GREGOR
HOLZINGER, born 1981, lives and works in Vienna, Austria; graduated
in Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, studied Scenic Design at the
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and was visiting student within a collaboration project at Institute
of Applied Theatre Studies, University of Gießen, Germany.
Several
international cooperations, e. g. with Peter Sellars (Los Angeles), Lebbeus Woods (New York) and Lead
Pencil Studio –
Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo (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 viewsheds/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 viewsheds/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
(in collaboration with
Adam Orlinski)
2015-2016
'Site-/Sight-specific
Installations' – OK
Center for Contemporary Art / OÖ Art Collection, Linz 2015-16
2020-2022
‘Oregonautics’ - PLAYA Artist Residency - in Summerlake, Oregon