Kurt Hentschlager, or Hentschläger (born in Linz, Austria, in 1960) is a New York-based Austrian artist who creates audiovisual installations and performances.
[citation needed] In 2012, he was commissioned as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad to create Core, a symphonic installation.
[11] The first artist monograph edited by Isabelle Meiffert, was published in two volumes in 2017 by Distanz Verlag, Germany.
Released in January 2017 on the occasion of the premiere of Hentschlager installation SOL in Berlin,[12] Splendid Voids—The Immersive Works of Kurt Hentschläger (ISBN 978-3-95476-183-8) was devoted to the artist's immersive installations and included an essay by the American art critic G. Roger Denson.
The second volume, Rendered Real - The Mediated Landscapes of Kurt Hentschläger (ISBN 978-3-95476-217-0) released later in October 2017 featured the artist's video pieces including his latest work ORT, introduced in the book by Daniel Rourke.