Lois Weinberger (artist)

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Lois Weinberger in his area in Gars - 2017
Railway track, neophytes from southern and southeastern Europe, length 100 m (documenta 10, 1997)

Lois Weinberger (born September 24, 1947 in Stams ; † April 20 or April 21, 2020 in Vienna ) was an Austrian artist who played a key role in the new debate about “art-nature” from the 1990s onwards.

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Weinberger worked on a poetic-political network that draws attention to peripheral areas and questions hierarchies of various kinds. Weinberger saw himself as a field worker and began in the 1970s with ethnopoietic work such as the “fragmentary inventory” of his birthplace, Stams , which forms a basis for the artistic exploration of the natural and civilized space that has been developing for decades. Ruderal plants , which affect all areas of our life, are the starting point and orientation point for notes, drawings, photos, objects, texts, films and works in public spaces.

With his consistent plant art he pursued the valorization of the wild growth and the weeds, which in his work were metaphors for everything undesirable and dissident. Weinberger spoke out against the orderly, pure and clearly laid out aspects of civilization and horticulture; For him the protection of the apparently useless weeds and the art of botanical resistance were the Archimedean point of his vegetation aesthetics.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Weinberger watered the undergrowth in Berlin's death strip as if it were as valuable as a rose garden. From 1991 to 1992 Weinberger designed the WILD CUBE - a steel gate fence in which the afforestation takes place through spontaneous vegetation, without human intervention - RUDERAL SOCIETY - a gap in urban space. At the same time, Weinberger began with the subversive plant transfers in appropriated areas of the city as well as in the countryside. 1993 created the work "BURNING and WALKING" Weinberger breaks in the summer during the festival season at the square in front of the scene Salzburg the asphalt on and leaves of this 8 × 8 meters wide, fenced area itself. 1997 this will work for documenta X in the parking lot of the Kulturbahnhof and reinstalled in Tokyo in 1998. Also for documenta X, Weinberger planted a disused railroad track of 100 meters with neophytes from southern and southeastern Europe, which has become an internationally recognized metaphor for the migration processes of our time and, with its poetic-political references, points far beyond. The work has been restored since 2015 and remains as a work of art in Kassel.

In 2009 Weinberger put a compost heap in the Giardini for the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and created a space with structures for this spontaneous vegetation. In 2017 Weinberger was invited to documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. In the park of the Karlsauen he drew a long swath through the English lawn in order to open a “refugee camp” for the weeds between the walking paths. In Athens, on the other hand, he showed the biographical weeds of his family history in a showcase exhibition, which could be removed from under the floorboards during the renovation of his parents' farm.

“Gardens of diversity that have been left in place correspond to today's urgencies / the noting of caesuras / connections and their vibrations / to see the garden as a sign of voluntary renunciation / serenity / non-intervention. Fallow areas / peripheries are gardens and places / in which the boundaries show themselves as moving / unsafe. ” LW 1990

biography

Lois Weinberger

Lois Weinberger lived with his wife Franziska in Vienna , Gars am Kamp and Innsbruck .

Awards, scholarships, professorships

  • 2014 Art Prize of the Klocker Foundation Innsbruck
  • 2010 Appreciation Prize for Fine Arts of the State of Lower Austria
  • 2006 Tyrolean State Prize for Art
  • 2005 Decoration of Honor from the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck
  • 2005 Award for Fine Arts , BKA Vienna
  • 1999 Large art grant from the state of Tyrol
  • 1999 RBB Bank Prize, Graz
  • 1998 City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts
  • 1994–95 studio grant, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • 1993–94 professorship at the Karlsruhe Academy
  • 1985 Award for the fine arts , BUMUK Vienna

Lectures and lectures 2014–1996 (selection)

  • “The Invention of Landscape”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; TUM Architecture Museum
  • “Naturally Hypernatural - Concepts of Nature”, Conference University of Graz + School of Visual Arts New York + Universalmuseum Joanneum Graz
  • "Dinner-Speech": Hayek Colloquium'13, Obergurgl / Tyrol
  • “Go, bloom, flow - natural conditions in art”, Symposium Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
  • "Field Work": Traverses, Symposium Musée d'Art Moderne Saint Etienne
  • "Field Work": Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, CH
  • “Field Work”: DenkraumDonaustadt, Vienna
  • “Works in Public Space”: Cherismus Arte Contemporanea in Sardegna
  • "Projects": Institute for Art History, University of Innsbruck
  • "Field Work": Neuland Symposion, Institute for Landscapearchitecture, Leibniz University, Hanover
  • “Field Work”: Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • “About the work”: Dopopaesaggio - Atlante - Symposium Palazzo Pitti, Florence
  • “About the work”: Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
  • "Projects": Dresden University of Fine Arts
  • “About the work”: Institute for Art History, University of Innsbruck
  • "Running Projects": Berlin University of the Arts
  • "Hiriya-Dump": WATARI-UM Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • "Hiriya-Dump": OK. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
  • “The ruderal in the cultural steppe”: WATARI-UM Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • "Hiriya-Dump": Jerusalem au pluriel - Symposium Musée de la Vieille Charité Marseilles
  • “The ruderal in the cultural steppe”: 100 days - 100 guests, documenta X, Kassel
  • “The ruderal in the cultural steppe”: Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck
  • “The other - in the garden”: Bauhaus University Weimar

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 Pine's Eye, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
  • 2020 Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
  • 2020 A swallow doesn't make a summer, Kunsthaus Dresden
  • 2020 basics. The idea of ​​an expansion, Esterházy Palace , Eisenstadt
  • 2019 Tinguely Museum, Basel (solo)
  • 2019 Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (solo)
  • 2019 Reborn Art Festival, Aij-Island, Miyagi, Japan
  • 2019 Bruegel's Eye, Dilbeek / Brussels
  • 2018 Frac Franche-Comté, Besancon (solo)
  • 2018 Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (solo)
  • 2018 Salle Principale, Paris (solo)
  • 2018 HCArtmann Festival, Breitenseer Lichtspiele, Vienna
  • 2018 Folklore, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg
  • 2017 Lois Weinberger conjunctions with Heath Bunting and Ladislav Zajac, nGbK, Berlin (solo)
  • 2017 documenta 14 , Athens and Kassel
  • 2017 Jardin infini, Center Pompidou-Metz, Metz
  • 2017 Nah und Fern, Sculpture Triennale Bingen
  • 2017 Natural Stories - Traces of the Political, MUMOK, Vienna
  • 2017 Transhumance, Center international d'art et du paysage de Vassivière
  • 2017 nGbK, Berlin (solo)
  • 2016 Aha, this is my natural habitat, mariondecannière artspace, Antwerp
  • 2016 The language of things. Material stories from the collection, 21er Haus Belvedere Vienna
  • 2016 Plant Culture, Attenborough Arts Center, Leicester
  • 2016 Salle Principale, Paris (solo)
  • 2015 Sculpture Park, Cologne
  • 2015 Kunsthalle Mainz (solo)
  • 2015 SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (solo)
  • 2014 Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? - GuangDong Times Museum, Guangzhou
  • 2014 Kadist Art Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
  • 2014 Soleil politique, Museion Bozen
  • 2014 Berlin Photo, Teutloff Photo Collection Bielefeld
  • 2014 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)
  • 2013 New Collection, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • 2013 Ephemeropterae, TBA21, Vienna
  • 2013 State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (solo)
  • 2012 Art after 45, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
  • 2012 The Nature of Disappearance, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
  • 2012 Tropicomania: the social life of plants, Betonsalon - Center d'Art et Recherche, Triennale Paris
  • 2012 Botanica, Villa Dieu Seul Sait, Cotonou, Benin (solo)
  • 2011 Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne (solo)
  • 2009 The Death of the Audience, Vienna Secession
  • 2009 Austrian Pavilion , Venice Biennale
  • 2009 Berlin 89/09 - Art between searching for traces and utopia, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • 2009 tranzit, Bratislava (solo)
  • 2008 Micro-narratives, Musée d'Art Moderne St. Etienne
  • 2008 Lentos Art Museum Linz (solo)
  • 2007 The garden archive. The garden in art, Belvedere Vienna
  • 2007 Kunsthalle Gießen and Neuer Kunstverein Gießen (solo)
  • 2006 Toyota Museum of Art, Toyota
  • 2006 21st Century Museum Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • 2006 Arnolfini, Bristol (solo)
  • 2005 EXPO Japan, Nagoya City Arts Museum
  • 2005 50 years of documenta, documenta archive, Kassel
  • 2005 Involution, CAC / Center d'art contemporain, Brétigny
  • 2005 SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (solo)
  • 2004 Liverpool Biennale
  • 2004 Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (solo)
  • 2003 Kunstverein Hannover (solo)
  • 2003 Villa Merkel Esslingen am Neckar (solo)
  • 2002 Unexpected selection, The Art Museum Miami
  • 2002 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
  • 2002 Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck (solo)
  • 2002 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)
  • 2001 Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem
  • 2001 Bonner Kunstverein (solo)
  • 2000 Museum of Modern Art 20er Haus Vienna (solo)
  • 2000 Freud Museum London (solo)
  • 2000 Camden Arts Center, London (solo)
  • 1999 Time Turns, Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 1999 Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (solo)
  • 1998 Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 1998 Villa Medici in Rome
  • 1997 documenta X in Kassel
  • 1991 São Paulo Biennale
  • 1985 De Sculptura, Vienna

