Claudia Hirtl

Hirtl’s consistent artistic engagement with philosophical concepts, such as time, space, interior/exterior, language, self, meaning, heart, soul, spirit, has led to a rich, impressive, and very expressive oeuvre of paintings that defy postmodern categories and that definitely demand the viewer’s thoughtful reflection. 

Claudia Hirtl’s art is situated along borderlines without accepting borders; it crosses through western and eastern modes of thought trying to contextualize and comprehend one through the other; it applies Hirtl’s own form of Nihonga to large-format and/or multiple-panel canvases; it incorporates Japanese ideograms, kanji, into western abstraction; it playfully adopts the graphic strokes of ideograms and transforms the scriptural sign into an image, which in turn consciously dissolves the signifier and thus the meaning of the sign; and her art has the western viewer encounter an alluring enigma prompting a desire for deciphering, but being able to “read” the ideogram will not help. Identifying the sign does not mean you understand the sign.

Hirtl’s paintings demand a viewer’s concentration and his or her letting go of habitual patterns of perception; they transform the canvas into a visual prompt for meditation; they give color to transcendence, and they offer the viewer the experience of the sublime.

© Daniel Zanetti

ARTWORKS

Fliessend, 2018

Tempera on canvas
250.0 x 100.0 cm

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Untitled, 2018

Tempera on canvas
250.0 x 100.0 cm

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Gespiegeltes Selbst, 2018

Tempera on canvas
250.0 x 100.0 cm

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Untitled, 2004/2018

Tempera on canvas
250.0 x 100.0 cm

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Im Fluss, 2004/2018

Tempera on canvas
250.0 x 100.0 cm

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Untitled, 2018

Tempera on canvas
250.0 x 100.0 cm

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Mondig, 2018

Tempera on canvas
250.0 x 100.0 cm

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Untitled, 2013

Tempera on Canvas
40.0 x 200.0 cm

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Herz, Seele geistig, 2013

Tempera on Canvas
4 x 20.0 x 200.0 cm

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Untitled, 2010

Tempera on Canvas
200.0 x 12.0 cm

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Im Fluss

Tempera on Canvas
205.0 x40.0, 200.0 x 30.0 cm

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Herz, Seele, Geist gespiegelt, 2012

Tempera on Canvas
75.0 x 200.0 cm

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Untitled, 2008

Tempera on Canvas
130.0 x 200.0 cm

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Gespiegeltes Herz, Seele, Geist, 2011

Tempera on Canvas
120.0 x 90.0 cm

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Das Herz, Seele und Geist, 2011

Tempera on Canvas
125.0 x 200.0 cm

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Unendlich, 2017

Tempera on Canvas
120.0 x 250.0 cm

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Herz, Seele, Geist - Still und Tief, 2014

Lithograph, three-colour, on Hahnemühle paper
50.0 x 70.0 cm

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EXHIBITIONS

Paper Matters

Group Show

21. July - 1. August 2020

Claudia Hirtl

Bilder

13th September - 23rd November 2019

Summer Exhibition

Group Show

7th July - 8th September 2018

Claudia Hirtl

Solo Show

27th October - 9th December 2017

BIOGRAPHY

© Daniel Zanetti

Born 1954 Wörgl/Tirol, Österreich

Education

1985 - 1988 M.A., Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku - Tokyo National University of Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan

1981 - 1983 Instituto Statale D' Arte Urbino, Italy

1980 - 1981 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

1976 - 1980 M.A., Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, Painting

1973 - 1976 Teacher's Diploma Pedagogical Academy, Innsbruck, Austria

Permanent Installations and Exhibitions (Selection)

2022 - Paper Matters II, Boutwell-Schabrovsky Gallery München - https://www.hirtl.com/bildbuch14.htm

2021 - Museum Liaunig, Kärnten, ‘Tour de Force‘- Punkt und Linie und Farbe auf dem Weg durch die österreichische Kunst nach 1945

