Chris Murzek Archives – London Paint Club

London Paint Club

Christian Murzek

b. 1986, lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria

Christian Murzek studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, and graduated from the Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) in 2017. Christian Murzek focuses on the interface of digital and analogue processes, where codes and algorithms serve as the starting points of his artistic expressions and are then transformed into prints, paintings, drawings and sculptures. Murzek’s work reflects the use of digital processes that have been integrated in today’s society such as algorithms, binary codes, AI, big data, and software. His work aims to reconquer digital processes by using them in a controlled manner, achieving an analogue transformation in painting, printed graphic work and sculpture. The computer-generated outputs from a cornucopia of calculation processes are transferred and developed as an instrument for Murzek’s design vocabulary.

Solo Exhibitions

2020 – Rule 30, RED Carpet Showrooms, Vienna
2019 – maltaload 1.0, AiR Gmünd Residency, Carinthia
2018 – magdas Hotel, Vienna
2017 – Library Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
2016 – into the woods, Nitsch-Museum Mistelbach, Lower Austria

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

2021 – BINARYYIELPOINTCATALYSATOR, Desiderio Gallery, Vienna
2020 – Open Studio Day, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg
2019 – Vienna Art Week via ArtStart, Traktorfabrik, Vienna
2019 – Gumballmachine, Kaeshmaesh, Vienna
2019 – 36th Austrian Graphic Art Competition, Taxis_Palais_Innsbruck, Tyrol
2019 – Koschatzky Art Award 2019, MUMOK, Vienna
2019 – Haben und Brauchen in Wien, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2018 – Diploma exhibition ”input:output”, Semperdepot, Vienna
2017 – “Wie vermochten wir das Meer auszutrinken”, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
2017 – “… das Ozonloch ist …”, Library, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

Education

2018 – Diploma with Auszeichnung, Univ.
2012 – 2017 – Studies at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
2009 – 2013 – Studies of philosophy, Vienna

Awards & Residencies

2021- Art Matters, Gallery Biesenbach, Nomination – honourable mention
2020 – STRABAG ART-AWARD, Nomination
2020 – International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Stipend at the Painting Class from Tobias Pils & Michael Horsky
2019 – AiR – Artist in Residence residency, Gmünd
2019 – Walter Koschatzky Art Award, Nomination
2019 – Strabag Art Award, Nomination
2019 – Art Start_STUDIO, Stipend
2018 – Ö1 – Graphic of the month
2017 – Strabag Art Award, Nomination
2015 – Walter Koschatzky Art Award, Nomination
2015 – Strabag Art Award, Nomination