REINHOLD PONESCH
Reinhold Ponesch was born in Bregenz, Austria. He lives in Vienna and is also working in New York.
He started painting during his time in the special forces unit COBRA and decided 2009 to live only for art.
His paintings were exhibited in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and in the USA and at international art fairs like International Art Fair SIAF - SALZBURG, FINE ART BEJING, ART MARBELLA, SHANGHAI ART FAIR, ART TAIPEH and the ART AUSTRIA at the Leopold Museum.
In 2013 he was chosen for the prestigious Kapsch Art Award.
Reinhold Ponesch artistic scope also includes installations, objects and performances.
EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
2024
PUBLIC ART IN ARCHITECTURE
Ceiling mural for a real estate developer ,Vienna
2023
PONESCH & WIDMANN, Galerie Maringer, St. Pölten
ART AUCTION, Neunerhaus at the MAK, Vienna
ART AUCTION, Auf Augenhöhe, Albertina, Vienna
ART AUCTION, SOS Mitmensch, Dorotheum, Vienna
ART AUCTION, Kunstblick - Die Sammlung, Dorotheum, Vienna
PRESENTATION NEW MEMBERS, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
DOCENT EXHIBITION, Akademie der Bildenden Künste an der alten Spinnerei Kolbermoor, Kolbermoor
2022
ALLE, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
ART AUCTION, Neunerhaus at the MAK, Vienna
ART AUCTION, Auf Augenhöhe, Albertina, Vienna
CONSTRUCTION, The Royals Society of American Art, New York
DEJA-VU, Vini per Tutti, Vienna
ZUFALL TRIFFT MENSCH, Immo.Art - Kunst trifft Immobilie, Vienna
2021
AUTUMN CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION, Dorotheum, Vienna
ART AUCTION, Neunerhaus, MAK, Vienna
ART AUCTION, Auf Augenhöhe, Albertina, Vienna
SCHÖNES RUST, Galerie Hospitium, Rust
SPRING CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION, Dorotheum, Vienna
2020
ART AUCTION, Neunerhaus at the MAK, Vienna
ART AUCTION, Auf Augenhöhe, Albertina, Vienna
ENDE & ANFANG, Galerie grenzART, Hollabrunn
BACK TO THE ROOTS, Kesselhaus, Bregenz
AND NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, IP-Forum, Vienna (Curator: Gabriele Baumgartner)
2019
TEUFLISCH GUTE KUNST, Domenig Galerie in der Ankerbrot, Vienna
GEDANKEN-EXPERIMENT, District4Art, Vienna
KUNSTFEUERWERK, District4Art, Vienna
RENDEZ-VOUS, Marco Simonis, Vienna
2018
SPOOR, PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig (Curator: Vivian Tabach, Brazil)
SPEECH BUBBLE, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig
RUTSCHBAHN, Krudebude, Leipzig
I ACCEPT THE COOKIES, PING PONG, Leipzig
MAPPING MY THOUGHTS, Gallery HOLLEREI, Vienna (Curator: Günther Oberhollenzer)
ART BENEFIT AUCTION, Delta Cultura / Dorotheum, Vienna
CHAPTER VI, ArtRoom strictly HERRMANN, Vienna
2017
ART AFTER DARK, Mon Amie, Vienna
ART AUCTION, MAK for NEUNERHAUS, Vienna
MY FUR OF THE WORLD, The Royal Society of American Art, New York
CHANGING WORLD, Stadtgalerie Ternitz, Lower Austria
LIVING DIVERSITY, Galerie im Wohnsalon Schwertgasse, Vienna
2017
ART AFTER DARK, Mon Amie, Vienna
ART AUCTION, MAK for NEUNERHAUS, Vienna
MY FUR OF THE WORLD, The Royal Society of American Art, New York
CHANGING WORLD, Stadtgalerie Ternitz, Lower Austria
LIVING DIVERSITY, Galerie im Wohnsalon Schwertgasse, Vienna
2016
ART AUCTION, MAK for NEUNERHAUS, Vienna
MY SPACE TO LIVE, Kunstraum,Klosterneuburg
CITY OF DREAMS, Ringstraßen Galerien, Vienna (Curator: Nina Binder, Dom Museum)
OPERN APOTHEKE, Kärntner Straße, Vienna
INTERNATIONALE APOTHEKE, Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna
ART GOES INTERIOR, Design Roche Bobois, Vienna
BIG MAMA, Williamsburg, New York
2015
COMING HOME, Williamsburg, New York (Curator: John Silvis, NYC)
INTERNATIONALE APOTHEKE, Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna
GALERIE UNIK.AT, Vienna
CHALLERY, Fund Art, Vienna
FIGURALE AS:PEKTE, ART Trierenberg (Privatsammlung),
Tann Papier Traun (Curator: Christian Hinterobermaier)
SOTHEBY´s Benefizauktion für das Hospiz am Rennweg, Vienna
ART FAIRS
2019
SIAF SALZBURG INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR
2014
ART AUSTRIA, LEOPOLD MUSEUM
2012
FINE ART BEIJING
ART MARBELLA
SHANGHAI ART FAIR
ART TAIPEH
AWARD
Kapsch Art Award, 2013
MEMBERSHIP
Member of the "Berufsvereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Vorarlberg", Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
COLLECTION
Trierenberg
„I find the expression of my art gripping when a certain turmoil is being carried, when a world is being reflected which sometimes seems like an unfinished imagery and doesn’t seem to have arrived.
Image spaces, expressive, dynamic and uncontrolled brushstrokes are as important as well as fine graphical elements and unreadable texts.
So I developed for myself a free, gestural and dynamic painting in complete detachment as its own picture language, which allows
my excessive abstraction and also sometimes animates me to political works.
Driven by inspiration I stimulate my thoughts until they seem clear and have merged with my body. That turns then into an immediate and authentic artwork. This provides my artistic process with the freedom to develop the work in a way which reflects my authentic expression. In my artistic creation I love to experiment and to exceed limits, on the canvas, in installation and in performances.
The observer of my art should discover a "Vastness" of possibilities of interpretation to allow him his own Mind Games and
Thought-Experiments." (Reinhold Ponesch)