ERLI GRÜNZWEILPhotographer based in Viennacontact@erligruenzweil.cominstagram.com/erligruenzweil
Grünzweil’s work lies at the intersection of observational and staged photography. He is questioning the medium itself through bringing it to its boundaries—the boundaries of lens-based photography and computer-generated pictures, static and moving images, fact and fiction, fine art and applied photography. The outcome are hybrids which seemingly show ordinary situations or random things, but through aesthetics, types of image production and content it goes deeper and addresses social, political and personal matters. By combining images in a new order and a new context, new substance can emerge. Through the surface more profound and inner content can be shown—the absent, the not pictured becomes the subject of these images, so the superficiality can be overcome.
Portfolio for OrtnerSchinko
Assistance: Bettina Willnauer
2019
Beyond Meat for Chapter Magazine in collaboration with Marlene Mautner
Blinded by the RightWin the Last AirconAssistance: Muhassad Al-Ani2018
Numerology2018
There is Uncertainty — A backlash on the political and social situation in Austria and Europe—produced between the events of the national holidays and circling around the elections of 2017. Through contextualizing, combining and manipulating these images of different conditions of living, they are developing into new correlations, narrations and both compressed and displaced views on the present age pointing towards a future minted by the yesteryear, strongly bearing those tendencies. Production-related references, color tone and framing are supporting the critical content in a series of three acts. Photography as a medium itself, social conventions and political mechanisms are here both questioned and illustrated.
2017–18
Astrology for The Gap
Set Design: Hofer Susanna
Pink, White and Yellow Plastic Bag2017–18
Jugo Ürdens for The Gap
Assistance: Dejan Ivkovic
2018
Walde Seife in collaboration with Susanna Hofer
Standard Experimente
Group Shows 2019
Propeller, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna/AT81 Steps, Ausstellung in der Lindengasse 1, Vienna/AT
Realities, Forward Festival, Vienna/AT
Realities, MOVE.BG space, Sofia/BGR
Group Shows 2018
Humble Arts Foundation, Online Group Show 59 Numerology
Studio Protest, Vienna Design Week, Vienna/ATRealities, Chengdu Creativity & Design Week, Chengdu/CHNRealities, What’s Next?, Vilnius/LTURealities, Burggasse98/Improper Walls, Vienna/ATF5, Shizzle, Vienna/AT
since 2016Applied Photography and Time-based Media at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
2014–2016Graphic Designer at Monopol Medien, Vienna
2012–2014College for Graphic Design, Linz
Interviews and Features
Plain Magazine, 2019
The Visual Voices, 2018
Part ofFountain’s Edit
Clients
Biorama, brut Vienna, Chapter Magazine, Hutchison Drei, The Gap, OrtnerSchinko, Standard Experimente
