Christian Ruschitzka

“Ruschitzka is an Examiner of Reality. Sculpture is, for him, often merely a catalyst for perception  or a means to irritate. He is concerned with the appearance of everyday objects: in order to get to the bottom of things, so to speak, he extricates them from their meaning and sets them at odds with their original purpose” 

-Gerald Bast, Rector of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Christian Ruschitzka (*1962) is a conceptual artist whose work is deeply involved in the practical materiality of the world. He uses a variety of media from  handmade tools to built machinery, video performances and public interventions to explore a number of different artistic positions.

Artist Christian Ruschitzka making snowman with handmade snowman making tool in the Augarten in Vienna in the Winter of 2010-2011
Artist Christian Ruschitzka making snowmen with a handmade snowman-making tongs in the Augarten in Vienna in the Winter of 2010-2011
Art Work
Christian Ruschitzka, Carte Blanche (2020), cut and rearranged postcard 11 x 15 cm
Christian Ruschitzka, Snowman gloves (2006)
Christian Ruschitzka, Snowman gloves (2006)
Christian Ruschitzka, Lodging Cube before transformation (1998)
Christian Ruschitzka, Lodging Cube (1998) from the Verdichtung (compression) series, a bed, cabinet, desk, chair, wood, steel. Collection Wien Museum
Christian Ruschitzka, Lodging Cube (1998) from the Verdichtung (compression) series, a bed, cabinet, desk, chair, wood, steel. Collection Wien Museum
Christian Ruschitzka_L'Effet Papillon, Iceland (2021) Lightbox from film still 60 x 60 cm
Christian Ruschitzka, with hand-made snowman machine, after public snowman intervention in Vienna's Augarten (2010)
Christian Ruschitzka, Hayrake, transformations series (2008) Steel, wood, with air-pillow, and metal pedestal.
Christian Ruschitzka, Verformugen sculpture and pedestal
Christian Ruschitzka, film still from public intervention, Deep Freeze - Ice for a Glacier (2021) Whereby ice was frozen in a traditional Burgendland village ice house and then transported in hand-made wooden backpacks to the melting Ötztal glacier to replenish it.
Christian Ruschitzka, Brother (2009) Mechanical swimmer, X-ray of object from video