This video of Hartmut Veit’s “COAL” MFA Graduate Exhibition 2017 at VCA Art Space (Victorian College of the Arts 2017 at University of Melbourne) investigates the complex web of social and political changes affecting communities in transition from...
The meditative exploration of a little pine forest plantation site in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia morphed into the carving of an aerial burial canoe as a ritualistic act to honour and commemorate the life and death of my late father, Gottfried Veit (“Gottfried” is...
This neon and coal sculptural art work questions dualistic and contradictory relationships with coal as a fossil fuel and resource. Being bilingual in German and English for me the word “Gift” has two meanings: Firstly in English the word...
Within the context of the current climate emergency, war and energy crisis Hartmut Veit’s eco-art performance with coal is a re-enactment and homage to the Japanese artist Kazuo Shiraga, a Japanese abstract painter, zen monk and first-generation member of the postwar...
