Christoph Luger

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Christoph Luger (born April 16, 1957 in Bregenz ) is an Austrian painter and graphic artist .

life and work

Christoph Luger studied from 1976 to 1981 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Maximilian Melcher and Josef Mikl . He lives and works in Vienna.

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The artistic essences found in the work of the painter Christoph Luger refer to prehistoric, ancient and medieval wall paintings as well as to the pictorial concepts of the American Colorfield Painter . Luger has developed an independent, distinctive and diverse oeuvre from this artistic legacy since the mid-1980s. The artist only uses paper and glue. The paper webs, which are chalk-primed on both sides, are fixed to the studio walls with a tucker. Since 1998 Luger has followed a strict work ritual that ends on Friday evenings with the completion of the weekly picture - after days of intensive preparatory work.

Since 2006 he has been working on weekly pictures with continuously fixed parameters for 12 weeks . With translucent bars of color, sometimes also geometrical color areas and older work fragments, he segments the often meter-long paper webs, which gradually transform into a pastel-spherical appearance . The numerous injuries that the carrier material paper suffers from the intensive processing processes - abrasions on the surface, cracks and perforations - in turn counteract the illusionistic spatiality by emphasizing the object character of the work of art. Christoph Luger's working method is that of a contemporary fresco painter, who after its completion removes his work from the place of origin and transforms it into a new pictorial reality , indeed a picture category .

Awards

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983 Theseus temple in the Volksgarten, Vienna
  • 1992 Galerie allerArt, Bludenz
  • 1998 Investkredit, Vienna
  • 1999 Atelier Westbahnstraße, Vienna
  • 2001 Semperdepot, Vienna
  • 2002 Jesuit Church Vienna: "Position: Present"
  • 2003 Sauruck Gallery, Vienna
  • 2004 Sauruck Gallery, Graz
  • 2004 gugler forum melk, Pielach
  • 2005 Bruckmühle Culture House, Pregarten
  • 2006 Arthouse Gallery, Bregenz,
  • 2008 Galeria Krypta u Pijarów, Cracow
  • 2009 Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
  • 2010 gallery ars videndi, Pfaffenhofen / Germany
  • 2011 Künstlerhaus, Vienna (Serendipity project)
  • 2012 Künstlerhaus, Vienna, house gallery
  • 2012 St. Peter an der Sperr, Wr. Neustadt
  • 2013 Ortner bookstore2
  • 2013 Icon Gallery, Linz
  • 2014 Bildraum 07, Vienna
  • 2018 Galerie Maximilian Hutz, Lustenau / Hard
  • 2019 Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990 WUK project room, Vienna
  • 1991 Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
  • 1992 Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
  • 1993 Wolkersdorf Castle
  • 1994 De Markten, Brussels
  • 1994 Castello di San Giusto, Trieste
  • 1997 Gallery in the Amerlinghaus , Vienna
  • 1998 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Otto Mauer Prize 1981–1998)
  • 1999 Stammersdorf heating house, Vienna
  • 2001 Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
  • 2001 Lower Austria Documentation Center for Modern Art, St. Pölten
  • 2001 Egon Schiele Art Center, Krumau
  • 2002 Museum on Demand, Vienna
  • 2003 Centrum Sztuki Solvay, Cracow
  • 2003 Parliament, Säulenhalle, Vienna (position determination of contemporary Vorarlberg art)
  • 2004 St. Anna Chapel, Passau (Riedl Collection: Changing Pages)
  • 2005 Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg (Emerging Artists)
  • 2006 Kunstforum Bank Austria, Tresorraum, Vienna (Abstract Papers)
  • 2007 Bruckmühle Culture House, Pregarten
  • 2008 Guangzhou and Beijing (artist from Austria in China)
  • 2009 Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo / China
  • 2011 Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha
  • 2013 Gallery Lindner, Vienna
  • 2013 Künstlerhaus Vienna, Neuhaus / Suha

Publications

  • Walls. Exhibition catalog, 1990.
  • Christoph Luger in the Semperdepot. Exhibition catalog, Vienna 2001.
  • Christoph Luger. Painting. On the occasion of the exhibition at the Gugler-Forum Melk, February 11th - August 13th, 2004. Texts by Eva Maria Bechter, Gustav Schörghofer SJ and Florian Steininger. Melk 2004.
  • Work 2006-2008. Text by Gerhard Zeillinger. Vienna 2008.

literature

  • Short biography and sources, pp. 200–201. In: Susanne Fink, Cornelia Rothmund: Fine arts in Vorarlberg. 1945-2005. Biographical lexicon. Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bucher-Verlag, Hohenems 2006, ISBN 978-3-902525-36-9 .
  • Christine Janicek (Ed.): Christoph Luger. Works on paper. On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Künstlerhaus Vienna , November 18 - December 4, 2011 as part of the Serendipity project. With texts by Hermann Fetz, Christine Janicek and Julian Schutting . Edition Serendipity, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2011.

Movies

  • Everything is wall. A film by Martin Kaltner about the artist Christoph Luger, 2008.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Luger, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz