Heinrich Dunst. Performance, Oct 30 & Oct 31, 2014, KOW. Photo: Alexander Koch, courtesy of Heinrich Dunst and KOW, Berlin

Within the scope of “Open Modes Graz 2015” the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst und Medien stages a one week workshop with Vienna based artist Heinrich Dunst statt: Bild/Schnitt/Wort

Under the purview of linguistic/analytic and speculative attributions, the movement of images and words through media is examined, including the intersections, collisions, and differences encountered along the way. In reenacting this movement, forms of reification arise, relating to the process of “how thinking and language creates an object, how this object changes language through thought, and how language and the object propel thought.” (Armen Avanessian, Anke Henning, Metanoia, Merve Verlag, 2014, Berlin)

“From my mouth!” he says and sticks out his tongue. “Da!”—“there!” We look at him quizzically. “There!!” What’s he pointing at? “From my mouth!!” At the pinkish, speaking muscle there? “The words! There!!” At language itself? Or does he mean the two voluminous giant polystyrene letters, a D and an A, casually set against the wall a few yards away (they, too, are pinkish, like a laconic echo)? By the way: “he” is the Vienna-based artist Heinrich Dunst, now in Berlin for his first solo exhibition in Germany, at KOW. His verbal demonstration brings us straight to the issues his art explores. This “Da!” is difficult to grasp. It simultaneously points to itself and at something else. It is both word and sound, both statement and sign, both the tongue that speaks and two letters made out of insulation material. Like a particle in quantum mechanics, it occupies all of these states at the same time...(Alexander Koch)

Selected Solo exhibitions:
2015 Heinrich Dunst, SCHWA Z, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria
2014 Dämmstoffe, KOW, Berlin
2013 About A B order, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
2008 Dunst im Paternoster, an artproject at the Industriellen Vereinigung Wien, Vienna, Austria
2003 Sujet, Porträtserie Familie Keil, Schloss Kohfidisch, Styria, Austria
2002 Trans Act 2, Sprachfelder, museum in progress in co-operation with Der Standard
1998 Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
1997 Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (Galerie), Austria
1996 Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Braunschweig, Germany
1993 Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
1992 Galerie Patrick de Brock, Antwerp, Belguim
1991 Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
1987 Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria (mit Heiner Blum)
1984 Galerie Hubert Winter