Works of Andreas J. Hirsch relating
to the artist HR Giger (1940–2014)

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR

Topographies of Horror and Desire
Five Preliminary Remarks on the Landscapes of HR Giger

February 2025

The Princess – Remembering The Weird and Eerie * The Landscapes – Invoking Paradoxes * On the Outside – A Matrix of Art and Life * Dreaming – Trains Crossing the Landscape * An Astonishing Calmness – Inner Landscapes

HR Giger (Monograph)

Hans Werner Holzwarth (ed.), Andreas J. Hirsch (author)
TASCHEN, Cologne, 2016/2021/2024

The only monograph of HR Giger, published by TASCHEN in meanwhile three editions,
all multilingual in English, French, and German:

2024

HR Giger, XXL Edition
Hardcover in box, 29 x 39.5 cm, 5.95 kg, 506 pages
https://www.taschen.com/en/books/art/44853/hr-giger/

2021

HR Giger. 45th Ed.
Hardcover, 15.6 x 21.7 cm, 1.14 kg, 512 pages
https://www.taschen.com/en/books/art/40700/hr-giger-40th-ed/

2016

BABY SUMO Edition of 1,000 (sold out)
Hardcover with fold-outs in clamshell box, 36.7 x 50 cm, 13.26 kg, 400 pages
https://www.taschen.com/en/limited-editions/art/06390/hr-giger/

HR Giger – Featured Artist of Ars Electronica Festival / The Art of Biomechanics
in: Leopoldseder-Stocker-Schöpf (Eds.): Total Recall – The Evolution of Memory
Hatje-Cantz, Berlin, 2013

EXHIBITIONS AS CURATOR

Dreams and Visions (Träume und Visionen)
Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, 2011

The Art of Biomechanics (Die Kunst der Biomechanik)
Lentos Art Museum, Linz, 2013

HR Giger’s World
Ars Electronica Center Deep Space, 2013/2018

Multimedia Project / Gigapixel Projections curated and conceptualized by Andreas J. Hirsch

Participation in:
Dark Star – HR Giger’s World, Documentary Movie

Dir: Belinda Sallin, CH, 2014