Michael Endlicher lives and works in Vienna.
2 pm, January 5, 1960: Endlicher is born in Vienna. After completing his degree in Business Administration he works as a writer and project manager in
Austria and Germany. At the same time he experiments with colours and lacquer, plastic foil, collage techniques and lettering, putting up paper objects and
plastic paintings. During the 90ies his career as an artist starts with a homage to the legendary Amber Room. In succession, based on his material research,
he develops conceptual artworks focusing on language. Public actions and exhibitions follow with the Austrian Institute for art in public spaces museum in progress,
Lukas Feichtner Gallery and Technisches Museum Wien as well as participations in international art fairs with his Viennese Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels. Endlicher's works
are part of private respectively institutional art collections.
Endlicher explores the linguistic and visual terms in the creation of meaning. Beginning with the term ‘linguistic turn’ – instead of being understood as a precondition and
constant, reality is viewed as a construct of language – lettering becomes the primary material of visualization, language is the conceptual constant. Linguistic panel paintings and
videos (Kritikbilder/Critical Paintings and the Herr Meneutik video), contemporary devotional paintings (Votivbilder/Votive Paintings), cabbalistic number plates (Dramenbleche/Metal Dramas),
confessional mirror objects (Moralspiegel/Moral Mirrors), subversive enamel plates (inverted icons) and spatial distorsions of litanies (plurifakta): Text appears in the form of
art-critical quotes and as four-letter words, it is juxtaposed with numeric letter-values, used as a formulaic vow and as a letter case for pictures. Words are extending into the
room displaying an artifical language. Text is painted, stencilled, impressed, etched, digitally designed and folded, in the process investing each word, each individual letter
with its own wilful personality.
Exhibitions/Projects
(s)ingle exhibitions, (g)group shows
2016
Novi Sad Cultural Center, DanubeDialogs 2016, Novi Sad (g)
Neue Synagoge Berlin, The repetition of the Good. The Repetition of the Bad, Berlin (g)
Künstlerhaus, I am who I am not (Ich bin der ich nicht bin) | Performance, Vienna (s)
2015
Galerie Wechselstrom, alfabetosperimentale – ein Fest aus Bildern und Zeichen für Nanni Balestrini, Vienna (g)
GPLcontemporary, cross over 2015, Vienna (g)
TU Wien, Wiener Wunderkammer 2015 – What’s Next? (G)
IGBildendeKunst, Wien, Handapparat der Neugierde (g)
Haus der Katholischen Kirche, Stuttgart, Suche nach der verlorenen Sprache (g)
Künstlerhaus Wien, ÜBER:ANGEBOT (g)
BIG Galerie, Gelb. Aktuelle Positionen österreichischer Kunst, Dortmund (g)
Werkstadt Graz, Wider das Zuckerbergmonopol | Performance & Display by CEMS (s)
GPL SPACE IV, Running Theory Generation | Performance & Display by CEMS (s)
GPLcontemporary, CANVAS, Vienna (g)
Red Carpet Showroom, Vienna, What is it like to be a bat? A postromantic Raree Show (s)
ZS art gallery, Vienna, TextBilder (g)
GPLcontemporary, Vienna, I am a Plurifactual Artist | Litanies of Self-Invocation, book presentation and exhibition (s)
2014
Künstlerhaus Vienna, Celle: Die Welt (g)
austellungsraum.at, Vienna, this year's (Heuriges; g)
Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Dort wo unsere Sprache endet, komme ich jeden Tag vorbei, Graz (g)
Parallel Vienna, with GPLcontemporary (g)
GPLcontemporary, Vienna, It's the poetry, stupid! (s)
MUSA Wien, Die Würde des Künstlers, Celle performs at MUSA (g)
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien, WAR WAS - Celle performs at HGM (g)
2013
MUSA Vienna, Referentieller Querverweis: Ich brauch Tapetenwechsel!; a CEMS performance – with Cynthia Schwertsik (s)
contemporary istanbul, 8th Edition, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
Former District Exchange, Krems, Lower Austria, Bound by Authority (g)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, TbEiXlTd (g)
Künstlerhaus, Vienna, zeichnen zeichnen – Celle presents conceptual drawing(s) (g)
Kunst Palais Liechtenstein, Gr au R an d, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg (g)
2012
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, ABC: ArtBrutContemporary, Vienna (g)
Art.Fair Cologne, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
Kunstraum DrDavid, ZACK * ZAUM * ZUSE / New Votive Paintings, Vienna (s)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Halhali. Die Jagd nach dem Zeitgenössischen, Vienna (g)
Galerija Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo Transit – with CELLE/Khaus Vienna, Sarajevo (g)
ZS Art Gallery, Vienna, Gesichtsfeld – mund hand fuss font (g)
Gallery IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna, special edition/initiated by Hildegard Project (g)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, cross over (g)
2011
METAmART, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, We certify your Art! (with Cynthia Schwertsik) (g)
Künstlerhaus Cinema, Vienna, Celle goes to the movies (g)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Video + 1 (g)
Museum der Unerhörten Dinge, Berlin, Definitiv: Kunst! (with Cynthia Schwertsik) (s)
summerstage_open art festival, Wien (g)
Art Austria, Vienna, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Ich bin ein plurifakter Künstler (s)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Money for cash (g)
2010
UnORTnung VI, Vienna, Charta Incognita, (with Cynthia Schwertsik) (g)
ART.FAIR 21, Cologne, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
TU Wien/Vienna University of Technology Technical, Opening of the knowldege.art.space (g)
Munich Contempo, Munich, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
friendly fire showroom, Vienna, AUTOMAGIC_small, presentation (s)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Basel_back_2 (g)
Gallery Area 53, Wien, Wir leben und arbeiten in Wien/Brighten the Corners (g)
Hot Art Fair, Basel, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
Art Austria, Wien, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
Arte Fiera, Bologna, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
2009
MUSA, Vienna, Wiener Gerücht/Viennese Rumor (g)
Gallery Kühlraum, Vienna, Über-Ich und Du/Superego and You (s)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Basel_back (g)
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversity, Vienna, Oktopus, Exhibition/Symposium (g)
Scope Basel, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels (g)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, cross over (g)
Ö1/radio station, graphic art of the month/April: Metal Drama 148 (s)
Scope New York, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels (g)
2008
Institut für Dogmatische Theologie/Die SCHAU, Vienna, hermeneutic stuff (s)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Cutting in one own's painting, performance (s)
Scope Miami, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels (g)
Kunst.Messe.2008, Linz, with Gallery Artmark (g)
Art.Fair 21, Cologne, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels (g)
Gallery Artmark, Vienna, Geometric Figures/ Die Auflösung der Geometrie (g)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, room II (g)
Palm Beach 3, with Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels
2007
Gallery Wolfrum, Vienna, NACKT/NAKED (g)
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, automagic (s)
Technisches Museum Wien, Onomatopoetic Plates at "Into the fast lane. Vienna learns to drive." (s)
2006
Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Sculptural Nonsite (s)
Museum Waidhofen/Ybbs, Type Faces - Schriftbilder (g)
Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Linguistic Turns #2, Exhibition/presentation of my artist's book(s)
2005
museum in progress, Vienna, Metal Dramas in the newspaper DER STANDARD (s)
Gallery tonArt, Vienna, Linguistic Turns (s)
Gallery tonART, Vienna, Installation "IP" mit Bruno Liberda (g)
Gallery Lukas Feichtner, Salzburg, hosted in Salzburg 2 (g)
Office Agitas, Vienna, New Critical and Votive paintings (s)