Tonia Kos

Tonia Kos (born December 16, 1942 in Heudeber , Saxony-Anhalt) is an artist.

Live and act

Resident in Vienna since 1947, after primary school she attended the Higher Federal College for the Clothing Industry in Vienna, completing the one-year master class. Tonia Kos was a guest student with Eva Choung-Fux and Florentina Pakosta . The first exhibitions followed in the early 1980s. Study trips and participation in symposia and art fairs led her to a. to Belgium, China, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Korea, Russia, Mongolia and especially often to Japan. She deals intensively with European and Asian philosophy, and since 1995 with Chinese history and language.

Tonia Kos's artistic work includes paintings in the style of informal art, graphics (especially etchings), as well as objects and installations, including works with cement, textiles and steel. Tonia Kos was and is active in various art and cultural initiatives and has also designed costumes for theater productions.

Tonia Kos developed her own abstract style in her pictures, which is indebted to the informal, a “controlled chance”, as an exhibition in 2003 was called. A characteristic of her pictures is a paint application technique she developed in 1998. Often she crosses the border of the two-dimensional with relief-like traces of sand. In her pictures, bright areas are differentiated from strong colors, but also overlap, with strong accents of bright red or different tones of blue determining the overall impression.

Tonia Kos broke the boundaries of the two-dimensional image in her early works. This creates three-dimensional pictures, the colors of which go beyond the frame and want to burst it. The artist also makes use of various materials and objects that are integrated into the pictures. Through this interplay of various creative moments, your pictures achieve the overall impression of harmony and wholeness.

Her extensive graphic work includes drawings, ink work, etchings and lithographs.

Awards

1986 City of Krems Prize
1988 Theodor Körner Prize
1992 Hans Czermak Prize
1995 Woyty Wimmer Prize
2003 Israel International Festival “Femina” award
2004 Order of the Netherlands and Hispanidad
2006 Anne Goldenberg Foundation Prize
2013 Golden Laurel, Künstlerhaus Vienna
2017 Awarded the professional title of Professor

Memberships

1988 - 2018 Künstlerhaus Vienna
since 2015 Austrian Society for China Research
since 2017 professional association of visual artists in Austria

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1982 Galerie Vinzent, Vienna
1983 Kunstraum Zwölferhaus, Vienna
1986 Pet Gallery, Vienna
1987 Taxham Gallery, Salzburg
1988 Galerie Flutlicht, Vienna; Small gallery, Vienna
1990 Federal State Insurance, Vienna; Hausgalerie Künstlerhaus, Vienna
1992 Baroque castle Mistelbach
1994 Galerie Tiller, Vienna
1995 Galerie Sillack, Dresden (Germany); Künstlerhaus Kinogalerie, Vienna
1996 Primmersdorf Castle
1997 Galerie Jana, Olomouc (Czech Republic); Gallery WORT and BILD, Vienna
1999 Galerie Chica, Vienna; Traismauer Castle
2001 "Emergence" - Word and Image Gallery, Vienna
2002 M - ART, Vienna
2003 "Controlled Chance" - St. Anna Chapel, Vienna
2004 Artifact Gallery, Vienna
2005 ARCOTEL, Linz; Gallery "der Kunstraum", Vienna
2006 "A 41 gallery in the courtyard", Vienna
2007 Gallery "7kunst", Quedlinburg (Germany)
2008 Landhausgalerie, St. Pölten / SYUN Gallery, Nagoya (Japan) / “Der Kunstraum” gallery, Vienna
2009 Gallery "ega", Vienna / Gallery at Eichgraben train station
2010 Women's Museum, Bonn (Germany)
2011 Gallery "the exhibition", Vienna
2012 Gallery "der Kunstraum", Vienna
2013 Gallery "the exhibition", Vienna / "Printed in Vienna and Berlin" - Artistic workshop, Berlin (Germany)
2014 "Floating in the course of times" - Schiff-Galerie, Vienna / "Blown parables" - Gallery in the Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2015 "2xKunst", Munich (Germany) / "Moongarden" - Gallery Syun, Nagoya (Japan)
2016 "Expressive and Reduced" - Galerie Korotan, Vienna
2017 "Zwischenraum" - Galerie Centrum, Graz
2018 Gallery Balance, Drösing

Group exhibitions (selection)

