Artist Statement
Simon Goritschnig is an artist / teacher from Vienna.
He uses a wide array of different techniques, ranging from drawing and painting to sculpture and computer graphics, depending on the perspective and focus of his research. These artworks are often combined into sight specific installations, where the viewer becomes the investigator, searching for the common thread, that holds everything together.
Simon Goritschnig was born in 1988 / Klagenfurt (Austria). Since 2008 he is living and working in Vienna. In 2015 he finished his degree in Graphics and Printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. For his diploma he has been awarded the Ernst-Beranek-Fellowship, in 2018 he received a 6-months residency fellowship in Paris by the city of Klagenfurt. 2024 he got awarded the fellowship for fine arts from the federal state of Carinthia.
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Further Reading
An incomplete report on Excavations from Unknown Origins – by Marlies Wirth (EN)
Excavations from Unknown Origins – Text by Esther Mlenek (DE/EN)
Analyse – Text by Christine-Wetzlinger-Grundnig (DE)
Die Welt an meiner statt – Text by Raphaela Edelbauer (DE)
Iterations – Text by Kathrin Heinrich (DE)
Pattern Recognition – Text by Nora Leitgeb | DIE BRÜCKE Nr. 8 (DE)
Die Art, im Ausland zu residieren – Text by Tina Perisutti | DIE BRÜCKE Nr. 12 (DE)