2020 - BILD BUCH 6, Kostbarkeiten aus der Bibliothek AAU Universität Klagenfurt

2020 ‘Paper Matters‘, Susan Boutwell Gallery München

2019 - ‘PASSACAGLIA‘- AAU-Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Große Galerie

2019 ‘Claudia HIRTL MALEREI‘, Galerie Susan Boutwell, München

2019 QUART Heft 333/19 OriginalGrafikBeilage

2018 – ‘Claudia HIRTL ZEICHNUNG 1985 – 1988 Tokyo/Wien‘, Rabalderhaus Schwaz

2017 HIRTL – DAS ECHO VOR DER STIMME, Italienisches Kulturinstitut Bozen

2016 ZEITKUNST, Kitzbühel

2016 Sommerpräsentation/Nacht der Museen, Susan Boutwell Galerie München

2014 ‘YAM‘ See,Wave / Installation RZB Kitzbühel, Austria

2013 perspective / fernsicht | lontananze, Journeys of Tyrolean and Trentino Artists from 1800 to Today, Museum of the City of Bruneck, Italy

2013 Galerie am POLYLOG, Wörgl, Tirol

2013 HIRTL.ZEIT-WEISEN, Premiere Portrait-Documentary-Film, Cinematograph/Leo Cinema Innsbruck

2012 Art-Cocktail / Painting-Installation: Lounge of the Federal Council, Austrian Parlament, Vienna

2011 Summershow, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, ‘YAM Val/Wave/Welle‘, KIBLA, Maribor

2009 ‘ALS‘, ZEITKUNST, Kitzbühel, with Markus F. Strieder

2008 'Zum Selbst Kommen', Galerie Schloss Parz, Upper Austria

2007 ‘Exzerpt‘, Galerie artmark, Vienna

2006 ‘Reflexionen‘,Galerie Wofgang Exner, Vienna

2004 ‘KRAFTWERK peripher’, Tiwag-Imst, Tirol

2003 Commission for the OKAMURA Collection, Tokyo, Japan

2003 ‘ZUSAMMENGETRAGEN', Collection Institute of Art History at the University of Innsbruck at RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck

2002 ‘FIGURES OF SPEECH or SILENCE OF THE AFTER-GLIMPSE' Kunsthalle Salt Depot of the City of Hall, Tirol

2002 ‘VARIABLE STÜCKE Strukturen, Referenzen, Algorithmen’, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck

2002 ‘PR-HIRTL’, Austrian Embassy, Tokyo

2001 ’LEBENS-FLUSS oder im dazwischen’, permanent Installation, Landeskrankenhaus Salzburg

2000 'INNEN/AUSSEN – Nebensätze', ZEITKUNST, Kitzbühel

2000 'MALEREI-österreichische KünstlerInnen JETZT’, Suppan Contemporary, Albertina, Vienna

2000 Szepmüveszeti Muzeum, Budapest

2000 Special Edition “YAM”, Collection Paper Works, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2000 'Special Edition Kofu', New Library, permanent Installation, Yamanashi University, Kofu City, Japan 1999 ‘Re-View’, Matsumoto Collection Shinjuku, permanent Installation, Tokyo, Japan

1998 ‘NEUMEN * motion/flow-Signs moved’, permanent kinetic painting installation, YGU - University, Kofu, Japan

1997 ‘BILD - BILDER’ 1990-1996', Semperdepot, Vienna

1996 ‘YAM Special Edition Jerusalem’, Phenomena Festival Jerusalem, Israel

1996 ‘Sicht der Dinge 4: Zentrum & Peripherie', Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck

1995 Tsuda Painting Installation - Wakayama, Osaka, Japan; (1994) ‘G.Palffy - IN SITU’, Tokyo, Japan 1995 Budapest, Ungarn

