Bertram Hasenauer Bertram Hasenauer

BERTAM HASENAUER / TOMORROW WIL BE DIFFERENT

The drawings by Bertram Hasenauer open spaces of seemingly unlimited expansion that arise when the portrayed and the viewer look. Oscillating between introspection and observation, his pictures subvert the boundaries of inside and outside. Imagination and perception overlap.
Dr. Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer

The portrait-like pictures by Betram Hasenauer form a typology of the contemporary. Each individual exists as an image of reality without being the realistic representation of an identifiable individual. Each is developed from different models and, through the intermediate medium of photography, draws on a wide variety of people and gestures. All of them combine features and characteristics of the most diverse people, the only thing they have in common is their youth and a certain androgyny. In his painted portraits, Hasenauer offers a finely differentiated view of the alleged nature of idealistic figures. They are representations of concentrated reality. Axel Lapp 2004

Exhibitions (selection)

2006  
Tomorrow will be different; Galerie Hohenlohe, Wien 
Tortoise; Kunsthaus Nexus Saalfelden

2005  
New Talents; Art Cologne
Volle Tube; Galerie der Stadt Wels (Bet.)

2004  
Berliner Liste; Messe für aktuelle Kunst; con-temporary, Berlin2003 
Vision einer Sammlung; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (Bet.)
Eingeladen von Tilman Wendland; Atelier Tilman Wendland, Berlin (Bet.)
Papierarbeiten von Männern; Oderbergerstraße 61/2, Berlin (Bet.)

2003
sometimes you wish someone could; Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb, Wien

2002  
Von Anfang an...; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Inside you are pretending; con-temporary, Berlin 
Prepare now for eternity; Galerie 5020, Salzburg 
The innocence we saw; Neue Galerie Graz Studio, Graz
Figur-Gegenfigur; Rupertinum, Salzburg

2001 
Don’t try so hard to be different; Österreichisches Kulturinstitut, Krakau
Life instructions; Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, Berlin

1998 
Hasenauer & Rust geben gute Tipps; Kommunikations Büro, Wien

> Bertram Hasenauer

BERTRAM HASENAUER

1970 born in Saalfelden
1992-1997 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna; Master class Franz Xaver Ölzant
1996/1997 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Erasmus exchange program
1997/1998 Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London
Lives and works in Berlin

In his works, Hasenauer deals, among other things, with the broad spectrum of non-verbal communication - gestures, poses, body postures - what can they say, how are they interpreted by the viewer? ...
The models are always presented alone, in a clear pose, in front of a neutral white background. Due to the elaborate way of implementation - the artist carefully applies the color like a thin film on a finely structured primer - the irritating surface is emphasized and placed in the foreground. The sitters seem waiting, they remain in their searching melancholy, past and future seem to coincide in these pictures - this floating state, skillfully constructed by Hasenauer, casts the viewer under its spell.
Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer, Berlin University of the Arts

Awards / Scholarships

2005 Anton Faistauer - Prize for Painting (Recognition Prize)
State grant for fine arts, Federal Chancellery Vienna
1999 studio scholarship Krakow, Federal Chancellery Vienna
1998 studio exchange program Salzburg - Berlin
1997 Working grant, Federal Chancellery Vienna