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  • Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht
  • Thomas Arnolds
  • Rozbeh Asmani
  • Cornelia Baltes
  • Alfredo Barsuglia
  • Hubert Becker
  • Hans Bischoffshausen
  • Brandy Brandstätter
  • Karl Brandstätter
  • Julius Brauckmann
  • Ulu Braun
  • Edward Burtynsky
  • Christopher Bucklow
  • Sandi Červek
  • Caroline Wells Chandler
  • Sandro Chia
  • Natalie Czech
  • Violet Dennison
  • Ines Doujak
  • Lutz Driessen
  • Sophie Dvořák
  • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout
  • Simon Edmondson
  • Cédric Eisenring
  • Jan Paul Evers
  • Lino Fiorito
  • Christian Flora
  • Dietmar Franz
  • Christian Freudenberger
  • Jakob Gasteiger
  • Michela Ghisetti
  • Antonio Girbés
  • Bruno Gironcoli
  • Gernot Gleiss
  • Dorothee Golz
  • Franz Grabmayr
  • Ernst Gradischnig
  • Vivian Greven
  • Jochem Hendricks
  • Giselbert Hoke
  • Andy Holtin
  • Bernadette Huber
  • Pedro Jardim de Mattos
  • Eva Jospin
  • Soli Kiani
  • Peter Klare
  • Jakob Lena Knebl
  • Cornelius Kolig
  • Arnulf Komposch
  • Suse Krawagna
  • Eric Kressnig
  • Robert Kunec
  • Alina Kunitsyna
  • Hans Kupelwieser
  • Ulrich Lamsfuß
  • Margaret Lansink
  • Tina Lechner
  • Jens Liebchen
  • Axel Lieber
  • Mevlana Lipp
  • Peter Lohmeyer
  • Gerhard Lojen
  • Constantin Luser
  • Joel Meyerowitz
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Jürgen Münzer
  • Loredana Nemes
  • Ferdinand Neumüller
  • Arnold Odermatt
  • Hans Op de Beeck
  • Bernd Oppl
  • Aitor Ortiz
  • Olga Pedan
  • Ulrich Pester
  • Peter Pongratz
  • Arnold Pöschl
  • Hannes Rader
  • Damir Radović
  • Fabian Ramirez
  • Thomas Rentmeister
  • Markus Riebe
  • Megan Rooney
  • Evan Roth
  • Robert Schad
  • Julia Scher
  • Stefanie Seufert
  • Eva Schlegel
  • Toni Schmale
  • Ralph Schuster
  • Jon Shelton
  • Hayley Aviva Silverman
  • Tracey Snelling
  • Paul Spendier
  • Nina Rike Springer
  • Laura Stadtegger
  • Esther Stocker
  • Vincent Tavenne
  • Oman Valentin
  • Anna Virnich
  • Wolfgang Walkensteiner
  • Ina Weber
  • Clemens Wolf
Zeitgeber 1 Zeitgeber 1 Paul Spendier, Zeitgeber, 2018
, Series of 2 colour pigment prints, Edition 3 + 1 AP, 45 x 80 cm each
Kollitsch Collection

The natural cycle of day and night, i.e. the duration of light exposure, is the most important impulse for the earth’s living organisms and plants. In biological terms, this exogenous stimulus that influences our “body clock” and synchronises it with our environment is referred to as a zeitgeber. Similar to greenhouses, where targeted illumination, darkening or heating is used to control the growth of plants, the artist shows a fictional human intervention in nature on the example of the species Impatiens glandulifera. In a kind of field test, the natural vegetation rhythm of the plant is manipulated and even flipped around completely by experimental means, thereby effectively separating the plant from its surroundings.

Zeitgeber 2 Zeitgeber 2 Paul Spendier, Zeitgeber, 2018
, Series of 2 colour pigment prints, Edition 3 + 1 AP, 45 x 80 cm each
Kollitsch Collection
Kirschbaum, 2021 Kirschbaum, 2021 Paul Spendier, Cherry tree, 2021
, magnets, screw connections, stainless steel, height approx. 320 cm, Ø 200 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Ever since the onset of the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago, humans have been influencing the planet’s ecosystem to a high degree. The wish to dominate and exploit nature, born out of pecuniary greed, has damaged the ecological balance on a global scale, sometimes irreversibly so. With Cherry tree, Paul Spendier creates the vision of nature as a construct, where the biological cycle of the tree is no longer required, having been replaced by human intervention and a simple assembly system based on screw connections and magnets. From the shape of the branches to the choice of the season or the location of the tree, everything seems subject to human whim and subjugation. The tree is denied any possibility of a self-determined existence.

Ohne Titel, 2017 Ohne Titel, 2017 Paul Spendier, Ohne Titel, 2017
, Edition 12 + 2 AP, Pigment Print, 24 x 17 cm
Kollitsch Collection
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