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©Vinko Nino Jaeger
©Patrick Bauer
©Vinko Nino Jaeger
©Patrick Bauer

Vinko Nino Jaeger

  • Wood sculptor
  • Vienna, Austria
  • Rising Star
Vinko Nino Jaeger Wood sculptor
Contact
German, English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+43 69912860677
©Patrick Bauer

If trees could talk

  • • Vinko dislikes industrially produced furniture
  • • Childhood experiences made him fall in love with wood
  • • He only works with traditional tools

Vinko Nino Jaeger describes himself as an artist-philosopher who writes his thoughts in wood and lives and works with wood. Vinko studied object sculpture, painting and wood restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and opened his studio in 2019. Often inspired by everyday life, he shares how his Odd Leg chair sculptures series came about: "During a summer trip, a huge maple branch fell on my car. The deepest impact was just 5 to 10 cm between my head and the car's roof. The car was a total loss. But I took a piece of the branch and formed it into a chair sculpture leg. It is a three-legged sculpture highlighted by a leg that is shaped differently. It was an attempt at magically transforming the menacing tree into something else, something controllable.”

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Works

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Photo: ©Vinko Nino Jaeger
Captai_in Rock‘s

As a rocking dining chair, this sculpture questions good behaviour and eating without making a mess. With its curved runners, it adapts to physical movements, providing a high level of comfort. The sculptural chair is a playful innovation of the captain chairs, featuring a saddled seat and a hand-cut surface.

Photo: ©Vinko Nino Jaeger
Denktisch Nr. 2

This table is for those who need a desk at which to write and think. It has an extension of the surface on which books can be placed. The table legs feature carved ash leaves. Every table in the series is different, just as diverse thinkers are all different, too.

Photo: ©Vinko Nino Jaeger
5

This is an office chair with five legs. People who sit a lot need a stable base. The odd number of legs also fuels the thought processes of the person sitting on this chair sculpture.

Photo: ©Vinko Nino Jaeger
Oben ohne

This four-legged wide chair with a backrest has no upholstery, and is therefore presented by the artisan as 'topless'.

Photo: ©Vinko Nino Jaeger
James Tiptree Jr.

This three-legged sculpture is part of a series in which a seating object depicts a person’s portrait. This one is inspired by a stool that stood in the parental home of the science fiction author James Tiptree Jr. aka Alice B. Sheldon. On the surface, a quotation from Sheldon's biographer, Julie Phillips, is inscribed.

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