GREGOR
HOLZINGER, born 1981, lives and works in Vienna, Austria; graduated
in Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Studio Wolf
D. Prix and Studio Peter Sellars), studied Scenic Design at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Masterclass for Scenography Erich
Wonder), and was visiting student within a collaboration project at Institute
of Applied Theatre Studies, University of Gießen, Germany.
Several
international cooperations, e. g. with Lebbeus Woods, New York, and Lead
Pencil Studio –
Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo, in Seattle, WA and Portland, OR.
In recent years – besides various architectural projects – increasing work on various transdisciplinary projects in/between the fields of Architecture, Set Design, Video and Installation Art, which might be subsumed under the title 'site-/sight-specific Installations' -- exploring the modes of spatial perception out of the very individual perspective of the viewer and the real-time mapping of panoramic fields-of-view (’-scapes’), with the viewers being the actual performers - or the concept of 'Raumtheater' (~ theater of space[-s]) and the theme of artificial/modelled realities, augmented in digital as well as analogue ways -- and thereby dealing with architecture in the widest sense possible.
— Awards, Scholarships
— Exhibitions, Festivals
— Press, Publications
In recent years – besides various architectural projects – increasing work on various transdisciplinary projects in/between the fields of Architecture, Set Design, Video and Installation Art, which might be subsumed under the title 'site-/sight-specific Installations' -- exploring the modes of spatial perception out of the very individual perspective of the viewer and the real-time mapping of panoramic fields-of-view (’-scapes’), with the viewers being the actual performers - or the concept of 'Raumtheater' (~ theater of space[-s]) and the theme of artificial/modelled realities, augmented in digital as well as analogue ways -- and thereby dealing with architecture in the widest sense possible.
— Awards, Scholarships
— Exhibitions, Festivals
— Press, Publications
Selected Projects
2006-2012
Roof-top Garden Integrationshaus Wien (a refugee home in Vienna),
a project within New Crowned Hope Festival, Mozartjahr Wien 2006 -
Thesis project at Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
a project within New Crowned Hope Festival, Mozartjahr Wien 2006 -
Thesis project at Institute of Architecture, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2009
Set-Design & Video-Design for ‘Othello
– Wien, Bochum, New York’,
a production of Wiener Festwochen 2009, co-produced by Schauspielhaus Bochum, and Public Theater New York/ LAByrinth Theater Company New York -
directed by Peter Sellars, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jessica Chastain, John Ortiz et al.
a production of Wiener Festwochen 2009, co-produced by Schauspielhaus Bochum, and Public Theater New York/ LAByrinth Theater Company New York -
directed by Peter Sellars, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jessica Chastain, John Ortiz et al.
2011
‚Scale
– Scape – Scope’ - within Schindler Artists-in-Residence Program, MAK Center Los Angeles
at Schindler House - Los Angeles 2011 (collaboration
with Florian Schafschetzy, Eva Sommeregger)
2014-2017
'5
Colors Black – exhibition of a shadow' [k-/cinematic light-/shadow-installation]
Solo-exhibition at Galerie Göttlicher Krems 2014 (in collaboration with Adam Orlinski)
Solo-exhibition at Galerie Göttlicher Krems 2014 (in collaboration with Adam Orlinski)
2015-2016
'Site-/Sight-specific
Installations' – OK
Center for Contemporary Art / OÖ Art Collection, Linz 2015-16