Hannes MLENEK was born on May 30, 1949 in Wiener Neustadt. His original professional goal, aviation, came to an abrupt end in 1968. When a friend crashes, a radical rethink takes place. Mlenek moved to Vienna and from 1970 was a guest student with Adolf Frohner and Carl Unger at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Hannes Mlenek is primarily a draftsman. He has been working as a freelance artist since 1976. The central theme of his creations is the human body. The expressive, powerful expression of his work, mostly in oversized picture formats, draws shadowy forms of the human body. Mlenek has consistently developed a work that can be located both in the area of the gestural-expressive as well as in the area of the figurative. From 1978 the artist took part in numerous exhibitions and participations and received prizes, grants and recognitions. Most recently, his works, work cycles and installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the Grenz Kunst Halle in Jennersdorf and the Angerlehner Museum in Thalheim near Wels. Mlenek lives and works in Vienna. Since 2016 the artist has a federal sculptor’s studio in Vienna’s Prater.
2002 – first exhibition in the gallery Welz.
Hannes MLENEK was born on May 30, 1949 in Wiener Neustadt. His original professional goal, aviation, came to an abrupt end in 1968. When a friend crashes, a radical rethink takes place. Mlenek moved to Vienna and from 1970 was a guest student with Adolf Frohner and Carl Unger at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Hannes Mlenek is primarily a draftsman. He has been working as a freelance artist since 1976. The central theme of his creations is the human body. The expressive, powerful expression of his work, mostly in oversized picture formats, draws shadowy forms of the human body. Mlenek has consistently developed a work that can be located both in the area of the gestural-expressive as well as in the area of the figurative. From 1978 the artist took part in numerous exhibitions and participations and received prizes, grants and recognitions. Most recently, his works, work cycles and installations have been shown in exhibitions at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the Grenz Kunst Halle in Jennersdorf and the Angerlehner Museum in Thalheim near Wels. Mlenek lives and works in Vienna. Since 2016 the artist has a federal sculptor’s studio in Vienna’s Prater.
2002 – first exhibition in the gallery Welz.
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