Helga Schager

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A portrait photo of the Austrian artist Helga Schager, 2020
Helga Schager, 2020

Helga Schager (* 1955 in Aschach an der Donau , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian visual artist and radio journalist who lives and works in Linz .

life and work

Helga Schager studied at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz . Since 1981 her exhibition and project activities have taken her to Germany , Italy , the Czech Republic , Lithuania , Turkey , New York City , Bolivia , Brazil and Nicaragua . Her artistic forms of expression range from stencil art in public spaces to works on canvas and X-ray images, collages, textile art, computer graphics, art in construction and also audio and art installations. Her work is characterized by the range of media, and the artist's feminist and always political attitude is constant.

“Helga Schager juggles [...] with set pieces and symbols from traditional systems such as family, domesticity, being a wife. [...] In doing so, it removes these symbols from their contexts, from the obvious, from the obvious, and releases them neatly and sharply separated for viewing, thus also their dismantling ”.

Her works can be found in the art collection of Upper Austria, in the Nordico - Museum of the City of Linz, Museum Angerlehner , Federal Chancellery (Artothek).

Since 2000 Helga Schager has been working as a radio journalist for Radio FRO (Freier Rundfunk Oberösterreich) in Linz for feminist broadcasting channels, primarily in the arts and culture. To date she has created over 170 radio reports, including features, radio plays and sound collages, and is the initiator and producer of the "Listen To The Female Artists" series with 37  radio features . Your contributions will be broadcast on Radio Orange 94.0 Vienna, Radio Agora Klagenfurt, Radio Helsinki Graz, Radiofabrik 107.5 Salzburg, Free Radio Innsbruck (Freirad 105.9), Free Radio Freistadt , Radio LoRa Zurich.

Her work has been awarded prizes at the Track 5´– Ö1 short radio play competition, the art competition “Lichtblick Wasser”, LINZ AG Art Forum and the radio prize: “Goldene Ätherwelle” - category “sound space”.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019: “Equal Opportunities and Equal Treatment in the City of Linz in the Focus of Art”, Galerie LINZ AG-Kunstforum (participation).
  • 2019: “Vice Versa Art 2009–2019”, gallery AKTIONSRAUM LINkZ (participation).
  • 2019: “Travel” as part of the Nextcomic Festival 2019 “next stop linz”, Die Kunstschaffenden - Galerie im OÖ. Kulturquartier (participation)
  • 2019: “The same is not the same” - traveling exhibition, Kulturmodell Bräugasse, Passau / D. (Participation)
  • 2018: "Schauplatz", Art Association Paradigma Linz (with Herbert Schager)
  • 2017: "Turnton Docklands welcomes you to a possible Future in 2047" - a project by Time's up Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (participation)
  • 2016: "The Beauty of Anomaly" - Gallery in the Schmiede , Pasching (with Herbert Schager, Oona Valarie Serbest, Ufuk Serbest, Felix Schager )
  • 2015: "Narrative X-rays - Of rubber boots, paper planes & barbed wire", Hofkabinett Gallery, Linz
  • 2014: “Women, Street, Art & Studio”, exhibition and book presentation, Inoperale Gallery, Vienna (participation).
  • 2013: "Lichtblick Wasser", art competition and exhibition, Galerie LINZ AG-Kunstforum (participation and award winner)
  • 2013: "Kunst.Messe.Linz", Landesgalerie Linz (participation).
  • 2013: “Nextcomic Goes Music”, Die Kunstschaffenden - Galerie im OÖ. Kulturquartier (participation)
  • 2011: "Looking for Paradise - poetic pictures", Die Kunstschaffenden - Galerie im OÖ. Cultural quarter
  • 2011: "Mythos Kybele", symposium / exhibition, University of Anadolu Gallery, Eskişehir / Anatolia / Turkey (participation)
  • 2010: "50 fingers in the 44er house", gallery in the 44er house , Leonding (with Herbert Schager, Oona Valarie Serbest, Ufuk Serbest, Felix Schager)
  • 2009: "Vice Versa ART Linz-Vilnius 09", Arka Galerija, Vilnius / Lithuania (participation)
  • 2008: "Be sure, I'm here - stalking", Art University Linz in cooperation with the City of Linz Women's Office (with Eva Knoll)
  • 2007: "The apple doesn't fall far from the trunk" Kunsthaus Tacheles , Berlin (with Herbert Schager, Oona Valarie Serbest, Ufuk Serbest, Felix Schager)
  • 2007: "funny women" - Gallery onetwentyeight, New York City (participation)
  • 2005: "Heroes", Galerie Ruprecht, Obermühl (participation)
  • 2003: "30 ° -60 ° -90 ° - leading actresses", Gallery of Professional Association of Visual Artists, Linz
  • 2002: "Collettiva di artisti austriaci", Galleria d`arte moderna e contemporanea, Trapani / Sicily (with Michael Oberlik, Herbert Schager, Astrid Esslinger)
  • 2001: “Leondinger Eigenart 2001”, open air gallery, intercultural project: “Who is afraid of the black man” (with Astrid Esslinger).
  • 2000: “Positions”, Galerie Kulturforum “abraxas”, Augsburg / D (participation).
  • 1999: "Accomplices", gallery in the Stifterhaus, Linz (with Herbert Schager)
  • 1999: "linz-tokyo-new york", Gallery onetwentyeight, New York City (participation).
  • 1996: "Framing .... because they don't know what they are doing", "Staatsgalerie", Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin (with Herbert Schager)
  • 1995: “Kon-Takt”, Paradigma Art Association, Linz
  • 1994: "ObjektTexilBild", Upper Austrian State Museum Linz (participation)
  • 1993: "por ejemplo", Salon Gildaro Antezana, Cochabamba , Bolivia (participation)
  • 1992: “Bringing it onto the wallpaper”, Seghaier Gallery, Vienna
  • 1991: "Maidachten", roof gallery Stadtwerkstatt Linz (with Herbert Schager)
  • 1981: "Textilkunst 81", Institute for Artistic Textile Design, Linz (participation)

