Klaus Ludwig Kerstinger

These are snapshots which show the dynamics of life in the fast growing cities and which convey an impression of the lifestyle of a certain "time". People in different roles who move in certain situations, day rooms and social constellations - a casual look at the street, the feeling of a hustle and bustle in the mass. Superficially, I try to understand the day room by reflecting the population as a whole. The spontaneous look at the reality is represented and immediately the contemporary life finds entrance in the representations. The work picks out the contemporary life in the city as a central theme. It is all about the perception of the presence; the memory of life shall be stored, marked by keeping the time. A certain snapshot is reconstructed. The impression of the moment, the flood of stimuli and the fight for attention is the content. In cities an increased attention is required to find the way in the mass of impressions. My works show the usual without new attributes. My works show the usual, the banal which is represented by snapshots. However, what wants to require attention does not have to be shocking. This can also be the usual, the well-known and always the recurrent. The superficial is picked out as a central theme....

Klaus Ludwig Kerstinger
1976 Born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Academy of fine arts Vienna (Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Hubert Schmalix) 1994 – 1999

Public Prizes and Collection
Purchases by the private collection Peter Infeld
2006 Purchase art museum Linz
2005 Artistic design and putting into action of the N24 Good News Award, Berlin
Purchase by the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria
Collection Moya, Museum of Young Art, Austria
2003/2004 Artistic outline, church windows, hospital Eisenstadt
28th Austrian graphic competition 2003, price of the country Burgenland
1999 Burgenland foundation, Theodor Kery price


Individual exhibitions
2013 Gallery Thiele, Linz
2012 Gallery Schafschetzy, Graz
2010 Gallery Artetage, diocesan house Graz
Gallery Schafschetzy, Graz
Burgenland Gallery, Eisenstadt
2008 Gallery Barbara Preyer, Vienna
Gallery Minoriten, Graz, Austria
Gallery of the Kunsthaus Mürz, Austria
Gallery Pehböck, Austria
2007 Wall picture, gallery KUGA, Großwarasdorf
Gallery Schinner, Mattersburg
House of peoples culture, Oberschützen
2006 Wall picture, gallery of the city of Wels
2005 Gallery artposition, Vienna
Wall picture, MQ, Vienna
2002 Gallery art2...