Johannes Deutsch

Conceptual, Intermedial, Photography, Video

Johannes Deutsch, born 1960 in Linz, studied from 1975 to 1980 at the Meisterschule für Kunst & Design (master school of art & design) at the HTBLA in Linz. From 1984 to 1989 he was curator of the Siegmund Freud Museum in Vienna and graduated from 1990-92 a postgraduate studies at the Städelschule Frankfurt/M. - Institute for new media.

The foundations of his work are the traditional media painting and photography, which learned whole new dimensions through his artistic manipulation via computer. For his computer collages he makes aesthetic decisions in a kind of "media" creativity closely related to the technical possibilities. Johannes Deutsch started at the end of the 1980s with the development of a computer-assisted technique to produce his own symbiosis between painting, photography and film, space and color, which he continuously has refined and expanded to other dimensions until today. "Vision Mahler" is the result of this new developments.

Since 1989, he had numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in Europe, including the Museum of modern art, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museum for contemporary Art, Zagreb, Rijeka, Ljubljana; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunsthalle Krems; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Ars Electronica Festival 2002, Linz.

Together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab he created the design of the stage set for Richard of Wagner's "Rheingold" in 2004 at Bruckner Festival Linz and an interactive visualization of the second Symphony by Gustav Mahler at the Kölner Philharmonie in 2006, 2006 vision Mahler - pictures of a Symphony, Gallery Schüppenhauer Cologne, paradise cycle "Made for Admont 2006" Museum Admont.

Until November 2012 one can see his newest museum garden object "The invisible Garden", which he created in cooperation with the blind scientists Björn Einecke, on the Museum grounds in Admont.