Felix Malnig Felix Malnig

FELIX MALNIG / GHOST TOWN

Felix Malnig shows in his pictures the social and cultural effects of architectural projects, urban planning and design in public spaces as they are typical for large international cities. Planned as symbols and monuments that stand for urban life, modernity and economic progress, the buildings and sculptures depicted by Malnig turn out to be anonymous shells and monuments of stagnation and desolation. Felix Malnig literally dissolves the pretense of dynamism, power and upswing through monuments in public urban space through the means of his painting. He works in mixed media with silver acrylic paint and colored spray paint on canvas. The silver color scheme can stand for stainless steel as well as for the threatening smog mass of the gray city reality or the shining shine of an architectural symbol that only shines on the surface.
Elisabeth Fritz, curator, art historian

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Felix Malnig has embarked on a new technical path. In earlier works, the artist had used bubble wrap instead of the canvas. The photographs generated images formed a grid system on the circular air chambers, whereby the freely painterly was relativized in favor of the technically reproducible. A silvery surface now covers the picture carrier, which alternates between mattness and reflection. Malnig paints the architectural subjects in a schematic way on the ground. In the distance, colors and shapes flow into a homogeneous picture structure.
Florian Steininger, Bank Austria Kunstforum

FELIX MALNIG

1967 born in Nuremberg, grew up in Canada and Germany
1983 moved to Austria
1987-92 University of Applied Arts, Vienna, study of painting master class for Exper. Design with Maria Lassnig u. Christian L. Attersee, Diploma
Lives and works in Vienna

Exhibition selection

2008
Ghost town, devening projects + editions, Chicago 
Mit eigenen Augen, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Wien

2007 
Delusion, Galerie habres+partner, Wien

2006 
Urban maze, Galerie habres+partner, Wien; Visual drugs, 
Zürich

2005
Phänomen Landschaft, Niederösterreichisches
Landesmuseum, St.Pölten

1999 
Chilled, Galerie Cult, Wien; An einen Haushalt, Galerie
Maerz, Linz

1998 
Schöner Wohnen, Haus Familie Bernsteiner, Wien
Malerei, Ausstellungsraum Mezzanin, Wien

1997 
Material world, Galerie Sechzig, Feldkirch; Cut & paste,
Galerie Cult, Wien; Aktuelle Kunst aus Österreich, WAFA
Bank, Casablanca, Marokko 

1996 
Danke,. dass Sie sich für Kunst entschieden haben,
Apostelhof Wien

1995 
Event, Kunstraum Wien

1993
Zierschlacht, Ausstellung der Meisterklasse Attersee,
Heeresgeschichtl.Museum, Wien 

1989 
Ausstellung der Meisterklasse Lassnig, Heiligenkreuzerhof,
Wien

2004 
Playground, n.a.c. vienna, Wien; Der Doppelte Blick,
Künstlerhaus; Palais Thurn u.Taxis, Bregenz

2003
First View, Hilger Contemporary, Wien; Landschaft, n.a.c.
vienna, Wien; Sac de plastic, IG Bildende Kunst, Wien

2002 
Daheim, Siemens artLab, Wien
Six positions from Austria, Diana Lowenstein Fine Art,
Miami, Florida ; Central, Stadthaus Ulm, BRD; Really?,
Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck; Kunst nach 1945,
Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St.Pölten 

2001 
Central, Museumsquartier, Wien; Central, Museum
Morsbroich, Leverkusen, BRD; Central artLab: Neue Kunst
aus Wien, Galerie Binz und Krämer, Köln; Really
Kunsthalle Steyr; Ein Garten für viele Träume, Galerie Ernst
Hilger, Wien; Coming out analyse, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt
Neuer Wind, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Wien

2000
Common sense, ZONE, Bologna
Eigensinn und Eigensicht, Galerie Museum auf Abruf,
Sammlung der Stadt Wien

Awards, grants

2007 Chicago-Stipendium des Landes Niederösterreich 
2006-10 Förderatelier des Bundes 
2003 Artist in Residence, Cheng Du, China
2000 Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien; Budapest-Stipendium 
1999 Arbeitsstipendium der Stadt Wien; Erwin Ringel-Kunstpreis
1993 Anerkennungspreis des Landes Niederösterreich Stipendium Accademia di Belle Arti, Venedig