Roland Stecher

Roland Stecher (born August 9, 1962 in Lustenau ) is an Austrian graphic artist , exhibition designer and installation artist .

life and work

Exhibition Ich, Felder , vorarlberg museum, Bregenz 2014

Object series »Hundred«, Days of Utopia, Arbogast 2009

Sign language verb signs , Galerie Kurzemann Götzis 1999

Trademark for the Vorarlberg Energy Institute , Dornbirn 1996

Room installation Spannwerk II , Theater am Saumarkt Feldkirch 1988

Roland Stecher, born in Lustenau in 1962 , grew up in Götzis and Bregenz (Austria). After graduating from school, he completed his training as an advertising assistant. After studying art history and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck for two semesters , he completed his apprenticeship as a lithographer and worked as a freelance graphic designer from 1981 . In 1988 he founded his own design office Werkraum in the Vorarlberg business park with a focus on corporate design and logo development. Well-known trademarks and logotypes from Roland Stecher are z. B. AMBACH cultural stage , city of Hohenems , Soplar, Olina or the Vorarlberg Energy Institute. In 1988 he presented his first artistic room installation in the Saumarkt Feldkirch under the title Spannwerk II . In the following years he invented several furniture patents and utility models, such as the Boga upholstery system and the height-adjustable Stella chair, and in 1998 he received the Austrian State Prize for exemplary packaging for the Qring patent . Since 2008 he has called his design studio Atelier Stecher . In cooperation with Thomas Matt he deals with the development and design of books and exhibition projects.

His works move at the interface between art and design. In addition to designing exhibitions for public institutions, such as the room installation So Easy It Was (2006) for the Jewish Museum Berlin or the themed exhibition Canton Remaining (2008) for the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Roland Stecher repeatedly designs personal exhibitions, such as roles (1997 ), Zeitwortzeichen (1999) or Ugbomron (2004) at Galerie Kurzemann . Noteworthy is his social room installation 1740 Ichs for the Sulzberg parish hall, Bregenzerwald (2007), in which he poured the hair of 1340 Sulzberg residents into 1740 transparent cubes.

In 2014 he developed and designed the large Franz Michael Felder exhibition Ich, Felder in the vorarlberg museum in Bregenz. The basis was a simple honeycomb cardboard made from waste paper, which, consisting of thousands of individual parts, was assembled to form a large, free-standing spatial sculpture. The narrative was not only based on historical documents, but also contained new productions and interpretations from today's point of view, such as specially produced audio and video elements that bridged the gap between historical reconstruction and contemporary interpretation.

The exhibition Jukebox.Jewkbox! He designed has been touring since 2015 . through Europe. After the Jewish Museum Hohenems and Munich and the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt, it will be shown in Warsaw and London in 2016.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions, installations

• Hundreds. Transformations, Days of Utopia, Arbogast, Götzis 2009
• It was as simple as that. Contemporary Room, permanent installation, Jewish Museum Berlin 2006
• 1740 is. Art installation, Sulzberg parish hall 2006
• Color pockets and webs of space. Drawings, installation, Galerie Kurzemann, Götzis 2004
• Verb signs. Drawings, Galerie Kurzemann, Götzis 1999
• Roll. Umformungen, Galerie Kurzemann, Götzis 1998
• A quarter of the city. View stations, Jewish Quarter Hohenems 1995
• Spannwerk II. Room installation, Theater am Saumarkt, Feldkirch 1988

Themed exhibitions

• Jukebox. Jewkbox! , curated by Hanno Loewy , Jewish Museum Hohenems 2014, Jewish Museum Munich 2015, Museum for Communication Frankfurt 2016
• Angelika Kauffmann . Residence Rome , curated by Petra Zudrell, Angelika Kauffmann Museum Schwarzenberg 2015
• End of the line longing. A journey through Yerushalayim-Jerusalem-Al Quas , curated by Hannes Sulzenbacher , with photographs by Galia Gur Zeev, Jewish Museum Hohenems 2015
• Aga Khan Award for Architecture , curated by Farrokh Derakhshani, Bernardo Bader, Eva Grabherr, vorarlberg museum, Bregenz 2014, vai - vorarlberger architektur institut, Dornbirn 2015
• I, fields. Poet and Rebel , curated by Ulrike Längle , Jürgen Thaler, Theresia Anwander, with still videos by Arno Gisinger, vorarlberg museum , Bregenz 2014
• Karl-Heinz Ströhle. Ornament and adoration , curated by Ingrid Adamer, Wilhelm Otten, Otten Kunstraum, Hohenems 2012
• Lorenz Boehler . Pioneer of modern accident medicine , curated by Thomas Feuerstein, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek , Bregenz 2010
• Have you seen my alps , curated by Hanno Loewy, Gerhard Milchram, Jewish Museum Hohenems 2009, Jewish Museum Vienna 2010, Alpine Museum (Munich) 2010, Forum Swiss History Schwyz 2011, Tirol Castle Meran 2012
• Canton Remaining. When Vorarlberg wanted to belong to Switzerland , curated by Tobias G. Natter , Stefan Graf and Gerhard Grabher, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum , Bregenz 2008
• Light intensity. 30 research projects on the future of light , curated by Peter Hein, Lichtforum Zumtobel Staff Dornbirn, Ferdinandeum Innsbruck 2006, House of Architecture Graz, Techlab Eisenstadt, Technical Museum Vienna 2007
• Best regards. The Three Peaks , curated by Gabi Rath and Bruno Winkler, Alpenverein-Museum Innsbruck 1996

