FEED © Kurt Hentschläger
Between 1992 and 2003 he worked collaboratively within the artist duo "Granular-Synthesis".
Hentschläger's works have characteristically been visceral and immersive, as in ZEE and FEED, with extreme perceptual effects, composed from light, sound and fog. These works physiologically affect the viewer's experience.
His CLUSTER series builds on the uncanny, by portraying 3D representations of humanoid creatures that can only exist in dynamic flux, seeming to swirl and flow like the wind, apparently unhinged from the screen that they are projected on.
His most recent body of work including MEASURE and ORT is tracing the concept of nature and appropriation of nature in the anthropocene.
Selected presentations include the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Art Basel in Basel, Hong Kong, and Miami Beach; the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; Halle am Berghain in Berlin; the STRP Festival in Eindhoven; the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia; the Borusan Music House in Istanbul; the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe; Lille 2004 - European Capital of Culture; the Laboratoria Arte Alameda in Mexico City; the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal; Elektra Festival and the SAT - Society for Arts and Technology Montreal; the MoMA PS1 New York; the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, the Romaeuropa Festival in Rome; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul; O Art Centre - Sculpture Art Centre and Power Station of Art in Shanghai; Sharjah Art Foundation; the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo; the Venice Biennale and Biennale Teatro Venice; the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna; Wien Modern and Wiener Festwochen in Vienna.
In 2010 he won the Quartz Media Art Award in Paris. In 2012 he was commissioned, as part of the Cultural Program of the 2012 London Olympics / London Festival, to create CORE, a large-scale symphonic installation.
Most recently he premiered SOL, an immersive audiovisual installation at Halle am Berghain in Berlin in January 2017 and ORT, an public project in Le Havre, a 360 projection onto Oscar Niemeyer's "Le Volcan" building, early fall 2017.
From 2013-2018 he taught as a full time Visiting Artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
