Born in Linz, Michael Heindl lives and works in Vienna and Scharten. Interested in the possibilities of art in public spaces, the starting points of his works are often things and phenomena of everyday life. He has exhibited and screened in Austria and internationally including at the Viennale, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Salzburger Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Wien, PACT Zollverein and Essen.
Total trailers found: 9
17 February 2024
In this filmic work, I deal with the ambivalent consequences of human curiosity, in which attention and interest in something brings with it the possibility of its destruction.
24 October 2020
Heindl offers privileged perspectives on Vienna and the Viennese by “spying” on private televisions through apartment building windows after dark.
22 March 2023
An undefinable plastic object drifts through blue waves. A faded clothespin bobs up and down in a pickle jar.
01 January 2019
Michael Heindl is always ready for an intervention. He does not require lengthy preparation. He ‘hits’ his mark without warning, like the heads he strikes of nine statues representing famous men and women for his video ‘Hard-Headed Harmony’.
01 November 2019
Experimental short film showing various rotating objects.
16 October 2021
Creating an artwork with no production costs—for sure that's the dream of all artists living in precarity.
24 October 2019
Statues also die. But they make a satisfying clangggg, too. Heindl makes the most of a sojourn to London, delivering his own brand of percussive athleticism by visiting nine bronze statues of eminent deceased individuals (Karl Marx, Charles Chaplin, etc.
05 April 2024
In the black shimmering of the picture, blurry images flash for fractions of a second, while in the center a swirling, growing something struggles to take shape.
21 March 2026
A forest must make way for an industrial park, but before the ugly nothingness destroys all beauty, it finds itself one last time in this equally beautiful film.
