Andreas Herok
Born 1962, Salzburg, Austria
Lives and works in Vienna and the Weinviertel region, Lower Austria
Artistic Practice
Visual artist working across painting, printmaking, photography, and site-specific installation.
Alongside his artistic practice, Herok has extensive experience in the conservation and restoration of wooden objects, a discipline that has fostered a sustained engagement with materiality, historical surfaces, and the passage of time.
He also conceives and curates exhibition projects.
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026
Quergedacht – Genie und Wahn, KIAM Galerie, Amstetten, Austria
2025
Lower Austria Open Studios (Tage der offenen Ateliers)
Galerie am Markt, Neubeuern, Germany
2024
Galerie EBORAN, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Stiegenwirt, Wullersdorf, Austria
2023
Lower Austria Open Studios – Kabinettstück 2
2022
Lower Austria Open Studios – Kabinettstück 1
2021
Hotel Lux Alpinae, St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria
2019
Lower Austria Open Studios – Curtains
2018
Fahnen on Tour, Kunsthaus Laa, Austria
2017
Lower Austria Open Studios – Landscape
1988
Künstlerhaus Salzburg – Annual Exhibition
Galerie Schloss Seeburg, Seekirchen, Austria
Künstlerhaus Salzburg
1987
Galerie EBORAN, Salzburg, Austria
1986
Goldegger Dialoge
Art in the Town Hall (Kunst im Rathaus), Cultural Office of the City of Salzburg
Grant
1988
Artist Residency Grant awarded by the Province of Salzburg, Ville del Monte, Italy
Publications
Reviews and features in:
frame, Issue 16/17 (Landscape, 2006)
frame, Issue 20 (Servus Austria, 2007)
untitled – The State of the Art, Issue 001 (2011)
Artist Statement
Landscape has long been the central subject of my artistic practice, rooted in the traditions of classical landscape painting while seeking new ways of engaging with memory, perception, and place.
My relationship with landscape was shaped by formative childhood experiences: summers spent in the alpine region of Rauris and an extended period of illness during which the mountain ridges outside my window became a constant presence. These early impressions continue to inform my work. While my earliest paintings emerged primarily from personal memory, my recent works draw upon historical postcards and archival photographs, which I reinterpret through a contemporary visual language.
Rather than pursuing a realistic depiction of landscape, I am interested in the fragile and often fleeting nature of remembered images. My works explore the space between documentation and recollection, where memory transforms places into subjective, shifting landscapes.
Working with ink, oil, transfer printing, and photographic processes on Dibond, I bring historical landscape imagery into the present, creating works that invite new perspectives without resorting to nostalgia. Through layering, reduction, and transformation, familiar motifs become spaces of reflection in which past and present coexist.
