Zorica Nikolic Aigner

Zorica Nikolic Aigner in the "Aigner" studio in Vienna

Zorica Nikolić Aigner (* 1980 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia) is an Austrian - Serbian painter .

Live and act

Zorica grew up as the daughter of Mirko (engineer for technical chemistry) and Dušanka Nikolić (teacher for Serbian and literature) and her older brother Zoran Nikolić in Belgrade. 1999–2001 she studied landscape architecture in Belgrade. In 2001 she began studying at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Wolfgang Herzig . In 2006 she obtained a diploma in the master class for painting. In 2007 she married Paul Florian Aigner , a sculptor, with whom she has two children. The couple has lived and worked in Vienna since 2008, where they founded the Aigner studio .

Awards

• 2015 Presentation of the Austrian-Serbian Women Award in the field of art

Quote

"As a painter, I am often seen as a fantastic realist ( fantastic realism ), but I see myself as a realistic fantasy because I do not present realism ( realism (art) ) in a fantastic way, but represent my fantasy realistically. Pictures as self-related in the sense, that they are decided in the ego, to push outwards with the stamp of the zeitgeist. Regardless of whether I immerse myself in my spiritual world or devote my thoughts to consumer society, I paint what moves me right now. My motifs, colors, light, shadow, none of this I look for in art history or in current trends, I find it in my inner world.

I make room for mixed feelings and not so clear thoughts in my dark backgrounds, where they hide and rest. For the general figures who don't have a clear face or to whom I don't want to give a face, I look for a representative in the world of animals and plants. These are not studies of nature, they are beings that have symbolic power in them. I leave enough space for the viewer to incorporate their own spectrum of thoughts into my pictures. Questions that are looking for an answer remain open. A free space to consider what has happened before and what is still to come.

My pictures are limited by a frame, but the motifs change, they pour out and they fly in, open and free. The frame is only part of the picture, a spatial separation, distance, from and to the wall, not a prison. Whether a Lucifer comes after a scapegoat , or the "Jugokoffer" ( plastic bag ) belongs to a true Yugo (term for citizens of the former Yugoslavia (is sometimes perceived as derogatory), a modern witch drives around in an Aston Martin , Mercedes or Jaguar, or whether a painter creates your picture between an iron and a mixer, I am ready with a brush in my hand. "

- Zorica Nikolic Aigner

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1999 Private Art Studio Mali Monmartr, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2001 Serbian Embassy, ​​Vienna, Austria
• 2003
  • "Quidditas", Neulengbach, Austria
  • "The Essence 2003", 20er Haus, Vienna
• 2004
  • Body and art; "Quidditas" open air display, art dolls, Vienna
  • "The figure as a task" (work of the Herzig master class), Stadtgalerie Wien
• 2005 Gallery "Kandinsky", Vienna
• 2006
  • "The Essence 2006", MAK, Vienna
  • "Realism - Objective Painting in Upper Austria", Nordico City Museum, Linz, Austria
  • "Danube School and Surroundings", Salzamt, Linz

• 2007 “Hochteitsausstellung with my husband Paul Florian Aigner ” Galerie Hofkabinett, Linz
• 2008
  • Exhibition Stadtgalerie Traun, Upper Austria.
  • “Fantastic in pictures and sculptures”, 44er Haus , Leonding, Austria
  • Opening of the “Zorica and Florian Aigner” studio, Steingasse 26, 1030 Vienna

• 2009
  • “Vice Versa Art Linz-Vilnius” Gallery Arka, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • “Vice Versa Art Linz-Vilnius-a retrospective”, Galerie Fröhlich, Linz
  • “Fantastic teamwork”, Galerie Fröhlich, Linz
  • “Highlights 09”, Galerie Fröhlich, Linz

• 2010
  • Long night of the museums, Vienna's Urania
  • Lentos Art Museum, Lions Club exhibition, Linz
  • Galerie Fröhlich, Linz

• 2012
  • “Fantastic interplay” Fantast Museum, Palais Palfy, Vienna Aigner twice in the Fantastmuseum Vienna
  • “Fantastic teamwork in Traun” Stadtgalerie Traun, Upper Austria.

• 2014 “Lions in the Museum Angerlehner”, Museum Angerlehner, Wels, Upper Austria
• 2015 “Fantastic Venus”, Viechtach, Bavaria
• 2016
  • WIKAM Vienna International Art and Antiques Fair, Vienna
  • WIKAM, Lower Austrian art and antiques fair at Laxenburg Castle
  • “The Art of Humanity” Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Vienna
• 2017
  • “Women's Work is never done” Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Vienna
  • “Me, Me and Me” Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Vienna
  • “From erosion ... to the horizon of the senses” action space LINkZ, Brandstetter private foundation

Public collections

• Art collection of the city of Linz
• Museum Angerlehner Wels, Upper Austria
• Fantastics Museum Palais Pálffy (Josefsplatz) Vienna
• Brandstetter Private Foundation Collection, Linz

Publications (selection)

• Lexicon of bookplate artists by Manfred Neureiter 2016 ISBN 978-3-86460-394-5
• Lexicon of Fantastic Artists by Gerhard Habarta 2013 ISBN 3-8482-6307-6 , ISBN 978-3-8482-6307-3

Web links

• Homepage of Zorice Nikolic Aigner
• Web magazine for fantastic art.
• artnet
• Artist in the Lexicon Surreal by Gerhard Habarta

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zoran Nikolić: NEO GEO Neobična geografija. ISBN 978-86-515-1171-7 ( online )
2. ↑ The presentation of the “Austrian Serbian Women's AWARD” 2015
3. ↑ Most successful women in Austria honored, Austrian-Serbian Society 2015
4. ^ Exhibition Aigner Galerie Traun
5. ^ Gallery Fröhlich Linz
6. ↑ Aigner's fantastic teamwork, Aigner twice in the Fantastemuseum Vienna
7. ^ Aigner family of artists, opening in the gallery of the city of Traun 2012
8. ^ Zorica & Paul Florian Aigner, Galerie der Stadt Traun LLTV 2012
9. ^ Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Vienna
10. ↑ ACTION FIVE FROM EROSION ... TO THE HORIZON OF THE SENSES, series, cycles and work groups from the Brandstetter Private Foundation Collection, Linz
11. ^ Collection Brandstetter Privatstiftung, Linz
12. ^ Lexicon of Bookplate Artists by Manfred Neureiter 2016
13. ^ Encyclopedia of Fantastic Artists by Gerhard Habarta 2013