Günther Selichar
Günther Selichar (* 1960 in Linz ) is an Austrian visual artist ( media art , public (media) space , photography ).
Life
Günther Selichar studied art history and classical archeology from 1979 to 1986 at the University of Salzburg and at the Art Institute of Chicago (Fulbright scholarship). From 2007 to 2013 he was professor for media art at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig , where he founded the class for mass media research and art in public media. It deals in a documentary way with apparatus and technological aspects of (mass) media and shows this among other things. a. in series of abstract photography. He also carries out interventions in public space, such as in the mass media space of television, on billboards or urban screens, in print media, etc. (USA, China and various European countries). His art theoretical work deals with questions of art and mass media, public space, photography or analog and digital media.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions since 1983
- 1983 Photo gallery, Vienna
- 1984 Museum of Modern Art, Vienna
- 1984 Maerz Gallery, Linz
- 1984 Galerie Fotohof , Salzburg
- 1984 Museum Rupertinum , Salzburg
- 1986 Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
- 1988 Kunstverein, Salzburg
- 1988 Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago
- 1990 Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
- 1990 Galleria del Cortile, Rome
- 1990 Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
- 1991 Galerie Maerz, Linz
- 1991 Blue-Yellow Gallery, Vienna
- 1991 Latal Gallery, Zurich
- 1992 New Gallery of the City of Linz
- 1992 Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich
- 1993 Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
- 1993 Gallery of the City of Salzburg
- 1993 Festival of the Regions, Linz
- 1994 Espai Lucas, Valencia
- 1995 Art Association, Steyr
- 1995 Espai Lucas, Valencia
- 1996 Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
- 1999 Gallery in the Stifterhaus, Linz
- 1999 Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich
- 1999 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Billboards
- 2000 Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum , Innsbruck
- 2001 Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
- 2001 Espai Lucas, Valencia
- 2001 Kunsthalle Wien / Project Space *
- 2002 Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich
- 2004 Upper Austria State Gallery, Linz *
- 2004 Creative Time, New York
- 2005 Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich
- 2005 Kammerhofgalerie, Gmunden
- 2006 Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford / Boston
- 2006 Art Association Medienturm, Graz
- 2007 Gallery Lindner, Vienna
- 2008 Gallery Lindner, Vienna *
- 2009 Castle Museum, Linz
- 2010 Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich
- 2014 Galerie Lindner, Vienna
Group exhibitions since 1990 (selection)
Prague City Gallery; Kunstverein Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Winterthur Photo Museum; Sala Parpalló, Valencia; Kunstverein / Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Saint Gervais, Geneva; Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki; ICA, Philadelphia; Fundacão Gulbenkian, Lisboa; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Exit Art, New York; Apexart, New York; Central Museum Utrecht *; La Biennale di Venezia / Mostra Cinematografica *; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis *; Nikolaj Center of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen *; The Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago *; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück *; New York Video Festival *; Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg *; Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai; Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg; Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York; NGBK, Berlin; Lentos Art Museum, Linz; Aarhus Kunstbygnings, Aarhus *; Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki *; Camera Austria / Kunsthaus Graz; Hall 14, Leipzig cotton spinning mill *; Ljubljana Film Festival *; Ljubljana Film Festival *; 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna *, Grassi Museum for Applied Art, Leipzig; Filmmaker Festival, Milano *; Kunsthalle Mainz *; Galerie Thoman, Vienna *; Albertina, Vienna *; MAK, Vienna; Museo d'Arte Moderna Ugo Carà, Muggia / Trieste *.
Exhibitions marked with "*" include collaborations with his wife Loredana Flore-Selichar (* 1962 in Rome), such as "GT Granturismo" and "Fotogram".
Teaching and lectures
- Professor of Media Art, University of Graphics and Book Art, Leipzig, 2007–2013
- School for Poetry, Virtual Academy www.sfd.at, Head of the Visual Class, in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna 2000 + 2001
- Lecturer in “New Media”, Mozarteum University, Salzburg 2002–2007
- Visiting Professor, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2003
- Visiting Professor, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2008
- Visiting Professor, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius 2010
- Visiting Professor, German University in Cairo (GUC) 2012
- Visiting Professor, Ivan Fedorov State University of Printing, Moscow 2012
- Visiting Professor, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius 2014
- Visiting Professor, University of Applied Arts, Vienna 2014/15
- Visiting professor, Art University Linz, experimental design 2015–17
He gave lectures at the following locations, among others: University of Applied Arts, Vienna; School of Visual Arts, New York; University of Design, Zurich; State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe; Institute Of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Royal College, London; Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts, London; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Urban Screens Conference, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen; University of Design, Offenbach .; Gallery 21, Moscow; City Visions Jena, Bauhaus University Weimar; Art University Linz.
music
Günther Selichar played concerts in Austria, Germany , Italy and Turkey and was involved in the following publications:
Call Boys Inc. (with Klaus Dickbauer - Reeds, Wolfgang Mitterer - electronics, Gunter Schneider - guitars, Günther Selichar - percussion)
- call boys inc., Astrologia Mundi, Edition Audiokassette, ORF, Salzburg / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg 1986.
