klaus Pobitzer. Vienna 2004.
• the dream il sogno le rêve. Exhibition catalog, Goldrain Castle (Latsch / Bozen), July 16 - August 15, 1999. Latsch: Goldrain Castle 1999.

literature

• Art in construction: The cattle hall with a new styling , in: www.wse.at (Homepage of Wiener Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH), July 17, 2010, [10]
• Aaron Moulton, Intervista a Klaus Pobitzer , in: Andrea Bruciati, IM 02 - L'immagine sottile: opere per la collezione della Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, exhibition catalog, GC.AC, Monfalcone, 21 December 2007 - 17. February 2008. Monfalcone: edizioni GC.AC. 2007.
• Public Furniture . Sea Art Festival, Busan Biennale 2006. Catalog. Paju-si, South Korea: Artbooks Publishing 2006.
• Klaus Pobitzer at SMAK Museum of Contemporary Art , in: artdaily.org. August 26, 2006 [11]
• Antonia Hoerschelmann, Gunter Damisch, draftsmen 9 - 9 draftsmen from Austria . Ed. V. City of Herne Emschertal Museum. Herne: Emschertal Museum 2004.

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Web links

• personal homepage
• kunstaspekte.de
• art-report.com
• undo.net (only Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.circusfans.net
2. ↑ www.fondazionefieramilano.it
3. ↑ Performance video on Youtube
4. ↑ Performance video on Youtube
5. ↑ A Facebook online diary was kept for the project : Facebook online diary for the Habsburg stand project
6. ↑ Museion website ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.