Richard Hoeck

Austria, 1965

Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Ernst Caramelle and Oswald Oberhuber (1983 to 1990). Following graduation, Richard Hoeck received the MoMA PS1, New York City, scholarship (1993-1994), and the MAK Schindler scholarship, Los Angeles (2001-2002). In 2000 he was awarded the Ursula Blickle Foundation Art Prize. He has presented numerous exhibitions in his home country and internationally, including at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (mumok), Vienna; the 3rd Istanbul Biennial and the 33rd Biennial de São Paulo. Richard Hoeck is a conceptual artist working with the media of installation, sculpture, performance, photography, and video. His multi-layered work moves at the intersection of stage production, socio-critical commentary and the creation of alternative infrastructures. 

In his frequent collaborations with John Miller, Hoeck uses mannequins to question the idea of subjectivity. Often placed in the context of set pieces from popular culture and digital spaces, these works reflect our perceptions of social conditions and iconographies of the everyday. The monograph, More Alive Than Those Who Made Them, published by the University of Chicago Press / WhiteWalls, 2015, retraces the two artists’ mannequin works. 

Hoeck’s work is included in several international collections, at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK) in Vienna and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City among others.