1956        born in Salzburg, Austria

 

1966-74   grammar school "Bundesgymnasium für Mädchen", Salzburg

 

1975-80   Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 1980 diploma in "Conservation + Technology

                of Art"

 

1978-84  experimental music + performances

               with the group '8 oder 9', Vienna (Norbert Gmeindl, Werner Jurasek, Curd    

               Duca,Susanna Heilmayr and many others)

 

1979-98  super-8 films (52 shorts)

 

1981-83  performances + life art interventions in NYC , Vienna + Salzburg

 

1981-82  working as an assistent for Arleen Schloss, N.Y.C. for the weekly art + 

               performanceevent 'Wednesdays @ A's'

 

1985-86  experimental music + performances with

               'Ungünstige Vorzeichen', Vienna  (with Ursula Pürrer + Susanna Heilmayr)      

 

1985-86   video-training at 'Medienwerkstatt Wien'

 

1986       2 short videos

 

1988       2 short16mm films

 

1989-92  feature-film'Flaming Ears' by Ursula Pürrer, Dietmar Schipek + Hans Scheirl,

               84min,super-8 blown up to 16mm [script, performer, co-director, co-editor]

 

1992-98  feature-film 'Dandy Dust'  94min, multi-media project blown up to 16mm

               [director, performer,  script, storyboard, editor, producer]

 

since 1995 paintings

 

2001-03    Master of Art studies in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art + 

                 Design, London

 

since 2003painting/installations

 

since oct. 2006  Professor for 'Contextual Painting' at the Akademie of Fine Arts Vienna

 

 

 

Throughout his life Hans has also exhibited/published  drawings andwritings (e.g.

the drawing 'A wet prayer for the pig' in 'Ruh Roh', NYC 1992; 'The manifesto for the

D@D@ of the cyborg-embrio',

in: 'The Eight Technologies of Otherness' ed/author Sue Golding, Routledge 1997) .

He has given performance/lectures on his work and its diverse contexts (e.g.

Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.; Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht; Arteleku,

San Sebastian; HBK Braunschweig; Academy of Fine Arts Munich; University of Applied

Arts Vienna)

 

He features in numerous films ('Venus Boys' by Gabriel Baur, 'Pansexual Public Porn' by Del laGrace Volcano, 'The Making of Dandy Dust' by Tina Keane, 'St Pelagius the

Penitent' by Jewels/Jason Elvis Barker), photography (Catherine Opie, Los Angeles;

Del laGrace Volcano, London; Donna Ferrato, NYC; Daniel Nicoletta, San Francisco;

Michelle Martinoli, London; Jonathan Root, London) and took part in internet

projects ('Couch' by Tina Keane; 'Brandon/Body of Evidence' Guggenheim

net-project, artist/curator: Shu Lea Cheang)