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1949

Born in Vienna, Austria.

 

Education and professional work in curative education and art therapy.

1973-76

Study fine art at Alanus Art Academy in Bonn, Germany.

1976-77

Study spatial forms and fibre art with Magdalena Abakanowicz in Poznan, Poland.

 

Reside in Vienna, Calcutta, Barcelona, Crete, and since

1979

in Amsterdam.

 

Study and work in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Senegal, India, New Mexico (USA), Spain, Poland, Greece, Tiblisi (Georgia), Seattle (USA), Costa Rica...

 

 

'Prophets', 1993, National Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

One-man Exhibitions - selection

2006

MAK nite, Vienna, one night presentation

2000

Tzamia-Krystalla Art Gallery, Chania, Creta (Greece)

1997

Waschhaus - Potsdam (Germany)

1994

Art Association - Heidenheim (Germany)

 

Galerie Lange - Emmen (Netherlands)

1992

Galerie Eye-genart - Cologne (Germany)

1991

Fotomania - Rotterdam (Netherlands)

1990

Artists Center - Tiblisi (Georgia)

1988

Institute for Modern Art - Nürnberg (Germany)

 

Galerie Dönisch - Seidel, Kleve (Germany)

 

Neue Galerie - Vienna

1987

Galerie Carinthia - Klagenfurt (Austria)

 

Galerie Regio - Freiburg (Germany)

1986

Performance Archos Rituals: Woche der Begegnung / Galerie Carinthia - Klagenfurt (Austria)

1985

Performance: International Art and Culture Center- Odense (Denmark)

 

Performance: Neue Galerie - Vienna (ORF television coverage)

 

 

 

 

Group Exhibitions -selection

 

 

2005 Art in red light/ Oude kerk Amsterdam

 

Venus- Adonis / Galerie Himmelpforte, Vienna with a.o.Herman Nitsch;

2004 

Botanical Garden /Amsterdam ‘art garden’

 

Corpus Christi, (curator: Nissan Perez) -Deichtorhallen Hamburg (side program / artist talk with Herlinde Kölbl)

2001

Transgression - Künstlerhaus Vienna (curator: Margit Zuckriegel)

 

Bible-Museum Amsterdam

2000

Madonna-Medusa, (curator: Karl Irsigler)

1998

'Stillifes in our time' Kulturzentrum Kapfenberg (A)

 

Schloss Ulmerfeld (A)- organized by Karl Irsigler, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna

1997

'Mail and Femail Art exhibition', Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii

 

ECHO - artists for humanitarian help - Tropical Institute- Amsterdam

1994

Dream Congress (American Ass. for the Study of Dreams) - Leiden University (Netherlands)

 

Technical National Museum - Prague (Czech Republic)

1993

Museum Aemstelle - Amstelveen (Netherlands)

 

Photo Journey: Aberdeen Art Gallery (Scotland)

Behold the man, The male nude in photography:  
 

Traveling Exhibition -London - Edinburgh - Aberdeen - Dublin – Helsinki - Quebec

1988

Signs and Symbols: Galerie Lang- Vienna

Galerie Mainetti Basel - Video-Performance

 

Artists’ Books: Apollohuis - Eindhoven (Netherlands)

 

Bacchants of Euripides (art director): OD Theater - Basel (Switzerland)

1987

METAXIS - Helsinki (Finland)

1986

Studio 666, Paris

 

Musee Metz (France)

 

Musee la Rochelle (France)

 

Photography Biennial - Enschede (Netherlands)

 

ARTI - Amsterdam

1985

Austrian Avant-garde: Galerie Nouvelles Images - The Hague   (Netherlands)

 

Installation and performance: Kalisation 1 - Hannover (Germany)

 

(NDR, WDR television coverage)

1982

German Textile Artists: Traveling Group Exhibition,

 

organized by Smithsonian Institute - Washington D.C.

 

National School of Decorative Art - Aubusson (France)

 

Cultural Center of l'Yonne - Auxerre (France)

1981

Streekmuseum - Tiel (Netherlands)

 

Museum der Stadt Aschaffenburg (Germany)

 

Schloss Parz - Linz (Austria)

1980

Art 11/80 - Basel (Switzerland)

 

German Textile Artists: Traveling Group Exhibition- USA

1979

Art Fair - Vienna

 

Art 10/79 - Basel (Switzerland)

 

Museum for Applied Art - Vienna

 

Schloss Halbthurn, Burgenland (Austria)

 

Museum of Folk Art - Munich (Germany)

 

 

 

 

Projects / Cycles

1977-78

Portals, Tents - Poznan (Poland), Freiburg (Germany), Barcelona (Spain)

1978-84

Eruptive Forms - Barcelona, Amsterdam

1981-84

Shields

1982-84

Torsos

1983

Elements - Amsterdam

1984

Lugar de la Santa - Amsterdam

1985

Images of Inner Movement – Vienna, Kalisation - Hannover

1986

Fuera de la Piel – Amsterdam, Falling down - Standing up

1987

The Temptation of St. Anthony, Brothers - Amsterdam

1988

Dionysos Greeting: 12-day performance - Basel

1988-91

Sybils - Paris, Basel, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Crete, Amsterdam

1990

Incarnations - Amsterdam

 

Primal Landscapes - Caucasus, Crete, Sahara, Ireland

 

Dionysos Calling - Amsterdam

since 1990

Prophets

1991

Dinner-party for an exhibitionist - Amsterdam

since 1991

The Divine Comedy

1992

Body Openings, Crusader Series

1993

Primal Mother

1993-94

Interventions

1994

The Banquet I,

1995

The Sacred Warrior - Seattle (Washington USA)

 

Adam Kadmon, Meet my Parents

since 1995

Salon Littéraire

1995-96

Virus

1996

Tribal Party

1996

Übergang (passages) - ritual nr.49 

1997

Waldeslust or Tyrol, I'm coming

1998

Bacchants, Still lives,

 

Wounds-Light, project with DORO

1999

My Tribe, Helena’s Song of Salomon, Banquet II,

2000

Madonna - Medusa, To a dancing God,

2001

The Banquet III, Solutio, Circle I, Love Song

 

La Tentazione, Hands, Powersticks

2002

The Banquet IV and V, Helen West,

 

workshop: Identity-Compassion with Ton v.d.Kroon; SIETAR-Congres Vienna

 

‘As long as the hair is in place’

 

Three Graces

2003

Hanuman (Hampi/India)

 

Systole - Diastole

2004

Circle II

 

Banquet VI (Seabanquet)

 

Pots and Pans

 

‘Meeting the Beloved’ coorporation with Ton van der Kroon

2005 

Banquet VI (seabanquet),

 

Procession

 

Circle III

2006

Karyatiden – Atlanten       

 

Banquet VII

 

Circle IV

 

Foundation 'Neue Wiener Schule'

 

 

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