Skip to main content

Heimo Zobernig

Creating a considerable body of work that includes sculpture, video, painting, installation, architectural intervention and performance, Heimo Zobernig critically engages with various modern art movements, including abstraction, constructivism, minimalism, post-minimalism, and conceptual art, as well as with architecture, design, and theatre. He appropriates various art histories in order to question the ideological position and conditions which underpin them, subverting and reinterpreting them with a lightness of touch and an economy of material means. His methodology is at turns playful, dry, witty, unsettling, and disarming.


Zobernig has exhibited widely in various international shows including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, Kunsthalle Zurich, Essl Museum in Vienna, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain in Bordeaux, and the Tate St Ives. Zobernig represented Austria at the 2015 Venice Biennale.  


Courtesy of Tate

Born 1958
Hometown Mauthen, Austria
Lives and Works Vienna, Austria
Education
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1983
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1980
Permanent Collection

Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany

Representing Galleries

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY

SHOWS

Petzel Gallery


Jun 24 2016 - Aug 05 2016

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
View More

Articles

From artists like David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schnee
From artists like David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schnee

From artists like David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Carolee Schneemann, and Mark Bradford, here are the Fall's most exciting museum shows to look forward to.

A Few Questions for Sterling Lawrence
A Few Questions for Sterling Lawrence

The Chicago artist makes verbose lamps and casts elbows in his effort to answer one question: "What are the limits of a visual experience?"

A Rambling View of Berlin Art Week 2015
A Rambling View of Berlin Art Week 2015

Deals could be found among the grateful galleries populating the abc berlin contemporary fair, since buyers are few and far between in the city.

Dana Beth Ardi on What Art Can Teach CEOs
Dana Beth Ardi on What Art Can Teach CEOs

We spoke to the emerging-artist patron and "human capitalist" about how art can help people run businesses better, and what it has to do with her new book, The Fall of the Alphas.

View More