Iris Lohninger

He is the protagonist in the movie 'Meet me live on channel 5'.


"I work in oils and acrylics. I don't make an outline before starting - and go directly to the canvas with a preconceived idea. I like intense colors like yellow, red, and blue, as well as brown tones. The main idea rarely remains, and from there can be born many paintings”.

Iris Lohninger

born Vienna - Austria
universiy of economics, vienna
artschool of vienna
summer academy of arts, salzburg

single exhibitions

atelier exhibition, los angeles
unido art club, vienna
galerie d. sou, paimpol, france
united art gallery, vienna
copeland rutherford fine arts, santa fe, NM
bank austria, vienna
kaerntner landesgalerie, klagenfurt, austria
general motors, vienna
haslinger, vienna
paradigma, linz
cen, vienna



group exhibitions

kunstdepot, vienna
unido art club, vienna
bawag, vienna
prisma, vienna
basilisk, vienna

collections

kulturamt stadt wien
land oberoesterreich
general motors
bank austria
kulturverband waehring
bawag

member of the association of professionals of the fine art, austria

My pictures are the love of a young girl. My pictures are the dreams of an old woman.

I long to represent the hidden; about what one cannot speak - where words fail. It’s about longing for the roots and letting go of them at the same time.

Dieter Schrage, Museum fuer Moderne Kunst, Vienna …….writes about her series ‘Seizing the landscape’ …..it is way and method to break through, to relive for an instant the inside of a landscape.’

Copeland Rutherford press release
Copeland Rutherford Fine Arts, Ltd.
403 Canyon road, Santa Fe, NM 87501

For immediate release
April 22, 1994

media contact: Dan Gibson 986-6124
James Rutherford 983-1588

ART INSTILLATION/PERFORMANCE

You may have thought you'd seen it all when it comes to art, but this installation and performance event coming to Copeland Rutherford Fine Arts in Santa Fe is unlike anything you've ever run across.

The happening, titled "Scans" is being created and presented by Karl and Iris Lohninger. The Lohningers hail from Vienna, Austria, but have resided in Santa Fe since August, 1993.

"Scans" is a fusion of several different artistic mediums and is meant to be a dynamic art experience, reflecting and responding to the emotions and character of the people who view it and participate in its energy.

Iris, a visual artist, has created a series of eight highly charged, abstract oil paintings: for "Scans". These six foot high canvases have been wrapped around lightweight metal frames which slowly rotate, presenting cylindrical, moving paintings.

Karl, a musician, will perform an improvised musical score at the event, which will both create and respond to the atmosphere found within the gallery. The music will be performed on guitars and pedal steel guitar, as well as through his manipulation of sound using a feedback loop processor.

Notes Iris, "I am interested in experimenting with the form of paintings. These shapes are more fun and project the image into space." Says Karl, "I began in classical guitar and voice, but it was all too narrow, too closely defined for me."

Their careers have included work in painting, animation, music and classic voice, as well as "digital landscapes" and other unique mediums. In short, they are intent upon stretching the definitions and boundaries of art as seen, heard and felt in this most unusual event, "Scans".

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen - Anthem, November 1992

Exhibition A Shield for the Gods

Introduced by Dieter Schrage, Museum fuer Moderne Kunst, Vienna 1992

We all carry shields. Mostly unconsciously and adjusted to the usual superficial social requests concerning our self-performance: wearing apparel, appearance, fashion.

The work of the painter Iris Lohninger however gets to the root of this matter: shield in contrast to a mask is not disguise and conceal but presentation.

Men use shields to present themselves to the powers that encircle them: to wind and water, sun, light, to coldness and warmth, plants, animals and human beings, to the unknown, to life: to GODS and GODDESSES.

Yet the meaning of shield is twofold: not only presentation to the foreign, but also protection against the foreign: to the unknown, to life: to inconceivable, the not yet conceived.

Shield is mirror which throws its pictures to both sides.