Manuel Gorkiewicz graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with a degree in painting and graphics and studied social anthropology and philosophy at the university there.
He is an artist, teaches at the University of Art in Linz and lives in Vienna. Numerous invitations to national and international solo and group exhibitions testify to the high regard in which his conceptual and multimedia oeuvre is held. In his work, Gorkiewicz explores the interfaces and interrelationships between the art world on the one hand and the consumer and everyday world on the other. In doing so, he not only deals intensively with the real and possible history of representation of his respective material, but also acquires technical expertise in order to be able to work with it. His gaze extends both into art spaces and into their supposedly trivial equivalents in everyday culture.
He combines Gorkiewicz’s interest in the formal language and aesthetics of everyday objects with a pseudo-scientific, meticulous approach in order to raise questions about representation in both concrete and figurative contexts. Through their exaggerated and over-precise form of presentation, the objects lose their original purpose, while at the same time the artist appropriates these objects and their original legibility.
The artist allows himself a change of context by crossing over into music, thus expanding his professional field of activity.
