Clemens Hollerer

Clemens Hollerer, born 1975 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, works in a variety of media, including site-specific installations, sculpture, and photography. His works deal with construction and de-construction, with architecture in transition, and with transformative processes of space. He has been fascinated with construction sites since he was a child, seeing them as a mirror of contemporary human life – flexible, mobile, and ever-changing. His works are reactions to spaces and changing environments, reflecting the rhythms inherent in geometries. His installation for the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, titled On the Other Side, alludes to a forbidden territory typically delineated by a fence. Adapted from a series of photographs of construction sites, these elements are distorted and rearranged. The forms will challenge the viewer's perception of the complex exhibition space, react to many of the architectural elements of the building, and cause the viewer to consider the deeper meaning of borders within a metropolitan city. Hollerer studied photography at the Euregio College of Fine Art Photography in Kefermarkt and enrolled in the postgraduate program of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. He lives and works in Graz, Austria.
( Austrian Cultural Forum, New York)