born 1960 in Linz/Austria
creates audiovisual performances and installations.
Solo exhibitions (selected)
2014
MEASURE, Art Basel (Hong Kong / Basel / Miami Beach)
2013 CLUSTER installation, The Office, Nicosia, Cyprus
ZEE, HIVE, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
MODEL5, POL, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
2012 CORE, Ironbridge Gorge Museum (Commission, Cultural Program of the UK Olympic
Games & London 2012 Festival)
MATTER, Site-specific commission, SATosphère Dome, Société des Arts
Technologiques (SAT), Montreal, Canada
2009
SCAPE, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA
ZEE, FuturePerfect, New York, NY, USA
2008
RANGE, ZEE, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2004
NATURE04, Lille 2004 - European Capital of Culture, Public Art Installation, Lille, France
2003
LUX, Lia Rumma Gallery, Milano, Italy (as Granular Synthesis)
2000
NOISEGATE, Creative Time Inc / In the Anchorage, New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
NOISEGATE, National Museum for Photo, Film and TV, Bradford, England (as Granular Synthesis)
NOISEGATE, Musiques en Scène / Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (as Granular Synthesis)
FELD, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
FORMEN, Québec, Canada (as Granular Synthesis)
1999
NOISEGATE, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (as Granular Synthesis)
NOISEGATE, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada (as Granular Synthesis)
1998
NOISEGATE, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, Austria (as Granular Synthesis)
NOISEGATE, Marstall, Munich, Germany (as Granular Synthesis)
NOISEGATE, Transpennine, Hull, England (as Granular Synthesis)
NOISEGATE, Stedelijk Museum / De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, Netherlands (as Granular Synthesis)
1997
SWEETHEART, Kunststücke ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Austria (as Granular Synthesis)
Group exhibitions (selected)
2015
TURBO PIRAT, “Vienna for Art’s Sake!”, Belvedere, Wien, Austria
MEASURE, Stedelijk Museum, Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
HIVE, “Sleuthing the mind”, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2013
ZEE, “I look to you and I see nothing”, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
ZEE, “Beam in Thine Own Eye”, MONA – Museum of New and Old Art, Hobart, Tasmania
ZEE, Nemo Festival, Le Centquatre, Paris, France
CLUSTER installation, There is a Body on Screen, Luxun Museum, Shenyang, China
SECTOR 2c, Accumulations, SherinNajjar Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
CLUSTER, Simulationists, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, USA
ZEE, Matter-Light, Béthune, France
ZEE, And, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Fact), Liverpool, England
HIVE, Madde-Isik, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul, Turkey
VIEW, Public Art Installation Tom Bradley International Terminal, Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2010
ZEE, dynamic (in)position, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico
ZEE, File Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
ZEE, Wave Exhibition, INDAF, Seoul, South Korea
MODELL 5, Madde-Isik, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul, Turkey (as Granular Synthesis)
POL, Mapping Festival, Genève, Switzerland (as Granular Synthesis)
2009
ZEE, STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Retrospective GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS, STRP & MU-Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, Videorama, Artclips from Austria, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern, Switzerland (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, Videorama, Artclips from Austria, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (as Granular Synthesis)
POL, Un volcan numérique, Le Volcan, Le Havre, France (as Granular Synthesis)
SINKEN & FORM, See this Sound, Lentos Museum Linz, Austria (as Granular Synthesis)
FELD, Sounds and Visions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (as Granular Synthesis)
2008
ZEE, Tiefenrausch, OK-Center, Linz, Austria
KARMA/X, Dans la nuit, des images, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France
KARMA/cell, Synthetic Times, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
SCAPE, Sonic Acts XII, The Cinematic Experience, Amsterdam, Netherlands
POL, eLandscapes, eArts Festival / Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China (as Granular Synthesis)
MODELL 5, Les Voix Magnétiques, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France (as Granular Synthesis)
2007
KARMA/cell, Body Media, O Art Center, Shanghai, China
MODELL 5, Body Media, O Art Center / Sculpture Art Space, Shanghai, China (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, What color does a sound make?, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
2006
KARMA/cell, Panorama, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
KARMA, Switching Worlds: Desires and Identities, Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF), New York, NY, USA
FELD, Code Blue, Millenium Museum, Beijing, China (as Granular Synthesis)
MODELL 5, Slow Tech, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (as Granular Synthesis)
SWEETHEART, 40 Jahre Videokunst Deutschland /Center for Art and Media (ZKM) -
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, What color does a sound make? The Center for Art & Visual Culture, Baltimore,
MD, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
2005
KARMA, Digital Paradise, Municipal Museum, Daejon, South Korea
LUX, What color does a sound make? Eyebeam, New York, NY USA (as Granular Synthesis)
FELD, Gabinete Literario, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (as Granular Synthesis)
FELD, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (as Granular Synthesis)
2004
KARMA /cave, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
IMMERSIVE WORKS, Cinémas du Futur, Lille 2004 - Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille, France (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, Arborescence Festival, Aix-en-Provence, France (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (as Granular Synthesis)
FORM & MODELL 5, Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) Melbourne, Australia (as Granular Synthesis)
2003
SINKEN, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, Centro Nacional de las Artes / Centro Multimedia, Laboratorio Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico (as Granular Synthesis)
LUX, IEAR Presents! / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
2002
FELD, Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea (as Granular Synthesis)
FELD, Musica per gli Occhi, Bolzano, Italy (as Granular Synthesis)
WIDE, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
MODELL 5.7, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (as Granular Synthesis)
2001
RESET, Austrian Pavilion, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy (as Granular Synthesis)
2000
FELD, OK-Center, Linz, Austria (as Granular Synthesis)
1999
MODELL 5, Face to Face, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland (as Granular Synthesis)
1998
NOISEGATE, Exit Festival, Créteil, France (as Granular Synthesis)
NOISEGATE, Via Festival, Mauberge, France (as Granular Synthesis)
MODELL 5, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (as Granular Synthesis)
Online
2013 SECTOR 2c, Accumulations, www.blinkvideo.de
CLUSTER & NATURE04, Ikono On Air Festival, www./ikono.org
Grants, awards and residencies (selected)
2013
Residency - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA
2012
CORE Commission, Cultural Program of the UK Olympic Games & London 2012 Festival
Residency - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA
2010
QWARTZ, New Media Arts Award, Paris, France
FILE PRIX LUX Award, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008
Austrian Federal State Grant for Media Art, Austria
Chicago Studio Grant, Austria
2005
KARMA/cell commission, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
2000-05
Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts New York, subsidized studio
1999
PS1 Residency New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis)
Austrian Federal State Grant for Fine Art, Austria (as Granular Synthesis)
1995
Austrian Furtherance Prize for new media art (as Granular Synthesis)
1993
Austrian Furtherance Prize for new media art (as Granular Synthesis)
Kurt Hentschläger
born 1960 in Linz/Austria creates audiovisual performances and installations. Solo exhibitions (selected) 2014 MEASURE, Art Basel (Hong Kong / Basel / Miami Beach) 2013 CLUSTER installation, The Office, Nicosia, Cyprus ZEE, HIVE, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA MODEL5, POL, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA (as Granular Synthesis) 2012 CORE, Ironbridge Gorge Museum (Commission, Cultural Program of the UK Olympic Games & London 2012 Festival) MATTER, Site-specific commission, SATosphère Dome, Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT), Montreal, Canada 2009 SCAPE, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA ZEE, FuturePerfect, New York, NY, USA 2008 RANGE, ZEE, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2004 NATURE04, Lille 2004 - European Capital of Culture, Public Art Installation, Lille, France 2003 LUX, Lia Rumma Gallery, Milano, Italy (as Granular Synthesis) 2000 NOISEGATE, Creative Time Inc / In the Anchorage, New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis) NOISEGATE, National Museum for Photo, Film and TV, Bradford, England (as Granular Synthesis) NOISEGATE, Musiques en Scène / Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (as Granular Synthesis) FELD, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (as Granular Synthesis) FORMEN, Québec, Canada (as Granular Synthesis) 1999 NOISEGATE, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (as Granular Synthesis) NOISEGATE, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada (as Granular Synthesis) 1998 NOISEGATE, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, Austria (as Granular Synthesis) NOISEGATE, Marstall, Munich, Germany (as Granular Synthesis) NOISEGATE, Transpennine, Hull, England (as Granular Synthesis) NOISEGATE, Stedelijk Museum / De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, Netherlands (as Granular Synthesis) 1997 SWEETHEART, Kunststücke ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Austria (as Granular Synthesis) Group exhibitions (selected) 2015 TURBO PIRAT, “Vienna for Art’s Sake!”, Belvedere, Wien, Austria MEASURE, Stedelijk Museum, Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014 HIVE, “Sleuthing the mind”, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2013 ZEE, “I look to you and I see nothing”, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates ZEE, “Beam in Thine Own Eye”, MONA – Museum of New and Old Art, Hobart, Tasmania ZEE, Nemo Festival, Le Centquatre, Paris, France CLUSTER installation, There is a Body on Screen, Luxun Museum, Shenyang, China SECTOR 2c, Accumulations, SherinNajjar Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2011 CLUSTER, Simulationists, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL, USA ZEE, Matter-Light, Béthune, France ZEE, And, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (Fact), Liverpool, England