Moritz Messenböck
Vienna, Austria
3 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Vienna
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Works by Moritz Messenböck
My Art is a journey into the depths of my psyche and philosophy of life. Everything I happen to come across exploring is captured, reflected upon and further developed. Each thought that’s on my mind and that’s interesting to me, no matter of which nature, is depicted in a raw and uncensored way. The best way to describe my artworks would be as figurative representations of certain periods of time within my human life. I am exploring my traumas and mental disorders that arose out of my childhood and youth which are strongly marked by physical pain due to a lot of surgeries I had to undergo. Through that I share my experiences and I also try to motivate other people which are stuck in situations of suffering to not give up and to make the best out of their negative experiences. Pain and suffering are incredibly versatile gifts which can form an strenghten a human beeing in a productive way if they let it happen. In my opinion there is no such thing as „positive“ or „negative“ when it comes to the human psyche, everything is closely interwoven and influences each other. It always depends on what you make out of it.
My name is Moritz Messenböck, I am 21 years old and grew up in Vienna, where I currently live. I am known under the stage name M.A.M., which corresponds to the initials of my name.
Childhood and school years
I was born with a birth defect. Because of this I had about 13 surgeries until I was 14 years old and spent a lot of time on crutches and sometimes in a wheelchair. Many painkillers and other medications were constant companions.
One year after my last operation I slowly started to feel the psychological consequences of the whole thing, which still play a role in my life, influence and inspire me.
Artistic career
After graduating from high school in 2018, I attended a fashion college at HLMW9 Michelbeuern. I had already enjoyed designing garments on my own during the last years of school. For me, this consisted mainly of painting the textile surface, sketching and screen printing. However, I then dropped out of the college in March 2019 because I didn't like the sewing and the strong technical aspect of tailoring. I wanted to create something even freer, even more limitless.
From March 2019 to October 2020, I then spent a year and a half almost exclusively painting and drawing at home. In June 2019, I came to the attention of the Aurora Art Gallery on Favoritenstraße in Vienna. Since then, I've had three solo exhibitions there, "I wont listen" (Sept. 2019), "Embrace the Black Liquid" (Oct. 2020) and "Jumping Chapters" (Oct. 2021). I am also under contract there since Nov. 2020. I have been studying at the Kunstschule Wien since Oct. 2020.