Nikolaus Eberstaller
Nikolaus Eberstaller (born August 6, 1968 in Klosterneuburg ) is an Austrian graphic designer , multimedia artist and author .
Life
Nikolaus Eberstaller is the son of the architect Erich Eberstaller (1940–1999) and attended the Theresian Academy and the ORG Rainergasse in Vienna . In 1989 he began studying architecture at the Technical University of Vienna , which he broke off in 1994 to work as a graphic designer in Gols in Burgenland . Since 1992 he has been a member of the Austrian designer association designaustria.
1999 began his career as a visual artist. His early mentors included Adolf Frohner , Peter Infeld and the art dealer Thomas Gamperl. From 2003 to 2006 he was a scholarship holder of the Fundacja Forum Krasków Art Foundation in Marcinowice .
Eberstaller's works have been exhibited in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the USA and Poland; they are in collections such as the Bode Museum , the Haupt Collection , the Forum Frohner and collections in Poland.
As a graphic designer, Eberstaller mainly works for clients from the areas of "wine", upscale gastronomy and for producers of high-quality food. He is a partner in the beverage producer Schmex schmeckt GmbH .
Eberstaller's novel “Anger. A Tirade ”, in which he expresses various and violent criticism of politics and society, was published in 2015 by BU&BU.
Eberstaller has received numerous prizes and awards, he is married and has two daughters.
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Stylistically, Eberstaller deals with a large number of genres from the fields of applied arts (graphic design) and visual arts. His stylistic devices include graphic design, mash-up and collage, object art, installation, performance, drawing and painting.
Since 2011, Mash Ups, collages and money art (visual arts and performances on the subject of money) have been created. His best-known works include the performance pig Marie Cochon , the currency HONEY-Home Made Money (Series Krasków I, Whole Series-The Fingerprints, Series II, The Bode-Museum Edition).
His novel “Anger. A Tirade ”, in which he expresses various and violent criticism of politics and society, was published in 2015 by BU&BU. For text passages of the novel, Eberstaller was confronted with threats of legal action from an Austrian fruit wine producer who saw his product being mentioned in a way that was damaging to his reputation. The sometimes bizarre correspondence between Eberstaller and his counterparty's lawyer was also published by the BU&BU publishing house as “Eberstaller's unprotected correspondence”.
Performances
Battlefield Love Memorial
The “Battlefield Love Memorial” project, which was started in 2011, was a life-size battlefield cast out of concrete, which forms the lettering LOVE and which visitors should be actively encouraged to destroy in order to create a humanitarian signal from the war scene. The performance at the start of the project took place in 2015 at the invitation of the Berlin State Secretary for Culture Tim Renner in front of the ruins of the Anhalter Bahnhof . The city of Wroclaw invited him to show the large-scale installation in an open space in front of the art university. The realization, however, failed due to the financing and was postponed indefinitely.
Honey Home Made Money
In 2011 the first performance with Honey Home Made Money and the Beekeeper took place at Krasków Castle (Forum Krasków Foundation) in Poland . He sends a Polish millionaire a million honey with a request for transformation (Begging for the better). In 2012, Eberstaller reduced his Honey Home Made Money to an ashes circle in the Berlin safe factory .
“ HONEY is Nikolaus Eberstaller's Home Made Money, a home-made artist currency. It is bipolar: The fronts embody in repetition the good that the artist personally experiences, which money can bring about. The back covers with an internationally oriented look the bad things that have happened to various groups of people. Within this framework, the Austrian artist works with a complex system of symbols and references. (...) "
Marie Cochon
In 2012, Eberstaller and his wife Barbara Eberstaller-Wendelin designed the fictional character “Marie Cochon”, a money-eating, plastinated domestic pig. With this performance, which caused worldwide press coverage, Eberstaller wanted to protest against greed and the "wealth at the expense of others". City walks with Marie Cochon led through the inner cities of Vienna (2012) and Berlin (2013). This performance was reported internationally, including in the Wall Street Journal and Die Zeit .
Auction of the world
In 2017, Eberstaller performed The Auction of the World , in cooperation with the Haupt Collection and at the invitation of the Mannheim Art Association . The performance should prove that "money is a hypnotic" and "obscures the view". In fact, Eberstaller was irritating - the auction was not recognized on site or by some media as an artistic performance. The staged bid was EUR 280,000 with the condition of a total buyout .
"Eberstaller commits a crime"
In 2018, as part of the “Geld-Wahn-Sinn” exhibition in the Reinbeckhallen in Berlin, he forged euro cent coins, which he cast in red gold and gave away. Contrary to the assumption that the law always starts from evil and therefore prohibits counterfeiting, Eberstaller only disadvantaged himself by increasing the value of the cent coins by more than 6,000 times (daily price red gold) through the material red gold alone. He transferred the face value of the counterfeit coins to the German Bundesbank in order to avoid discriminating against them. Investigations by the Berlin Public Prosecutor's Office were initiated in July 2018 following a voluntary disclosure by the artist, which was signed during the performance.
