Gerhard Pilgram

Gerhard Pilgram (born April 26, 1955 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian cultural manager , author and visual artist.

At the age of 16, Gerhard Pilgram, then a member of the political band “Foolish and Dilettante”, was already working as a poster at the Viktring Music Forum and learned how to hang up banners.

The school dropout was involved in the Carinthia play area as an advocate of adventure playgrounds, was an actor with Joschi Hanak in the Kikeriki children's theater and briefly with the Villach studio theater. When the communication center in Klagenfurt's Reitschulgasse was proclaimed, he was at the side of Del Vedernjak, who is now the storyteller of Del Vede.

Since 1986 he has been managing director of the UNIKUM university cultural center at the University of Klagenfurt . From 1990 to 1992 Gerhard Pilgram completed a diploma course in cultural management. From 1997 to 2006 he was entrusted with various teaching positions at the University of Klagenfurt. He is a member of the Carinthian Art Association and a founding member of IG Kultur Austria as well as a board member of the Interest Group of the Carinthian Cultural Initiatives (IG KIKK).

Publications

• At the limit of what is allowed - art and censorship in Austria, Klagenfurt 1996
• Carinthia. Down through, Klagenfurt 1998 (together with Wilhelm Berger and Gerhard Maurer)
• Buried, Klagenfurt 2002 (together with Gerhard Maurer)
• Towards Slovenia - On foot from Klagenfurt to Ljubljana, Klagenfurt 2004 (together with Wilhelm Berger and Gerhard Maurer)
• Kovček: kar ste že vedno želeli izvedeti o koroških Slovencih, The suitcase: everything you always wanted to know about the Carinthian Slovenes; A picture-handicraft reading book, Unikum University Cultural Center, Ed .: Emil Krištof , Gerhard Pilgram, Klagenfurt 2005
• Searching for the distance - on foot from Carinthia to Trieste, Klagenfurt 2006 (together with Wilhelm Berger and Gerhard Maurer)
• The last valleys. Hiking and stopping off in Friuli, Klagenfurt 2008 (together with Wilhelm Berger, Werner Koroschitz and Annemarie Pilgram-Ribitsch)
• Going deeper - hiking and stopping off in the Karst and on the coast, Klagenfurt 2011 (together with Wilhelm Berger and Werner Koroschitz)

Exhibitions and art projects

• At the limit of what is allowed. An exhibition on art and censorship in Austria after 1945, traveling exhibition in Austria, 1997
• First Carinthian short-circuit action, Klagenfurt, 1999
• Whores house, Klagenfurt, 2000
• Breaking points, eleven locations in Lower Carinthia, 2001
• Re-elect the people ?, Wels, 2002
• BEAUTIFUL DESERT | LEPA PUŠČA | BELLA BRULLA. A trilateral art project, different locations in Slovenia, Friuli and Carinthia, 2002 and 2003
• TT REAL. A room installation on the subject of war and violence, Klagenfurt, 2003
• Koroška inkognita, series of events from the end of 2003 to January 2005
• Kovček / The Suitcase, traveling exhibition in Austria and Slovenia, 2004
• BABICE NI VEČ. Grandmother is no more. Room installation, Šentjanž v Rožu / St. Johann i. R., 2004
• 20 :: HOCH 2 - A career, Klagenfurt, 2006
• AIR :: HOLEN, Klagenfurt, 2006
• Metabolism room, Klagenfurt, Villach, St.Johann i. R., 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Pilgram in the catalog of the German National Library