Roland C. Langitz

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Roland Christian Langitz (born May 22, 1963 - July 3, 2010 ) was an Austrian painter and object artist .

Life

From 1983 to 1985 he completed a painting course with Fritz Martinz at the Artistic Adult Education Center in Vienna. In 1990 he emigrated to Perth , where he worked for various artistic institutions.

From 1994 he was a member of the Austrian artists' association MAERZ . Since then he has acted as a curator and organizer of cultural and exhibition projects with artists from Australia, Canada, Africa, Korea, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Italy and Switzerland.

Exhibitions

  • 1992 Art Sources Perth, Western Australia
  • 1993 Gomboc Gallery Perth, Western Australia
  • 1993 Rowntree Gallery New South Wales
  • 1993 Galerie Gisela Hesse, Munich
  • 1994 Gabriel Gallery Melbourne
  • 1995 Delaney Galleries, Perth West Australia
  • 1995 Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts , Perth, Western Australia
  • 1995 Galerie MAERZ, Linz, Austria
  • 1996 Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt "Bordercrossings 22 Austrian Artists", with Johannes Deutsch, Anselm Glück
  • 1996 Minoriten Galerie Graz, Austria. With Dietmar Brehm, Valie Export, Anselm Glück, Manfred Hebenstreit
  • 1996 Delaney Galleries, Perth, Western Australia
  • 1996 Artrage Festival of Perth, “The funeral” set design for the Japanese choreographer Sandy Muljadi
  • 1997 Galerie d8 Linz, Austria. With Blaikner, Mittringer, Nitsch and Erwin Wurm
  • 1997 Art happening in the old factory, Hainewalde
  • 1997 Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt , Austria. The big bees boards show
  • 1998 Schmieding sculpture park, Upper Austria. With Blaikner, Erwin Wurm u. a.

Projects

  • Culture and Myth 2000 Years of West Africa (book by Kristian Fenzl)
  • The East German Concrete Karl Heinz Adler in the March Gallery, Linz, Austria
  • Visiting lecturer at the University of Western Australia -School of Architecture and Fine Arts several times
  • I want to understand, worldwide unique exhibition project with pictures of imprisoned Aboriginal artists , the Riverbank and Longmore detention centers in Western Australia
  • Sculpture park in the LKH Klagenfurt, Austria. With Martin Walde, Erwin Wurm u. a.
  • The stone people of Ushira, socio-cultural art project with hard workers in a quarry in East Africa
  • Art Tanzania, art from East Africa
  • Since 2006 organizer of socio-cultural projects in West Africa

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roland Christian Langitz, Prof.hc, in: Austria-Forum's website queried on January 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Langitz, Roland C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langitz, Roland Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and exhibition organizer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1963
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 2010