INFO@DARRENKNIGHTGALLERY.COM
1960
Born Germany
1989
New Zealand Permanent Residency
1992
Australian Permanent Residency
Lives Bangkok, Thailand
EDUCATION
1997
Master of Fine Arts – 1st class honours, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Research: 'Constructing the Amorphous'
1988
Diploma Ing. Bauingenieurwesen (Masters of Civil Engineering)
Thesis: 'Finite Element Calculations for the Simulation of Tensile Fracture Patterns in Cylindrical Rock Samples', University of Karlsruhe, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1995-present
www.amorphous-constructions.com
http://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/staff/horst
2000
Half the room – twice the art (more or less), Geelong Art Gallery, NSW, Australia.
2000
NORTHWESTWIND-MILD TURBULENCE, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1998
Amorphous Construction, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1997
Darren Knight Gallery Project, documentation images and models, Australian Technology Park, Sydney, Australia
1996
Constructing the Amorphous, Darren Knight DKW, Melbourne, Australia
1992
Written Images-Sculpted Words, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1990
Words & Pictures, Words & Pictures Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
Octopus 5, curated by Nicholas Chalmers, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue)
Australia – Contemporary Artist Exhibition 2004 Galerie PICI, Seoul, South Korea (catalogue)
9 Dragon Heads, 9th International Enviroment Art Symposium, Cheongju Art Center, South Korea (catalogue)
2002
HOST – Paris, collaboration with Gravity Feed, Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne, France
2001
Pizza Surprise!, curated by Michelle Glaser and Katie Major, Art to Go, Western Australia (catalogue)
Temporary Fixtures, Artspace, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
2000
The Numbers Game, curated by Zara Stanhope, Adam Art Gallery, Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (cat.)
DRAB, Synapse Art Initiatives, Somersby, Australia
1999
Exit with Margaret Roberts, Contemporary Projects Space, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
PreFab, curated by Helen Stuckey & Shiralee Saul for the MAAP Festival 1999, Melbourne, Australia
HOST, architectural performance with Gravity Feed, Newtown Theatre, Sydney, Australia
1998
Ecopoetics, Synapse Art Initiatives, Somersby, Australia
After the Masters, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney (catalogue)
The Origin of Ideas, South, Sydney, Australia
1996
From Technophobia to Technophilia, Pendulum, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
Con Versations and DePartures: Traveller's Tails, curated by Janis Bowley, OR Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1995
D.O.T.S.,Performance Space Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1995
Chimera, Parliament House, Sydney, Australia
1993
NIKI, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
1992
NIKI, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Urban Metamorphosis, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1991
Auckland Children's Hospital, Aotea Center, Auckland, New Zealand
GRANTS
2001-2003 - Australian Council for the Arts - New Media Fund, 2 year Fellowship
2001 - First prize, Limited competition for the 3rd Stage of the Sydney Aquarium in collaboration with Misho+Associates and Rhis Architects
2000 - First prize, competition for Restaurant in Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal in collaboration with Misho+Associates
1998 - Ministry for the Arts, New South Wales, Arts-Design-Industry grant for Folded Bodies - Project in collaboration with Visy Displays, Sydney, Australia
1997-1998 - Australia Council – New Media Fund, inaugural Artist in Residence at CSIRO, CMIS, Canberra
1997 - Australia Council - New Media Fund in collaboration with performance group Gravity Feed
1995 - Faculty Student Grant, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, travel grant to present a paper at the 6th European Full Scale Modeling Conference at the Technical University in Vienna.
RESIDENCIES
1999
3 months: IASPIS Studio @ School of Art & Communication, University of Malmo, Sweden
1998
2 months guest research position at the Institute for Media Communications, National German Research Centre for Information Technology, St Augustin, Germany
1997-98
Australia Council - New Media Fund- Artist in Residence at the CSIRO, Mathematical and Information Sciences, Canberra
1995 – present
Visy Industries, Australia” Cardboard and access to computer controlled manufacturing devices
1995
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002
Design, manufacture and assembly instructions for ‘HOST – Paris’, remotely from Bangkok
2001
Design, development and production of large-scale cardboard sculpture for ‘Bambu’ restaurant, Visy Tech Centre, Melbourne and Overseas Passenger Terminal, Sydney
2001
Teacher, ‘Introduction to 3D modelling’ at Sydney Vislab for Bachelor of Digital Media students, COFA, The University of New South Wales, Australia
2001
Teacher, ‘Introduction to 3D modelling’ at Sydney Vislab for Honours students in Electronic and Temporal Arts, SCA, The University of Sydney, Australia
2000
Guest lecturer, Workshop: ‘Bodyparts and their gadgets’ in collaboration with Michael Johansson, Material and Virtual Design, School of Art, Culture and Communication, Malmo Sweden
Project leader: ‘Presence – the virtual unfolded’, Architectual Design Course, Deakin University, School of Architecture, Geelong, Australia
Consultant, VRML component of PhD research, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2000-2002
Collaborative projects with Micho + Associates and Rhis (architects)
1999
Teacher, ‘3D modeling with animation software’ at Sydney Vislab for the summer school program of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
6 months guest research position, ‘Space and Virtuality Studio’, Interactive Institute, Sweden
3 months residency, IASPIS studio at K3, University of Malmo, Sweden
1998
3 Month guest research position at the German National Research Center for Information Technology ( GMD), St. Augustin, Germany
1997-1998
Residency at CMIS, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
1996
Consultant for 3D Facial Reconstruction - a forensic science collaboration between Richard Stanford (artist) and Meiya Sutisno (anatomist)
1995-98
Casual staff at Sydney Vislab, University of Sydney & Australian Technology Park (ATP)
1992-93
Draft Translation (German to English) of the book 'When Two Worlds Collide - Society and Ecology' by Klaus Bosselmann, RSVP Publishing, Auckland, New Zealand
1992
Michael Draper Design, Auckland, New Zealand - documentation for production of laser-cut furniture
1986-88
Part- time research assistant, Institute for Rock Mechanics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
1986
CSIRO - Division of Geomechanics, Melbourne, Australia. A four month laboratory project associated with hydraulic fracture testing.
1980
Medical drawings for Prof. Dr. Liebermann-Meffert published in 'The Greater Omentum', Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Australia Council for the Arts Residencies, Evolve, Australia Council for the Arts, 2000, p. 19
Baxter, Virginia, Host, RealTime, no. 29, Feb - Mar 1999
Boukabou, Ruby, Host Gravity Feed, Revolver, Feb 8-14, 1999, p.63
Cooper, Jackie, A-mazing ways with cardboard, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 January 1998, p.3, icon section
Cooper, Jackie, Art and science come together, The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 June 1997, p.3
Gallasch, Keith, The cardboard path to the digital performance space, RealTime, 28 December 1998-January 1999, p.33
Gawronski, Alex, Temporary Fixtures, Like, Art Magazine, no. 15, winter 2001
Grose, Simon, Behind the goggles, The Canberra Times, 16 June 1997
Hellström, Maria, SEKRET SKULPTUR - Om Horst Kiechles Amorphous Constructions, Magasin für modern arkitekur, 25, 1999, p.67
Jackson, Davina, Radar, Architecture Australia, January/February 1997
Jackson, Davina, Other Geometries, Architecture Australia, March/April 1997
Kiechle, H. Mark Taylor (Guest Editor) Amorphous Structures, in ‘Surface Consciousness’, , Architectural Design, Vol 73. no. 2 March-April 2003
Kiechle, Horst, Aegis Hyposurface – Review, Architectural Review Australia, 075, 2001
Kiechle, Horst, Amorphous Constructions, Uniglory, no. 5, Arkitekt, coordinated by Lisa Kelly, 2000.
Kiechle, H and Wagner, I, Digital Creativity, Special Issue on Architecture and Design, Vol. 11, (ed.) no. 3, 2000
Kiechle, Horst and Roberts, M, Exit, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Contemporary Projects, exhibition catalogue, 1999
Kiechle, H. Constructing the Amorphous 9/96, proceedings of the 6th EFA, 1999 & Martens, B. (ed.) Conference on 'Full Scale modelling in the Age of Virtual Reality', B. IRIS-ISIS, Vienna, 1996Kiechle, Horst
'Horst Kiechle', Artlines, Issue 1-3, May 1996
Kiechle, H. GAP 95, an occasional publication of Synapse Art Initiatives
Kiechle, Horst, Constructing the Amorphous - 10/95 (Intersections II), a paper given at the Intersections 95 Conference, Sydney, 1995.
Kiechle, Horst, Constructing the Amorphous - 2/95 (Intersections II), a paper given at the Goethe-Institut as part of Chimera, 23-26 February 1995, Sydney
Lahoud, Adrian, Space in Motion, Architecture Australia, Vol.91, No.3, 2002, pp.20-22
Larsen, Chris, Designing outside the comfort zone, Property Australia, Vol.17, No.1, 2002
Leggett, Mike, Drawing the Tread, Artlink -e-volution of new media, Vol. 21, no.3, 2001, pp.34-36
Luecking, Stephen, Principles of Three-Dimensional Design: Object, Space and Meaning, Prentice Hall, 2002
McCarthy, Jennifer, Sculptor with Houdini’s touch, The Australian, 24 June 1997
Nelson, Robert, Octopus 5, The Age, 21 July 2004
Phillips, Jacqueline, Temporary Fixtures, exhibition catalogue, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, 2001
Quillaen, Diana, Verve and After The Masters, Art Monthly Australia, June 1998, p.8
Rogers, Sheridan, On the Waterfront: Dining Out in Sydney, Food + Architecture, Architectural Design, Vol. 72, No. 6, 2002, pp.68-77
Shotenkenchiku-sha Bambu - Restaurant/Sydney, World Restaurants and Bars, Shop (Publisher) Design Series, Tokyo, 2002, pp.30-33
Stanhope, Zara, One, two, three, four, knock at my door, exhibition catalogue, The Numbers Game, Adam Art Gallery, Te Pataka Toi, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, 2000
Stephens, Craig, Art & Technology, Australian PC @uthority, Issue 6, May 1998, pp.130-136
Storer, Russell, Horst Kiechle INTERVIEW, Like, Art Magazine, No. 16, Sydney, 2001
Sykes, Jill, Architecture on the move, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 January 1999
Susskind, Anne, Table with a view, World Architecture, May 2002
Torok, Simon, When art & science meet, The Helix, no.59, April-May 1998, p. 5
van Niekerk, Mike, Getting the right angle on curves, The Age, 6 August 1996 and The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 August 1996
Waterlow, Nick & Hardy, Jennifer, After the Masters, exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
White, Jennifer, Virtual Reality and the Built Environment, Architectural Press, Oxford 2002, pIX, pp. 11-19, plate 3
Williams, Antonia, Look, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1998, p. 3 domain
Visy News, A man called Horst, Issue 28, December 2000, p.13