Dagmar Chobot

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Dagmar Chobot (born August 31, 1946 in Vienna ) is an Austrian gallery owner. In 1983 she took over the management of Galerie Chobot, 1010 Vienna, Domgasse 6, with a focus on contemporary sculpture.

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After graduating from high school in 1965, Dagmar Chobot joined the Central Savings Bank of the Municipality of Vienna (now Bank Austria, Unicredit), where she trained as a bank clerk in the Wipplingerstraße branch.

In 1968 he married the writer Manfred Chobot and began collecting contemporary Austrian art. Together with her husband, she founded the Atelier Yppen in Yppengasse, Vienna-Ottakring, in 1971, where she showed exhibitions of Austrian visual arts. Friendship and collaboration with artists such as Alfred Hrdlicka , Adolf Frohner , Hans Staudacher , Bruno Gironcoli , Gunter Damisch , Felix Waske u. a. In 1978 Dagmar Chobot took on a management position in the bank's branch division. In 1983 the Yppen gallery moved to Domgasse 6, 1010 Vienna.

In 1985 she began an apprenticeship with Rudolf Springer, Berlin, the doyen of the German art trade, thereby expanding to international art and participating in international art fairs and renaming it to Galerie Chobot. In 1988, Dagmar Chobot was appointed head of the Auhofstrasse branch of Bank Austria. From 1988 to 2004, Dagmar Chobot was a board member of the Association of Austrian Galleries. The business and exhibition rooms in Domgasse were expanded in 1993.

In 1997 Dagmar Chobot ended her banking activities and since then has been exclusively involved in the arts and culture, which has led to cooperation with renowned museums such as Lentos - Linz, Albertina - Vienna, MUMOK - Vienna, Leopold Museum - Vienna, and artists such as AR Penck , Wolf Vostell , Georg Baselitz , Dieter Appelt , Jiří Georg Dokoupil and the Gugging artists. Participation in art fairs in Basel, Paris, Frankfurt, Montreal, Los Angeles, Cologne and Vienna. Scientific work and processing of the estate of Karl Anton Fleck.

Since 2000, specialization in the focus on sculpture, in particular on artists succeeding Fritz Wotruba, such as Andreas Judge, Josef Pillhofer, Rudolf Schwaiger, Oskar Bottoli, Herbert Albrecht, Wander Bertoni, Alfred Czerny, Heinz Leinfellner as well as younger sculptors such as Walter Moroder and Alfred Haberpointner. From 2004 to 2014 Dagmar Chobot was the main curator for the Lower Austrian Art (Lower Austria Society for Art and Culture). [5]

On the occasion of her 70th birthday, in 2016 she donated the Dagmar Chobot Sculpture Prize in the amount of 10,000 euros, which was presented to Angelika Loderer for the first time on October 6th in the Leopold Museum. The Dagmar Chobot Sculpture Prize is subsequently awarded annually to a young sculptor in cooperation with the Bildrecht collecting society.

Awards

Publications (selection)

Publications (text contributions)

  • the pictures held the frame . The collection artist anselm Glück in conversation with Dagmar Chobot / anselm Glück, artist in the STRABAG Artcollection, in conversation with Dagmar Chobot. In: half remembered, half foreseen. Works from the STRABAG Artcollection / Works from STRABAG Artcollection. Klagenfurt: Ritter Verlag 2015; ISBN 978-3-85415-537-9
  • Crazy - Art Brut - Outsider Art . S 88 - 92. In: Globeart (ed.): (UN) visible - explanatory models to understand the world today. Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2015; ISBN 978-3-11-041574-2
  • Michel Nedjar, FR 1947. My relationship to the artist . S 107 - 111. In: Hannah Rieger (Ed.): Art that connects. The Hannah Rieger Collection. Mattersburg: Wograndl 2014; ISBN 978-3-9502841-4-0
  • You have to have the artists full . Dagmar Chobot in conversation with EA Richter. In: Wespennest No. 65, magazine for useful texts and images, 1986

literature

  • Karl Anton Fleck . Anthropological machine . Edited by Romana Schuler. For the exhibition in the Leopold Museum from February 18 to May 30, 2005. Weitra: Library of the Province 2005; ISBN 978-3-85252-637-9
  • Martina Gansterer: On the trail of the sculptures . About the Chobot Gallery. In: Vernissage, the magazine for current exhibition events, issue 330, 36th year, November 2016 - January 2017
  • Silvie Aigner: Focus on sculpture - 40 years of Galerie Chobot . In: Parnass, art magazine, issue 3/2011, September - October
  • Birthday present: gallery owner Chobot donates sculpture prize . In: Tiroler Tageszeitung, 23 August 2016
  • Angelika Loderer awarded a new sculpture prize. In: Der Standard, October 7, 2016. ( http://derstandard.at/2000045529421/Angelika-Loderer-mit-neuem-Skulpturenpreis-ausgezeichen )
  • Artmagazin: Angelika Loderer first winner of the Dagmar Chobot Sculpture Prize ( http://www.artmagazine.cc/content95901.html )
  • Dagmar Chobot Sculpture Prize: Angelika Loderer awarded. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung, October 7, 2016
  • Insane. Art Brut exhibition in the Langenzersdorf Museum. From November 8th to December 14th 2014. TV 21.at; YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ3XSYNHobw )

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personal data
SURNAME Chobot, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gallery owner
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna