(Watschig, Austria, 1970)
Visual artist. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts between 1991 and 1996. Since 2012 he has been a professor at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. The works of Hans Schabus have a direct link to spatial thought and experience; His sculptures and interventions frequently refer to the artist's physical and mental environment, especially his workshop and the materials he works with in it. Conduct an investigation of the place where art is created for its potential for analogy with life. His works can be interpreted as a meditation on creative art and its aspirations, but also on its difference from the activities of daily life. His films that deal with travel, speed and movement without a goal refer to the importance of interdisciplinary reflection for art.
He has exhibited his work at the Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Mumok, Vienna; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; NMNM – Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Frac Normandie Rouen, Rouen; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Malmö Art Museum, Malmö; Art Metropole, Toronto; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg; The Curve – Barbican Art Gallery, London; SITE Sante Fe, Mexico; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz;and in the Secession, Vienna.
He participated in MediaLab Madrid in “Digital Culture” with “Western, 2002”.
