The artistic practice of Hannes Egger is linked to an essentially conceptual approach aimed at engaging and interacting with the public. His performances, installations and participatory projects invite people to adopt an unusual attitude or viewpoint, in order to reflect on our surrounding reality and the way we share the spaces we inhabit. His concept of art does not refer to an opus in the most traditional sense, but consists of creating situations of an open and in-progress platform, to see how these situations will develop once the audience participates. Egger often provides some coordinates or instructions to follow, and thus turns the action of the participant into the art work itself.
Hannes Egger has exhibited, among others, at Belvedere21, Vienna (A); Künstlerhaus, Vienna (A); Kulturbahnhof, Kassel (D); Museion, Bolzano (I); Via Farini, Milan (I); Transart, Bolzano (I); House of Arts, Usti nad Labem (CZ); Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona (ES); ZKM, Karlsruhe (D); Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba (BR); The MAC, Dallas (USA); Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (A); Galleria Premio Suzzara (I); Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento (I); Mewo Kunsthalle, Memmingen (D); Galerie M, Berlin (D); Fondazione Barriera, Turin (I); Empty Cube, Lisbon (PT); Quartair, The Hague (NL); Museo D’Empordà, Figueres (ES); Kunsthalle Krems, Krems(A); DOX, Prague (CZ); Art Center, Krasnoyarsk (RU); 54th Venice Biennale, Venice (I); EXPORT Kubus, Vienna
