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FRAMING
Frames, openings and shifting viewpoints determine what becomes visible as landscape.
VIEW WORKSARTIST & POET · VIENNA
WHEN LANDSCAPEAPPEARS
Framing, measuring, language and absence.
Toni Kleinlercher is an Austrian artist and poet. Working across sculpture, installation, drawing and poetry, he explores how landscape is framed, measured and transformed—and how absence can acquire physical presence.
WORKS
FIVE FIELDS OF PRACTICE02
MEASURING
Lines, distances, heights and viewing points transform landscape into a spatial instrument.
VIEW WORKS03
LANGUAGE AS MATERIAL
Through coding, condensation, overwriting and erasure, language becomes line, surface and landscape.
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ABSENCE
Holes, negative forms and empty spaces give physical presence to what is absent.
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SELECTED EARLIER WORKS
Works from the 1980s onward trace the origins and development of recurring concerns: landscape, language, transformation and emptiness.
VIEW WORKSONGOING PROJECT2026–2027
HOW MANY HOLES
MAKE A LANDSCAPE?
Five translucent skins, each containing an amorphous opening, are positioned at intervals along an existing path. Their differing dimensions, heights and distances create a sequence of framed views.
As visitors move from one station to the next, landscape appears not as a fixed image but as a changing relation between viewpoint, movement and absence.
VIEW PROJECTPOETRY / LANGUAGE AS MATERIAL
Poetry extends the work into language.
Books, selected poems and ongoing cycles carry the same questions of transformation, perception and emptiness into the space of the poem.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo · Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York · Belvedere Augarten, Vienna · Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center · Röntgenwerke, Tokyo · Kunsthaus Meran · Kunstraum Dornbirn · Contemporary Art Center, Aarhus · Kunsthalle Wien · Künstlerhaus Wien
BIOGRAPHY & SELECTED CV