Chronology

Hanns Kunitzberger

  Lives and works in Berlin since October 2009.


1955 Born in Salzburg.

1971 - 1977 Studies at the University «Mozarteum» for Music and the Performing Arts, Salzburg.
Degree in scenography, costume, and theatre painting.
Following master class, Assistant at the theatre, i.a. Burgtheater Vienna.

1978 - 1982 Studies of theatre and film directing.

since 1980 In addition to theatre and film work both in Austria and abroad, painting and sculpture have become increasingly important key aspects of his artistic development.

1983 - 1987 Move to Vienna.
Pursues interest in music and sound, also in connection with painting.
Concepts for opera, preliminary work for two film projects of his own.
Realization of a short film based on the 'Lied' by Gustav Mahler «Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen».

1987 - 1995 Studio in the southern part of Lower Austria.
Works there in seclusion, interrupted by several stays abroad together with his wife.

1991 Painting becomes the major focus.

1991 - 1995 Painting cycle «Die Schöpfung» (The Creation).
Publication «Hanns Kunitzberger, Ausgewählte Arbeiten 1990-1995» (Selected Works).
Completion of the text edition «Die Schöpfung. Eine szenische Beschreibung.» (The Creation. A Description in Scenes.).

1995
Studio in Vienna.
Beginning of the work on Bildnisse and Abbilder (Likenesses and Images) «... for representing an object through the complete absence of itself.» HK

1996 He agreed for the first time to a presentation of his painterly works.


Exhibitions


2023 FOX JENSEN McCRORY Auckland, New Zealand
May - June 2023
«SNOWBLIND»
Works by Coen Young, Hanns Kunitzberger, Jenny Topfer, Bill Culbert, Shila Khatami.

2022 FOX JENSEN McCRORY Auckland, New Zealand
November - December 2022
«PLASTIC SOUL»
Works by Koen Delaere, Mark Francis, Todd Hunter, Imi Knoebel, Hanns Kunitzberger, Erin Lawlor, Günter Umberg. Music by Andy Cowton.

2022 HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE Galerie der Gegenwart
September - October 2022
«VIERMALVIER / FOURTIMESFOUR»
Works by Josef Albers, Elsbeth Arlt, Hanne Darboven, Frank Gerritz, Vivian Greven, Roni Horn, Donald Judd, Imi Knoebel, Hanns Kunitzberger, Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen, Alfons Mucha, Tomitaro Nachi, Reinier Nooms alias Zeeman, David Novros, Sigmar Polke, Franziska Reinbothe, Philipp Otto Runge, Fred Sandback.

2022 FOX JENSEN McCRORY Auckland, New Zealand
June - July 2022
«RED SEA»
Works by Gideon Rubin, Liat Yossifor, Hanns Kunitzberger, Imi Knoebel, Aida Tomescu, Tomislav Nikolic.

2022 - 2021 KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN with HILTI ART FOUNDATION Vaduz
November 2021 - August 2022
«BODY – GESTURE – SPACE»
Works from the Hilti Art Foundation. Curated by Uwe Wieczorek.
Works by Alexander Archipenko, Max Beckmann, Umberto Boccioni, Karol Broniatowski, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Gotthard Graubner, Ferdinand Hodler, Leiko Ikemura, Callum Innes, Imi Knoebel, Willem de Kooning, Hanns Kunitzberger, Henri Laurens, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Germaine Richier, Medardo Rosso, Louis Soutter, Thomas Struth, Yves Tanguy.

2022 - 2021 KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN Vaduz
November 2021 - March 2022
«OUT OF OFFICE»
25 Years of the VP Bank Art Foundation. Curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll and Henrik Utermöhle.
Works by Barbara Bühler, Bruno Kaufmann, Evi Kliemand, Hanns Kunitzberger, Rachel Lumsden, Georg Malin, Joseph Marioni, Regina Marxer, Aurélie Nemours, Arno Oehri, Jürgen Partenheimer, Heimrad Prem, David Reed, Hanna Roeckle, Karina Wisniewska.

2021 FOX JENSEN Alexandria, Sydney Australia
November - December 2021
«RAVEN»
Group Exhibition: Jan Albers, Jane Bustin, Lawrence Carroll, Koen Delaere, Helmut Federle, Todd Hunter, Imi Knoebel, Hanns Kunitzberger, Erin Lawlor, Tomislav Nikolic, Marisa Purcell, Winston Roeth, Kemal Seyhan, Günter Umberg, Liat Yossifor.

