Born 1948 in Vienna. Born again 1968 in New York.

Best investment ever.

English and Photography wise.

Still drawing energy from Summer 1968.

Staying cool, absorbing images, taking, making some.

Being surrounded by photography and photographers full time.

If life is a movie, so is every photograph.

To say a photograph is a freeze frame from the eternal movie, called life, means we are not looking at the photograph and the motion within and therefore do not see the photograph consciously.

Which translates into seeing life not consciously, a kind of blindness, mentally maybe.

Conscious seeing starts here and evolved over the past 50 years. A good reason to celebrate being in this life.

Born 1948. Born again 1968.

Let the images swing, within and among each other, like a musician cherishing the atmosphere between two notes.

The coming and going of sound, feeling the silence. Bringing us closer to the melody, the rhythm of life.

Which feeds us all, lets us all be, who we are, if we dare to listen and see consciously.

HANS FLEISCHNER ACTIVITIES

1973-76   Solo and Group Exhibitions in Austria, Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia      (Produced by Dieter Schrage, Otto Breicha and Lanfranco Colombo respectively) 1977        "Some Japan" at Nikon Salon, Tokyo, "Zero - New York Photographs" at Ao Gallery, Tokyo, "Photo Cubism" at Put Gallery, Tokyo                                   1979        "Throw at Sculpture" at Komai Gallery, Tokyo                                     1980        "Southern Sketch Book" at Nikon Salon, Tokyo, "Ah So" at Gallery Amelia, Tokyo, "Sound Sculpture" at Komai Gallery, Tokyo                                1981        "A Street Named Desire" at Gallery Amelia, Tokyo, "On Strike" at Tamura Gallery, Tokyo, "Eye Thought" at Shunyu Gallery, Tokyo                       1982        "Pubic goes Public" at Maki Gallery, Tokyo, "Eye on India" at Gallery Wide, Tokyo, "My India Car Collection" at Ao Gallery, Tokyo              "Retrospectives" at Lumiere, Yamagata and Nakamoto Art Museum, Sendai     1983        "People" at Gallery Amelia, Tokyo, "Retrospectives" at Regent Hotel and at Ayala Museum, Manila, "Three Day Photo Event" at JICS-Plaza, Tokyo        1984        "Black and White Photographs" at Photo Plaza, Kofu, "New Colour Photographs" at Shashin Kosha, Kanda, Tokyo, "Sudan, Sand and Neon" with Stelarc and Hamza El Din at Komai Gallery, Tokyo                                            1985        "Monkey Bridge" at Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, Post-Photographic / Pre-Electronic Visual Idea Workshop, sponsor Polaroid, Axis Gallery Annex, Tokyo                                       1986        "Manila Photographs" at Doi Photo Plaza, Tokyo, "Energyflow" Multimedia Event at Aoyama Kodomo No Shiro, Tokyo, "Energyflow 2" Multimedia Event at Art & Technology, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, "Post-Photographic / Pre-Electronic" at Axis Gallery, Tokyo                                                                                               1987        "Manila Still Life" at Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo, "Landscape" at Fuji Gallery, Tokyo                                                                                                                   1988        "Max Austria" Energyflow 3, Multimedia Event at the Residence of the Austrian Culture Attaché, Tokyo, "20 Year Retrospective" at Axis Annex 1 & 2, Tokyo                                                                                                                   1989        "Vintage Car Photographs" at Ma-ji Store, Tokyo                                         1990        "20 Year Retrospective" at Gallery Helmreich, Vienna, "Mirrors based on my photographs" at Santeloco, Tokyo                                                                     1992        "Note Art - On Schedule 1" at Axis Annex 1 & 2, Tokyo                      1993        "Textiles based on my photographs" at Uchida Yoko, Tokyo, "Note Art - On Schedule 2" at B1F Gallery, Tokyo, "Note Art - On Schedule" as Shirt Design at the Paris Collection for Spring / Summer of Masatomo - Tokyo                         1994        "Carpets based on my photographs" at Gallery Besim, Vienna, "Note Art - On Schedule 3" at J-Cor Studio, Tokyo                                                            1995        "Note Art - On Schedule 4" at J-Cor Studio, Tokyo                             1996        "Note Art - On Schedule 5" at Calsi-Gallery, Vienna, Rerun of "Note Art - On Schedule 5" at Gallery Helmreich, Vienna, "Textiles based on my photographs" at Gallery Helmreich, Vienna and at "Digital Image Communication" for Ricoh at the Business show in Tokyo                                                                                1997        "Note Art - On Schedule 6" at Calsi-Gallery, Vienna                            1998        "Note Art - On Schedule 7" at Design Gallery, Vienna, "Fashion Show based on Note Art" at Zanoni, Vienna, 25th Anniversary of the book "JOE THE COE" at Gallery Helmreich, Vienna                                                                    1999        "The Red Bag" at Gallery Helmreich, Vienna, "Note Art - On Schedule 8", Street Fashion Marketing in Vienna, Paris and New York                             