1988 “Artists Against Violence” - Small Gallery, Vienna
1989 “New recordings” - Künstlerhaus, Vienna / “Confrontations” - Messepalast, Vienna
1990 “Hommàge à Vinzent” - Small Gallery, Vienna
1992 "Exhibition of Print" - Skopje (Macedonia)
1995 "Kairos" - Water Tower, Vienna / "Was WAR ist" - National Library, Vienna / "Spaces" - Hangzhou (China); "Light" - Munich (Germany)
1996 "Fiber Art on the Outside" - Runcorn (Great Britain) / "Bakunin - A Monument" - Berlin (Germany)
1997 "20 years of IntAkt" - WUK, Vienna / Women's Museum, Bonn (Germany)
1998 Symposium "Steel art connection", Hamada (Japan) / "Still Intakt" - Austrian Cultural Institute, London (Great Britain)
1999 Symposium “Creation in Process” - Stammersdorf, Vienna / Alte Schieberkammer, Vienna; “Go west” - WUK project space, Vienna
2000 “Reflexion” - Basel (Switzerland) / “Intakt” - Olomouc (Czech Republic) / “Lithography” - Ulan Bator (Mongolia) / “Lithography” - Printing Museum, Beijing (China) / Qufu, Shandong (China) / “Porton "- Culture Center, Okinawa (Japan) / Gallery of The Ishigaki City Library, Okinawa (Japan)
2001 Porton, Cusco (Peru) / Lithography, Dalian (China) / "Reflections" - Wiener Neustadt / "Dialogues" - St. Petersburg (Russia) / Symposium "Orts-Wechsel", Dresden (Germany)
Kunstverein Favoriten, Vienna / Graphics - Halle an der Saale (Germany) / INTERNO, M-ART Gallery, Vienna / "Incontro Centro Europeo" - Udine (Italy)
2003 Graphics - Lower Austria Documentation Center, St. Pölten / "Images of Women" - IntAkt, Burghausen (Germany) / "Hommage á Tapiès" - Instituto Cervantes, Vienna / "HELLDUNKEL" - Kulturverband Favoriten, Vienna / "GENIUS LOCI" - Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2004 “Artifact” - Vienna / Gallery “der kunstraum”, Vienna / Westerlo Castle, Flanders (Belgium)
2005 "" random.concrete "- Carmelite Church, Wr. Neustadt /" 2 Positions "- word and image, Vienna /" Arte 2000 "- Hustopece, (Czech Republic)
2006 "Barrier 2" - WUK, Vienna
2007 "Genesis" City Museum, Bad Ischl / Museum Kurashiki, Kyoto (Japan) / "World Artist Festival" - Seoul (South Korea)
"Memory of Japan" - Gauermannmuseum, Miesenbach / Kurashiki Art Museum, Kurashiki (Japan)
2009 "Urgrund" - Galerie Althan, Vienna / "Abstract X" - Creation Art Gallery, Beijing (China); "140 Years of Austro-Japanese Friendship" - Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna
2010 "Urgrund" - Galerie Alpha, Vienna / Kurashiki Art Museum, Kurashiki (Japan) / Community House, Kyoto (Japan) / Galerie "der Kunstraum", Vienna "Art Space" - Maeumdeungbul (South Korea)
2011 "Dreams" - Alte Schieberkammer, Vienna / Lithowerkstatt, Berlin (Germany) / "White - Black" - Knapp-Art, Emmersdorf / Kurashiki Art Museum, Kurashiki (Japan) / "ART FAIR" - Shanghai (China)
2012 "Cause and Effect" - Gallery Kellergasse, Vienna / "Connection" - Gallery "Space Kagiya", Kyoto (Japan)
2013 "Open studios Lower Austria"
2014 "Abitare L'Arte" - Museo di Gubbio, Gubbio (Italy)
2015 “Urmomente” - Kandinsky Gallery, Vienna / “Dante” - Balance Gallery, Drösing
2016 Galerie Achtzig, Berlin (Germany)
2017 "Unexpected archetypes" - Gallery-Atelier INO, Vienna / "30 years of workshop artistic lithography Berlin-Treptow" - Gallery Old School Adlershof, Berlin (Germany)
2018 Ateliergalerie 3A in Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna / Gallery "Art Time", Udine (Italy)

