Marina Faust

Marina Faust
Born	1950
Nationality	Austrian
Website	Official website

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 ^[1] and with Architectural Digest magazine, USA, and Architectural Digest magazine, Germany, between 1985 and 2012. ^[2]

She taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2000-2001. ^[3]

A first museum solo show of her work took place at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2017. ^[4]

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. ^[5]

She is a regular collaborator to French art magazine FROG. ^[6]

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

Marina Faust is represented by GIANNI MANHATTAN, ^[7] Vienna, and Xippas, Geneva, Paris and Punta del Este. ^[8]

Exhibitions

2025

• Marina Faust with GIANNI MANHATTAN at Basel Social Club, Basel ^[9]
• In Reverse, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, (solo) ^[10]

2024

• Scala, Kunst und Wein Haugsdorf, Austria ^[11]
• Shifts and Phases, Xippas Geneva ^[12]
• Visionäre Räume. Walter Pichler trifft Friedrich Kiesler, Belvedere 21, Vienna ^[13]
• 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 ^[14]
• Ambulant # 05 at Carlone Contemporary, Belvedere Museum, Vienna (solo) ^[15]

2022

• Autonomous Gestures, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, Austria, (solo) ^[16]
• Hedy Lamarr - The Strange Woman, La Galerie, Noisy-Le-Sec, France ^[17]

2021

• Marina Faust, Fiac, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Paris, (solo) ^[18]

2020

• Marina Faust, Otto Breicha Award for Artistic Photography, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo) ^[19]
• In Rare Cases, Local Hero with Pompadour, Xippas, Geneva (solo) ^[20]

2019

• Fashion Moments, Women Photographers in Focus, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria ^[21]

2018

• Klassentreffen, Werke aus der Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann, mumok, Vienna, Austria ^[22]
• Once on TV, GIANNI MANHATTAN, Vienna, Austria (solo) ^[23]
• Maladie d'amour, Marina Faust & Nicolas Jasmin, Lili Reynaud Dewar's studio, Grenoble, France ^[24]
• Volume Imaginaire, Galerie Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany ^[25]

2017

• It's Only You, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (solo) ^[26]
• Der Verdienst. 2014-2017, Oracle, Berlin, Germany ^[27]
• Für eine Weile, wer weiß wie lange, performance with Sonia Leimer, Franz West Artist Club, Belvedere21, Vienna, Austria ^[28]

2016

• Talk without Words (Christopher Wool), collaboration with Franz West, Franz West Artistclub, Belvedere21, Vienna, Austria ^[29]
• Le Mérite. 2014-2016, Treize, Paris, France
• Design im Fenster, Wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria ^[30]
• More Anecdotes, Wellwellwell, Vienna, Austria ^[31]

2015

• Destination Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria ^[32]

2014

• New Ways of Doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria ^[33]
• Biographical Forms, Construction and Individual Mythology, Museo nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain ^[34]

2013

• Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria ^[35]
• Mostly West, Franz West and Artist Collaborations, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK ^[36]

2012

• Talk without Words (Christopher Wool), collaboration with Franz West, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
• Reflecting Fashion, mumok, Vienna ^[37]

References

1. Faust, Marina. "Collaboration with Martin Margiela". Material Magazine.
2. "Architectural Digest Articles". Architectural Digest.
3. "Quot de neuf a L'ENSBA ?". ficep. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
4. "It's Only You exhibition". Le Consortium Dijon.
5. "Otto Breicha Award and Museum der Moderne Salzburg exhibition". Gianni Manhattan. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
6. "Frog 21 issue". Frog.
7. "Marina Faust artist bio". Gianni Manhattan.
8. "Xippas Gallery Marina Faust Bio". Xippas. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
9. https://baselsocialclub.com/bank-2025/
10. https://giannimanhattan.com/exhibitions/in-reverse/
11. https://www.kunstundwein.at/kunst-wein-2024/
12. https://www.xippas.com/media/2024/05/SP-communique-EN-1.pdf
13. https://www.belvedere.at/visionaere-raeume-walter-pichler-trifft-friedrich-kiesler
14. "The Echo Of Picasso". Museo Picasso Malaga. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
15. "Marina Faust at Belvedere Museum Carlone Contemporary". Belvedere.
16. "Autonomous Gestures Exhibition". Gianni Manhattan. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
17. "Hedy Lamarr - The Strange Woman". La Galerie.
18. "Fiac 2021". Gianni Manhattan. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
19. "Otto Breicha Award and exhibition at Museum der moderne Salzburg". sichtbar.art.
20. "In Rare Cases, Local Hero With Pompadour". Xippas.
21. "Fashion Moments. Women Photographers in Focus". austrianfashion.net.
22. "Klassentreffen Werke aus der Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann" (PDF). mumok. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
23. "Once On TV". Gianni Manhattan. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
24. "Maladie d'Amour". maladiedamourgrenoble.fr. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
25. "Volume Imaginaire". Van Horn.
26. "It's Only You". Le Consortium Dijon. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
27. "Der Verdienst. 2014-2017". Mousse Magazine. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
28. "Artistclub: Performance Marina Faust and Sonia Leimer". eSeL.
29. "Franz West Artistclub". Belvedere.
30. "Design im Fenster". wellwellwell. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
31. "More Anecdotes". wellwellwell. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
32. "Destination Vienna". Kunsthalle Wien. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
33. "New Ways of Doing Nothing". Kunsthalle Wien.
34. "Biographical Forms". Museo Reina Sofia.
35. "Salon der Angst". Kunsthalle Wien. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
36. "Mostly West:Franz West and Artist Collaborations". Austrian Cultural Forum. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
37. "Reflecting Fashion". altertümliches.at.