Thomas Edlinger

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Thomas Edlinger (* 1967 in Vienna ) is a radio maker (FM4- Im Sumpf , Ö1), freelance culture journalist, book author and, from 2017, artistic director of the Donaufestival in Krems.

Life

Parallel to studying philosophy, journalism and German studies, he has been working on the Ö3 program Musicbox since 1989 . Since 1995 Edlinger together with Fritz Ostermayer designer and host of FM4 telecast in the bottom and is regarded as a supporter of alternative art and culture.

In 2001, together with Vitus Weh, he was curator for Quarter21 of the Museumsquartier Wien and brought groups such as SRA, Quintessenz and monochrom to the cultural area.

2002–2004 he was a curator at the OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, 2004–2006 curator at the Lentos Art Museum in Linz. Since mid-2007 he has been part of the late-night show Willkommen Österreich as an off- screen voice for brief descriptions of the guests. From the 2016/17 winter semester, after teaching at the Art University Linz and at the FH Joanneum in Graz, he will be teaching at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the field of art and knowledge transfer.

In spring 2017 Edlinger organized the Danube Festival for the first time, which has been taking place since 2005. His contract with the Danube Festival runs until 2021.

(Co-) curated exhibitions

  • The Promise, The Land. Jewish-Israeli artists in relation to politics and society. (OK Centrum, together with Stella Rollig and Roland Schön, Linz 2003)
  • Open house. Art and the public. (OK Centrum, together with Stella Rollig and Roland Schön, Linz 2004)
  • Just do it! The subversion of signs from Marcel Duchamp to Prada Meinhof. (Lentos Art Museum, together with Raimar Stange and Florian Waldvogel, Linz 2005)
  • Bodypoliticx. (Witte de With, together with Florian Waldvogel, Rotterdam 2007)
  • Video as Urban Condition. (Art Museum Lentos, together with Anthony Auerbach, Linz 2007)
  • The Porn Identity - Expeditions into the Dark Zone. (Kunsthalle Wien, together with Florian Waldvogel, 2009)
  • Video program for the Triennale Linz 1.0 (Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz 2010)
  • Hauntings - Ghost Box Media (Medienturm Graz, together with Christian Höller, 2011)
  • Whole milk. The beard as a symbol (Lentos Art Museum, Linz, 2012)

Further catalog-independent publications as (co-) publisher. or author

  • Who Shot Immanence? On the dynamics of appropriation and intervention with Georg Paul Thomann (Ed. Together with Johannes Grenzfurthner and Fritz Ostermayer , 2002)
  • Remapping the Region - Culture and Politics in Israel / Palestine ( 2003)
  • Who does the city belong to? Vienna - Art in Public Space since 1968 ( 2009)
  • In quotes. The glamor and misery of political correctness (together with Matthias Dusini, 2012)
  • The sore point. To the discomfort with the criticism ( 2015)

Together with "Im Sumpf" colleague Fritz Ostermayer:

  • The swamp protocols: failed special swamps & botched symposia. Ed. Selene, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85266-061-0 .
  • The Do-Gooders Protocols. Ed. Selene, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85266-152-8 .
  • The dream protocols. Czernin, Vienna 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 19, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kultur.graz.at
  2. ↑ The swamp annual charts  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / fm4.orf.at  
  3. ^ Wiener Zeitung Online: Initial settlement proposal for small cultural institutions - MuseumsQuartier Wien: Quartier 21 with "Electric Avenue". Retrieved February 21, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Experimental field for young artists - derStandard.at. Retrieved on February 21, 2019 (Austrian German).
  5. ^ Donaufestival in Krems: The search for “offline rituals”. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Edlinger, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian radio maker, author and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna