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…

OPENING AT GALERIA CASA MADRE JANUARY 25th, NAPLES – the show will end April 30th 2024

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….

LOS FELIZ DRAWINGS

2012-2016 hundreds of drawings for LOS FELIZ were done in different sizes – see a small selection below

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…

WALK OF INSECTS

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

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…

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

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…

Packen wir es an!

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BILLIONAIRE

Die Grenzgänge des Künstlers Edgar Honetschläger von Thorsten Sadowsky, 2011

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

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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…

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…

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…

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!

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

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…

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…

Tampopo / Dandelion

Es bleibt uns keine Zeit zur Betrachtung Drawings 1992, Tokyo and Vienna Tampopo beschäftigt sich mit Bewegung. Bewegung ohne Grenzen. Die Flugsamen des Löwenzahn haben ihren Weg, getragen vom Wind…