Florian Pumhösl

„Animated Map“, Installation View Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, 2005, Photo: Hannes Böck

Florian Pumhösl (born 1971) is an artist based in Vienna, mainly known for his works that employ abstract visual language to reflect on the diverse manifestations of modernity.[1]

Education

1989–91 Höhere Grafische Bundeslehr- und Versuchsanstalt Wien

1989–97 Hochschule für angewandte Kunst Wien

Work

Florian Pumhösl’s work is constituted by a constellation of historical references encoded within a visual language that appears purely formal. The apparent abstraction of his paintings, films, and installations is anchored by specific archival sources: 17th-century kimono designs, avant-garde typography, WWI military uniform patterns, cartography, Latin American textiles, and early dance notations. Through the selection, reduction, rearrangement, and reproduction of his source materials—unsystematic and subjective modes of transcription—the artist arrives at a vocabulary that is at once abstract and semiotically motivated.

Pumhösl’s compositions establish points of contact with realms traditionally consigned to the margins of modern art. Through attention to the social, political, and geographic genealogy of given forms, his works reveal that the modernist fantasy of complete self-referentiality was always already haunted by irreducible specificity and cultural instability. “I am calling into question to what extent it is possible to act within a space defined by the artist himself – a space that emerges from the hierarchy between my own authorship and its research sources, between historical references or concrete borrowings and what I can depict,” Pumhösl states. “My medium is the physical and historical space that I create using painting, architecture, film or photography.”

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

Solo exhibitions of Pumhösl's work have been staged at Kunsthaus Bregenz (2012); Mumok (Vienna, 2011);[2] Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf, 2010);[3] Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg, 2009),[4] Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, 2008);[5] Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2005);[6] Centre d’édition contemporaine (Geneva, 2004);[7] Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne, 2003); Secession (Vienna, 2000); and Salzburger Kunstverein (1998),[8] among others. His work was featured in Documenta 12 (Kassel, 2007),[9] São Paulo Biennial (2006) and the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). In 2015, his work was included in Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture in Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (2015).[10] In 2012, he exhibited his work in Parcours, a two-person show at The Art Institute of Chicago with Liz Deschenes.[11] Recently, Pumhösl’s work has appeared in group exhibitions at the V-A-C Foundation (Venice),[12] Punta della Dogana (Venice),[13] The Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Haus Der Kunst (Munich), City Gallery Prague, Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach), Generali Foundation (Vienna), MACBA (Barcelona),[14] Raven Row (London),[15] Künstlerhaus Vienna, Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw).[16] He has had solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery (New York),[17] Galerie Buchholz (Cologne), Lisson Gallery (London),[18] and Galerie Meyer Kainer (Vienna).[19]

Publications & catalogues

  • No One’s Voice. Hg./ed. Rhombus Press, Vienna 2016[20]
  • Florian Pumhösl. Spatial Sequenz: Works in Exhibitions 1993–2012. Hg./ed. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Yilmaz Dziewior, Bregenz, 2012[21]
  • Florian Pumhösl. 678, Hg./ed. Matthias Michalka Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Köln 2011[22]
  • Florian Pumhösl, Hg./ed. Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Lisson Gallery, Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Köln 2008[23]
  • Florian Pumhösl. Animated Map, Hg./ed. Burkhard Meltzer, Neue KunstHalle St. Gallen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2007[24]
  • Wachstum und Entwicklung, Hg./ed. Silvia Eiblmayr/Galerie im Taxispalais, Revolver–Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2003[25]
  • Florian Pumhösl. CENTRAL–Kunstpreis Kölnischer Kunstverein, Hg./ed. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Revolver–Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2003[26]
  • Champs d’Expérience, Hg./ed. Bawag Foundation Edition, Wien 2002[27]
  • Florian Pumhösl, Hg./ed. Secession, Wien 2000[28]

Selected works in public collections

Notes

  1. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl •Mousse Magazine". moussemagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  2. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl". www.mumok.at. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  3. ↑ "bis 2011 - Kunstverein Düsseldorf". www.kunstverein-duesseldorf.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  4. ↑ "MUDAM: Florian Pumhösl". www.mudam.lu. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  5. ↑ Grrr.nl. "florian pumhösl - programm". www.stedelijk.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  6. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl Animated Map, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen". www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  7. ↑ "Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, Florian Pumhosl Heliogravures et film". www.c-e-c.ch. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  8. ↑ "Salzburger Kunstverein / Exhibitions / 1998". www.salzburger-kunstverein.at (in German). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  9. ↑ "documenta 12 - Retrospective - documenta". www.documenta.de. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  10. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl | Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture". PARASOPHIA: 京都国際現代芸術祭 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  11. ↑ "Parcours | The Art Institute of Chicago". archive.artic.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  12. ↑ "Space Force Construction". V-A-C Foundation. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  13. ↑ Grassi, Palazzo. "Accrochage at Punta della Dogana". Palazzo Grassi. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  14. ↑ "How do we want to be governed?". www.macba.cat. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  15. ↑ "Raven Row". www.ravenrow.org. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  16. ↑ "Modernologies - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw". artmuseum.pl. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  17. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl - Miguel Abreu Gallery". Miguel Abreu Gallery. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  18. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl | Artists | Lisson Gallery". www.lissongallery.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  19. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl / Galerie Meyer Kainer". www.meyerkainer.com. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  20. ↑ "Rhombus Press collaborated with Austrian artist #FlorianPumhosl". Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  21. ↑ "Exhibition Catalogues". www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  22. ↑ "Buchhandlung Walther-König". Buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
  23. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl Köln/London 2007/08". Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  24. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl, Animated Map, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen". www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  25. ↑ "Galerie im Taxispalais - Florian Pumhösl". taxispalais.art. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  26. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl: CENTRAL Kunstpreis, 2003 | Kölnischer Kunstverein". www.koelnischerkunstverein.de. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  27. ↑ "Editiondetails - Florian Pumhösl - Bawag Contemporary". www.bawagfoundation.at (in German). Retrieved 2018-08-01.
  28. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl « secession". www.secession.at. Retrieved 2018-07-28.

References

  • Andrea Viliani (January 2008), "Florian Pumhösl".[1] CONVERSATIONS Mousse 12, Mousse Magazine.
  1. ↑ "Florian Pumhösl •Mousse Magazine". moussemagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-07-28.
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