b. 1970 in Watschig, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
Biography
Hans Schabus's sculptural and architectural installations are the result of a highly personal connection with exhibition spaces and their context. He explores the relationship between his artworks and the surrounding environments by using unexpected materials or making the most of unlikely circumstances. Through radical activities like hollowing out, filling in, banding and cutting, Hans Schabus deconstructs a space and restructures it, so that visitors have to re-adjust their bearings and the way they move around, gaining in the process a new way of perceiving the exhibition site.
In collaboration with Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art
With the support of the Federal Chancellery of the Republic of Austria
With the support of the Forum Culturel Autrichien de Paris