DAVID MASE
*1986
lives and works in Vienna, Austria
David Mase's work references found and used objects and surfaces, as well as ancient, art historical, and pop cultural sources. Through distortion and varying degrees of abstraction, he often dissolves human figures into a spatial composition and uses the blurring of abstraction to address specific themes or emotional states.
The wear and tear of objects is a stylistic device he uses in his work: By alternately applying and removing paint, he alters surfaces to create the impression of a temporal component, so that his paintings often appear as uncovered, absurd relics of a fictional history.
Selected exhibitions
2024
• Group Show “A Suitcase” - PICTURE THEORY gallery, Chelsea, Manhattan, NYC
• Group Show “Licht und Schatten” - Aggsbach Art Gallery in Aggsbach Markt, Wachau
• Two-person exhibition with Markus Riedler “honey, poison, spike - Independent space index festival, CLUBCLUB, Vienna
2023
• Residency at Mothership NYC, Brooklyn NY
• Intervention at Parallel Vienna Artfair, Otto Wagner Areal, Vienna
• Group exhibition „Traum“, curated by Dessous, Vienna
• “The Group Show” Vienna
2022
• “The Group Show” Vienna
• Solo exhibition „maybe it´s a duck“, GALERIE3 | FLUX23, Velden
• Solo exhibition „pretend it´s a painting“, FLUX23, Klagenfurt
• Group exhibition „last night on mars“, Lothringerstraße 14, Wien
• Collection exhibition „BKS“, Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt
2021
• Group exhibition „GOTO“, Westbahnstraße, Wien
• Vienna Art Week „Wie geht´s?“, Hütteldorfer Straße 59, Wien
2020
• Solo exhibition “Innen-Innen=Außen”, Q21, Museumsquartier Wien, Jan Arnold Gallery
• Group exhibition „Creating Space“, Galerie Jonathan Seiffert, Wien
• “Abstrakt - Geometrie und Konzept“, Collection Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, MMKK, Kärnten
2019
• “Living Studio”, Q21, Museumsquartier Wien curated by Jan Arnold Gallery
• Group exhibition “Wolken und andere Wahrheiten”, T/abor, Wien with GALERIE3 | FLUX23
• Group exhibition “Törn”, Velden with GALERIE3 | FLUX23
• Group exhibition "Playground Zero”, Raum8, Klagenfurt
2018
• Parallel Vienna - Art Fair with Creative Cluster Traktorfabrik
• Group exhibition "GOTO World Tour" - Tobačna Ljubljana (Slovenia)
• Group exhibition - Traktorfabrik, Wien
2017
• Art Austria - Art Fair (Vienna) with GALERIE3 | FLUX23
• Parallel Vienna - Art Fair with GALERIE3 | FLUX23
• Group exhibition „Goto bleibt“, Stift Millstatt
• Group exhibition „Moon Exhibition“, Freitag Factory, Zürich (Switzerland)
2016
• Solo exhibition „Habitat“, Galerie3, Klagenfurt • Solo Exhibition „Kunst im Werk“, Althofen
2015
• Installation „walk of fame“, Doha (Qatar)
• Solo exhibition „NEVER | LAND“ , Schau-Kraftwerk Forstsee, Velden
2014
• Exhibition BA-CA Art Award, Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach
2013
• Solo exhibition “This too shall pass” – , Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt
• Group exhibition “20+20” – Galerie Freihausgasse Villach
2012
• Public exhibition „Human Disposables“, Paris (France)
Awards and Residencies
2014
• 1st price, BA-Art Award, Galerie 3, Klagenfurt
2012
• Residency - Cite des Arts Paris / Series „Human Disposables“ (France)
• Scholarship of the city Klagenfurt / 6 months Residency in Smartno (Slovenia)
Education
2007-2008. Master class for art and design / Graphische Lehr-und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna
2006-2007 Architecture / TU Wien
Publications
2013 • “20+20”, exhibition catalog
2009 • ”Die Zelle“, exhibition catalog
Works in public collections
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten / Collection of the state Carinthia
Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt / Collection of the city Klagenfurt
Works in private collections
Sammlung BKS, Art collection of the BKS bank
Sammlung Erste Bank, Art collection of the Erste Bank group Austria