2000        "Note Art - On Schedule 9", Street Fashion Marketing in Vienna, London and Paris                                                                                                             2001        "The Red Bag 2" at Gallery Helmreich, Vienna                                     2002        "The Red Bag Cooking Lesson" at Tobacco Museum, Vienna           2003        "The Red Bag Plays the MAK" at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna 2003        "The Red Bag" at Transphotographiques, Lille, France, Video of Cuban Musicians in Havana, Santeria, Son, Rap                                                          2004         Havana Hip Hop Presentation on Internet Radio, McShark Vienna  Developing concept for books written by me                                                              "The Red Bag" at Gallery RAUM, in Vienna, a rerun of the show in Lille 2003  2005         Sitting down in Antibes, to start writing my workbook                        2006        "Papaya and Pepino" Digital Drawings at Galerie tonArt, Vienna "Havana Mask Dance featuring The Red Bag" Video and Lecture regarding Santeria at Galerie tonArt, Vienna, "The Red Bag", schwanger / nicht schwanger (pregnant / not pregnant) at Galerie tonArt, Vienna                                            2007         Following the path Walter Benjamin took across the mountains from France to Spain into Exile in 1940. Portbou ending up to be the last station of his life.                                                                                                                      2008         Exhibiting photographs (also the text 4AM on T-Shirts) of the Walter Benjamin Memorial designed by Dani Caravan, in Antibes and then at the Civic Centre in Portbou, Catalunya, Spain. "The Red Bag" commemorates the November Pogrom 1938 (Kristallnacht), Photographs, Video, T-Shirts at MEL Contemporary, Vienna                                                                                        2009        "The Red Bag 10 Year Exhibition Anniversary" at the Gallery for Urban Renewal, Vienna, Photographs of "Zellentrakt", Memorial Centre in Herford, Germany, exhibited at Sala Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Catalunya, Spain, "Masks" photographs of and by me, digital post-production complete the images, preview and talk held in Antibes                                                                         2010        "The Red Bag" Commemorates 70 Years of Walter Benjamin's Last Passage, 1940 - 2010, in Portbou at the Sala Congesta. Photographs from several previous exhibitions were shown. "The Red Bag" at Buchhandlung (bookshop) a.punkt in Vienna, a kind of homecoming, since the journey of The Red Bag to Walter Benjamin's Memorial started here, having come across a tour guide describing his last passage. "Rhythm of the City" Photographs from 1968 New York till 2010 Vienna, at Ankerbrotfabrik, Vienna                                                   2011        "VUDU", objects photographed in cooperation with Studio Helmreich, Vienna,    "THE RED BAG meets THE WHITE RABBIT" in Vienna                      2012        "WATER SCRIPTURES", photographs from Portbou and Paris         2013        "THE PUNK" hits the scene                                                                    2014        Started to photograph HINTERBRÜHL in February,                                 lived there from 1955 till 1957, childhood memories. March, Barcelona was on and a new chapter was opened. Starting a movie about and together with a friend relating to events during The Spanish Civil War.                                                   2015        The making of the movie took up quite some time, but I also started a new photo series in Barcelona. "Poble Nou", once a village near the city, now a district undergoing changes, becoming a new in place.                                    2016-18   Creating several artworks and photographing them, related to the Holocaust and commemorating 80 years of the November Pogrom 1938, "Kristallnacht".

CONT. HANS FLEISCHNER ACTIVITIES

2019        Paris, Barcelona and London. Ongoing photographic works and new graphic projects.

2020-21   Corona time. Vienna 100% photography series. Day and night. Analog and digital.

2022-23   Paris, Paris, Paris and one more time Paris. May, October, May and now  in November again.

To sum it up and not to forget, since November 2022 till October 2023, 19 Books were digitally published on issuu.com starting with NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND BEYOND. This publication series continues as an ongoing introduction to my retrospective. Recently PARENTS 1939 LONDON was published, followed by THE RED BAG #1. THE RED BAG #2 will be released early 2024 at the latest. Important to mention here are also several volumes of THE GOLDEN ATTACHE CASE. Construction and documentation of my artwork and photography, related to the Holocaust.

Last but definitely not at all the least, are 7 interviews of me produced by Kurt Lhotzky, which were released on YouTube. More of these interviews are to follow, as the publications of my work continues.

All images and texts are Copyright by Hans Fleischner, unless mentioned otherwise. Thank you and see you around. Vienna, Austria, November 2023.