1992 ‘HIRTL-MALEREI’, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck

1991 'VAMED', AKH - General Hospital, permanent Installation, Vienna

1990 X-ist Gallery, Vienna; ‘Wider-Schein’, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck

1990 'HIRADO', permanent Installation, Kyushu, Japan

1989 Lunami Gallery, Tokyo

1988 ‘KIN’, Kaneko-Bullman, Taipei, Taiwan

1988 ‘MALEREI’, Galerie Zeitkunst, Innsbruck

1987 Stockman Pacific, Osaka, Japan

1986 'Kontakta 86', OAG Haus, Tokyo

1986 Geidai Bijutsu Daigaku Gallery, Tokyo; Amaury St. Gilles Gallery, Tokyo

1985 'Kontakta 85', OAG Haus, Tokyo

1984 Galerie Elefant, Innsbruck

1982 Galerie Elefant, Vienna.

Artists Books

2023 - BILD BUCH 17 – ‘Seinsweisen‘

2023 - BILD BUCH 16 -‘Fliessend‘

2022 - BILD BUCH 15 – ‘Sein in der Zeit‘

2021 - BILD BUCH 14 – ‘Im Fluss‘

2020 - BILD BUCH 6 – ‘Selbst im Aussen, Herz Seele Geist im Innen‘

2019 - BILD BUCH 13 – ‘Im Fluss, fliessend‘

2017 - BILD BUCH 12 – ‘Mond-hell/klar/Kind/Meister/Im Fluss/fliessend/Herz,Seele,Geist‘

2015 - BILD BUCH 11 – ‘Gekipptes Selbst, Herz Seele Geist im Fluss, im Innen, im Aussen‘

2014 - BILD BUCH 10 – ‘Herz,Seele,Geist‘

2014 - BILD BUCH - 9 – ‘Innen Aussen Herz Seele Geist Selbst Ich‘

2013 - BILD BUCH 8 – ‘Herz Seele Geist Selbst‘

2007 - BILD BUCH 5 – ‘Ort Zeit Aussen Innen Selbst Ich‘

2004 - BILD BUCH 4 – ‘Das Zwischen in die Sprache gezeichnet‘

2003 - BILD BUCH 3 – ‘Innen Aussen Innen‘

2001 - BILD BUCH 2 – ‘Ko Kind Meister‘

2000 - BILD BUCH 1 - ‘selbst/Tag, ich‘

Films

2021 - BILD BUCH 14 ‘Im Fluss‘ ‚Video, Snap Vision, Wien

2017 - CLAUDIA HIRTL, Filmportrait von Daniel Zanetti, Media Productions Wien

2003 - 2013 - ‘HIRTL. ZEIT-WEISEN’, zircon_coelin_prod., Filmportrait von Ch. Ljubanovic, Paris

2013 - HIRTL.ZEIT-WEISEN, Premiere, Portrait-Dokumentarfilm, Cinematogograph/Leo Kino Innsbruck

1998 - ‘YAM Special Edition Jerusalem’ - Künstlerbuch/Videobuch-Edition, Hirtl/Ljubanovic - Wien/Paris

1999 - ‘ANTINOMY’ – ACCRUE / world production

1990 - HIRTL – Künstlerfilm: ‘worte konstruieren wirklichkeiten’

1990 - ‘PAINTING1981-90-The Relationality of Being, The Paintings of Claudia Hirtl’

Teaching

1988 – 1997 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien; Cooper Union NYC; Central St. Martins London; Nepean University Sydney; Zokey Daigaku Japan; Langjährige Koordinatorin für Auslandskooperationen sowie Gründung internationaler Austauschprogramme an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien

Collections (Selection)

Albertina Wien; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien; Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck; Stift Admont, Steiermark; Matsumoto Collection, Shinjuku; Tokio; Hirado; Kyushu, Japan; YGU Kofu, Japan; Sammlung Fujinawa, Tokio; Pfizer Collection USA; ERSTE Bank Wien; Wiener Städtische; Donau Versicherung Wien; Wirtschaftskammer Tirol; RLB Innsbruck; RZB Innsbruck; HYPO Innsbruck; RZB Kitzbühel; Tiroler Sparkasse Innsbruck; Museum Liaunig, Kärnten; Klocker Museum Tirol, MUSA Artothek Wien; Museum Angerlehner Wels sowie private und internationale Sammlungen