bibliography

"SPACES" catalog - exhibition of Austrian and Chinese artists in Hangzhou (China). Hangzhou: 1995
Alpha - art by women. Vienna: 1995
Catalog “Steel art connection '98 - austria - japan” Hiroshima / Hamada: 1998
The Austrian painters of the 20th century: Vol. 2 (GK). Ed. V. Prof. Heinrich Fuchs. Vienna: 1986, 2nd edition Vienna: 1998
Kürschner's Handbook of Fine Artists - Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Hgv. by Andreas Klimt. Leipzig: De Gruyter Saur, 2007
Johann Baumgartner (ed.): 40 years of the Hofgalerie. Graz: Chamber of Agriculture Styria, 2011
Claudia Aigner: Tonia Kos. in: Wiener Zeitung, January 28, 2012
“Kunststücke” - volume of works by contemporary artists. SüdSeiten Verlag: Gmund: 2013. (online at: http: //kunstücke.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/kwb-web.pdf , accessed on April 14, 2019)
Gerd Kaminski: Austria and China in the picture: 1624–2016 (Zhong ao guan xi shi tu jie). Schiedlberg: BACOPA, 2016
Tonia Kos: "Blown Parables" (exhibition catalog). Vienna: 2016
“Kunststücke” - volume of works by contemporary artists. SüdSeiten Verlag: Gmund: 2016
General Artist Lexicon (AKL) - The visual artists of all times and peoples. Edited by Beyer, Andreas / Savoy, Bénédicte / Tegethoff, Wolff. Leipzig: De Gruyter Saur, 1991 ff. (Online at: https://www.degruyter.com/view/db/akl , accessed on April 7, 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ intact artists - women artists (members). Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
^ Austrian Haiku Society. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
↑ The Man of La Mancha (2012-2013). Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
↑ Karin Drabesch: In the web of a hypocrite. Summer Games Altenburg Abbey: "Tartuffe". in: Wiener Zeitung, July 24th, 2000, p. 9
Thomas Fanta: "The nothingness of fame. Stadttheater Baden: Grillparzer's" The dream of a life ". in: Wiener Zeitung, March 28th, 2003, p. 27
Lona Chemel: Who is not guilty ?. Altenburg Abbey: "The complicit". in: Wiener Zeitung, July 21, 2003, p. 25
↑ Heide Breuer: Laudation on the awarding of the professional title "Professor" to Tonia Kos on November 7, 2017. Accessed on April 14, 2019 .
^ Professional title Professor for Tonia Kos - BKA Photo Service. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
↑ General directory of members. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
↑ List of members / Section Painting & Graphics. Professional Association of Visual Artists in Austria, accessed on April 14, 2019 .
↑ Silent Pictures of Controlled Chance / New exhibition in the 7kunst-Galerie shows paintings and graphics by Tonia Kos . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . July 31, 2007.
^ Exhibition Tonia Kos: Blown Parables. Künstlerhaus, Vienna: 2016. Accessed April 7, 2019 .
↑ Bakunin? A monument. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
^ Gallery Old School Adlershof. In: Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kos, Tonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heudeber , Saxony-Anhalt

[1] intact artists - women artists (members). Retrieved April 14, 2019 .

[2] Austrian Haiku Society. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .

[3] The Man of La Mancha (2012-2013). Retrieved April 14, 2019 .

[4] Karin Drabesch: In the web of a hypocrite. Summer Games Altenburg Abbey: "Tartuffe". in: Wiener Zeitung, July 24th, 2000, p. 9
Thomas Fanta: "The nothingness of fame. Stadttheater Baden: Grillparzer's" The dream of a life ". in: Wiener Zeitung, March 28th, 2003, p. 27
Lona Chemel: Who is not guilty ?. Altenburg Abbey: "The complicit". in: Wiener Zeitung, July 21, 2003, p. 25

[5] Heide Breuer: Laudation on the awarding of the professional title "Professor" to Tonia Kos on November 7, 2017. Accessed on April 14, 2019 .

[6] Professional title Professor for Tonia Kos - BKA Photo Service. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .

[7] General directory of members. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .

[8] List of members / Section Painting & Graphics. Professional Association of Visual Artists in Austria, accessed on April 14, 2019 .

[9] Silent Pictures of Controlled Chance / New exhibition in the 7kunst-Galerie shows paintings and graphics by Tonia Kos . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . July 31, 2007.

[10] Exhibition Tonia Kos: Blown Parables. Künstlerhaus, Vienna: 2016. Accessed April 7, 2019 .

[11] Bakunin? A monument. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .

[12] Gallery Old School Adlershof. In: Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .