Mathis Esterházy

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Mathis Esterházy (full name: Carl-Matthias Maria Josef Esterházy; born February 25, 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian artist and designer .

life and work

The son of the agricultural engineer Paul Esterházy (1915–1980) and the long-time employee of the Catholic women's movement in Austria , Christa Esterházy b. Steinbach (* 1928), began to build furniture himself as an autodidact in the early 1980s , preferably made of metal, because the material was cheap and he was trained as a welder . His brother is the theater director Paul Esterházy .

Instead of earning a lot of money with a well-paid job on an oil rig, as originally planned, he preferred to work out the first models within a short period of time according to the 24-hour principle, from design and purchasing of materials to completion in his first workshop in the unheated basement of his house. Soon he became a “scene fitter” in Vienna and used the opportunity to work with contemporary artists.

In 1983 he co-founded the BRAND group with Boris Broschardt and Rudolf Weber in joint projects in the field of object furniture and room installations.

From 1985 to 1991, the Peter Pakesch gallery worked closely with the Austrian artist Franz West on various international exhibition projects, e. For example: 1987 “ Sculpture Projects Münster ”: Eo Ipso (now in the MAK Collection), 1989 Franz West in the Kunsthistorisches Museum , KHM Vienna , 1989 Possibilities , PS1 New York.

After the abrupt break with Franz West, Mathis Esterházy emancipated himself creatively and developed his own “construction language”: the reduction of forms and objects to simple categories such as armchairs, tables, boxes or beds. Hard, "heavy" materials such as metals (iron, stainless steel) meet "light" materials such as glass or soft textiles. His work is also handicraft , which is shaped by the personal signature of the manufacture in his own workshop.

Mathis Esterházy developed his own designs for numerous private and public projects such as the furnishing of the club cocktail bar and sushi bar MAVO in Vienna in 1987, the showcases for Günther Förg's intervention in the MAK exhibition collection "Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance" or the development and in 1993 Execution of the exhibition architecture in the Jewish Museum Vienna , 1996 for A Song of Reason - Chess: The World in 64 Fields , 1998 for Der Schejne Jid and 1999 for Bezalel .

For the refurbishment of the World Culture Museum in Frankfurt / Main, Mathis Esterházy developed multifunctional work and presentation furniture from 2011, which not only served as laboratory equipment, but was also used in all exhibitions ( Green Room, Object Atlas, Trading Style, Ware und Wissen, El Hadji Sy ).

The use of a digital embroidery machine recently opened up completely new ways of working and works, all work continues to be created in our own workshop, which moved to Slovenia in 2015 .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1989 Mathis Esterházy. Furniture , Gallery Peter Pakesch Ungargasse, Vienna
  • 1993 Mathis Esterházy. 4 tables , Gallery Peter Pakesch Ungargasse, Vienna
  • 2001 Mathis Esterházy. Building language , design showcases MAK Vienna
  • 2012 Mathis Esterházy. Trolley , SONG SONG, Vienna
  • 2014 Mathis Esterházy. Cabinet , SONG SONG, Vienna

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 1985 Tension , Section N, Vienna
  • 1989 60 days Austrian Museum of the 21st Century , Vienna
  • 1990 Das Zimmer, Museum in Progress, Vienna
  • 1990 Mathis Esterházy, Marcus Geiger, Beatrix Sunkovsky . Gallery Peter Pakesch, Ungargasse, Vienna
  • 1991 Meta Memphis COLLEZIONE , Milan, joint work with Franz West
  • 1991 Pis Aller (Doubled) , Ealan Wingate Gallery, New York, collaboration with Franz West
  • 1991 Sous le soleil , Villa Arson, Nice
  • 1992 Austria Design Diagonal , EXPO Seville
  • 1996 The Box, themed exhibition Galerie Blau, Freiburg
  • 2006 Pure Austrian Design Landing , 100% East, London
  • 2006 Wallpaper Global Edit , Salone del Mobile, Milano
  • 2013 Mostly West: Franz West & Artist Collaborations , Inverleith-House, Edinburgh
  • 2016 Art & Function, Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag
  • 2016 Franz West ArtistClub , 21er Haus, Vienna

Award

1991 "Austrian Promotion Prize for Design 1991" from the Federal Ministry for Education and Art, Vienna

literature

  • Albus, Volker, Michel Feith and Rouli Lecatsa: Living from the senses. Emotional collages , DuMont, Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-7701-1928-2
  • Mathis Esterházy. Möbel , Peter Pakesch, Vienna 1989
  • Noever, Peter (ed.): Vienna by MAK Guide, Prestel, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-7913-2133-2 and 2003, ISBN 978-3-7913-2837-9
  • Deliss, Clémentine (ed.): Object Atlas. Fieldwork in the Museum , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-651-6
  • Kos, Wolfgang (ed.): Ballgasse 6 , Wien Museum, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86335-832-7
  • Drexler, Martin W., Markus Eiblmayr, Franziska Maderthaner (eds.): Idealzone Wien , Falter Verlag, Vienna, 2016, ISBN 978-3-85439-577-5
  • Husslein, Agnes, Harald Krejci (eds.): Franz West ArtistClub , 21er Haus Vienna, VfmK Verlag für modern art, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-903114-14-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Brenson: 2 Austrians Who Find Anxiety in the Familiar The New York Times (1991 archive), accessed July 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Sit on my chair, lay on my bed Kultur Online from September 21, 2008, accessed on July 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Exhibition 'Trading Style - Weltmode im Dialog' J'N'C on November 9, 2012, accessed on July 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Mathis Esterhazy basis wien from February 12, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Esterházy, Mathis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist and designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna