Hans Schabus | |
Birth Date: | 25 January 1970 |
Nationality: | Austrian |
Occupation: | Visual artist |
Style: | Site-specific art |
Hans Schabus (born 25 January 1970) is an Austrian visual artist known primarily for his site-specific installations.
In 2002 Schabus exhibited a video piece in which he navigated the sewage canals of Vienna in a rowboat at Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt.[1]
In 2007 he had his first solo museum exhibition in the United States at SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico "Deserted Conquest".[2]
In representing Austria at the 2005 Venice Biennale, Schabus transformed the Austrian pavilion into a massive artificial mountain, while investigating preexisting concepts pertaining to nature, culture, and the role[3] [4] [5]