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Margot Pilz (* 1936 in Haarlem , Netherlands) is an Austrian visual artist who has particularly distinguished herself in conceptual and media art . She is considered a pioneer of digital art in Austria and often chooses feminist approaches.

Life

Margot Pilz was born in Haarlem (Netherlands) in 1936 and fled the National Socialists with her parents in 1939 . She spent two years in a concentration camp in Java . She has lived in Vienna since 1954 .

Before working as a visual artist in the late 1970s, she was an advertising photographer in Vienna. She studied photography at the Higher Federal Graphical Training and Research Institute in Vienna until 1976. Pilz cites her arrest by the police at the third Women's Festival in Vienna in 1978 as a decisive moment in her turn to the fine arts, which she said she addressed in her second-hand sculptures. In 1978 she also joined the feminist network of women artists IntAkt - International Action Group for Women Artists . Her work is closely related to the feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s; In her work she addressed and reflected on the institution of marriage, women's working conditions (for example with the work “Arbeiterinnenaltar”, 1981, for which she photographed women workers in the Eduscho coffee roasting plant and questioned them about their working conditions) and the social role of women.

Margot Pilz was a pioneer in the field of media art in Austria. In 1991 she realized the sculpture Delphi Digital (together with Roland Alton-Scheidl) for the Ars Electronica in Linz. Another well-known work by Pilz is her intervention in public space Kaorle on Karlsplatz (1982), for which she had sand poured up and deck chairs set up on Vienna's Karlsplatz as part of the Wiener Festwochen .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981: Extended Photography, Secession , Vienna
  • 1984: 1984. Orwell and the Present, Museum of the 20th Century , Vienna
  • 1984: 4th Dimension, Dryphoto, Prato, Florence
  • 1985: Identity Pictures, Secession , Vienna
  • 1985: Meditation 85, Steirischer Herbst , Graz
  • 1985: The White Cell Project, Photo Gallery Vienna , Vienna
  • 1987: Le temps d'un movement, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , Paris
  • 1988: Computerkunst 88, Museum Gladbeck
  • 1988: Behind the Walls, Donaufestival, Langenlois
  • 1991: Delphi Digital, Ars Electronica , Linz
  • 1992: The Dissolution of Photography - The Cold Room, Blue-Yellow Gallery, Vienna
  • 1993: Tacit Surveillance, Künstlerhaus , Vienna
  • 1994: Zeit / Schnitte, Patriarchat, Wiener Festwochen , Vienna
  • 1997: Amplifier / Cascade, Künstlerhaus , Vienna
  • 2003/2004: Female Artists - Positions 1945 to Today, Kunsthalle Krems , Krems
  • 2004: Woman in the picture. Staged femininity, Museum of Modern Art , Passau / Germany
  • 2005/2006: The Encyclopedia of True Values, Künstlerhaus , Vienna
  • 2007: The love of objects, Lower Austrian State Museum , St. Pölten
  • 2008: At the pulse of the city. 2000 years Karlsplatz, Wien Museum , Vienna
  • 2008: Matrix. Gender - Relationships - Revisions, MUSA , Vienna
  • 2008: Work Show XIII. Intact - the pioneers, Photo Gallery Vienna , Vienna
  • 2009: Best of Austria, Lentos , Linz
  • 2010: raum_körper_ Einsatz, MUSA , Vienna
  • 2012: Celebration / Me Myself & Them, Künstlerhaus , Vienna
  • 2014: Actionists, Kunsthalle Krems , Forum Frohner, Krems
  • 2014: Once upon my time - JAVA 1942, Künstlerhaus , Vienna
  • 2015: Margot Pilz - Milestones. From performative photography to digital field research, MUSA Vienna
  • 2016: The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, The Photographers' Gallery, London
  • 2017: The power of old age, Belvedere Vienna
  • 2017: Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection , ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
  • 2017: The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, MUMOK Vienna

Awards

literature

  • Silvie Aigner, Berthold Ecker (ed.): Margot Pilz - Milestones . De Gruyter, Berlin 2015 ISBN 978-3-11-045841-1 .
  • Silvie Aigner, Johannes Karel (Ed.): Raum_Kbody-Einsatz: Positions of the sculpture . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2010 ISBN 978-3-86984-106-9
  • Brigitte Borchardt-Birbaumer, Dieter Ronte (Ed.): Actionists. 2014 ISBN 978-3-901261-60-2

Web links

Commons : Margot Pilz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tanja Paar: Margot Pilz: "We don't know if it's art". In: The Standard. November 25, 2015, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  2. ^ Anne Katrin Feßler: Margot Pilz: Bold, resistant, feminist. In: The Standard. November 25, 2015, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Information on Margot Pilz in the archive “Basis Wien”. Retrieved September 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Tanja Paar: Margot Pilz: “We don't know whether it's art”. In: The Standard. September 25, 2015, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Almuth Spiegler: It starts: female artists of the 1970s take off. In: The press. November 28, 2015, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Michaela Fleck: Culture Awards 2019: 24 awards and lots of art from Lower Austria. In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten . November 5, 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mushroom, Margot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Haarlem , the Netherlands