2021 FOX JENSEN McCRORY Auckland, New Zealand
June - July 2021
«RAVEN»
Group Exhibition: Jan Albers, Jane Bustin, Lawrence Carroll, Bill Culbert, Todd Hunter, Hanns Kunitzberger, Marisa Purcell, Winston Roeth, Kemal Seyhan, Günter Umberg, Liat Yossifor.

2021 - 2020 KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN with HILTI ART FOUNDATION Vaduz
November 2020 - October 2021
«PRINCIPALLY PAINTING»
Works from the Hilti Art Foundation. Curator: Uwe Wieczorek.
Works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lovis Corinth, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Verena Loewensberg, Imi Knoebel, Sean Scully, Hanns Kunitzberger, Callum Innes, Medardo Rosso, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, and others.

2021 - 2020 HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE Gallery of Contemporary Art
September 2020 - September 2021
«BACK THEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN NOW»
Painting since 1947 reconsidered
Works by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Werner Büttner, Sam Francis, K.O. Götz, Johannes Grützke, Sabrina Haunsperg, Almut Heise, Jörg Immendorff, Konrad Klapheck, Willem De Kooning, Hanns Kunitzberger, Maria Lassnig, Richard Lindner, Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, Werner Tübke, Cy Twombly, Wols, Haegue Yang, among others.

2021 - 2020 KUNSTHALLE EMDEN
September 2020 - January 2021
«MIT HEISSEM HERZEN. Aus Leidenschaft zur Kunst»
Works by Alexej von Jawlensky, Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer, Antoni Tàpies, Arnulf Rainer, Arthur Goetz, Asger Jorn, Bernard Schultze, Bernd Zimmer, Emil Nolde, Emil Schumacher, Fred Thieler, Gabriele Münter, Georg Baselitz, Germaine Krull, Hanns Kunitzberger, Hans Matthäus Bachmeyer, Jeppe Hein, Jonathan Meese, Jorma Puranen, Karel Appel, Maurice Wyckaert, Miriam Cahn, Nikolaus Koliusis, Per Kirkeby, Rolf Cavael, Roy Lichtenstein, Sonia Delauney-Terk, Wolf Vostell.

2020 FOX JENSEN McCRORY Auckland, New Zealand
November - December 2020
«LUMINOSITY»
Group Show: Jan Albers, Jane Bustin, Bill Culbert, Imi Knoebel, Hanns Kunitzberger, Tomislav Nikolic, Winston Roeth.

2020 FOX JENSEN Alexandria, Sydney Australia
October - November 2020
«HANNS KUNITZBERGER»

2020 VERA MUNRO GALLERY Hamburg
September - December 2020
«HANNS KUNITZBERGER and WINSTON ROETH»
A Dialogue - The Naked Icon

2020 - 2019 KUNSTMUSEUM LIECHTENSTEIN with HILTI ART FOUNDATION Vaduz
November 2019 - October 2020
«EPIDERMIS - CONDITIO HUMANA - KOSMOS»
Presentation of Works from the Hilti Art Foundation Collection. Curator: Uwe Wieczorek.
With Josef Albers, Max Beckmann, Rudolf Belling, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Julio González, Gotthard Graubner, Ferdinand Hodler, Konrad Klapheck, Paul Klee, Stéphane Kropf, Hanns Kunitzberger, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Piero Manzoni, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Otto Piene, Gerhard Richter, Medardo Rosso, Georges Seurat, Giovanni Di Stefano, Thomas Struth, Frank Thiel, Günther Uecker, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart.

2019 Gallery Fox Jensen & Fox Jensen McCrory, Sydney
«PERMAFROST»
Group Show: Boomoon, Lawrence Carroll, Callum Innes, Hanns Kunitzberger, Tomislav Nikolic, Winston Roeth, Kemal Seyhan, Struan Teague, Geoff Thornley, Aida Tomescu, Jenny Topfer, Liat Yossifor.

2018 Kunsthalle Emden
«AUFERSTEHUNGEN. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung» Group Show.

2018 - 2017 Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
«DIALOGUES»
Group Show: John M Armleder, Janis Avotins, Günther Förg, Hanns Kunitzberger, Linda McCue, Blinky Palermo, Paul Winstanley.

2017 Museum Wiesbaden
«Summer in the Museum Wiesbaden»
Exhibition of works from the Collection. Group Show.

Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
Exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger Malerei»

2016 Kunsthalle Emden
«Die Sammlung im Sommer.» Group Show.

Galerie Walker - Schloss Ebenau, Austria
«Exhibition with Gallery Artists» Group exhibition:
Aubertin, Gironcoli, Kogelnik, Mack, Oman, Kunitzberger.

2016 - 2015 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
«Hanns Kunitzberger zu Gast in der Gemäldegalerie»
exhibition/intervention in response to the collection's paintings of the 13th - 15th century.

2015 Museum Wiesbaden
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger. Bildraum - Der Blick des Bildes».
Publication:
«Hanns Kunitzberger. Bildraum - Der Blick des Bildes» Museum Wiesbaden 2015.

Kunstraum Walker, Klagenfurt, Austria
«Hanns Kunitzberger. Painting».

Kunsthalle Emden
«ZEITREISE. Die Sammlung von 1904 bis 2014.»
i.a. Alechinsky, Baselitz, Beckmann, Brandl, Corinth, Damisch, L.Feininger, Fetting, S.Francis, Immendorff, Jawlensky, A.Jorn, P.Kirkeby, Kokoschka, Kunitzberger, Lüpertz, Macke, Maillol, Marc, Mascher, Miró, Modersohn-Becker, Nay, Nolde, Pechstein, A.R.Penck, Picabia, Rainer, G.Richter, A.Saura, Schlemmer, Schmidt-Rottluff, Schnell, Schumacher, Thieler, Uhlig, Zimmer ...

Galerie am Lindenplatz, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
«Hanns Kunitzberger. Early and Current Works».

Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
«Display of the Centuries. Friedrich Kiesler and Contemporary Art». Group exhibition:
O. B., J. Dabernig, W. Geyer, M. Huey, R. Jochum, K.-H. Klopf, Krüger & Pardeller, H. Kunitzberger, CH. Meier, U. Müller, E. Petric, G. Schmoll, H. Rashid, G. Tagwerker, J. Trattner, H. Zobernig. Curator: Peter Bogner.
Publication: catalogue ACFNY, Anton Pustet 2015.

2014 Kunsthalle Emden
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger. Zwischen den Bildern»
Publication:
«Hanns Kunitzberger. Zwischen den Bildern» Kunsthalle Emden 2014.

2013 Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger MALEREI»

Virginiahaus, Osakaallee / Alte Oberpostdirektion, Hamburg
«IN BETWEEN - between Energy and Matter». Group exhibition: H. Berent, J. Elken, M. Fujiwara, I. Genzken, I. zu Schleswig-Holstein, H. Kunitzberger, D. Lergon, F. Lippe, R. zur Lippe, I. Lüscher, G. Moretti, S. Ronci, R. Splitt. Curator: Pascual Jordan, Werkstattgalerie Berlin.

Galerie Walker, Schloss Ebenau, Weizelsdorf-Klagenfurt, Austria
«25 Jahre für die Kunst». Group exhibition.

2013 - 2012 Galerie Judith Walker, Schloss Ebenau, Weizelsdorf-Klagenfurt, Austria
«Monochromie und Reduktion II». Group exhibition: Hans Bischoffshausen, Bernard Aubertin, Tone Fink, Hanns Kunitzberger, Heinz Mack, Christina Renggli, Rudi Stanzel.

2012 KunstHaus Potsdam
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger, Abbild ohne Ähnlichkeit»
Catalogue: 10+1 / Elf Jahre, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam 2002-2013, 2013.

KunstHaus Potsdam
«Kopf an Kopf». Group exhibition.

2011 GK Galerie König Hanau
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger - Painting»

2010 Minoriten Graz, Austria
«RELIQTE» Profan-Sakrale Bilddiskurse. Group exhibition.
Publication: Johannes Rauchenberger, No Museum Has God. F.Schöningh, 2015.

GK Galerie König Berlin
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger - Painting»

2009 Frankfurt am Main, simultaneous at 3 places: MMK-Zollamt - Dom St. Bartholomäus - Haus am Dom,
exhibiton «Hanns Kunitzberger ABBILD» Painting.
Presentation «abbild.» film by Hanns Kunitzberger, 55 minutes, 2006.
On this occasion: Symposium: 'Was stellt die Kunst dar, wenn sie nichts darstellt?' new reflections on the relationship between art and religion, moderation Joachim Valentin, with: Johannes Hoff, Gerhard Larcher, Eckhard Nordhofen, Frank Schmidt.

Salzburg, festival exhibition, Sala Terrena and Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek, Galerie Judith Walker
«ECHOES». Group exhibition: Heinz Mack, Bernard Aubertin, Hans Bischoffshausen, Bruno Gironcoli, Tone Fink, Hanns Kunitzberger, Karl Prantl, Markus Prachensky, Meina Schellander, Reimo Wukounig.

2008 Schloss Wolfsberg, Wolfsberg, Austria
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger PAINTING».
Presentation «abbild.», film by H. K.

Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch Vienna
exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger - Painting».

Galerie Judith Walker, Schloss Ebenau, Weizelsdorf-Klagenfurt, Austria
«Monochromy and Reduction». Group exhibition:
Bernard Aubertin, Hans Bischoffshausen, Heinz Mack, Ludwig Wilding, Gerhard Trieb, Jakob Gasteiger, Chen Xi, Hanns Kunitzberger, Tone Fink, Christina Renggli.

Catalogue, Sammlung H. W., Wien 2008.

2007 Prize of the Österreichische Postsparkasse.

Künstlerhaus Vienna
«Exitus». Group exhibition. Catalogue 2007.

Publications:
«Hanns Kunitzberger. Die Orte der Bilder. Malerei» und
«Die Orte der Bilder. Symposium
» Ed. Künstlerhaus Vienna, ÖKK Verlag 2007.

2007 - 2006 Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum St. Pölten
«Spektrum Farbe, Kunst der Gegenwart». Group exhibition:
H. Brandl, G. Damisch, J. Gasteiger, F. Grabmayr, H. Kunitzberger, H. Nitsch, A. Rainer, i.a.

2006 Künstlerhaus Vienna
retrospective, exhibition «Hanns Kunitzberger. Die Orte der Bilder. Painting 1996-2006».
On this occasion: Symposium on questions pertaining to pictures.
Roundtable discussions, contents in cooperation with Hans Belting. Film matinee in cooperation with the Austrian Film Museum. Concerts.
Presentation «abbild.», film by H. K.

Akademie der Künste Berlin
Presentation «abbild.», film by H. K.

2006 - 2005 Completion of the film «abbild.», 55 minutes. Film by Hanns Kunitzberger, made during the premiere representation of ABBILD at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts MAK Vienna, as additional access to this theme.

2005 Austrian Museum of Applied Arts MAK Vienna / Wien Modern 2005
representation «ABBILD» Room for 16 paintings and string quartet.
Painting, project idea and concept: Hanns Kunitzberger.
III.Streichquartett: Beat Furrer. KNM Quartett Berlin. Catalogue wien modern 2005.

Erzbischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Vienna
exhibition Hanns Kunitzberger «Abbild und Bildnis» (Image and Likeness)
Painting in dialogue with the sacral art of the Museum’s collection.

Minoriten-Galerien, Graz, «Aktuelle Kunst in Graz»
exhibition Hanns Kunitzberger «Abbild und Bildnis», Painting.

2005 - 2002 Work on «Abbild 2002-2005», 16 large-format paintings, a variable concept for spaces and walls.

2004 - 2002 Künstlerhaus Vienna, «Niemandsland»
group exhibition with the essay «Kunst im öffentlichen Raum ist unmöglich»
(Art is impossible in public spaces).
Catalogue Künstlerhaus 2004.

Galerie Traklhaus Salzburg
exhibition of the Purchases by the Salzburg Government, Traklhaus 2001–2003. Catalogue 2003.

Theodor Körner Prize in recognition of cultural and scientific advances.

Künstlerhaus Vienna
«Genius Loci» Linde Waber. Group exhibition. Catalogue 2003.
«Salon 2002». Group exhibition. Catalogue 2002.

2000 - 2001 «Stille.» (Silence.) An interdisciplinary discourse over a 13-month period.
Hanns Kunitzberger: idea, conception and project head.
In: Kursiv 7-1/2/00, Österreich-Tagebuch, Jacques Le Rider, Linz 2000.

2000 Haus der Musik, Vienna
till 2013 exhibition of the sculptur «Gustav Mahler», 1982. Catalogue, Brändstätter Vienna 2000.

1999 Künstlerhaus Vienna
exhibition Hanns Kunitzberger «Bildnisse» (Likenesses), Painting 1996 - 1999.

Publications:
«Hanns Kunitzberger. Bildnisse. Malerei 1996-1999» and the text volume
«Hanns Kunitzberger. Die Schöpfung. Eine szenische Beschreibung.
» ÖKK Verlag 1999.

1997 - 1998 Künstlerhaus Vienna
«Raum!» with the project Aussen/Innen-Raum/Welt (Exterior/Interior-Space/World). Group exhibition. Catalogue 1998.

«Sinnlicher Sommer». Group exhibition:
W. Cooper, A. Frohner, A. Hridlcka, G. Lebzelter, H. Nitsch, H. Kunitzberger, L. Waber, W. Weer, i.a. Catalogue 1997.



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