Marina Faust

Marina Faust (born 1950) is an Austrian artist.

Life and work

Marina Faust started to work as a photo reporter in Vienna in 1969.

In 1995 Faust extended her practice onto other media such as video and installation. Her main groups of works today are her series 'Faces', her 'Traveling Chairs' and 'Rolling Stools' and more recently the 'Ambulants', light sculptures constructed with vintage chandeliers.

Her first solo exhibitions took place in Paris at Galerie Agathe Gaillard in 1982 and 1986.

She refreshes the view on her photographic work regularly by appropriating her own archives.

Faust has collaborated as a photographer with Martin Margiela from 1990 to 2008 and with Architectural Digest magazine, USA, and Architectural Digest magazine, Germany, between 1985 and 2012.

She taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2000-2001.

A first museum solo show of her work took place at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2017.

Faust received the Otto Breicha Award for Artistic Photography in 2019, which was accompanied by an exhibition at Museum der Moderne Salzburg and a catalogue.

She is a regular collaborator to French art magazine FROG.

In 2024 Marina Faust received the Austrian Art Award for artistic photography.

Marina Faust is represented by GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, and Xippas, Geneva, Paris and Punta del Este.

Exhibitions

2025

Marina Faust with GIANNI MANHATTAN at Basel Social Club, Basel In Reverse, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, (solo)

2024

Scala, Kunst und Wein Haugsdorf, Austria Shifts and Phases, Xippas Geneva Visionäre Räume. Walter Pichler trifft Friedrich Kiesler, Belvedere 21, Vienna Hermann Czech, Ungefähre Hauptrichtung, FJK3, Vienna

2023

In the effort to keep day and night together, Xippas, Paris, (solo) The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso Malaga, Spain Ambulant # 05 at Carlone Contemporary, Belvedere Museum, Vienna (solo)

2022

Autonomous Gestures, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, Austria, (solo) Hedy Lamarr - The Strange Woman, La Galerie, Noisy-Le-Sec, France

2021

Marina Faust, Fiac, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Paris, (solo)

2020

Marina Faust, Otto Breicha Award for Artistic Photography, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo) In Rare Cases, Local Hero with Pompadour, Xippas, Geneva (solo)

2019

Fashion Moments, Women Photographers in Focus, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria

2018

Klassentreffen, Werke aus der Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann, mumok, Vienna, Austria Once on TV, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, Austria (solo) Maladie d'amour, Marina Faust & Nicolas Jasmin, Lili Reynaud Dewar's studio, Grenoble, France Volume Imaginaire, Galerie Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany

2017

It's Only You, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (solo) Der Verdienst. 2014-2017, Oracle, Berlin, Germany Für eine Weile, wer weiß wie lange, performance with Sonia Leimer, Franz West Artist Club, Belvedere21, Vienna, Austria

2016

Talk without Words (Christopher Wool), collaboration with Franz West, Franz West Artistclub, Belvedere21, Vienna, Austria Le Mérite. 2014-2016, Treize, Paris, France Design im Fenster, Wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria More Anecdotes, Wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria

2015

Destination Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria

2014

New Ways of Doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria Biographical Forms, Construction and Individual Mythology, Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2013

Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria Mostly West, Franz West and Artist Collaborations, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK

2012

Talk without Words (Christopher Wool), collaboration with Franz West, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK Reflecting Fashion, mumok, Vienna