richard kriesche
biography
lives and works in graz and offenbach.
professorship at the `hochschule für gestaltung offenbach' germany
1940
- born in vienna
1958
- graduation at the bundesrealgymnasium fürstenfeld.
1963
- teaching graduation for visual arts education.
1963
- teaching at the 'höhere technische bundeslehranstalt` graz.
founder of the "audio-visual department" at the institution.
1964
- diploma for graphics and painting at the `akademie der bildenden künste' wien.
1968
- assistant at the `hochschule für angewandte kunst' wien.
1969
- continuing the teaching at the `höhere technische bundeslehranstalt'.
1970/71
- research year at the `university college london' (slade).
1973
- founding member of the artists league: "pool". co-editor of the magazine
"pfirsich". foundation of "poolerie" a mediagallery for experimental photography film and video.
1977
- head of the experimental part of AVZ-graz.(audiovisual centre).
1978
- foundation of "bvöst".(the first regional artist run league)
1983/84
- DAAD artist programm, berlin.
1984
- research grant to WPA (washington project for the arts)
1984
- foundation of "kulturdata".
1985/86
- research grant to M.I.T. cambridge. albert and vera list visual arts centre
at the "media lab".
1988-91
- teaching at the technical university vienna: "the esthetics of scientific and technical processes."
since 1991
- professorship at the hochschule för gestaltung offenbach/main. "theorie und praxis der elektronischen bilderzeugung".
exhibitions, short version
art exhibitions since 1963. one-man shows in the the museum of modern art los angeles; museum moderner kunst wien; massachussetts institute of technology, MIT- media lab boston; washington project for the arts, washington; kunsthaus zürich; kunsthalle baden-baden; museum of modern art, oxford.
participating at the 34th and 42nd BIENNALE DI VENEZIA as well as DOCUMENTA 6 und DOCUMENTA 8 in kassel.
art in context of informationprocessing have been first realized in videoprojects 1970 london. listed are videoinstallations, video-spaces, videoperformances, videoproductions, computer generated objects and environments, computer generated image,-text,-sound- und videoprojects. projects in the context of multimedia, robotics and telecommunications. the listed projects have been realized for exhibitions, events, special programs, festivals, museumenvironments, art in public spaces, etc.
1972, innsbruck
- peeling off
- galerie im taxispalais
- 1. exhibit in austria on the basis of video only
1973, retzhof
- playtime
- schloß retzhof
1973, graz
- die neue galerie
- neue galerie am joanneum
1973, graz
- indoor-outdoor
- trigon 73, kapellenstraße 41
1973, edinburgh
- on sculpture
- richard demarco gallery mit joseph beuys
1973, wien-gumpoldskirchen
- time-art
- special train of the austrian railway company (ÖBB)
1974, leoben
- light emission-light image emission
- murgalerie
1974, wien
- blackout
- ORF (austrian television network)
1974, basel
- tv-tod 1
- galerie stampa
1975, köln
- tv-tod 2
- kölnischer kunstverein
1975, köln
- black movie
- projection galerie
1976, alpach
- video-time
- europäisches forum
1976, wien
- vice versa - a
- galerie nächst st.stephan point of video
1976, graz
- media-lecture
- galerie klo
1977, kassel
- zwillinge
- documenta 6
1977, wien
- video-view
- austian treasury
1977, kassel
- malerei deckt zu kunst deckt auf
- ZDF (german television network)
1977, thondorf
- 13 min im leben von(...)
- forum stadtpark
1977, venedig
- the world's first double sided TV-set
- instituto hist. della biennale
1978, los angeles
- the image and the magic 1
- institute of contemporary art
1978, san francisco
- the image and the magic 2
- san francisco art institute
1978, new york
- maria zell TV
- p.s.1
1978, graz
- nationalfeiertag
- ORF
1979, paris
- video a mental health machine
- centre george pompidou
1979, basel
- technology is the moral of the ruling class1
- stampa kunstmesse
1979, buenos aires
- technology is the moral of the ruling class2
- centre of art an communication
1979, graz
- videotherapie
- universitätsklinik
1979, barcelona
- on institutions
- goetheinstitut u. university barcelona
1980, basel
- 1+1=3
- stampa kunstmesse
1980, wien
- artist's use of telecommunication
- transcontinental slowscan and computerconference.
