Southern Austria, June 2022 GoBugsGo had acquired another piece of land – 5,2 hectars/ 13 acres. Before we turned it into a Non-Human Zone we tore down a run down…
FERONIA
90′ feature film in development Twelve-year-old Feronia longs for nothing more than to transform herself: into a bee, into a butterfly, into a grasshopper – anything but human. She penetrates…
MIDA’S ANTS Screening at IMAGE FORUM Tokyo
2024年7月1日19:00に私の最新の映画がイメージフォーラム東京で上映されます。日本語字幕付きです。ぜひお越しください。 TOKYO IMAGE FORUM – AUSTRIAN FILM DAYS. My latest film MIDAS’ ANTS was screened July 1st among the films of fellow distinguished Austrian filmmakers.
MAKING INCENTIVES (ORANGE JAM) for GOBUGSGO.ORG in NAPOLI
ORANGE & LEMON JAM Edgar Honetschläger, the inventor, co-founder and CEO of GoBugsGo spent January to April 2024 in an orange grove in Naples where the insects were already buzzing…
PIO MONTE DELLA MISERICORDIA NAPOLI / SETTE OPERE
A group show at the chapel in Naples that features Michelangelo Caravaggio’s ‘Sette Opere Di Miserecordia’ together with Beatrice Caracciolo, Andrew Huston, Mariko Mori, Carsten Nicolai, Serena Scapagnini, Juergen Teller….
LE FORMICHE DI MIDA in VENICE
Screening of the movie at Palazzo Diedo / Berggruen Foundation, Venice May 26th the Film was screened at the coolest venue Venice currently has to offer https://www.berggruenarts.org/en/
WALK OF INSECTS
IN reference to the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. Project commissioned by BIG ART for the BOKU Vienna. https://www.big-art.at/en/projekte/walk-of-insects-university-of-natural-resources-and-life-science Info in German: https://www.big-art.at/projekte/walk-of-insects-universitat-fur-bodenkultur-wien In 2023, Edgar Honetschläger, founder and CEO…
пустота / PUSTOTA / THE VOID / DIE LEERE
SELL FEAR
This series of works entitled SELL FEAR which I rediscovered today – May 2024 – was published (in an edition) in 2002. None was sold. Remarkable how ahead of times…
LE FORMICHE DI MIDA – King Midas’ Ants
SOUND OF SIRENS
in collaboration with Sylvia Eckermann. for the website please click here http://honetschlaeger.com/sos/ SOS SOUND OF SIRENS 2012 / 2021 March 11, 2021 will mark the tenth anniversary of the…
CHAIR PORTRAITS at CASAMADRE NAPOLI
Chair portraits at GALLERIA CASA MADRE Naples, JANUARY 25th – April 30th 2024 texts by Eduardo Cicelyn
E LA NAVE VA
Invited by GLOBART I realised an Installation at the Pavillon of the gardens of MELK abbey in lower Austria. The show was up from August 30th until October 31st 2023….
NEW YORK PAINTINGS
300×210 cm – there are about 10 of those paintings, below you can see two of them
LOS FELIZ DRAWINGS
2012-2016 hundreds of drawings for LOS FELIZ were done in different sizes – see a small selection below
LOS FELIZ PAINTINGS
following paintings are 1600×400 cm (16 by 4 meters), Japanese ink on canvas
TOKYO / LA
A selection of paintings 140×180 cm (55×70 inches)
TOKYO paintings
TARQUINIA
80×140 cm, Vienna 2021, oil color on canvas. These paintings depict the interior and exterior of the house I am renting near Tarquinia.
BLU
Vienna 2019 Bei der Werkserie BLU, von der es 15 Stück Öl auf Leinwand (140x140cm) sowie 15 Stück Öl auf Papier (70x70cm) gibt, geht es um die Farbe Blau. Eine…
The Blue Planet
GoBugsGo participation at the H2-Glaspalast, Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst in Augsburg, Germany. From June 19th till end of December 2020.
VENICE MANIFESTO
Manifesto and intervention at the Biennale di Venezia 2011 14 postulates printed on a one Dollar bill. Thousands of them ended up as stickers throughout the giardini at the Venice…
Why is it so hard to accept the void?
Okutama 1999, Silk Screen / Siebdruck, 10 parts à 65×50 cm – 123×250 cm, edition 100+10 E.A. 2.5 hours outside of Tokyo is a village called OKUTAMA. Nearby, built in the…
CIVILIZATION SUCKS
Tarquinia 2018, 48 seconds Is a short short that expresses the artist’s frustration with civilization = it’s brute destructive force. camera: Yohan Leitner, thanks to Yukika Kudoactor/director: Edgar Honetschläger
Packen wir es an!
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Film Retrospective at Film Archiv, Metro Kino
2016, Text Olaf Möller
über die lust am zeichnen und filmen
2009, Ein Gespräch mit Ursula Maria Probst
BILLIONAIRE
Die Grenzgänge des Künstlers Edgar Honetschläger von Thorsten Sadowsky, 2011
Hans Peter Wipplinger über Edgar Honetschläger
2009
AN DEN GRENZEN – Cast Your Art
Künstlerportrait, video EWA STERN, text CEM ANGELI VIDEO: http://www.castyourart.com/2010/07/06/edgar-honetschlager/ Edgar Honetschläger testet die Limits des Möglichen, immer an den Grenzen entlang um die Verhältnisse zu befragen, der Prozess ist dabei…
NOCCIOLE
September 2019 copyright© Edgar Honetschläger, all rights reserved, unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. In…
THE END OF THE ARTIST as we know it
November 2018 copyright© Edgar Honetschläger, all rights reserved, unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without expressed and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. In…
WER DIE BILDER MACHT DER HAT DIE MACHT
2015, Der Künstler und Regisseur im Gespräch mit Johannes Rauchenberger und Alois Kölbl
Lachen und Leichtigkeit versus Pathos und Schwere
2000, Interview Johannes Rauchenberger und Alois Kölbl mit Edgar Honetschläger Der österreichische Filmemacher, Regisseur und Maler Edgar Honetschläger, Teilnehmer der Dokumenta X, ist ein Wanderer zwischen europäisch-abendländischer und fernöstlicher Welt und…
JAN TABOR on I HAVE TIME
Jerusalem/Vienna 1999, Jan Tabor on the show ICH HABE ZEIT „Ein exotisch gewordener Satz und wenn er ausnahmsweise gesagt wird, scheint Misstrauen angebracht. Beinah ist es eine Frage des Status…
Ein Flug mit Edgar von Gertjan Zuilhof
2009, Gertjan Zuilhof Film Programmierer und Kurator) über die Ausstellung EDOPOLIS
A flight with Edgar by Gertjan Zuilhof
2009, Gertjan Zuilhof (film programmer and curator) on the show EDOPOLIS
Against the Symbolism of a Centralized World by DIETER BUCHHART
2009, catalogue text for the show EDOPOLIS
Gegen die Symbolik einer zentralisierten Welt von DIETER BUCHHART
2009, Katalog Text zur Ausstellung EDOPOLIS
Edgar Honetschlägers REGIE von Martin Hochleitner
2001 Die Publikation regie erschien im Herbst 2001. Sie begleitete die Ausstellung regie, die der österreichische Künstler Edgar Honetschläger in der Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum und den Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik…
Edgar Honetschläger’s DIRECTION by Martin Hochleitner
The publication regie / direction appeared in autumn 2001 supporting the regie / direction exhibition implemented by the Austrian artist Edgar Honetschläger in the State Gallery of the Upper Austrian…
DRAWING SELECTION
A selection of a few drawings size 70x100cm
SUGAR and ICE Brasília Book
photo book In 2008 i moved to Brasília. I was thoroughly enchanted by the city. I took polaroid photos and as I showed them to the film director Jose Eduardo…
TOKYO . FEET
Vienna 2004, 2 Heliogravuren 100×70 auf Büttenpapier, printer: Kurt Zein, Edition: 30+5 E.A. Die Heliogravure ist ein aufwendiges Tiefdruckverfahren, ein phototechnischer Druck, der im Prinzip wie eine Radierung funktioniert. TOKYO…
SUMI-E
1992 – Japanese ink drawings on Washi (handmade Japanese paper) – 63×93 cm – done in Tokyo, Vienna, Yazd, Umbria
NEW YORK / TOKYO DRAWINGS
1989-1994, 70×100 cm (27×40 inch) Working in my loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1989/90 I developed a drawing technique combining graphite with blending stick. It is always gadgets that are…
HAGAKI / はがき
1991 I started out living in Tokyo. Due to a lack of a studio and space scarcity in general I began to create postcard size aquarells 10x15cm (4×6 inch) –…
REAL THING?