Publications (selection)

  • 2016 “My life is workshop”, art catalog, self-published
  • 2014 “Women, Street, Art & Studio”, authors: Robert Hinterleitner, Nathalie Halgand, Daniel Leidenfrost, Library of the Province , ISBN 978-3-99028-410-0
  • 2009 "Vice Versa ART Linz-Vilnius 09", exhibition catalog, publisher: Freundeskreis Art Linz 2009 GesbR
  • 2007 “The apple doesn't fall far from the trunk”, exhibition catalog, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin, publisher: Edition for applied texts, ISBN 978-3-901815-46-1
  • 1999 “Accomplices - Helga & Herbert Schager”, exhibition catalog, publisher: Upper Austria. Landeskulturdirektion, Galerie im Stifterhaus, ISBN 3-85483-009-2 .
  • 1992 "My work is inspired by the way a zebra has its pattern". Textiles / computer graphics, self-published

Awards

  • 2013: Track 5´– Ö1 short radio play competition, 1st place with the radio play "Vom Verschnitt zum Premiere-Schnitt"
  • 2013: Winner of the art competition “Lichtblick Wasser”, LINZ AG Kunstforum in cooperation with bsa: art.
  • 2008: Award (3rd place) for the radio play “At eye level” - Author: Elisabeth Vera Rathenböck , Design: Helga Schager. A project as part of the quarter festival in the Mostviertel
  • 2007: " Mara Mattuschka - Portrait of an Artist", nomination for the radio prize for adult education
  • 2005: "Brazil is overdriven" - 1st place radio prize: "GOLDEN ETHERWAVE - category sound space", advertised by Radio FRO (Freier Rundfunk Oberösterreich)
  • 2004: "Small state cultural award for the initiative cultural work" - Association SPACEfemFM Frauenradio (founding member)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Soy la mujer de mi vida" I am the woman of my life | KUPF newspaper. Accessed January 7, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Biography - Helga Schager. Accessed January 6, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ Wiltrud Katherina Hackl: A Room of Her Own. Retrieved January 28, 2020 .
  4. ^ The art collection of the province of Upper Austria: Helga Schager. In: https://www.diekunstsammlung.at/InternetKunstsammlung/internetneu/App_Kuenstler.jsp?kid=745 . Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Helga Schager, Michaela Schoissengeier: X_XY (Un) solved and (Un) heard! In: Radio FRO. Accessed January 6, 2020 (German).
  6. ^ Helga Schager: Radio productions. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Listen To The Female Artists. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ oe1.orf.at: From the cut to the premiere cut - a parody. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Paul Fischnaller: Helga Schager and Veronika Merl awarded. In: http://www.hofkabinett.at/cms/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=14&cntnt01origid=37&cntnt01returnid=67 . Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  10. ^ Medienwerkstatt Linz: Awards and nominations. In: Brazil is oversteered. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Hannah Winkelbauer: X-rays tell stories. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  12. ^ Robert Hinterleitner, Nathalie Halgand, Daniel Leidenfrost: Women, Street, Art & Studio. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Helga Schager: Myth Cybele. In: project report. Accessed January 27, 2020 (German).
  14. ↑ "The apple does not fall far from the tree". In: Radio FRO. September 24, 2007, accessed on January 7, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ Helga Schager: "Listen To The Female Artists" # 17, Mara Mattuschka in portrait. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ Die Standard: Open your ears for specifics about women. Retrieved January 6, 2020 (Austrian German).
personal data
SURNAME Schager, Helga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Aschach on the Danube