Peter Kogler

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Peter Kogler (2019)

Peter Kogler (born June 19, 1959 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian media artist.

academic career

Kogler studied from 1974 to 1978 at the Kunstgewerbeschule (today HTL Bau + Kunst) in Innsbruck, which was followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1978 to 1979 .

From 1986 to 1987, Kogler was Thomas Bayrle's representative at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule , Frankfurt am Main. In 1993 he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and from 1997 headed the class for new media. Since 2008 he has held a professorship for graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

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Hall of Graz Central Station (2006)
Installation on the mezzanine of the U1 and U2 at Karlsplatz in Vienna (2012)

By using repetitive pattern systems, computer animations and video projections printed on paper webs, Kogler creates accessible, illusionistic room labyrinths that stretch across ceilings, walls and floors and occupy the entire field of vision of the beholder.

Even in his early creative phase in the early 1980s, Kogler's interest in the power of spaces, architecture, sign systems and signal languages ​​began to manifest itself in cardboard objects, drawings, performances and film works. From a preoccupation with film architecture, as it appears in German expressionist film and in various science fiction genres, his interest was and is specifically the media and mediatized space. In 1984 he started working with computers. At the end of the 1990s, the artist increasingly found his form of artistic expression in computer animation. Tubes, ants, globes and brains remain Kogler's most important motifs to this day.

From 1999 onwards, Kogler expanded his initially only two-dimensional works with simple signs such as ants, brain structures or pipelines with computer-manipulated images, videos and slide projections. "Like hardly any other contemporary artist, Kogler finds formative image codes for our world, which is increasingly determined by data streams and electronic paths, and combines this visualization with a physical experience of disorientation."

Kogler uses the principle of repetition that characterizes his work as an analytical method, which, depending on where it is manifested, can be read as an avant-garde principle of the serial or as a commentary on the current socio-political situation. The artist transforms galleries and museum spaces, but also train station halls or public spaces into virtual labyrinths with partly endless and bottomless rooms that change dynamically in exhibition installations and - since the late 1990s, under the background of Franz Pomassl's sound spaces - that can be experienced by a moving audience Open up spaces of illusion. As a stage that can be experienced, they not only dynamize the space, but also open up a level of time that, in addition to a flowing endlessness, evokes the future.

Kogler had his first journalistic success at documenta IX 1992, where he had the entire first room of the Fridericianum Museum crawled over with black and white drawn, oversized ants printed on wallpaper (screen print on paper 405 × 1010 × 1230 cm). For documenta 10 , curated by Catherine David in 1997 , Peter Kogler used a tube system as a motif, with which he covered the wall and ceiling surfaces of the documenta hall in a labyrinthine manner in black and white.

For the European Capital of Culture Graz 2003, Peter Kogler designed a large-scale graphic installation for the large hall of the main train station : the ceiling and side walls from around five meters high were lined with an area of ​​2355 m² of synthetic fiber, inkjet-printed in ÖBB red and shaded gray, and illuminated from below. The biomorphic motif is reminiscent of linked ganglia or a deep look into a loose sponge web; its shading and covering give it a strong spatial and dominant effect. The edges of the cuboid room as well as the delicate fastening seams of the covering, on the other hand, are less perceptible. Only the two windows reaching up to the ceiling are left out on the narrow front sides - the one on the entrance side has a transparent, green, luminous pointer clock on the outside. Originally only planned as a one-year installation, it was retained due to the positive reactions from station users. Graz's main train station, which was also otherwise renovated, was voted the most beautiful train station in Austria in mid-2003 and 2004 based on a VCÖ survey . In 2013, a new, related work by Peter Kogler was added to the second underpass during the renovation of the Graz train station.

In 2012, a permanent tube installation consisting of 180 printed glass plates was opened in the mezzanine of U1 and U2 at Karlsplatz in Vienna .

Related to his conceptual advice for museum in progress and the work of artist portraits (1992–2001), Kogler has been working increasingly in the field of exhibition design for several years.

Kogler is married and has two sons. He lives and works in Vienna .

Exhibitions

Awards

literature

  • Peter Kogler, Ami Barak: Peter Kogler. König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-560-3 (for the exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover)

Web links

Commons : Peter Kogler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Kogler . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg March 1987, ART-Lexicon of Contemporary Artists, p. 100 .
  2. ↑ Katrin Bucher Trantow: Peter Kogler . In: Katrin Bucher Trantow (Ed.): Connected. Peter Kogler with ... VfmK Verlag für Moderne Kunst GmbH, Graz 2019, p. 62 .
  3. ^ Text on the exhibition ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main, accessed on January 24, 2019.
  4. ↑ Katrin Bucher Trantow: Peter Kogler . In: Katrin Bucher Trantow (Ed.): Connected. Peter Kogler with ... VfmK Verlag für modern art GmbH, Graz 2019, p. 62-63 .
  5. ^ Bahnhofshalle Graz: room expansion in black, white, red , A project from Graz 2003 - European Capital of Culture in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Railways - pictures.
  6. ↑ orf.at - tube installation opened at Karlsplatz . Article dated February 22, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014.
  7. ^ DerStandard.at - Traces of Peter Kogler under Karlsplatz . Article dated February 20, 2014, accessed December 29, 2014.
  8. ^ Peter Kogler: Karlsplatz subway station. In: KÖR Art in Public Space Vienna. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Adelheid Wöfl: Peter Kogler: Getting lost in the infinite tube universe , derStandard.at , article from December 29, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2014.
  10. ↑ Roman Tschiedl: "showroom Berggasse 19" , Radio Ö1 Leporello , September 30, 2015


personal data
SURNAME Kogler, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian multimedia artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck