Udo Wid

Udo Wid (* 1944 in Upper Austria ) is an Austrian painter , conceptual artist and biophysicist .

Live and act

After studying physics at the University of Vienna, Wid was involved in scientific research in the field of biophysics at the Seibersdorf reactor center .

He received his artistic training as a guest auditor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Wild has been a member of the MAERZ artists' association and the Vienna Secession since 1986 . At the same time, he dealt with cultural theory and projects on everyday practice, combining art and science .

With funds from the Science Promotion Fund, he implemented a first ELF project on the Hohe Warte . In 1977 he set up an ELF measuring station designed as a hut in the Waldviertel and lived there for four years in the forest. Wid lives and works in Vienna .

Exhibitions (selection)

Fiction / non-fiction , Landesgalerie Linz at the Upper Austrian State Museum , Linz, 1995
With Roman Signer and Clemens Stecher : Conceptual Art, Synergy of Disciplines: Brainprints , Wiener Secession , Vienna, 1999
View: Experiment , Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, 2000
formulated. Convergences of text and image in the artists' association MAERZ , March Gallery, Linz, 2009
Things we never did , March Gallery , Linz, 2010
Wegmarks, MAERZ 1952–2002 , Artists' Association MAERZ, Architekturforum Oberösterreich , Linz, 2013

Awards

2007 Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria for the field of interdisciplinary art forms
2009 Austrian Art Prize for Current Annual Topics for Interdisciplinarity

media

D ie manufacturers: Company Eisendorf / Verwehte limits , in: Video of Dorf.tv , 1993
Gerald Harringer, Michael Rusam: Wid's Kosmos - artist portrait Udo Wid , in: Video on Gerald Harringer's website

Web links

Udo Wid , in: Basis wien's website

Individual evidence

↑ Udo Wid, Synergy of the Disciplines: Brainprints in : Webpräsenz der Wiener Secession ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2015 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. queried on January 17, 2016 @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Wid, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter, conceptual artist and physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Upper Austria

[1] Udo Wid, Synergy of the Disciplines: Brainprints in : Webpräsenz der Wiener Secession ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2015 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. queried on January 17, 2016 @1@ 2