Helmut Heiss

http://www.heiss-helmut.at/

lives and works in Vienna.
2002 Diploma in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna.
2008 Diploma in performance and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna with Monica Bonvicini.

EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS, AWARDS:

2013: LISTE 18, DEUXPIECE, Art Basel /// LA DESINVOLTURE DE NOS GANGSTERS, Les salaisons, Paris /// BE THE PARTY (PLEASE DON'T GO), Slow Gallery, Chicago /// BUSSI BABA, Elephant Art Space, L.A.

2012: DIE WEISSEN WÄNDE DER WELT, guest of the solo show of Adrian Tirtiaux, Villa Merkel, Esslingen /// TECHNOPIZZA, (with Philip Kaufmann) ACRE, Steuben, Wisconsin /// RAPID PULSE FESTIVAL, (international performance festival) Chicago /// FLIP/FLOP, Austrian Studio, Chicago /// ((SOUNDS AND SHAPES)), Electrodes, dfb, Chicago /// Residency CHICAGO, BMUKK /// HOTEL ANANAS, Gallery 5020, Salzburg

2011: Jederland, ARTISSIMA LIDO, Torino /// DEUXPIECE, (with Nora Rekade) Basel, Switzerland /// AQUARELLHAPPENING, Hintertux, Tirol /// APPEAL TO PROBABILITY, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam /// SYMBOLISCHE AKTIONEN FÜR UNSERE GEGENWART / AZIONI SIMBOLICHE PER IL NOSTRO PRESENTE, Gallery Lungomare Bolzano, Italy /// DOUBLE FEATURE, Museum Théo Kerg, Mannheim

2010: UNDER COVER, Lysekil, Sweden /// COMMON SENSE, Eppan, Italy /// Residency HOTEL CHARLEROI, Belgium /// IT LOOKS LIKE A BUILDING BUT IT IS ALIVE, Bäckerstrasse 4, Wien /// I LIKE THE WEATHER AND THE WEATHER W(H)ETHER LIKES ME... (with Nora Rekade, text: Robert Müller) Interventionsraum, Stuttgart /// UNERWARTETE WENDUNGEN, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck & Rotor Graz /// BURNING HOUSE, Mackey Apartments, L.A.

2009: ERROR % ART (with Cäcilia Brown, Miriam Jessacher, Daniel Ramirez Turecek), Warszawa /// THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF, Hinterconti, Hamburg /// STARTSTIPENDIUM BMUKK, Wien /// RESIDENCE IN ISTANBUL, Turkey /// RAUMANZUG, Gallery 5020, Salzburg

2008: KLEINSTES GEMEINSAMES VIELFACHES, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna /// UNTITLED, (with Jan Groos) Sommerstage, Rossauer Lände, Vienna /// TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND HOLD IT (with Nora Rekade), C17, Vienna; ARCHIVE IN RESIDENCE, Vienna / gallery UNA, Bucharest /// FLATCUBE, Academy of fine Arts, Vienna /// UNTITLED, Apartment, Schönbrunnerstrasse 91, Vienna /// MISE EN SCÈNE, Rundgang, Academy of fine Arts, Vienna

2007: contest: Art in public space, LANDMARK LEISER BERGE, 1. place (Sofie Thorsen, assist. Helmut Heiss) /// COFFEE AND DRINA, residence in Ostbosnia, VBK, Vienna

2006: WAKING DOUBTING ROLLING SHINING AND MUSING IMPROVISATION OF A FAUN, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna /// ABSEITS / FURI GIOCO, gallery Lungomare, Bolzano /// Project VEREIN ZUR FÖRDERUNG DES PROFESSIONELLEN DILETTANTISMUS, Gumpendorferstrasse 157, Vienna (Helmut Heiss, Jan Groos, Cäcilia Brown, Adrien Tirtiaux, Hans Wagner, Fabia Paller, Gonzalo Diaz) /// contest: ART ON ARCHITECTURE, gym. Bruneck, 2. place (Helmut Heiss, Vera Mair) /// OHMANN PFANN PRICE.