PRESS INFORMATION THOMAS FEUERSTEIN PSYCHOPROSA th th 7 March – 10 May 2015 th Opening: Fri, 6 March 2015, 7 pm th Press conference: Thurs, 5 March 2015, 10 am In his exhibition PSYCHOPROSA, Austrian artist Thomas Feuerstein (*1968 in Innsbruck, lives in Vienna) employs biochemical processes as a means of artistic expression and creates an installation at the interface of art and a natural scientific experimental set-up. He transforms the rooms of the Galerie im Taxispalais into a coherent ensemble of greenhouse, laboratory, cooling chamber and factory. Linked by pipes, the apparatuses and objects seem like active protagonists: inside glass sculptures, substances are transformed by invisible laboratory assistants, refrigerators open and close as if inspired by demons or ghosts, and transparent threads of slime drip from extensive, vitreous installations. Thomas Feuerstein works using media such as sculpture and installation as well as graphic art, painting, photography and net art, creating multilayered references to biology, the philosophy of science, economics, and cultural history in the process. His artistic production is characterised by engagement with a wide spectrum of theories and their aesthetic assimilation. He uses natural scientific methods to interlock the factual and the fictive in his processual installations, deconstructing scientific explanatory models' claims to truth and prompting new contexts of meaning. Chemicalphysical processes become metaphors of social structures; ideas from classical philosophy combine with phenomena from today's highly technological world in the field of research DAIMONOLOGY, developed by Feuerstein. The exhibition in the Galerie im Taxispalais links new works and some older pieces never exhibited in the Tyrol before in order to produce a very specific narrative. The installative works are supplemented by graphic art and an audio play, which open up additional space for interpretation. At the beginning we find a greenhouse in which algae and fungi are cultivated. These organic materials are pumped into glass sculptures, where a synthetic hallucinogen is generated through a chemical process: the resulting molecule is PSILAMIN, which has never occurred before in a natural context. The remaining biomass of the algae and funghi is a slimy material, which develops a viscous consistency after heating, cooling and mixing: thick threads and veils form a transparent, liquid sculpture. If we were to consume the ‛molecular sculpture’ PSILAMIN, solid objects would deliquesce and begin to flow in our perception. In this way the psychotropic effect of the hallucinogenic substance ‒ which the exhibition visitor does not experience but can only imagine ‒ is reflected in the exhibition as a real process. Crossing and confusing the borderlines between our inner and external worlds is a central aspect of Feuerstein's PSYCHOPROSA. The slime that permeates the entire exhibition in a real as well as a thematic sense refers, on the one hand, to horror fiction and one of its early masters, H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937); on the other hand it highlights – as a social metaphor – questions regarding the definition of the individual and the dissolution of social boundaries. In cooperation with the Frankfurter Kunstverein and the Kunstverein Heilbronn Catalogue Texts (Germ./Engl.) by Beate Ermacora, Thomas Feuerstein, Jürgen Tabor and a conversation between Graham Harman and Thomas Feuerstein 200 pages, numerous colour illustrations; Snoeck Verlag, Köln Cologne 2015 Lecture Thurs, March 12, 2015, 7 pm Graham Harman, Distinguished University Professor, American University, Cairo The Aesthetic Future of Philosophy Lecture in English Catalogue presentation and artist’s talk nd Wednesday, April 22 2015, 7 pm Thomas Feuerstein in conversation with Dr. Beate Ermacora and Ass.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Seppi, Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Medical University of Innsbruck Maria-Theresien-Straße 45 6020 Innsbruck Austria T +43 512 508 3171 F 508 74 3175 USt-Id.Nr. (VAT-No.): ATU 3697 0505 email: [email protected] www.galerieimtaxispalais.at BIOGRAPHY THOMAS FEUERSTEIN 1968 born in Innsbruck, lives and works in Vienna 1987–95 studied art history and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, doctorate Since 1997 lectureships and visiting professorships at the University for Applied Arts Vienna, the Bern University of the Arts, the F+F School of Art and Media Design Zurich, the FH Vorarlberg – University of Applied Sciences, the Mozarteum University of Salzburg and the University of Innsbruck Awards 2006 2010 2013 RLB Kunstpreis Tiroler Landespreis für zeitgenössische Kunst 33. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Preis der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck Solo exhibitions (selection) 2015 PSYCHOPROSA, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main; Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn 2014 PANCREAS, Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana 2013 FUTUR II, Kunstraum Bernsteiner, Vienna 2012 CANDYLAB, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems 2011 POEM., 401contemporary, Berlin 2010 where deathless horses weep, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck 2009 DAIMON, Kunstverein Augsburg, Augsburg 2008 Soylent Green, Galerie Kampl, Munich 2007 Trickster. Politiker, Dämonen, Parasiten, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck 2005 Focus Utopia, Galerie Lelong, Zurich 2003 fiat::radikale individuen – soziale genossen II, Leopold Museum, Vienna Group exhibitions (selection) 2013 33. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck CyberArts 2013, OK – Offenes Kulturhaus im Oberösterreichischen Kulturquartier, Linz 2012 BIOS. Konzepte des Lebens in der zeitgenössischen Skulptur, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin th 2011 4 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Declining Democracy, Palazzo Strozzi, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence 2009/10 Eating the Universe – Vom Essen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (under the title Eat Art) 2009 CELLA. Strukturen der Ausgrenzung und Disziplinierung, Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa, Rome 2007 Übergangsräume – Potential Spaces, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart AUSZEIT. Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit / Timeout. Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Die Dämonen, Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz 2006 Feine.Radikale, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna th 12 International Festival of Computer Arts, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana 2005/06 Postmediale Konditionen, Neue Galerie am Joanneum, Graz; Medialab Madrid, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid th 2002 Sónar 2002 – 9 International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, Barcelona th 2001 24 International Biennial of Graphic Arts (Information – Misinformation / Offbiennale), Ljubljana Gefesselt – Entfesselt. Österreichische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Galeria Zachęta – State Gallery of Art, Warsaw 1996 Jenseits von Kunst, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest; MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; Neue Galerie Graz, Graz 1995 Falsch verbunden, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg 1993 Genetische Kunst – Künstliches Leben, Ars Electronica 1993, Linz Maria-Theresien-Straße 45 6020 Innsbruck Austria T +43 512 508 3171 F 508 74 3175 USt-Id.Nr. (VAT-No.): ATU 3697 0505 email: [email protected] www.galerieimtaxispalais.at
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