Martin Krenn (artist)

Martin Krenn (born 1970 in Vienna ) is an Austrian artist .

Life

Krenn realizes projects, exhibitions, works in public space and videos on topics such as capitalism , racism , National Socialism and the globalization movement. He also works as a curator and has developed the following exhibition projects, among others: The poster series “Work against racism” in Vienna in 2005 and 2005–2009, together with Andrea Domesle, the traveling exhibition “On the tectonics of history”. This was presented in the Forum Stadtpark in Graz (A), in the Galerii Emila Filly in Ústí nad Labem (CZ), in the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdańsk  (PL), in the Motorenhalle Dresden  (D) and in ISCP-New York (USA ) shown. Since 2007 he has been working in cooperation with activists on the video project "In Between the Movements" on local and global forms of resistance. Since 2006 he has been teaching at the University of Applied Arts in the "Art and Communicative Practice" department. In the course of his teaching activity at the University of Applied Arts, he led the project "Open Call for the transformation of the Lueger monument into a memorial against anti-Semitism and racism", which attracted wide media coverage.

On April 3, 2016, the Peace Cross St. Lorenz memorial designed by Krenn was unveiled, which placed the photo montage "German Acorns" by John Heartfield , printed on a transparent metal mesh, in front of the memorial cross of a combat group of the German Wehrmacht erected in the 1960s.

From 2006 to 2009 he was chairman of the interest group for visual artists in Austria ( IG Bildende Kunst ). Martin Krenn lives and works in Vienna and Belfast .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions, projects in public space (selection)

• 1995: “The New Right - Materials for Dismantling”, poster series in Vienna (A) with Oliver Ressler
• 1996: “Gelernte Heimat”, Neue Galerie, poster object on the main square in Graz (A) with Oliver Ressler
• 1997: “Institutional Racism”, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (A); Poster object in front of the Vienna State Opera with Oliver Ressler
• 2000: "Demonstrate!", Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (A)
• 2001: “Return”, Gallery 5020., public space in Salzburg (A) with Wolfram P. Kastner
• 2001: "Demonstrate!", Center d'art Passerelle, Brest (F)
• 2001: "Border Crossing Services", art space at the University of Lüneburg (GER), direct mail with Oliver Ressler
• 2003: “European Corrections Corporation”, in cooperation with the Galerie der Stadt Wels (A), container installation in Wels with Oliver Ressler
• 2004: "City Views", Mala galerija / Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana (SI)
• 2005: “Monument to Defeat - Time of Liberation 1945–1947”, temporary installation, Ostarrichipark, Vienna (A) with Charlotte Martinz-Turek , Nora Sternfeld , Luisa Ziaja .
• 2006 “One-way street. Works and projects by Martin Krenn. "Galerie Vor Ort, Vienna (A)
• 2007: "Right to stay", performance, billboard object, realized as part of "We are many - positions on the theme of migration", Graz (A)
• 2008: "Monument for a just City", social sculpture in the context of Urban Festival 08, Zagreb (Cr)
• 2009: “Democracy and welfare for all”, workshop, performance, poster, realized as part of the “Normalstatus” Festival of the Regions, Linz / Auwiesen (A)
• 2011: "Memory in (Post-) Totalitarianism", exhibition, Galerie Zimmermann-Kratochwill, Graz (A)
• 2016: "Memorial Peace Cross St. Lorenz", permanent installation in public space, St. Lorenz (A)

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

• 2000: "Resistance - Art et Politique en Autriche", Apegac / Espace Donguy, Paris (F)
• 2000: "Against Image Against Wart", NICC, Antwerp (B)
• 2000: "Resistance: Art and Politics from Austria", artspace Rhizom, Aarhus (DK)
• 2001: "New buildings", W139, Amsterdam (NL)
• 2002: "Telepidemic!", Videoart Center Tokyo, Kobe, (J)
• 2003: "Learning from *" NGBK, Berlin, (D)
• 2003: "The bourgeois show - social structures in urban space", Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (S)
• 2004: "Telepidemic!", Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong (HK)
• 2004: "Exciting Europe", Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig (GER)
• 2004: "Minority Report: Challenging Intolerance in Contemporary Denmark", Aarhus Festival of Contemporary Art, Aarhus (DK)
• 2005: "Corporate World", Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto (CAN)
• 2006: "Not Sheep - New Urban Enclosures and Commons", Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver (CAN)
• 2007: "Free Radicals", The Israely Center of Digital Art, Holon (IL)
• 2007: “Why do you Resist? Forms of Resistance in contemporary art and society ", Center for Contemporary Central European Art, Usti nad Labem (CZ)
• 2008: “la vie modern / revisitée” Center d'Art Passerelle, Brest, (FR)
• 2008: "Monster", engine hall Dresden (D)
• 2009: ”Pièces de resistance. Forms of resistance in contemporary art ”Kunstmuseum Thun, CH

Web links

• official homepage
• Literature by and about Martin Krenn in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ arbeitengegenrassismen.net ( Memento of the original on 15 April 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official site for work against racism 
2. ↑ in-between-the-movements.net ( memento of the original from January 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official site of "In Between the Movements" 
3. ↑ Public Art , accessed June 11, 2016.