first in austia (toronto,hawai, boston new york, sidney, wien)
1980, wuppertal
- videosoftware
- monte video
1980, wien
- video made in austria
- museum d 20.jhdts
1980, stuttgart
- tv-light
- galerie dr. schurr
1980, basel
- brain-tv
- stampa
1981, baden-baden
- jesus-richard
- kunsthalle
1981, münchen
- video-sculpture
- lenbachhaus
1981, wien
- räumliche-elektrische-elektronische skulptur
- wiener festwochen, project artig
1981, zagreb
- grenzen A-Y
- galerije grada zagreba
- radio televisione zagreb
1982, zürich
- video that nobody watches
- kunsthaus zürich
1983, berlin
- eternal light
- gedächtniskirche
1983, düsseldorf
- colortronic
- messe düsseldorf gabor
1983, berlin
- ber\lin
- ZDF
1983, graz
- eternal light
- minoritenkloster
1983, berlin
- video-drums
- hebbeltheater büro berlin
1984, berlin
- strahlen-electronic milieu
- DAAD-galerie
1984, wien
- orwell 1984
- museum d 20 jhdts
1984, basel
- video-channel
- riehen park
1985, graz
- the state and the arts
- opera, girardibühne
1985, wien
- handschlag
- intern. videobiennale graz-wien
1985, washington
- kriesche goes to pentagon
- washington project for the arts
1985, boston
- cultech
- MIT
1986, graz
- art versus science
- opera, girardibühne
1986, rosenheim
- radioaktivität
- kunsthalle, ein wilder traum
1986, linz-dornbirn
- stille elektronische post
- ORF ars electronica (m.g.bechtold)
1986, venedig
- robotics - ein weltmodell
- biennale von venedig
1987, antwerpen
- artlist1
- ruitme morguen
1987, banff
- humanizing technology
- w. phillips gallery, artlist2
1987, kassel
- weltall
- DOCUMENTA 8
1987, graz
- sarkophag-tschernobyl
- opera, girardibühne
1988, los angeles
- art radio
- LAMOCA
1988, linz
- weltmodell 2
- ars electronica
1988, bannf
- siting technology- artlist"
- w. phillips gallery
1988, graz
- radio-times/mozart - meteosat
- satellitevideo with meteosat kulturdata
1989, graz
- w.y.s.i.w.y.g.
- stadtmuseum
1989, manchester
- radio-man
- corner house
1989, graz
- 1000 shillings
- neue galerie raum für raum
1989, montreal
- 3-D computer video
- cité des arts
- images des future
1989, graz
- videohaus fuchs
- direct encounter haus der achitektur
1990, MIR space-station
- artsat
- first artistic experiment in the history of the soviet space mission
1990, saarbrücken
- w.y.s.i.w.y.g.
- stadtgalerie
1990, warschau
- maiandacht 92
- center f contemp. art
1990, wien
- w.y.s.i.w.y.g
- galerie krinzinger
1990, oxford
- on art as social process
- museum of modern art
1990, feldbach
- heaven/earth
- hospital
1991, prag
- im bilde-v obraze
- oblactny galerie
1991, salzburg
- orient
- galerie fotohof
1992, mautern
- mautern ist überall
- elementary school mautern
1992, graz
- artsat-sculpture
- schloßberg/permanent
1992, warschau
- maiandacht 92
- center f contemp.art.
1993, graz
- telematic sculpture III
- künstlerhaus graz (mit p. hoffmann)
1993, innsbruck
- virtual innsbruck 1
- acoustic city: innsbruck
1993, innsbruck
- hotel erzherzog johann
- mediengalerie
1993, graz/slowenien
- debounded boundaries 2
- european cultural month
1993, graz
- der himmel über uns...
- 44th IAF spaceconference
1994, innsbruck
- virtual innsbruck 2
- visual city: innsbruck
1994, graz
- the sky/the earth
- media sculpture tu-graz
1994, linz
- telematic sculpture III
- ars electronica
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