HIVE, Madde-Isik, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul, Turkey VIEW, Public Art Installation Tom Bradley International Terminal, Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, CA 2010 ZEE, dynamic (in)position, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico ZEE, File Festival, São Paulo, Brazil ZEE, Wave Exhibition, INDAF, Seoul, South Korea MODELL 5, Madde-Isik, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul, Turkey (as Granular Synthesis) POL, Mapping Festival, Genève, Switzerland (as Granular Synthesis) 2009 ZEE, STRP Festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands Retrospective GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS, STRP & MU-Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, Videorama, Artclips from Austria, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern, Switzerland (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, Videorama, Artclips from Austria, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria (as Granular Synthesis) POL, Un volcan numérique, Le Volcan, Le Havre, France (as Granular Synthesis) SINKEN & FORM, See this Sound, Lentos Museum Linz, Austria (as Granular Synthesis) FELD, Sounds and Visions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (as Granular Synthesis) 2008 ZEE, Tiefenrausch, OK-Center, Linz, Austria KARMA/X, Dans la nuit, des images, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France KARMA/cell, Synthetic Times, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China SCAPE, Sonic Acts XII, The Cinematic Experience, Amsterdam, Netherlands POL, eLandscapes, eArts Festival / Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, China (as Granular Synthesis) MODELL 5, Les Voix Magnétiques, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France (as Granular Synthesis) 2007 KARMA/cell, Body Media, O Art Center, Shanghai, China MODELL 5, Body Media, O Art Center / Sculpture Art Space, Shanghai, China (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, What color does a sound make?, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (as Granular Synthesis) 2006 KARMA/cell, Panorama, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France KARMA, Switching Worlds: Desires and Identities, Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF), New York, NY, USA FELD, Code Blue, Millenium Museum, Beijing, China (as Granular Synthesis) MODELL 5, Slow Tech, Museum for Contemporary Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (as Granular Synthesis) SWEETHEART, 40 Jahre Videokunst Deutschland /Center for Art and Media (ZKM) - Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, What color does a sound make? The Center for Art & Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD, USA (as Granular Synthesis) 2005 KARMA, Digital Paradise, Municipal Museum, Daejon, South Korea LUX, What color does a sound make? Eyebeam, New York, NY USA (as Granular Synthesis) FELD, Gabinete Literario, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (as Granular Synthesis) FELD, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (as Granular Synthesis) 2004 KARMA /cave, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria IMMERSIVE WORKS, Cinémas du Futur, Lille 2004 - Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille, France (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, Arborescence Festival, Aix-en-Provence, France (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (as Granular Synthesis) FORM & MODELL 5, Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) Melbourne, Australia (as Granular Synthesis) 2003 SINKEN, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, Centro Nacional de las Artes / Centro Multimedia, Laboratorio Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico (as Granular Synthesis) LUX, IEAR Presents! / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis) 2002 FELD, Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea (as Granular Synthesis) FELD, Musica per gli Occhi, Bolzano, Italy (as Granular Synthesis) WIDE, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis) MODELL 5.7, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (as Granular Synthesis) 2001 RESET, Austrian Pavilion, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy (as Granular Synthesis) 2000 FELD, OK-Center, Linz, Austria (as Granular Synthesis) 1999 MODELL 5, Face to Face, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland (as Granular Synthesis) 1998 NOISEGATE, Exit Festival, Créteil, France (as Granular Synthesis) NOISEGATE, Via Festival, Mauberge, France (as Granular Synthesis) MODELL 5, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (as Granular Synthesis) Online 2013 SECTOR 2c, Accumulations, www.blinkvideo.de CLUSTER & NATURE04, Ikono On Air Festival, www./ikono.org Grants, awards and residencies (selected) 2013 Residency - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA 2012 CORE Commission, Cultural Program of the UK Olympic Games & London 2012 Festival Residency - Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA 2010 QWARTZ, New Media Arts Award, Paris, France FILE PRIX LUX Award, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2008 Austrian Federal State Grant for Media Art, Austria Chicago Studio Grant, Austria 2005 KARMA/cell commission, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France 2000-05 Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts New York, subsidized studio 1999 PS1 Residency New York, NY, USA (as Granular Synthesis) Austrian Federal State Grant for Fine Art, Austria (as Granular Synthesis) 1995 Austrian Furtherance Prize for new media art (as Granular Synthesis) 1993 Austrian Furtherance Prize for new media art (as Granular Synthesis)