Born: Innsbruck, Austria, 1969
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
In his films and many other works Herwig Weiser undermines rational filters, interrogates modes of thinking and common meanings in our relation to technology. Instead of documenting reality, the works seek to trigger uncontrolled stream of consciousness, unanticipated reactions, uncertain consequences, in which, in the artist's words, "media got drugged." He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam (1992-94) and graduated from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 1998. Weiser focuses on the analogue materiality of the digital machinery that he is reworking and rethinking in his projects. Thus, for example, Weiser transforms a computer into a living organism - 'functioning' or evolving as an unpredictable and unstable system - logic in reverse. His projects are the result of close collaborations with both scientists and musicians, always aiming to provoke powerful sensual experiences while simultaneously evoking the strong correspondence between art and science or film and performance.
Education
1994 - 1998 Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1992 - 1994 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991 - 1992 Architecture, TU-Innsbruck, Austria
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Herwig Weiser, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria
2015 Herwig Weiser, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
2013 Blickle Portaiture Series#4, 21er Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
2013 Image Movement Berlin, Germany
2012 Pro Choice: L’Ocean Licker, Vienna, Austria
2011 Filmworks, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
2010 Lucid Phantom Messenger, General Public, Berlin, Germany
2008 Death Before Disko, Galerie Collet Park, Paris, France
2006 BlackBox Arco, Arco – Arte Contemporaneo en España, Madrid, Spain
2005 Art Basel, Miami Beach, Artpositions,Miami, USA
2005 Tesla im Podewils‘schen Palais, Berlin, Germany
2000 Zgodlocator, Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
6th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2014
the crime was almost perfect , Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2013
Screening Room Vienna , Temporary Gallery Cologne, Germany
Alchemie,Kunstvilla Hospiz Galerie Bregenz, Austria
Flimmernde Medienarchäologie, Zeit für Medien, 10 jahre Medienwissenschaft, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Ephemeral Self, Finite Projections, Österr.Kulturforum Prag, Czech Republic
Dienstag Abend, Gdanska Galeria Miejska , Gdansk, Poland
2012
IMMER BUNTER. Aktuelle Malerei aus Österreich, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Die dritte Mitte, Neues Problem, Berlin, Germany
KRASJ 0.1. parceurs actuele Kunst te Ninove, Ninove, Belgium
Sleepwalking Berlin 2012, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Killer Rabbit Ranch Rodeo, Nationalmuseum Berlin / Studio Norrmann Biberbach, Austria
Dust, LABORATORIA Art&Science Space / Austrian Cultural Forum Moskau, russia
Uff Uff, Ve.sch Verein für Form in der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna, Austria
....from erewhon to here knows when...., Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf, Austria
2011
Translife, International Triennial of New Media Art, NAMOC – National Art Museum of China, Peking / Beijing, China
Into Deeper Lands at Open Sea, Magazin – Verein zur Entwicklung und Erschließung der Künste, Vienna, Austria
transmediale.11 – RESPONSE:ABILITY, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2010
New.Brave.World!, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim, Norway
Mind and Matter, paraflows 10 –Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
RUHR 2010, ISEA, MKK – Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund, Germany
Status Quo Vadis, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Melk, Austria
Horse Trailer Studiolo, Galerie Collet Park, Paris, France
2009
Sleepwalking, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne, Germany
See This Sound. Versprechungen von Bild und Ton, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
Música ex Machina – Festival Internacional de Arte Experimental, Bilbao, Spain
Das blaue Licht. Der Hang zum Kristallinen in Kunst und Design, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria
The House Is on Fire But the Show Must Go on, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
The Red Thread, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna, Austria
In Touch. First Experimental Music and Media Art Festival, Fabrique, Minsk, Belarus
Uncharted, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2008
Nam June Paik Festival. NOW JUMP!, Nam June Paik Art Center,Yongin -Si, South Korea
Turn and Widen, The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China
2007
Into Position, Bauernmarkt1, Vienna, Austria
UN_SPACE, paraflows 7, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
Zone V2, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Field Works, Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
Tension; Sex; Despair – Aber Hallo / Na und, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
UNFINISH!, Transmediale 07, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Feedback, LABoral – Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Spain
Interact or Die!, DEAF 07 – Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006
Code:blue. Millenium Dialogue 2006, 3rd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition, Millenium Arts Museum, Beijing, China
War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA
Cybersonica 06. International Festival of Music, Sound, Art and Technology, The Science Museum‘s Dana Centre, London, UK
Protections. Das ist keine Ausstellung, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2005
L’Art de produire l’Art, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing Cedex, France
Death before Disko, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
Loop Pool, Lounge, 51st International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen pulse, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
2004 First Bejing Int. Media Arts Exhibition, Millennium Art Museum, Peking, China
Strategy of Interaction, Wozownia Gallery, Torun, Poland
Born to be Star, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Deutschland sucht…, Kunstverein Köln, Cologne, Germany
Zoo Art Fair, Ritter/Zamet, London, UK
2003
Bit parts, Custard Factory, Birmingham, UK
Raw Digits, Medienturm Graz, Austria
DEAF 03, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cybersonica, Deluxe-Gallery / ICA, London, UK
2002
Aktuelle Kunst in Graz, Medienturm Graz, Austria
Magical Machines, Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
A Haunted House of Art, Stichting Outline, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Saving Pop Cultures, Goethe Institute Jakarta, Indonesia
Variable Stücke, Galerie im Taxisplalais, Innsbruck, Austria
NAM JUNE PAIK-Award, NRW Forum, Duesseldorf, Germany
In the Making, CCAC, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
2001
DIY, Transmediale 01, Podewil Berlin, Germany
Update 2.0, Goethe Institute Budapest, Hungary
WRO, Int.Media Art Biennal, C ontemporary Theater, Wroclaw, Poland
Takeover, Ars Electronica, OK-Center of Contemporary Art Linz, Austria
Zgodlocator, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
“Cinema Auricular“, Barbican Center, London,UK
2000
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
46.Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Glitch, Impakt Festival 2000, Utrecht, Netherlands
Update 2.0, Medienkunst aktuell 97-00, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Sala del Deseo, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
Wie man sieht, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
Plug-in-video, Satellit/ Z 2000, Berlin-Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
5th international Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
Avanto, Helsinki Media Art festival, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
Montreal International festival of new cinema and new media, Canada
Invideo, Mailand, Italy
zgodlocator, Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany
Update 2.0, Goethe Institut Paris, France
1999
45.Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
“Kunst NRW-NL“, de balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“4. Media+Architecture Biennale“, Graz, Austria
“Sample Minds“, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
1998
Videonale 8, Kunstverein Bonn Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
The Art of the Accident, V2_Rotterdam, Netherlands
1997
Hybrid Workspace,(no name Cologne), Kassel, Germany
1996
Arte electronico al final del Milenio, Goethe Institut Madrid, Spain
coming up, MMKSLW, 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Grants and Awards
2012 Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst, bm:ukk, Vienna
2009 Dock-Berlin, Produktions-Stipendium, Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2002 - 2003 Artist in Residence, Vivid/Birmingham, UK
2002 NAM JUNE PAIK Award,International Media Art Award, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001 Transmediale 01-award interactive, International Media Art Festival Berlin, Germany
2001 Honorary Mention , Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2001 Artist in Residence, Medienturm Graz, Austria