- call boys inc. 1, lp | cd, Moers Music 02068, Germany 1988
- call boys inc. 2, cd, Olongapo 002, Austria 1990
Other:
- 5th Composers Forum Mittersill, cd einklang records, Austria 2001
- Klaus Dickbauer - solo works '89 - '93, pao records 1004, 1995
Awards
- 1990 Prize for Artistic Photography from the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture
- State grant for artistic photography 1997
- 1997 Promotion Prize for Fine Arts of the City of Vienna
- 2001 Upper Austrian regional culture award for artistic photography
- 2004 Art Award for Fine Arts of the City of Linz
- Various awards at the Austrian graphic competition, Innsbruck and numerous scholarships in Germany and abroad.
Monographs
- Otto Breicha, Thomas fence screen: Günther Selichar. Real estate office at night . (Vienna: Molotov, 1984).
- Peter Baum, Dieter Ronte: Günther Selichar. Love is blind . (Salzburg: Edition Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 1990).
- Peter Baum, Uli Bohnen, Christoph Doswald: Günther Selichar. Multiple choice . (Linz: New Gallery of the City of Linz | Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, 1992).
- Uli Bohnen, Christoph Doswald, Walter Seitter: Günther Selichar. Suchbilder (Salzburg | València, 1993/94).
- Carl Aigner, Robert C. Morgan: Günther Selichar. Sources . (Steyr | València | Salzburg, 1995/96).
- Hubertus von Amelunxen, Robert C. Morgan, Urs Stahel: Günther Selichar. Screens, cold . (Vienna: Triton, 2001).
- Martin Hochleitner (eds.), Alexander Horwath, Marc Ries, Dieter Ronte, Marie Röbl, Birgit Sonna: Günther Selichar. Third Eye . (Linz | Salzburg: Upper Austrian State Gallery | Fotohof edition 37, 2004).
- Dieter Buchhart: Archaeological work behind the facade of a media image production. Conversation with Günther Selichar. In: Kunstforum International 174. (Ruppichteroth: Kunstforum, 2005).
- Uli Bohnen, Dieter Buchhart, Christoph Doswald, Ruth Horak, Kathy Rae Huffman, Robert C. Morgan, Marc Ries, Dieter Ronte, Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Günther Selichar, Franz Thalmair, Claudia Tittel: Günther Selichar. Who's Afraid of Blue, Red and Green? (1990-2017). (Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2017)
(The graphic design by Florian Lamm was awarded one of the main prizes, the “Prize of the Mayor of the City of Brno 2018” at the 28th Graphic Design Biennale in Brno).
Web links
- Homepage of the artist
- Artist page on the Fotohof homepage
- Interviews with Günther Selichar: 1 2
- Video file of the lecture "Who's afraid of blue, red and green?" by Günther Selichar, discussion with Ute Meta Bauer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on November 9, 2006.
- Links and information about Günther Selichar on the art forum page
- Brainard Carey, Interview Günther Selichar, Yale University Radio WYBCX, November 17, 2015; http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/gunther-selichar/
- Martín Volman, ¿Quién le teme al azul, rojo y verde ?: Una conversación con Günther Selichar, jaquealarte 01/02/2016, Buenos Aires, http://jaquealarte.com/2016/02/01/quien-le-teme -al-azul-rojo-y-verde-una-conversacion-con-gunther-selichar /
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the HGB Leipzig
- ↑ http://selichar.net/public-space
- ^ Günther Selichar, Mass Media Research and Art in Public Media Space. In: G. Selichar (Ed.), Henrik B. Andersen, Claudia Tittel: editing spaces. reconsidering the public . (Jena: Arte Fakt Publishing House 2012)
- ↑ http://selichar.net/recent-projects/exhibition/
- ^ Gallery Lindner
- ↑ http://selichar.net/works/gt-granturismo
- ↑ http://selichar.net/works/photograms
- ↑ http://www.fotohof.at/content.php?id=24&ausstellung=155&details=1
- ↑ Video of the lecture online
- ↑ http://selichar.net/biography/lectures/lectures/
- ↑ http://selichar.net/biography/music
- ↑ https://selichar.net/biography/bio/
- ↑ biography on Medienkunstnetz.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Selichar, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Linz |