Kurt Hentschlager

The first artist monograph edited by Isabelle Meiffert, was published in two volumes in 2017 by Distanz Verlag, Germany.

He has received many awards and commissions, including the Qwartz New Media Art Award in 2010 in Paris , the File Prix Lux in São Paulo, the Austrian Federal State Grant for Media Art, and the Chicago Studio Grant. In 2012, he was commissioned as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad to create Core, a symphonic installation.

Hentschlager's works have been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Art Basel in Basel, Hong Kong, and Miami Beach ; the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; Halle am Berghain in Berlin; the STRP Festival in Eindhoven; the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Australia; the Borusan Music House in Istanbul; the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe; Lille 2004 - European Capital of Culture; the Laboratoria Arte Alameda in Mexico City; the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal; Elektra Festival and the SAT - Society for Arts and Technology Montreal; the MoMA PS1 New York; the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, the Romaeuropa Festival in Rome; the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul; O Art Centre - Sculpture Art Centre and Power Station of Art in Shanghai; Sharjah Art Foundation; the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo; the Venice Biennale and Biennale Teatro Venice; the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna; Wien Modern and Wiener Festwochen in Vienna. He was also an exhibiting artist at Eyebeam New York in 2005 and a full-time visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. from 2013 to 2018.

In 1991 in Vienna, Hentschlager and German artist Ulf Langheinrich co-founded the duo Granular-Synthesis. The name refers to the technique of granular synthesis, which Hentschlager and Langheinrich applied to both sound and image. Their multimedia installations and performances included Modell 5 (1994), Areal (1997), Noisegate (1998) and Pol (1998). They toured worldwide, and several compilations of their works were released on DVD. They won the International Biennial competition in Nagoya, Japan, in 1995, as well as stipends in Austria and the United States.

From 1982–85, Hentschlager studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Peter Weibel. He began to exhibit his work in 1983, building surreal machines and then video, computer animation, and sound works. In the early stages of his career, he also worked under the name Kurt Kitzler.

Kurt Hentschlager, or Hentschläger (born in Linz, Austria, in 1960) is a New York-based Austrian artist who creates audiovisual installations and performances. Between 1992 and 2003, he worked in a duo called Granular-Synthesis.