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Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018

Solo show at České Budějovice’s House of Art

From 8 November 2017 until 28 January 2018, Vienna’s Kunsthalle hosted an exhibition titled Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox 1989–2017. This exhibition forms one of the reference points for Dunst’s project at the House of Art and which he is calling Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C.
The project’s concept is based on the idea of twin references: What is tactics and what is an exhibition’s system, and towards what materials and references (ideologies) does the form of representation lead?

Dunst has prepared a spatial installation whose central aim is not just to communicate with the viewer, but also to engage in a dialogue with the space itself. Using fragments of various materials – industrially produced pink Austrotherm pads (which were also used to cut out the large letters), depersonalized items from everyday life, drawings, and murals – he creates an environment that, within the system of textual references on the walls, references the aforementioned Vienna exhibition and engages in a kind of poetic conflict with a different level of meaning. Dunst thus asks the question as to what this evokes within the experience of perceiving art itself. He believes that this question relates to the ongoing discussion regarding museums, exhibiting, and the politics of meaning.

Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr
Heinrich Dunst, Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation, exhibition views České Budějovice’s House of Art 2018, photo by Jan Mahr

Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: C, 2018, mixed media installation

text by České Budějovice’s House of Art
photos by Jan Mahr

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Heinrich Dunst

Heinrich Dunst was born in 1955 in Hallein (Salzburg, Austria), He lives and works in Vienna. Dunst creates spatial interventions and performances that navigate the gap between what can be seen and what can be said, the untranslatability of one form into another, and the contextual nature of spatial presentations. Dunst's conceptual approach is rooted both in the work of artists like Marcel Broodthaers who scrutinize the systems underlying the perception of words and images, and in the Viennese scene of the 1980s and its characteristic ambition to extend abstract painting into the exhibition space. He lends these complex issues fresh interest by developing forms into correlations and pointedly questioning the seemingly unequivocal meaning of the elements through variation, superimposition, and changes of direction. Solo exhibitions include Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz (2023), Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (2015), Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (1997) among others. His work has been included in group shows at Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2023), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2021), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2020), Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz (2016), Ludwig Forum Aachen (2015) and many more.



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