Lois Renner

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Lois Renner (born October 11, 1961 in Salzburg , lives in Vienna ) is an Austrian visual artist .

life and work

Lois Renner grew up as the second of three children in the city of Salzburg. His parents ran a craft business, the name of which would later become significant for the artist: “Painting Renner”. Renner's artistic talent was evident early on, as a schoolboy he was earning extra pocket money by selling his own paintings . After an apprenticeship as a sign painter and the master's school for Austrian painting in Baden near Vienna , which he successfully completed from 1981 to 1984 , Renner began studying at the Mozarteum University . In 1985 he moved to the Rheinische Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , where he studied painting with Professors Karl Kneidl , Rissa and Gerhard Richter , interrupted by several stays in Paris .

After completing his studies, Lois Renner first moved into a studio in an unused workshop in his parents' house (“Painting Renner”). A little later, in 1991, he went to Vienna, which, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, moved from its peripheral position and became a new center of creative forces. He took the “Painting Renner” with him. He built the first studio on a reduced scale as a model and arranged his own artist existence in it in order to then reproduce it photographically. The model is both the archetype of an artist's workshop and a three-dimensional fragment of one's own biography. Above all, it is the stage for pictures. Renner calls this test arrangement "form research". Not only are materials, techniques, media and image terms examined for their current suitability, but Renner begins a long-term study of the relationship between photography and painting , which always deals with the difficulty of being an “artist” in the present. Although the end product of his artistic activity is a large-format photograph and the way there requires the skills of a sculptor, constructor or light artist, Lois Renner sees himself as a painter.

With the painter's eye, he composes the seriously formalistic as well as ironic-narrative pictures of interiors for which he has become known, as well as digitally processed photographs of painting. His most famous pictures (e.g. "Der Barberinische Faun 3000" from 2000 in the museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf) show his own studio and the various props of artistic production in it, often also the artist himself. The rooms and objects become better design reproduced by the painter-sculptor-installation artist-model-maker-architect-photographer on a reduced scale and recorded with a view camera to finally result in a photographic one-off with the quality and dimensions of a panel painting.

Today Lois Renner is one of the most successful Austrian contemporary artists. As early as 1992 - as the youngest winner at the age of 30 - he was awarded the most important Austrian art prize, the Monsignore Otto Mauer Prize . Numerous solo and group exhibitions followed, mainly in Austria and Germany, and from 1999 also worldwide. From 2002 to 2005 Lois Renner held the professorship for Artistic Photography at the State University for Design in Karlsruhe . His pictures are in many public and private collections.

Renner is a member of the Vienna Secession .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010 Lois Renner, Rupert Pfab Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2010 Hyper Real, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
  • 2008 Lois Renner, The Artist Studio, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • 2006 Overbeck Society , Lübeck
    • Galerie Mauroner, Vienna
  • 2005 Rupert Pfab Gallery, Düsseldorf
    • Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    • Art Forum Montafon, Schruns
    • Galería Jule Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca
  • 2004 Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
    • Cultural Forum of the Austrian Embassy, ​​Berlin
    • Kunsthalle Tübingen (with M. Gaal)
  • 2003 State gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz
    • Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Galerie Kewenig, Cologne
    • Crown Gallery, Brussels
  • 2002 Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    • Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg
    • Boiler house, Hanover
    • Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna
  • 2001 Gallery Academia, Salzburg
  • 2000 Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    • Göppingen Art Gallery
    • escale 22, Düsseldorf
  • 1999 Marie Louise Wirth Gallery, Zurich
    • Kerstin Engholm Gallery, Vienna
    • Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    • Gallery in the Traklhaus, gallery of the city of Salzburg
  • 1998 Kunsthaus Bregenz
    • Galerie Jesco von Puttkamer, Berlin
  • 1997 Jesco von Puttkamer Gallery, Berlin
  • 1996 Room Current Art, Vienna
  • 1995 Salzburg Art Association
  • 1991 Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008 Adolph Menzel and Lois Renner - The artist studio , Hamburger Kunsthalle
    • Flashback . The photo collection of the Neue Galerie Graz
    • True romance. Allegories of love from the Renaissance to today , Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
  • 2006 Post-Media Condition, Centro Cultural Conde Duque , Medialab Center, Madrid
  • 2005 New acquisitions, Landesgalerie am OÖ. State Museum , Linz
    • Selection of the 26th Bienial of São Paulo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile
    • La patria está a la vuelta de la esquina, Centro de Fotografía, Salamanca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo / Spain
    • post_modellismus, Krinzingerprojekte, Vienna
    • simultaneous, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
    • Post-media condition, Neue Galerie, Graz
  • 2004 True lies. Lies and other truths in contemporary photography, museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf (CH)
    • Kallmann Museum, Ismaning, Lois Renner and photography at the Karlsruhe University of Design
    • Gallery of the city of Backnang
    • Home is around the corner, town house in Ulm
    • 26th São Paulo Biennial
    • Vision of a collection, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg
  • 2003 The endless puzzle. Dalí and the magicians of ambiguity, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
    • Modeled Realities, State Gallery at Upper Austria. State Museum, Linz
    • Archetypes, State Gallery at Upper Austria. State Museum, Linz
    • True Fictions, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Städt. Erlangen Gallery
    • ABSOLUT Generations , La Biennale di Venezia, 50esima Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Mostre Extra 50, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice
    • Made for Admont, Museum Stift Admont
    • construction, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
  • 2002 today until now. Contemporary photography from Düsseldorf II, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
    • Berlin New Art City, Opera Paese, Rome
    • True Fictions Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
    • Art Association Lingen
    • Kunsthaus Dresden, II. Art Biennale of Buenos Aires
  • 2001 Realidad Construida, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
    • Austrian Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Art Museum
    • Ways of Worldmaking, Mücsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest
    • Expanded Photography. Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
    • Milano-Europa 2000, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
    • Every beginning is MERZ - from Kurt Schwitters to today, Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 2000 Lives and works in Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien
    • It all starts with MERZ - from Kurt Schwitters to today, Sprengel Museum Hannover, afterimages, Kunsthaus Zürich
  • 1999 Five continents and one city, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City
    • La casa il corpo il cuore, Museum of Modern Art, Ludwig Collection, 20er Haus, Vienna
    • Insight Out, Kunstraum Innsbruck
    • Kunsthaus Hamburg
    • Kunsthaus Baselland
  • 1997 Formalism, Austrian Gallery
    • Belvedere, Vienna
    • Biennial Montenegro
  • 1996 Wunderbar, Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 1995 Pittura Immedia. Painting in the 90s, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Models,
    • Current Art Room, Vienna
  • 1994 Artist in Residence, Neue Galerie, Graz
  • 1993 Making Art, Art Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt

Public collections (selection)

Awards

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Renner, Lois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg