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Hans Schabus

Hans Schabus

Austrian artist

Hans Schabus (born 25 January 1970) is an Austrian visual artist known primarily for his site-specific installations.

Biography

In 2002 Schabus exhibited a video piece in which he navigated the sewage canals of Vienna in a rowboat at Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt.[1]

In 2007 he had his first solo museum exhibition in the United States at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico "Deserted Conquest".[2]

In representing Austria at the 2005 Venice Biennale, Schabus transformed the Austrian pavilion into a massive artificial mountain, while investigating preexisting concepts pertaining to nature, culture, and the role[3][4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    "manifesta 4". m4.manifesta.org.
  2. [2]
    "Hans Schabus".
  3. [3]
    "Hans Schabus". Artspace.
  4. [4]
    "Hans Schabus".
  5. [5]
    Eichler, Dominic (6 June 2003). "Hans Schabus | Frieze". Frieze (76).


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