Leo Zogmayer
Leo Zogmayer (born February 28, 1949 in Krems , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian artist . He lives in Vienna and Krems an der Donau .
life and work
Between 1975 and 1981 Zogmayer studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with Herbert Tasquil . Zogmayer's preferred visual media are drawing, printmaking, photography, computer drawing, painting ( reverse glass painting ), sculpture (wood, iron, aluminum, concrete). Since the late eighties, Zogmayer has also been realizing large-scale art projects in various architectural and urban planning contexts (Vienna, St. Pölten , St. Veit / Salzburg, Sonnenhausen / Germany, Tübingen, New York) as well as at the interface with design and also designed several liturgical spaces (Brussels, Frankfurt, Bonn, Aschaffenburg, Graz, Carmelite Convent Innsbruck ). Between 1998 and 2000 he was head of the class for Aesthetics of Space at the Topolcianky International Summer Academy in Slovakia.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Zogmayer broke away from the narrative, mimetic and expressive components of his previous art, which was mainly realized as painting, drawing and printmaking. Room and wall objects are created that are based on clear geometric basic forms and that the artist combines to create installation-like, space-related inventories.
In the mid-1990s, word and text came into play in the course of a further radicalization of image reduction. The artist left out individual words or short sentences from the monochrome color surfaces of his reverse glass pictures, engraved them in cuboid and cylindrical objects made of steel or aluminum and placed them as large-format installations in public spaces.
Subject areas in Zogmayer's art include: a. the rehabilitation and re-accentuation of the beautiful as a core aesthetic concept, the thematization of time, intercultural discourses, art and spirituality, reductionist and iconoclastic aesthetics.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1991 Essen, Museum Folkwang , Leo Zogmayer - drawing / sculpture
- 1991 Salzburg, Rupertinum, Leo Zogmayer - sculpture
- 1991 Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Leo Zogmayer - Sculpture
- 1996 Essen, Museum Folkwang, Positions - Travel to the limits of painting
- 1996 Rome, Palazzo Braschi, Austriaci a Roma
- 2000 Bratislava, Galerie Medium, Leo Zogmayer - Space Color Text
- 2001 Marburg, Kunstverein, Leo Zogmayer - No picture
- 2001 Vienna, MUMOK, discursive painting
- 2002 Warsaw, National Museum, Semiotic Landscape
- 2005 New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 11th Triennale India
- 2006 Krems, Kunsthalle, Leo Zogmayer - beautiful
- 2008 Brno, Moravian Gallery, I Asked The Friends ...
- 2010 Vienna, MUMOK, Painting - Process and Expansion
- 2010 Vienna, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Project Vienna
- 2012 Neuhaus, Museum Liaunig, Reality and Abstraction
- 2013 Vienna, 21er Haus, sign - image - object
- 2014 Berlin, KunstBüroBerlin, Zeit Unzeit
- 2015 Salzburg, Salzburg Museum, Piano Arte
- 2015 Linz, Castle Museum, the myth of beauty
- 2017 Vienna, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Aesthetics of Change
- 2017 Vienna, Dommuseum Vienna, Images of Language
- 2019 Berlin, drj gallery, Century Idea Bauhaus, 100 artists
- 2019 Krems, Dominikanerkirche, Leo Zogmayer - TALKING SILENCE ABOUT
Public collections (selection)
- Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Collection, Vienna
- Graphic Collection Albertina, Vienna
- University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg
- Lentos, Art Museum Linz
- Lower Austrian State Museum, St. Pölten
- Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus
- Folkwang Museum, Essen
- Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
- Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux
- Fund d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander
Awards (selection)
- 1984 Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts
- 1985 Theodor Körner Prize
- 1986 Adolf Schärf Art Prize Vienna
- 1996 Culture Prize of the State of Lower Austria
- 1999 Georg Eisler Prize
- 2014 Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
- 2019 Grand Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Lower Austria
Literature (selection)
- Leo Zogmayer SPEECH SILENCE WOVON, exhibition catalog Museum Krems, with texts by Barbara Steiner, Karl Baier and Wolfgang Müller-Funk. Vienna 2019
- Leo Zogmayer, where are you? in: Johann Günther, Changes in a Generation: Contributions from Science, Art, Philosophy, Literature, Management. Linz 2019
- Teamwork. Art in the sacred space. Munich 2018
- Images of language. Dom Museum Vienna. Vienna 2017
- First words. Thoughts on Leo Zogmayer's word images. Karl Baier, in: Focus on people. Phenomenological approaches. Würzburg 2012
- From framing the world. Looking as location-based in Leo Zogmayer's art. Dieter Willim. Unpublished diploma thesis University of Vienna 2010
- Project Vienna. How to React to a City. Museum of Applied Arts. Vienna 2010
- Leo Zogmayer, Is your journey really necessary? Vertice Gallery. Text: Fernando C. Flórez, Oviedo 2008
- Leo Zogmayer, nice. Kunsthalle Krems. Conversation with Leo Zogmayer, Tayfun Belgin. Krems 2006
- Leo Zogmayer. Word-thing-picture. Toompea Museum Freising. Texts: Peter Steiner, K. Baier. Freising 2006
- 11th Triennale India, The Austrian Contribution. Text: Carl Aigner. New Delhi 2005
- Leo Zogmayer. Gallery Medium, Bratislava u. Museum of Modern Art, Passau. Texts: FX Baier, Mária Orisková. Bratislava 2000
- Leo Zogmayer. Linking separations. Text: Rainer Fuchs. Klagenfurt 1997
- Positions - traveling to the limits of painting. Museum Folkwang Essen. Essen 1996
- Leo Zogmayer, sculptures. Museum of Modern Art Vienna, Rupertinum Salzburg and Museum Folkwang Essen. Texts: Gerhard Finckh, Lóránd Hegyi, Henriette Horny, Dieter Ronte. Vienna 1991
- Leo Zogmayer, drawings 1986–1991. Museum Folkwang Essen. Texts: Hubertus Froning, Andrea Hofmann. Vienna 1991
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Zogmayer, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krems , Lower Austria |