Welcome to Leo Haz Art
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Leo Haz art evolves in a small city in Austria, near the alps. He is specialized in using materials that seemingly have no value and turning them into something extraordinary like contemporary fine art. PET bottles and food package are just two of the sources that he has transformed into chairs and lamps, recycling these and giving them new life.
For Leo Haz, taking something apart is as interesting as making something new. Drawing initial sketches but also working instinctively, he says: “When I’m trying out these materials and testing them, I often start with an initial idea and it fails. But through this failure something else comes. I’m fascinated by this process.”
His shapes derive from the materials themselves, using their inherent qualities to create a new form. He segments PET bottles into single stripes using a cutter, then heating and melting these together into organic shapes like leaves; he deconstructs PET bottles so that they are just sheets of plastik and foil, shifting these into three- dimensional forms that are reminiscent of nature patterns. For him, refuse is about re-use: “I’m interested in how to find the right purpose and the beauty in discarded matter.”
Leo Haz developed several technics out of the immanent features of thermoplastics for which he applied a patent, made for recycling these.
Please contact him at: office@leohaz.com
"Life is like a bottle, when you turn it upside down, often more comes out of it."-
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Leo Haz Art
COURSE
2024
Group Exhibition „Herbstsalon“, gallery Valentinum, Braunau (A)
Solo Exhibition „Hearts Perspective“, gallery K3, Kottigstelzham (G)
2023
Group Exhibition „Winterfest“, gallery K3, Kottigstelzham (G)
2021
Solo Exhibition on ECO-NFT, spatial 3d-gallery, online
Project „Skult“ CO2 absorbing sculpture in cooperation with Harvard grad Rom Siquijour, (USA)
Sculpture „Million dollar smile“ sold on saatchiart.com, (GB)
2020
Group Exhibition „Mona Corona and the Corona – Heads“, gallery K3, Kottigstelzham (G)
2019
Solo Exhibition „Light-dayz“ („Lichttage“), Leo Haz Studio, Braunau (A)
Installation Project „Recycling Reliefs“ in cooperation with MK woodwork, Braunau (A)
Installation „Axiom“ (black square) sold and adopted to the privat collection of Rainer Reinisch, Braunau (A)
2018
Solo Exhibition „Lumpinator“: PET-RGB Study, gallery K3, Kottigstelzham (G)
2017
Project „PETasienstab“, Prototype development with ABZ, Braunau (A)
2016
Installation „RITUAL 33“, sold to freemason lodges, Munich, Passau (G)
TV invitation „RECYCLING-ART“, „good morning austria“, ORF2 (A)
2015
Performance and Speech, „SLOW CULTURE EVENT“, Johannes Keppler University (JKU), Linz (A)
2014
Workshop with Kids „KUNST-STOFF“, TIZ, future academy, Kirchdorf (A)
2013
„WISCHUALS“ – „Art is a science“ („Kunst ist eine Wischenschaft“), Braunau (A)
2012
Group Exhibition „PET field“, Landesausstellung, Castle of Mamling (A)
TV invitation „extraordinary people“ („Außergewöhnliche Menschen“) Barbara Karlich Show, ORF1 (A)
Newspaper appearance „the green horror has begun“ („Das grüne Grauen hat begonnen“), article in Kurier (A)
First Exhibition „PET STUHL“, Casino Bad Füssing (G)
2011
Patent approval P21: PETing – Recycling of thermoplastics
CONTACT
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