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Markus Jeschaunig, born 1982 in Graz, Austria, lives and works in Graz and the Biosphere. Inspired by the dynamics and forces of the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere his art works evolve between the poles of ecology, landscape, technology as well as public space and activism. Jeschaunig studied art and architecture at the University of Art and Design Linz, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul and Vienna University of Technology. He graduated in architecture from University of Art and Design Linz in 2010. He found his art studio ‘agency in biosphere’ in 2012. He participated in the Change Course Conference, organized by the Club of Rome in Winterthur 2012. Since then various national and international art exhibitions and projects. Jeschaunig is co-author of "breathe.austria - Austrian pavilion @ Expo 2015 in Milan" (as part of ‘team.breathe.austria’). He is co-founder of the transdisciplinary Think-tank 'Breathe Earth Collective' (2015).
Selected works
2025 (coming up) #Königsgrube, Permanente Installation, Emscherkunstweg, Herne-Röhlinghausen (DE) #Tennenmälzerei Reininghaus, architectural adaptation for temporary use, Graz 2024 #Climate Cabbage, Installation, Icepalace, Dachstein Glacier, Ramsau (AT) #Mooshelm / Moss Helmet, Into the Woods - Exhibition, Kunsthaus Wien, Klima Biennale, Vienna #Water Cosmos, Open Water Dialogues - Bad Ischl - European Capital of Europe, Bad Ischl (AT) #Habidat Graz Museum, Green courtyard Installatation, permanent, Graz Museum #Wind Catcher, Permanent Fountain Installation, Art in Public Space Lower Austria, St. Pölten (AT) (as part of Breathe Earth Collective/BEC) #Klima Biennale Pavillon, Klima Biennale Wien, Vienna (as part of Breathe Earth Collective/BEC) 2023 #Electric Atmospheres, video, Steiermark Schau, Vienna & Herberstein (AT) #Electric Atmospheres, Steiermark Schau (mobile Pavilion), Austrian Cultural Forum, New York #Electric Atmospheres, Steiermark Schau (mobile Pavilion), MIT Galery, Boston 2022 #urban oasis milano, S+T+ARTs residency project in Milan #re:tool exhibition, ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe #New interior design, Church - Pfarrkirche Deutschlandsberg (AT) 2021 #Klima-Kultur-Pavillon, Grazer Kulturjahr 2020, Graz (as part of Breathe Earth Collective/BEC) #Anthroprint, Installation, Steiermark Schau, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz #Hier kommt die Erde. Und dann lange nichts., Art in public space Vienna, Wien #Glacier in Danger, Festival of the Regions 2021, Hallstatt (AT) 2020 #Plant Fever, group show, CID – Grand Hornu Museum, Hornu (BE) #Earth Love, Performance & Film, QL-Galerie / KHG Graz (AT) #Art Residency Wildbad (BEC), Rothenburg o. d. Tauber (DE) #Der Angriff der Gegenwart, group exhibition (Vienna Art Week), Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna 2019 # Diatomeen, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz # Aerosol (BEC), Kunstverein Neuhausen, Neuhausen (DE) # Oasis No 8, DesignLab - MAK Vienna 2018 # The Weather Project, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin # Building Weather, solo exhibition, Magazin Vienna # Aerosol (BEC), ‘Dynamics of Air’, group show, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne # Airship.03 “ Fontain of Air, climate installation, Milan (as part of Breathe Earth Collective/BEC)
2017 # The Big Invisible, group show, Kunst Haus Wien # Leave It in the Ground, group show, Usti nad Labem House of Arts (CZ) # Vienna Biennale 2017 - City Factory, MAK Vienna # Styrian Power, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt (AT) # New portal design for a Gothic Church, Wolfgangikirche, Bad Schwanberg (AT) # Artist in Residency @ Austrian Sculpture Park (with Breathe Earth Collective), Premstätten (AT) 2016 # Oasis No. 8, waste heat installation, Graz # Olfactory Library Europe, steirischer herbst, Kunsthalle Graz # Cultural forest “Airship.01", climate installation, Padova/Milan/Rome (as part of Breathe Earth Collective/BEC)
2015 # Landscape in Motion - Cinematic Visions of an Uncertain Tomorrow, group exhibition, Kunsthaus Graz # BREATHE.AUSTRIA, Austrian Pavilion (with team.breathe.austria) / EXPO Milano 2015 # Kardinal Koenig Kunstpreis 2015 (nominee), group exhibition, St. Virgil / Salzburg # Waldbad, Installation, European Forum Alpbach (as part of Breathe Earth Collective/BEC), Alpbach (AT) 2014 # Picea Abies, installation, Kunsthaus Graz # KARTOGRAFIJE TRANZICIJ, group exhibition, MoTA Point, Ljubljana # Barrel You!, solo exhibition, EIKON SchAUfenster, quartier 21/Museumsquartier, Vienna # Breathe.Austria, 1st prize, competition "Austrian Pavilion “ Expo 2015" in Milano (as part of team.breathe.austria) # Lithosphere's change, solo exhibition, 0gms gallery, Sofia 2013 # Measures of saving the world_Part 2, group exhibition, < rotor >, Graz # Your Presence has Consequences, (with Thomas Kaltenbacher), the smallest gallery, Graz 2012 # Line-Flight Graz-Maribor, Kunsthaus Graz / Vetrinjski dvor, Maribor # Screening of Line-Flight @ Urban Research on Film Festival, Berlin # Re-light Eisenerz, (with Claudia Gerhäusser/oiXplorer), Rostfest 2012, Eisenerz (AT) # Arc de Triomphe, (with Wolfgang Oeggl/oiXplorer), Lendwirbel Festival 2012, Graz # Barrel You!, Lendwirbel Festival 2012, Graz 2010 # Urban Tomography, diploma thesis, Künstlerhaus Graz, AT AWARDS 2022: Gerambrose - Baukulturpreis Styria 2019: Preis Diözese Graz-Seckau f. zeitgenössische Kunst (Nominierung) 2019: Architekturpreis Land Steiermark 2019 (Anerkennunspreis) 2018: Outstanding Artist Award - Experimental Tendences in Architecture (as part of Breathe Earth Collective) 2017: Dagmar Chobot Skulpturenpreis 2017 (Nominee) 2017: BAUWELT PREIS 2017 2016: Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky Scholarship 2016: KlimARS Prize 2016 2016: Umweltpreis-Graz 2015 2015: Shenzhen Design Grand Award for Young Talents (as part of team.breathe.austria) 2015: Kardinal Koenig Kunstpreis 2015 (Nominee) 2014: STAATSPREIS SCHÖNSTE BÜCHER Österreichs 2014 2014: Kunstförderungspreis der Stadt Graz 2014 2013: Arbeitsstipendium für bildende Kunst der Stadt Graz 2013 2012: "forum-Stipendium" of the University of Art and Design Linz & KEBA AG, Linz (2012) 2012: Umweltpreis-Graz 2012 (with Wolfgang Oeggl)
Academic & Research since 2022 Lecturer at FH Joanneum Graz / AT
2012-13 Extern lecturer, University of Technology Graz / Institute for architecture & landscape 2014 Extern lecturer, University of Technology Graz, IZK “ institute for contemporary Art 2017 "urban oasis", transdisciplinary research 2019/20 Extern lecturer, University of Technology Graz / Institut für Raumgestaltung 2023 Extern lecturer Kunstuniversität Linz / AT 2024 Guest critique, Academy of fine Arts Vienna (IKA) / AT 2024 Extern Lecturer, Academy of fine Arts Vienna (IKA) / AT
Photo (c) Sebastian Reiser