Marina Faust

Marina Faust (born 1950) is an Austrian artist.

Life and work

Marina Faust started to work as a photo reporter in Vienna in 1969.  

In 1995 Faust extended her practice onto other media such as video and installation. Her main groups of works today are her series 'Faces', her 'Traveling Chairs' and 'Rolling Stools' and more recently the 'Ambulants', light sculptures constructed with vintage chandeliers.

Her first solo exhibitions took place in Paris at Galerie Agathe Gaillard in 1982 and 1986.

She refreshes the view on her photographic work regularly by appropriating her own archives. 

Faust has collaborated as a photographer with Martin Margiela from 1990 to 2008 and with Architectural Digest magazine, USA, and Architectural Digest magazine, Germany, between 1985 and 2012. 

She taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2000-2001. 

A first museum solo show of her work took place at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2017.

Faust received the Otto Breicha Award for Artistic Photography in 2019, which was accompanied by an exhibition at Museum der Moderne Salzburg and a catalogue.

She is a regular collaborator to French art magazine FROG. 

Marina Faust is represented by GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, and Xippas, Geneva, Paris and Punta del Este.

Exhibitions
2023

 In the effort to keep day and night together, Xippas, Paris, (solo)
 The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso Malaga, Spain
 Ambulant # 05 at Carlone Contemporary, Belvedere Museum, Vienna (solo)

2022

 Autonomous Gestures, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, Austria, (solo)
 Hedy Lamarr - The Strange Woman, La Galerie, Noisy-Le-Sec, France

2021

 Marina Faust, Fiac, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Paris, (solo)

2020

 Marina Faust, Otto Breicha Award for Artistic Photography, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo)
 In Rare Cases, Local Hero with Pompadour, Xippas, Geneva (solo)

2019

 Fashion Moments, Women Photographers in Focus, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria

2018

 Klassentreffen, Werke aus der Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann, mumok, Vienna, Austria
 Once on TV, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, Austria (solo)
 Maladie d'amour, Marina Faust & Nicolas Jasmin, Lili Reynaud Dewar's studio, Grenoble, France
 Volume Imaginaire, Galerie Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany 

2017

 It's Only You, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (solo)
 Der Verdienst. 2014-2017, Oracle, Berlin, Germany
 Für eine Weile, wer weiß wie lange, performance with Sonia Leimer, Franz West Artist Club, Belvedere21, Vienna, Austria

2016

 Talk without Words (Christopher Wool), collaboration with Franz West, Franz West Artistclub, Belvedere21, Vienna, Austria
 Le Mérite. 2014-2016, Treize, Paris, France
 Design im Fenster, Wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria
 More Anecdotes, Wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria

2015

 Destination Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria

2014

 New Ways of Doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
 Biographical Forms, Construction and Individual Mythology, Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2013

 Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria 
 Mostly West, Franz West and Artist Collaborations, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK

2012

 Talk without Words (Christopher Wool), collaboration with Franz West, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
 Reflecting Fashion, mumok, Vienna

References

1950 births
Living people
20th-century Austrian women artists
21st-century Austrian women artists
20th-century women photographers
Austrian photographers
Austrian women photographers
Austrian contemporary artists