biography

Dennis Gun was born 1956
1977-1983 Studies at „Akademie der Bildenden Künste“ in Vienna
graduated as „Magister“ of painting and philosophy of art in 1983
1982-1984 Studies of astrophysics at the University of Vienna
1984- In age of 26, he is the first living Austrian artist who has taken to permanent collection of Guggenheim Museum in New York
1985-1986 „Cite International des Arts“, Paris
1986-1987 „Berliner Künstler Programm DAAD“, Berlin
1990-1992 Lives and works in New York
1991-1994 Essays on photography, painting and philosophy, e.g. „Salome“, „Essay Hölle“, „Hot Memories“
1992-2002 Video works, electronic sound installations and other art projects in museums an in the public shere...
2003 New Painting
2006 Video Drawings -Video paintings, paintings
2007 Staged Photography
2009 The Beckett/Gün Project in the Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg / Berlin Museum for Surrealist Art,
part of the New National Gallery, Berlin
2009 Marriage with Austrian painter Muteber Aydin

Currently working with photography, lives and works in Berlin and London.

Selected Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
United Nations Center, Vienna
Painting and Sculpture Museum, Ankara
Minister of Culture, Permanent Collection, Ankara
Schering AG, Berlin
Neve Shalom Sinagogue, Jewish Center, Istanbul
Ruhnke Building, Berlin
Istanbul Modern (Modern Art Museum Istanbul), Istanbul
Proje4L - Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
EU Art Museum, Finland

Selected Awards
1978 " Golden Fugger" award, Academy of fine Arts, Vienna
1989 " Agam Mezuza" Israel
1988 " Artist of the year" Award, Istanbul