Art in public space

  • 2018 Wild Cube, Frac Franche-Comté, Besancon (permanent)
  • 2017 The Canaletto Blick / Laubreise, Erste Bank Campus, Vienna (permanent)
  • 2015 track, sculpture park Cologne (until 2019)
  • 2014 Leaf Tour, Klocker Foundation Innsbruck (permanent)
  • 2014 Sculpture, Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstadt (permanent)
  • 2014 Portable Garden, Villa Merkel Esslingen (permanent)
  • 2013 I-weed, Street Art Passage, MuseumsQuartier Wien (permanent)
  • 2013 Wild Cage, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz (permanent)
  • 2012 Garden, Gare de Rennes, Les Prairies - Biennale d'Art Contemporain
  • 2011 Wild Cube, 21er Haus Belvedere, Vienna (permanent)
  • 2009 VorPlatz, OMV Hoch 2, Head Office Vienna, henke & schreieck architects (permanent)
  • 2008 Promenade, Parc Bois d'Avaize, Saint Etienne (permanent)
  • 2006 New Prison West, Innsbruck / Arch. Dieter Mathoi (permanent)
  • 2006 Hofstätter winery , Tramin / Arch. Walter Angonese (permanent)
  • 2005 cartographies, Landhaus 2, Innsbruck / frank & probst architects (permanent)
  • 2005 Kennedy rondpunt - De Bolle, large urban project, Ostend (permanent)
  • 2004 9 Höfe, Justice Center Leoben / Arch. Josef Hohensinn (permanent)
  • 2004 Roof garden for the Vienna Library in the Vienna City Hall / Arch.hempel & hempel (permanent)
  • 2002 1a urban places (dis) locations, large-scale urban project competition Munich / together with plansinn, Vienna
  • 2002 Garden, New State Museum St. Pölten / Arch. Hans Hollein (permanent)
  • 2000 The Edge of the City, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
  • 1999 Hiriya-Dump, suggestions for the new use of a garbage dump near Tel Aviv, Israel
  • 1999 Garden - a poetic fieldwork, New Social and Economic University Innsbruck / henke & schreieck architects (permanent)

literature

  • Harald Stadler, Beatrix Nutz, Lois Weinberger: Debris Field, workbook 2010–2016, documenta and Museum Fridericianum GmbH (ed.), Kassel 2017
  • Philippe van Cauteren (Ed.): Lois Weinberger . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2013 ISBN 978-3-7757-3517-9 .
  • Klocker Foundation Innsbruck (ed.): Lois Weinberger . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2014 ISBN 978-3-7757-3918-4 .
  • Sabine B. Vogel : Lois Weinberger . Objects - sculpture in Austria after '45. Trummer, Vienna 2001.

Web links

Commons : Lois Weinberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lois Weinberger - “The Master of Weeds” turns 70. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . September 24, 2017, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Michael Hausenblas: artist Lois Weinberger died at the age of 72 in Vienna. In: DerStandard.at . April 21, 2020, accessed April 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Wildwuchs-Apostel. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weinberger, Lois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Stams
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2020 or April 21, 2020
Place of death Vienna