Eva Schlegel

Eva Schlegel (2015)

GKB double-decker car , designed by Eva Schlegel, Graz 2003

Eva Schlegel (born March 8, 1960 in Hall in Tirol ) is an Austrian artist .

Life

From 1979 to 1985 Schlegel studied at the Vienna University of Applied Arts in the master class of Oswald Oberhuber . From 1997 to 2006 she taught as a university professor for art and photography at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts .

In 1995 she participated in the Venice Biennale as an artist for Commissioner Peter Weibel . She designed the facade of the exhibition building with a work between writing and image.

Schlegel was appointed commissioner for the Austrian contribution at the 54th Biennale, which took place from the beginning of June to the end of November 2011.

In 2014 it was announced that Schlegel would design the glass windows for a new roof structure in the Vienna Museum Quarter, the so-called MQ-Libelle . In March 2015 she designed a front page for the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse”.

In April 2015, the memorial she designed for over 1200 justice victims of the National Socialist regime was unveiled at the Vienna Regional Criminal Court . The steel pyramid is labeled “369 weeks”. This is projected as a light installation onto the outer wall of the regional court and symbolizes the 369 weeks of Nazi rule in Vienna.

Eva Schlegel lives and works in Vienna .

Exhibitions

2019: POSTCARD RELOADED , European Art Association in the Museum Kunstraum Potsdam
2018: Fascination Japan - Teapavillion, Kunstforum , Vienna
2018: Spaces.Eva Schlegel , Kunsthalle Krems , Krems
2018: Broken Lines , Frank Lloyd Wright # s 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco
2018: Bodyfiction , Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét
2018: Detour , Artipelag, Sweden
2018: Lieben , Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2017: Karl Lagerfeld Highlights Paris Photo , Grand Palais , Paris
2016: Kochi-Muziris Biennale , Kochi
2016: JP Morgan's curators highlights Paris Photo , Grand Palais , Paris
2014: Photobiennale-2014 , Ekatarina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
2014: Eva Schlegel , Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco
2014: Zavodny Gallery, Mikulov
2013: Eva Schlegel. No Man's Heaven , Salzburg Festival , Salzburg
2013: Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago
2012: GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
2011: Höhenrausch OK Center , Linz
2011: ESA Tropical Team - Human Spaceflight Research, European Space Agency - ESA
2010: In Between , MAK – Museum for Applied Arts , Vienna
2010: Eva Schlegel , Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
2008: Photography from the collection of German bank , collection German bank , Berlin
2008: everybody nobody , Galerie Fortlaan, Gent
2008: LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York
2008: Façade - permanent architectural intervention, Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Salzburg
2007: Walkway - permanent architectural intervention, Novartis Campus, Basel
2007: 4 stairways / 2 ramps - permanent architectural interventions, Novartis Campus, Basel
2006: Simultan , Fotomuseum Winterthur , Winterthur
2005: Eva Schlegel , Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen
2005: Eva Schlegel , Secession , Vienna
2003: LA women , Mak Center for Art and Architecture - LA Schindler House, Los Angeles
2000: Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck
1997: Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow
1996: Chamber of Wonder Austria , Kunsthaus Zürich , Zurich
1995: Venice Biennale - Austrian Pavillon, in cooperation with Coop Himmelb (l) au , Venice
1995: Austria im Rosennetz , MAK – Museum for Applied Arts , Vienna
1994: Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
1994: Gallery Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
1994: The Photographers Gallery, London
1992: European Photography Award - First Prize, Bahnhof Westend, Berlin
1992: The Boundary Rider , Biennale of Sydney , Sydney
1991: Cadences. Icon and Abstraction in Context , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , Los Angeles
1990: Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
1990: Aperto 1990 , Venice Biennale
1989: Art of the last 10 years , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
1988: Biennale of Sydney , Sydney