UNNESKO II The Beak Lady Videostill Thomas Hoerl 2013

Thomas Hörl (born October 17, 1975 in Hallein, Austria) is a

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

Early life

Hörl spent his childhood and youth in

Golling an der Salzach Golling an der Salzach is a market town in the Hallein district of Salzburg, Austria. Geography It is located on the southern rim of the ''Tennengau'' region south of the city of Salzburg. Here at the confluence of the Salzach and its Lammer trib ...

and

Salzburg Salzburg is the List of cities and towns in Austria, fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020 its population was 156,852. The city lies on the Salzach, Salzach River, near the border with Germany and at the foot of the Austrian Alps, Alps moun ...

. Hörl's center of life is currently in Vienna, where he rents a studio in the sculpture buildings of the federal government in the former 1873 world expo pavilions. He studied art at

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna () is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1688 as a private academy, it is now a public university. The academy is also known for twice rejecting admission to a young Adolf Hitler in 1907 and 1908. ...

, at

Iceland University of the arts Iceland University of the Arts ( ) is an Icelandic institution of higher art education, located in Reykjavík, which offers the only university-level degrees in the arts in Iceland.Lisa Z. ValdimarsdottirIceland Academy of the Arts, Department of ...

Reykjavík and

Tokyo Zokei University is a private university in Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1966 by Japanese art educator, fashion designer and design journalist, Yoko Kuwasawa (1910-1977). It is a four-year art college offering both bachelor's and master's degrees in studi ...

. Before his studies he was trained as a chef and visited a school for sculpture.

Work

He works solo as well as in various collaborations ( Gin Müller, Sir Meisi, Michikazu Matsune, Jakob Lena Knebl, Sodom Vienna) and from 2003-2020 in the artist group kozek hörlonski together with Peter Kozek. In the year 2020, however, the two have appeared in their collaborations under their civil names and have dispensed with a group name. Together with Peter Kozek, he was awarded the Prize for Visual Arts 2021 by the City of Vienna for their joint work. Hörl's artistic focus is on researching regional customs and traditions. The artist transfers folkloric contents and forms into new contexts. Using the collage technique as well as reenactment, extensive installations are created. His artistic work includes performance, video works, installation, object, collage, and staged photography, and recently film projects are increasingly appearing in his diverse oeuvre. As part of artist-in-residence programs or self-organized work residencies, he has been active in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Tokyo, Paris, London, Vilnius, Tallinn, Tirana, Timișoara, Warsaw and Reykjavík. Thomas exhibited mainly in Austria but also in Germany, Tokyo, London, Tallinn and Los Angeles. In 2017–2019, Hörl collaborated with Peter Kozek and Alexander Martinz on the film trilogy ''Demonic Screens'' which was screened at Steirischer Herbst 2018, Reaktor Vienna 2019 and

Diagonale The Diagonale (Festival of Austrian Film) is a film festival that takes place every March in Graz, Austria. The festival was initially held under the auspices of the Austrian Film Commission in Salzburg from 1993 to 1995 but moved to Graz in 19 ...

- Festival of Austrian Film Graz 2020, among others. The latest film ''LICHTHÖHE'' from 2021 was made together with Peter Kozek and Victor Jaschke for the art project SERPENTINE - a touch of heaven (and hell) curated and organized by Michael Zinganel along the

Grossglockner High Alpine Road The Grossglockner High Alpine Road (in German ''Großglockner Hochalpenstraße'') is the highest surfaced mountain pass road in Austria. It connects Bruck in the state of Salzburg with Heiligenblut in Carinthia via Fuscher Törl at 2,428 ...

and was shown in a "non-stop container cinema" and is distributed by sixpackfilm. Since 2021 he has been working on a silent film project (''F.W.M. Symphony'') about the disappearance of F.W. Murnau's head from its burial place. The featurette movie premiered in the US at 19th Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in late 2022 and in spring 2023 in Europe at III. Pápa International Historical Film Festival (Hungary). Both festivals honored the film with awards. In 2022 a monograph on his solo art work to date entitled ''Curtain Walls & Rautenballett'', is published by Verlag für moderne Kunst. 2022 the artist was shortlisted for the Grand Art Prize of the Province of Salzburg.2024 Hörl was creating a portrait gallery about austrian

Perchten or (' Bertha'; ), also commonly known as () and other variations, was once known as a goddess in Alpine paganism in the Upper German and also Austrian and Slovenian regions of the Alps. Her name may mean 'the bright one' or 'the bearer' (, fr ...

figures and widely installed at Joanneums Neue Galerie vestibule – commissioned by Steirischer Herbst '24.

Selected exhibitions, festivals, etc.

Soloshows at the Castle Museum of Golling (2023), ''Kunstraum Pro Arte'' Hallein (2022), ''Kulturdrogerie Vienna'' (2020),

Salzburg Museum Housed in the ' (to which it moved in 2005), the Salzburg Museum is the museum of artistic and cultural history of the city and region of Salzburg, Austria. It originated as the Provincialmuseum and was also previously known as the Museum Carolino- ...

(2018), Zeta Gallery Tirana (2016),

Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art () is the largest folk museum in Vienna, Austria, and is located at Laudongasse 15–19, in the 8th district, in the former Palais Schönborn (Vienna), Schönborn Palace. History The museum was founded ...

Vienna (2016/17), ''Dwarf Gallery'' in Reykjavík (2012); Group shows at Neue Galerie Graz (2024/25), EKO9 Triennial of Art and Environment Maribor (2024), Soho Studios Vienna (2023), Museum of applied Arts Vienna (2022), Centrum Berlin (2017), Museum Villa Rot (2014/15), ACF London (2013),

mumok Mumok (from the full name ; "Museum of modern art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna") is a museum in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. The museum has a collection of 10,000 modern and contemporary art works, including major works from Andy Warh ...

Vienna (2004); Festival partizipation at

Wien Modern Wien Modern is a modern music festival in Vienna, Austria that was founded by Claudio Abbado in 1988. It was created with the intent of revitalizing the traditional music scene of Vienna. Friedrich Cerha, Johannes Maria Staud, Mark Andre, Wolfg ...

(2022), Tanzquartier Wien – Centre for Contemporary Choreography and Performance Vienna (2022),

(2020), Steirischer Herbst Graz (2018), Internationale Schillertage Mannheim (2011).

Discography

* 7″ Vinyl: Thomas Hörl. Matthias, ''Wiener Phonogrammarchiv'' with remixes by Cherry Sunkist and das_em, documentation of the exhibition ''Matthias,'' text, poster; Thomas Hörl, ed. (Vienna / Salzburg 2015) * 10″ Vinyl: pastforward – 100 Jahre Kunstverein Baden, 100 years anniversary edition, text, gatefoldcover, kozek hörlonski, Thomas Hörl, Peter Kozek, Kunstverein Baden, ed. (Vienna / Baden 2016)

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