My artistic practice and research focus on creating site- specific installations with the intention of exploring the cyclical nature of matter and questioning our notions of continuity. My works are mainly created from recycled materials and some of them transform autonomously during the exhibition period, thus blurring the line between a landscape of misused objects and reproductions, where models already serve as their final product, and reality.
By borrowing matter from an ever-changing cosmos and the resulting temporary works, visitors are invited to rethink the role of monuments in society and the associated tendency to elevate permanence to a fetish.
Carefully selected and locally sourced materials, such as recycled carbon fiber from the German aero-industry and recycled paraffin wax, both goods derived from petroleum and offering an insight into the carbon cycle, the installations draw attention to the interlaced timescales, the endless potential of matter, and connect the work with its environment and visitors. The immersive installations aim to facilitate moments of distortion that could shake our relationships with often rigid systems and by doing so promote a greater sense of interconnectedness.
My engagement with specific materials in various contexts is a constant motivation for me to reflect on transience, the effects of human actions on the environment, and strategies for sustainable resource management. This attitude also results in a strong impulse to deal with my own family history and the complexity of opaque juxtapositions, as well as current questions on temporality and cycles in general.
Daniel Hölzl was born 1994 in Schwaz, Austria. After having graduated at the Weißensee Academy of Art, Daniel Hölzl lives and works in Berlin.
Represented by the Berlin Gallery Dittrich&Schlechtriem since 2021.
Selected for the sponsorship program "NEW POSITIONS" at ART COLOGNE in 2022
Mart Stam / Deutschlandstipendium scholarship recipient 2020/2021.
Erasmus+ scholarship in 2019