Michael Wegerer
Austria (*1970)
“The interaction between the viewer and the artwork plays an important role in my art, as does the idea that the work can always be experienced anew by changing one's own point of view."
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Joined: February 2022
Artwork Carusell
by Michael Wegerer
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Michael Wegerer is an internationally known artist who passionately stands behind his talent and his art fascinates viewers around the world. He is active apart from his activity as an artist, as an athlete and won in 2022 the silver medal at the world championship in bench press in his weight class.
The artist works with extended processes of printmaking and installation. In his artistic work, Wegerer focuses on exploring culturally and historically evolved perceptual phenomena in image and text, with an emphasis in recent years on the interplay of color and texture. Wegerer's keywords are: Transformation and Association. The artist transforms and reshapes, awakens associations with his multifaceted art, activates perceptual processes and thus opens up unusual perspectives on everyday and seemingly banal things and circumstances.
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“My multifaceted oeuvre sometimes shows a strong reference to the aesthetics of modernism. Starting from basic geometric forms, I deal in my works with the principle of the serial, which is also central to screen printing, and the relationship between color, rhythm and movement. The interaction between viewer and artwork also plays an important role for me, as does the idea of constantly experiencing the respective work anew by changing my own perspective.”
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-2009-2011 Royal College of Art, London, UK
-2006 National College Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
-2002-2008 Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
-1984-1989 Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Austria
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-2021 " Gebäudesoftskills, Praxis – Wissenschaft – Kunst" (book), editors: Pia Anna Buxbaum Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Michael Wegerer, publisher: IBO Verlag, Wien (ISBN 978-3-900403-51-5)
-2019 "Michael Wegerer - Quint Print: Glas" (Publication/Book), editor: Quint Screen Print, publisher: Qubik Kunst und Kommunikation (ISBN: 978-3-9504751-5-9)
-2016 "Michael Wegerer - BOUNCING BORDERS"; (monographic book), editors: Boris Manner and Derek Besant, University of applied Arts Vienna, publisher: DE GRUYTER (ISBN 978-3-11-048543-1)
-2010 "Critical Mass / Printmaking beyond the Edge"; (book), author: Richard Noyce, publisher: A&C Black Publishers Limited London, UK (ISBN: 978-14081-0939-7)
Artist information
Participated Exhibtions
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-2022 duo exhibition (Eva Maria Raab), Ausstellungsbrücke Noe, St. Pölten, AUSTRIA
-2021 solo show, Galerie Michaela Seif, Art Fair - Parallel Vienna, Semmelweisklinik,
-VIENNA 2021 solo show - at the printing table, Viadukt, Vienna, AUSTRIA
-2020 solo show "Grafik", Traklhaus - Hödlmoser Atelier, Salzburg, AUSTRIA
-2018 solo show "Light Traces of Geometry", Wharepuke Gallery, Kerikeri, NEW ZEALAND
-2015 solo show "L.M.G.T.F.Y.", Galleri Rostrum, Malmo, SWEDEN
-2011 "In Black Dust", Royal College of Art, London, UK 2009 "Translab", RMIT University, Melbourne AUSTRALIA
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-2022 “No matter if 50 or 80 percent water, we are all human beeings”, Arthentico, Vienna, AUSTRIA
-2022 ArtFair Parallel Edition, Viadukt Screen Prints, Vienna AUSTRIA
-2020 E/AB Fair NYC, New York, USA
-2019 3xArt Fair: Art Vienna und Art Austria und SIAF, Vienna & Salzburg, AUSTRIA 2018
“geometric stories", Museum Palais NOE, Vienna, AUSTRIA
-2018 "Int. Graphic Arts Triennial" at State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA
-2017 "5th Int. Open Print Show", Art at Wharepuke, NEW ZEALAND
-2014 "Unbounded", Mingyuan Art Museum, Shanghai, CHINA
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-2018 Award "creative project" of the Vienna Business Agency, Austria
-2018 Science Grant (GS Book Project) Federal State of Lower Austria, Austria
-2017 1st. prize, Inter. Print Award Winner, Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand
-2013 Woyty Wimmer Prize, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
-2011 Sheila Sloss Memorial Award, Printmakers Council London, United Kingdom
-2008 Otto Prutscher Fohns Stipendium, Österreich
-2007 Emanuel Sofie Fonds Stipendium, AUSTRIA
Silkscreen painting, paper object folded, 2022
30 x 40 cm - framed
Description: The artwork "Folded Figures 22 Wave No.06" by Michael Wegerer is an fascinating work that stands out due to its wave-like folding. Although the colors have not been chosen as brightly as in other works by the artist, the color transitions stand out for their harmonious effect and are underlined by small turquoise color accents. Particularly interesting is the way the work changes its optical effect depending on the angle from which it is viewed. This brings into focus the interaction between the viewer and the artwork, which plays an important role in Wegerer's work. The idea that the work can be experienced anew again and again by changing the angle of view also underscores the artist's efforts to involve the viewer in his artistic vision.