Kurt Hentschläger (born in 1960), EVER MORE, 2025, 4K video projection, 5 min 17 s (loop). Courtesy of the artist. Photo MMFA, Julie Ciot
Kurt Hentschläger (born in 1960), EVER MORE, 2025, 4K video projection, 5 min 17 s (loop). Courtesy of the artist. Photo MMFA, Julie Ciot
Kurt Hentschläger
Commissioned by the MMFA for the fifth edition of its Digital Canvas, EVER MORE will light up the facade of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, every night from sunset until 11 p.m. In this work, Kurt Hentschläger explores the emergence of a hybrid nature—an amalgamation of physical and virtual elements that blend together seamlessly.
An immersion in a landscape
both familiar and surreal
EVER MORE is part of Kurt Hentschläger’s ongoing body of work reflecting on the aesthetic and psychological reverberations of the Anthropocene. In this work, edited, animated, and composited video recordings of wild prairie plants and flowers are interwoven with effects, lighting and 3D-synthesized landscapes, transforming into a continuously shapeshifting, manneristic, organic flow that is at once natural and synthetic, familiar and alien.
Although its moving images make EVER MORE a time-based work, its creation process stems more from the spirit of painting than from film. It will serve as an illuminating and colourful counterpoint, uplifting the spirits of Montrealers during the winter season.
New York based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates media installations and performances for both physical and virtual venues. His visceral and immersive works are known for their strong perceptual effects. They challenge an audience psychologically but also offer a meditative respite from the day-to-day stress of digitally enhanced life.
Hentschläger’s practice embraces experimentation and an interdisciplinary approach, exemplified in his ephemeral audiovisual environments and live shows that blend fine arts, music and theatre.
Between 1992 and 2003, he was part of the groundbreaking media art duo GRANULAR≈SYNTHESIS. They were known for their emotionally intense works and developed, among other things, what is now often referred to as immersive art. From 2013-2018, he taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a full-time visiting artist.
Hentschläger’s work has been presented in numerous venues and events throughout the world.
Kurt Hentschläger. Photo Martin Steffen
Credits and acknowledgements
The MMFA’s Digital Canvas was made possible thanks to funding from Tourisme Montréal’s Fonds de maintien des actifs stratégiques en tourisme (FMAST) program and the Gouvernement du Québec.
Curator: Richard Castelli – EPIDEMIC
