Hannes Schauer

1975

Austria

Hannes Schauer is an Austrian artist.

1999 Academy for Arts, Crafts & Design in Kramsach, Tyrol (AT) DEGREE
1999 Degree in Glass Design, Sketch Drawing, Technical & Practical Knowledge of Working with Glass, Wood, Metal, Enamel and Ceramics

I am a painter, yet come from arts, crafts & design. Working with many different materials such as wood, glass, metal, enamel and ceramics was part of my degree. Drawing was there from early childhood on. Painting followed naturally and is the center of my daily practice as an artist today. The fascination for the production of electronic music popped up in my early twenties and pushed aside painting for a number of years. To this day, my exhibitions are often accompanied by musical performances.
Painting is like a secret code to me. It is my way of connecting and sharing, of passing on truth, being genuine and literally showing my true colors.

There is no fixed, determined or definite starting point. I am not interested in the classic work process of a painter where you start with an idea, followed by sketches and finally paint. I start with a flare-up, sometimes followed by an eruption but always leading to a transition, a before and an after. Two moments in time which are distinctive. I add and subtract, repaint and scratch off until everything I could avoid, I did.
My work ranges from abstraction to concreteness. It is characterized by my permission to being different every time. The materials I use range from acrylic and oil paint to sea weed and tomato paste. There are no limitations or special requirements for materials to be allowed into my body of work. My approach is often raw and rough, suggestive yet determined. by using and combining materials, styles, colors and forms that don’t always look like they should go together, I encourage conversation, a re-thinking, a remapping, which I consider hugely important in these polarizing times.

Anselm kiefer, Maria Lassnig, Egon Schiele, Cy Twombly, Rose Wylie, Frank Bowling, Francis
Bacon, Mark Rothko, Jean Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Georg Baselitz

Selected Events

EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2020 Solo Show & Installation@ Interpenetration Festival, Graz (AT)
2019 Painting Performance@ Galerie Jo, Lendwirbel Festival, Graz (AT)
2019 Group Show – Paintings & Drawings@ ZeitRaum Kunstgalerie, Graz (AT)
2019 Solo Show@ Galerie Jo, Graz (AT)
2018 Group Performance(20018-2019) – Schöne neue Welt@ Bürger*innenbühne Schauspielhaus, Graz (AT)
2018 Installation in Corporation with Christian Schiller@ Interpenetration Festival, Graz (AT)
2018 Group Show – Something goes wrong wenn ich schlafe With Markus Sworcik @Volke 04, Graz (AT)
2018 Solo Show – Kill your Darlings@ Seddwell Center, Graz (AT)
2017 Group Show Artist Collective Timmi Der Hund (with Mag. Alfred Lenz)@ Gallery Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz (AT)
2016 Group Show – MHD With Meisterklasse Ortweinschule@ Schmiede 36, Graz (AT)
2016 Group Show Artist Collective – Timmi der Hund Curated by Zweintopf Artist Collective@ Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
2015 Group Show & Performance Artist Collective Timmi der Hund@ Gleichenfeier Schaumbad, Graz (AT)
2015 Performance – Austria Star Nacht With Christian Eisenberger, Karl Karner, Alfred Lenz & Rene Stessl@ Winter Refectory of Brauweiler Abbey, Cologne (DE)
2015 Group Show – The Self & Others With Denitsa Angelova & Lukas Landsgesell@ Gallery Tatortkunst , Graz (AT)
2014 Group Show – Perspektiven 14 With Isabella Siller, Emmerich Weissenberger, Michael Maier & Peter Semlitsch@ Gallery Ursula Stross, Graz (AT)
2014 Performance And Installation – Der Gläserne Mensch Part of Perspektiven 14 Show@ Gallery Ursula Stross, Graz (AT)
2013 Group Show@ Gallery Lendnine, Graz (AT)
2013 Group Show@ Gallery Blaues Atelier, Graz (AT)
2012 Group Show (monthly, 2012 – 2021) @Online Gallery Freie Galerie, Graz (AT)
2011 Group Performance – Brixton City Farm Basement Jaxx Musikvideo@ Brockwell Park Brixton, London (UK)
2010 Solo Show – Schauerkunst Für Kunstschauer@ Onomato Gestaltungswerkstatt, Graz (AT)
2010 Group Performance – Vuvuzela Curated by Christian Schiller@ Town Hall Balcony, Graz (AT)
2009 Group Performance – rrrr Curated by Christian Schiller@ Kaiser-Josef-Platz, Graz (AT)
2009 Group Show@ Metelkova Mesto, Ljubljana (SLO)
2008 Group Show@ Musikprotokoll, Steirischer Herbst@ Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz (AT)
2007 Group Show@ Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
2007 Solo Show@ Theater am Ortweinplatz, Graz (AT)
2006 Solo Show@ Theater am Ortweinplatz, Graz (AT)
2006 Group Performance – Ratschenrausch Curated by Christian Schiller@ Psalm Festival, , Graz (AT)
2006 Group Show With Daniel Hafner and Alfred Lenz@ Likovni Salon, Celje (SLO)
2005 Group Show With E.Stonji, Lenz, Terocal & Winterstrand@ Elevate Festival, Graz (AT)
2004 Solo Show @ Forum Stadtpark, Graz (AT)
2003 Group Show With Alexander Wendt & Steve Siret @ Projet 101, Rue de la Rochefoucauld, Paris (FR)
2002 Solo Show @ Kristallwerk, Graz (AT)
2002 Solo Show @ Herbstzeitlose Festival, Copenhagen (DNK)
2002 Solo Show @ Sprawl Festival, Commercial Street, London (UK)
2002 Group Show International 2002 Liverpool Biennial @Liverpool (UK)
2001 Solo Show @ The Windmill Brixton, London (UK)
1998 Group Show – Suit of Armor, 1998 – 1999 @Kristallwelten Swarovski, Wattens, Tyrol (AT)

RESIDENCIES

1999 – 2004 London (UK)
2004 – 2005 Bangkok (Thailand)
2011 Vorwerkstift Hamburg (DE)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2016 – 2019 Creative Supervision of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Various Schools in Graz (AT)
1998 – 1999 Creative Supervision – Youth Centre Wattens, Tyrol (AT)

ARTIST TALKS AND INTERVIEWS

APA (Austria Press Agency) Interview @ Schauspielhaus Graz (AT) With German Artist and Senior Lecturer @ London Metropolitan University Alexander Wendt@ 2K3 Frequenzen Radio Show (Resonance104.4FM)Frobisher Street, London (UK)

AIRPLAYS

Resonance104.4FM, London (UK)
Radio Ö1, Zeitton, Wien (AT)
Radio Helsinki, Graz (AT)

PERFORMANCES WITH

Soap&Skin, Viola Hammer, Kaffe Matthews, Anfisa Bobylova, Robert Lepenik, Rainer Binder-Krieglstein, Marc Weiser, Philip Quehenberger, Alfred Lenz, Christian Schiller, Markus Sworcik, Gottfried Krienzer, Alexander Wendt, Steve Siret, Johann Merel, Simon Hafner, Daniel Hafner, Reas,
Christoph Uhlmann, AGF