Herbert Hinteregger, Untitled (Steinberg), 2022
ballpen ink, gesso on canvas
80 x 80 cm
Herbert Hinteregger
How to (Untitled)
Herbert Hinteregger holds a significant international position in the field of abstract painting with his body of work, which he has been developing since the mid-1990s. His practice is very characteristic, as it can be understood as a bridge between the principle of reduction and the principle of the additive and referential in the development of abstraction. At the center of his work is the questioning of the possibilities of painting today, the experimental elaboration of a diverse language of abstraction that is related to the world - to space, to the body, to emotions, perceptions and associations, implicitly also to social, political and cultural Subjects.
In his painting, Hinteregger combines specific conceptual, process and material-related aspects. This includes a constantly expanding palette of sometimes unusual materials such as ballpoint pen ink, primers, tapes, and natural materials such as sand, and more recently also highlighter inks which he combines with color and surface variations of fabrics and textiles - basically a combination of consumer products and natural materials. Another aspect of his work is his characteristic rhythmic imagery, which oscillates between rationality and intuition, between concentration and irritation. The painting Untitled (Falshöft), one of the new works created for the exhibition, paradigmatically embodies these elements. The wavy fabric pattern of the support material enters into a dialogue with the linear applied stripes of ballpoint pen ink and seems defiant to elude the superordinate schematization.
Hinteregger's visual language has differentiated over the years. It ranges from early monochrome color fields to gestural sponge images to stripes and diamonds, nets and grid systems whose clarity and unambiguousness are undermined by shifts, layers, gaps and drifts. His vocabulary is based on a work process that – contrary to all practiced efficiency efforts – is deliberately slowed down. The ballpoint pen ink is manually dripped from leads, the painting itself is a slow, concentrated process due to the chemical qualities of the color substance, which also limits the number of works created. In recent years, Hinteregger has increasingly combined the vocabulary he developed with spatial concepts. He does not regard his paintings as self-contained units, but as elements that stand in relationship and in tension with the surrounding space. In the current exhibition How to (Untitled), the works react to the different rooms in the gallery, connected by a minimal spatial drawing in the form of a neon yellow line.
The titles assigned to the paintings refer to another level in Hinteregger's work - the conceptual consideration of translating experiences of nature into an abstract painterly language, filling this translation with intrinsic value and opening it up to the viewer's experience. An example of this is monumental two-part painting Untitled (Baltic Sea) at the center of the exhibition. The conceptual rigor of the work with its precisely calculated grid system gradually dissolves as you look at it. The finest lines, painted in many layers, rise up on sand-colored fabric and drift across the surface like waves. The division of the canvas associates the line of a horizon. Like a shadow, perhaps from a spotlight or the setting sun, a layer of neon yellow stretches across the horizon. The Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Atlantic with their nature, but also with the destruction that is taking place, have formed a kind of counterpart or breeding ground for Hinteregger's work for several years. They are an extension of the thought that led him to experiment with dark blue ballpoint ink at art school: the desire to bring the black and wet surface of an Alpine moor lake onto the canvas. Since then, he has perfected the wet shimmer of the ballpoint pen ink in his paintings.
Jürgen Tabor
Art historian, author and curator, Generali Foundation Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg
Biography
born 1970, lives and works in Kirchberg/AT
2024
Herbert Hinteregger, Zeitkunst Galerie, Kitzbühel
Herbert Hinteregger, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
2022
How to (Untitled), Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
TODAY (Untitled), kunsthaus meurz, Mürzzuschlag
Herbert Hinteregger and Anna Kolodziejska, Galerie am Polylog, Wörgl
2021
Herbert Hinteregger, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
2020
White overpainted view (Show IV. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Silver Paris Drawings (Show III. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Space one painting (Show II. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Galerie Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt-Main
2019
All over over all (Show I. Waldboden, Forest Floor), Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
Untitled (Kunstschnee), Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Kunstverein Rosenheim
performance by appointment, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2017
Untitled (Flow), Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn
Untitled (Flow), Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2016
Untitled (Value), RLB Atelier, Lienz
Now on Display, Sammlung Ivo Moser, Innsbruck
2014
Franz Graf/Herbert Hinteregger, Halle Otrans, Kitzbühel
2013
Eve-Level of my Art Dealer, Artissima, Torino
Herbert Hinteregger & Michael Sailstorfer, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2012
Halle Otrans, Kitzbühel
was, wann, warum, Galeria Antonia Ferrara, Regio Emilia
2010
A sense of disquietude concerning the existing order of things, Herbert Hinteregger and Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2008
Gasthof Schwarzer Adler, Jochberg
part 2, Galleria Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
2007
Neue Gemälde, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
Galerie Bernd Kugler (with Lisa Endriss), Innsbruck
2006
all over – store, Georg Kargl permanent, Vienna
2005
Private View, Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
all over, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
2004
Gegenstände, Kunstraum Innsbruck/Project Space, Innsbruck
Get the picture, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2003
ball-pen-ink, Remise Bludenz, Bludenz (curated by Axel Jablonski)
Secrets and dangers, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
2002
Schwamm drüber, kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
2001
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2000
Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia
1999
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Dekoration einer Langeweile, AM&E, Vienna
1997
App.Bxl; App.Bxl, Brussels
1995
Repeat, Trabant, Vienna
Triple Stripe Mural, Depot, Vienna
1994
10 x 10, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna
1993
Wintersaison, Bad Habits, Kirchberg
1992
Kitzbühelerstr. 8, Arena, Kirchberg
Graffiti, Moustache, Kirchberg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Anna Kolodziejska und Herbert Hinteregger, Galerie am POLYGOL, kunst.raum.wörgl, Wörgl
2021
KUNSTBÜHEL, Museum Kitzbühel | Sammlung Alfons Walde, Kitzbühel
2020
Attempt at Rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Intermezzo II, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
2019
Konkrete Gegenwart, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Auf der Kippe. Eine Konfliktgeschichtedes Tabaks, Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum, Innsbruck
2018
Transformation of Geometry, Collections of Siegfried Grauwinkel, Berlin and Miroslav Velfl, Prague, G HMP Prague City Gallery, Prague
20 Jahre RLB Kunstbrücke, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
Sammlung der Raiffeisenbank Kitzbühel – St. Johann, Raiffeisen Haus, Kitzbühel
Kunstankäufe der Stadt Innsbruck 2018, Fördergalerie der Stadt Innsbruck, Innsbruck
PIN.Party, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
CONCENTRATION - a tribute, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Recollection, Galeria Poyectos Monclova, Mexico City
20 Jahre, RLB-Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
La Collection BIC, Le CentQuatre Paris
Reduction, Gesellschaft für projektive Ästhetik, Georg Kargl, Vienna
2017
Remastered - Die Kunst der Aneignung, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
2016
Abstrakt - Spatial, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
2015
Transparency, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & BOX, Vienna
Stadt Kunst Innsbruck, Die Sammlung der Stadt Innsbruck, Alte Stadtsäle, Innsbruck
a likeness has blisters, it has that and teeth, Semperdepot, Vienna
Schneesalon, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2014
Bildwelten der Reduktion, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
Endoscopia, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
Konkret – Abstrakt, Parlament, Vienna
Sammlung RLB, RLB Atelier, Lienz
2013
Siehe was dich sieht, Franz Graf, 21er Haus, Vienna
Additive Abstraktion, curated by _Martin Prinzhorn, curated by_vienna 2013, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Sammlung Grauwinkel - 30 Jahre Konkrete Kunst (1882-2012), Vasarély Museum, Budapest
2012
Immer Bunter – Aktuelle Malerei aus Österreich, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Nemesims, by Muntean/Rosenblum, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Sammlung Sigrid und Franz Wojda, MMKK, Klagenfurt
2011
Nemesims, by Muntean/Rosenblum, Frieze Art Fair, London
Killing the system softly, Galleria Antonio Ferrara, Region Emilia Italy
Darling, you sent me, B19, Vienna
2010
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Sammlung der RaiffeisenBank Kitzbühel, Oberndorf
Kunstpreis 2010 der RLB Tirol, RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
2009
31. Österreichischer Graphikwettbewerb 2009, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Alpen-Adria-Galerie, Klagenfurt; Südtiroler Kulturinstitut, Bolzano
Fairly Abstract, Galerie Zink, Munich
THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE, BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
2008
Vom Schnee, Museum Kitzbühel, Kitzbühel
warum so wenig, Kunstverein, Murau
12 works on paper, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
Ankäufe, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
2007
...und immer fehlt mir was, und das quält mich, Atelier Färbergasse, Vienna
Statement, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main
White Painting and Curtain, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
2006
Ca. 1000 m2Tiroler Kunst, ehem. Kaufhaus Tyrol, Innsbruck
Erwin Bohatsch und Student/innen, Investkredit Bank AG, Vienna
2005
Nach Rokytník, die Sammlung der EVN, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Lines and Traces, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
Good Timing, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
The Red Thread, Howard House Gallery, Seattle, Educational Alliance Gallery, New York
2004
From Above, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Vienna Coffee Table, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
2003
Summer Holidays, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
Außer Atem. Fokus österreichische Malerei, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Re-Production 2, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2002
Collector’s Choice – Sammlung Ploil, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Variable Stücke, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Blobs, wiggles and dots…, The Work Space, New York
steirischer herbst 2002, steirischer herbst, Graz
2001
Pittura austriae I/III, Kunstforum beim Rathaus, Hallein
Zusammenhänge im Biotop Kunst, kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
steirischer herbst 2001, steirischer herbst, Graz
2000
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
New Austrian Spotlight, Universität Marmara, Istanbul
Focus on…, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York
1999
Weg aus dem Bild, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Prepared, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
1998
Malerei, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
Notas al Margen, Corp Balmaceda 1215, Santiago de Chile
1997
Bücherraum (Franz Graf), kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag
Träbanta, Trabant, Vienna
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