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

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 

 

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



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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)


REINHOLD PONESCH

Studio Vienna:

1110 Vienna, Austria

© Reinhold Ponesch 2024