Tokyo / Osaka 1993 In the early 90ies an Austrian supermarket chain ran adds promoting fruit and veggies. I discovered that the poster where printed in silk screen instead of…
In times of Emergency
Installation, Exhibition at the Priesterseminar der Minoriten im Steirischen Herbst 2001 Curators: Johannes Rauchenberger, Alois Kölbl Over the period of one month I covered the floors of my studios in…
Palais Wittgenstein
Vienna, 1990 was a group show together with the painter Elisabeth Plank 1989 I moved from Vienna to NYC. I shared an apartment with James Goldwasser and Karin Sander in…
TOOLS
GIPSPLATTEN / PLASTER PLATES, 1992 Linz / Tokyo This was the next step in my work with plaster and wax after doing the Stucco Lustro plates for the Palais Wittgenstein…
REICHSKRONE / Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire
Vienna 1989, designed by Edgar Honetschläger, carried out by Michael Schulthes Die Reichskrone ist die Krone der Könige und Kaiser des Heiligen Römischen Reiches seit dem Hochmittelalter. Die in ihren Grundformen aus der zweiten Hälfte des 10. Jahrhunderts stammende Krone geht…
Veggie Aquarells
2018 I was taking care of a huge vegetable garden which I had planted near “my” house in Tarquinia (near Rome). One day I found an old photo album in…
Bathing Trees
Vienna 2010, Graphit/Water color on Japanese paper, 63×93 cm One morning I woke up and it dawned to me: Trees need to take a bath too!
We promised to be very good like the mushrooms in the wood
Tokyo 2008, My passion for mushrooms lead to about 50 or more drawings size 70x100cm done with graphite, blending stick and water colors. Below a selection. Notice the upside down…
CARS
When I started out doing drawings for my long term film project LOS FELZ I spent lots of time in LA. Over the years I did many CAR DRAWINGS. All…
TRAVEL Sketches
More than 30 years I’ve been travelling – thousands of drawings came into existence on the way. Below a few
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts / Memoirs of a Good for Nothing
In 1989, I moved from Vienna to New York City. My mother gave me a copy of Josef von Eichendorff’s “Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing” (1826) on the way – guess…
STILL LIFE
New York 1991 In my loft in Brooklyn, Williamsburg, I set up a shelf. Two plaster balls juxtapointed me and a lady friend of mine as we took various positions…
SENSING SOIL
Austria 1989 In the early morning hours I dug my head into the soil for more than an hour and took different positions (photos in edition available). A plants ‘brain’…
Ten Views of Fuji San
Tokyo 2010, 10 IMAGES, Polaroid photos transferred to digital print, 100x100cm, Edition 10 + 2 E.A. Inspired and in reference to Hokusai’s 36 VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI iconic wood prints…
SEQUENCES
New York, 1990, experimental super 8 film, 17 min in collaboration with (in order of appearance)Serge Pinkus (CH), Josef Ramaseder (AT), Paula Hayes (USA), James Goldwasser (USA), Dorothea Braemer (USA),…
Marzipan Jesus
Operation Figurini – im Rahmen einer Intervention in Wien von Werner Dempf und Erik Steinbrenner Das Multiple MARZIPAN JESUS, das Hostien ersetzen soll, entstand auf Einladung zu einer Stadt Intervention…
Paper Mural
Die durchscheinende Zeit / Papiersonate
2014/15 a project of Klangforum Vienna and f.e.a. on the subject of an European capital; in collaboration with Peter Ablinger at Philharmonie Köln, Konzerthaus Wien, Concertgebouw Amsterdam Ensemble, Drawings, Video,…
Ästhetik ist ein politischer Akt an sich
KUNSTFORUM 195, Nov 2009 – Ein Gespräch mit DIETER BUCHHART https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/asthetik-ist-ein-politischer-akt-an-sich/ Gespräch von Dieter Buchhart und Edgar Honetschläger über EDOPOLIS Der international viel beachtete Künstler und Filmemacher Edgar Honetschläger ist…