Prizes and awards (selection)
- 2007: 2 Golden Drum Awards, 2 The Cup Awards, Portorož, EULDA European Logodesign Award
- 2010: Shortlist (Battlefield / Collectors Edition) - LICC London International Creative Competition, 2 International Golden Label Awards
- 2011: Finalist (We come from shopping we are not satisfied we go to buy mor we don't mind) Charlatan Ink Art Prize New York, 2 Red Dot Awards, Berlin
- 2012: Best Performance LICC (Marie Cochon), Honorable Mention LICC (Honey-Home Made Money / Series Krasków I) - LICC London International Creative Competition
- 2017: Two Red Dot Awards , Berlin
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2001: Art Foundation, Infeld Collection , Halbturn
- 2003, 2011: Foundation Forum Krasków Castle, Marcinowice
- 2004: Austrian Cultural Institute of the Austrian Consulate General in Krakow
- 2006: ISAF World Sailing Games , Austria
- 2007: Art International Zurich
- 2009: SZDP Wrocław / Breslau
- 2010: City Gallery Wiener Turm, Bruck / Leitha
- 2011: Charlatan Ink Collective, New York City
- 2011: Thirty pieces of silver, art and money - Haupt Collection, Halle am Wasser, Art Campus Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- 2011: micamoca in the Alte Tresorfabrik, Berlin
- 2012: Thirty pieces of silver: art and money - Haupt Collection, Altmärkisches Museum Stendal
- 2012: The Golden Cage . Art Office Berlin, Berlin
- 2012: Happiness is a bird , Vienna Summer Stage / Pavillon am Wasser, Vienna
- 2013: Money, Money, Money , Haupt Collection in the Kunstforum Halle
- 2014: The Inner Wealth , Conference of Visionaries, Berlin
- 2014: Divided and Reunified: A38 , Budapest
- 2016: SDZ Legal in Wroclaw
- 2016/2017: Muse makes money , Bode-Museum Berlin
- 2017: Thirty pieces of silver , Haupt Collection at the Mannheim Art Association
- 2018: Art makes money , Hasegg Castle / Hal coin
Collections (selection)
- Atlas Sztuki, Warsaw
- Austrian Consula General, Krakow
- Bode Museum , Berlin
- Forum Frohner
- Forum Krasków Art Foundation
- Mannheim Art Association
- Infeld collection
- Gamperl Collection (Poland)
- Haupt Collection , Berlin
Publications
- Anger. A tirade. BU&BU Verlag, Neusiedl am See 2015, ISBN 978-3-9504012-0-2
literature
- Alexa Küter, Bernhard Weisser (Ed.): Art shapes money - muse, power, money. An exhibition by the Münzkabinett on loan from the Haupt Collection “Thirty Silver Coins - Art and Money”. (= Münzkabinett Berlin. Das Kabinett, Volume 16), Battenberg, Regenstauf 2016, ISBN 978-3-86646-137-6 .
- Hermann Büchner and Tina Sauerländer (eds.): Haupt Collection, thirty pieces of silver - art and money. Braus, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86228-086-5 .
Web links
- Nikolaus Eberstaller on the website of the Galerie Whiteconcepts Berlin
- Art shapes money: Muse Macht Moneten Collection Haupt "Thirty Silver Coins - Art and Money"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolaus Eberstaller - designaustria member. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Schmex tastes GmbH, Eisenstadt, Burgenland. In: FirmenABC.at. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Natascha Marakovits: "Wutkünstler" targets politics. July 6, 2015, accessed August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Eberstaller's unprotected correspondence. In: Bu & Bu Verlag. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Art shapes money - muse, power, money. An exhibition by the Münzkabinett on loan from the Haupt Collection “Thirty Silver Coins - Art and Money”. (= Münzkabinett Berlin. Das Kabinett, Volume 16), Battenberg, Regenstauf 2016, ISBN 978-3-86646-137-6
- ↑ New in the collection: Marie Cochon's performance in front of the Vienna Parliament by Nikolaus Eberstaller and Barbara Eberstaller-Wendelin. In: Haupt Collection. May 15, 2013, accessed August 14, 2020 .
- ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: A pig against greed in downtown Vienna. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefan Müller: The cost of corruption. In: The time. April 12, 2012, accessed August 14, 2020 .
- ^ Infeld Collection: Artist E. Accessed on August 14, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eberstaller, Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian graphic designer, multimedia artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klosterneuburg |