Thomas Hirschhorn was born in 1957 in Bern. In the 1980s he worked in Paris as a graphic artist. He was part of the group of Communist graphic designers called Grapus. He left Grapus to create the hypersaturated installations he is known for today, using common materials such as cardboard, foil, duct tape, and plastic wrap. These installations are often site specific and outside the gallery, and/or interactive. Unlike much total installation work, the viewer is an observer not an actor in the spaces he creates because of the way he continues to offer messages in his work as he did with Grapus. Austrian author and Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek takes issue with the artist's views on Marxism. In a 2008 interview the artist said that he was not aware of her concerns. He received the Marcel Duchamp Prize and the Joseph Beuys Prize in 2004.
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Hirschhorn, Thomas
Das Auge
Date: 2008 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Installation
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Blue Serie (Junior Thesis, Senior Thesis)
Date: 2001 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Collage
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Tattoo-serie, Time Machine
Date: 2007 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Mixed technique
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Big Tattoo-serie, The right to be wrong
Date: 2007 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Collage
Hirschhorn, Thomas
UR COLLAGE 135
Date: 2008 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Mixed technique
Hirschhorn, Thomas
UR COLLAGE 125 B
Date: 2008 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Mixed technique
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Blue Serie (Profit Warning!)
Date: 2001 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Collage
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Black & White Hemisphere
Date: 2008 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Installation
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Blue Serie (Globalization from Below!)
Date: 2001 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Collage
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Spinoza Map
Date: 2007 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Mixed technique
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Not in my Name from the series Pole
Date: 2004 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Installation
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Blue Serie (Profit Warning!)
Date: 2001 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Mixed technique
Hirschhorn, Thomas
Blue Serie (No Society)
Date: 2001 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Mixed technique
Hirschhorn, Thomas
La Série des Antalgiques (Upfen)
Date: 2005 Movement: Conceptual art Theme: Other/Unknown Technique: Collage