Heimo Zobernig

Heimo Zobernig (born 1958) is an Austrian artist who works in a variety of media from painting and sculpture to site specific installation and design.

Heimo Zobernig works in a variety of media - his spectrum ranges from sculpture, installation, painting, drawing and performance to video and architectural interventions.

In the early 1980s, Zobernig began with the positions of geometric abstraction developed by modernism and turned the main thesis of minimal art “You get what you see” on its head.

[2] The reduced formal language engages with 20th century traditions such as Russian Constructivism, the Dutch De Stijl movement or the Zurich Concretists and reflects a “sober, untranscendental view of the world”.

In doing so, his paintings evoke both the painterly processes of classical modernism, in particular constructivist and concrete approaches, and paraphrase their continuation in the post-war avant-garde up to contemporary art.

Heimo Zobernig, Untitled, LOVE HATE, 2012, 2m2 art space, Geneva