Book series

• I, fields. Roland Stecher, with Arno Gisinger (text, photography), Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2014, ISBN 978-3-99018-302-1
• Mine. Roland Stecher, photographs, id edition, Götzis 2012, ISBN 978-3-99018-168-3
• Wood. Roland Stecher, photographs, id edition, Götzis 2010, ISBN 978-3-901523-13-7
• Hundreds. Roland Stecher, with Jürgen Thaler (text), id edition, Götzis 2009, ISBN 978-3-901523-12-0
• 1740 is. Roland Stecher, with Johannes Inama (text), id edition, Götzis 2007, ISBN 978-3-901523-11-3
• Core color system. Roland Stecher, with Arno Gisinger (text, photography), id edition, Götzis 2006, ISBN 978-3-901523-10-6
• Color pockets. Roland Stecher, drawings, id edition, Götzis 2004, ISBN 978-3-901523-09-0
• The incident. Roland Stecher, with Hans-Joachim Gögl (interview), id edition, Götzis 2002, ISBN 978-3-901523-08-3
• Moments. Roland Stecher, with Renate Jagschitz (text), id edition, Götzis 2000, ISBN 978-3-901523-07-6
• Verb signs. Roland Stecher, with Hans-Joachim Gögl (text), id edition, Götzis 1999, ISBN 978-3-901523-06-9
• Traces. Roland Stecher, with Arno Gisinger (text), id edition, Götzis 1998, ISBN 978-3-901523-05-2
• Roll. Roland Stecher, Umformungen, id edition, Götzis 1997, ISBN 978-3-901523-04-5
• Moving water. Roland Stecher, photographs, id edition, Götzis 1996, ISBN 978-3-901523-03-8
• Fixed water. Roland Stecher, photographs, id edition, Götzis 1995, ISBN 978-3-901523-02-1
• Flying water. Roland Stecher, photographs, id edition, Götzis 1994, ISBN 978-3-901523-01-4

Patents, utility models

• Hey man Trestle , utility model 2014, AT66836
• Core color system GOPB and VTRY , patent 2006, DE102006056923A1
• Qring finger rings , with Rainer Martin, packaging patent 1995, DE19511841A1
• Lega. Folding furniture , patent 1993, DE4344589A1
• Stella. Height- adjustable chair , utility model 1992, DE9214190U1
• Boga. Upholstered furniture system , patent 1989, AT394931, DE3836423C1

Awards

Roland Stecher was nominated three times for the Austrian Adolf Loos State Prize for Design , Ich Felder (2015), Stella (1993), Boga (1990). In 1998, Qring received the Austrian State Prize for exemplary packaging and in 1991 the Red dot design award for high design quality from the Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia.

Web links

Commons : Roland Stecher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature, articles by and about Roland Stecher in the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek
• Roland Stecher's membership and projects at Design Austria
• Official website of Roland Stecher

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Visiting Roland Stecher, https://www.kommunikation-vorarlberg.at/news/branchennews/zu-besuch-bei-roland-stecher
2. ↑ Vorarlberg Today 11/07/2006 ORF 2, Design to See by Roland Stecher, http://vlb-browser.vorarlberg.at/?itemid=%7Cvorarlberger-marc%7CMED01+000275280
3. ↑ DerStandard Panorama Österreich Chronik, the end of the permanent exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin, http://derstandard.at/2321969/Hohenems- showss- Berlin
4. ^ Nextroom - association for the promotion of cultural engagement with architecture, Vienna, 1740 Ichs in the new parish hall Sulzberg, Gruber Locher Architects, http://www.nextroom.at/building.php?id=32022
5. ↑ Kultur, magazine for culture and society, vol. 19, March 2004, No. 2, p. 52, http://vlb-browser.vorarlberg.at/?itemid=%7Cvorarlberger-marc%7CVLB01+000853814
6. ↑ vai - Vorarlberger Architektur Institut, archived copy ( memento of the original from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Association of Austrian Librarians, University Library Graz, Ich, Felder. Poet and rebel, http://www.univie.ac.at/voeb/blog/?p=32855