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1	Life and Work
Leo Zogmayer (1949 born in Krems/Lower Austria) is an Austrian artist, living and working in Vienna and Krems. Between 1975 and 1981 he studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna at Herbert Tasquil´s master class. His preferred media are drawing, graphic arts, photography, computer drawings, painting and glass painting, sculpture (wood, iron, aluminium, concrete). Since the end of the Eighties, Zogmayer has created art projects that inhabit space in various architectural and urban contexts (New York; Vienna, St. Veit/Salzburg, St. Pölten/Austria; Sonnenhausen, Tübingen/Germany), bordering on design. He has made work for a number of liturgical places, e. g. in churches (Brussels/Belgium; Frankfurt, Bonn, Aschaffenburg/Germany; Graz, Innsbruck/Austria). Between 1998 und 2000 he led a class for aesthetics in space at the International Summer Academy at Topolcianky/Slovakia.

Around 1990 Zogmayer came off the narrative, mimetic, and expressive components of his previous art, realised as painting, drawing, and prints. He then creates objects applied to the wall or set in a room, based on clear stereometric forms which he combines to site-specific installations.

By the mid-Nineties he radicalised the reductive process in his works, his paintings become the site for words and texts. In his glass paintings single words or short sentences are left free-standing in a monochrome colour surface,alternatively, they are engraved in rectangular blocks and cylinders, objects made of aluminium or steel, as well as being realised as large-format installations in public spaces.

Zogmayer´s art deals with different subjects, such as the aesthetic concept of the “beautiful”, its rehabilitation as well as its rejuvenation; furthermore he initiates intercultural discourses, addresses art and spirituality, and maintains a reductive and iconoclastic aesthetic.

2	Exhibitions (Selection)
2010 Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Painting – Process and Expansion

2006 Krems, Kunsthalle, Leo Zogmayer – beautiful

2005 New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 11. Triennale India

2002 Warsaw, National Museum, Semiotic Landscape

2001 Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Discursive Painting

2001 Marburg, Kunstverein, Leo Zogmayer – No Image

2000 Bratislava, Galéria Medium, Leo Zogmayer – Space Colour Text

1996 Rome, Palazzo Braschi, Austriaci a Roma

1996 Essen, Museum Folkwang, Positions – Journeys to the Borders of Painting

1991 Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Leo Zogmayer – Sculpture

1991 Salzburg, Rupertinum, Leo Zogmayer – Sculpture

1991 Essen, Museum Folkwang, Leo Zogmayer – Drawing / Sculpture

3	Public Collections (Selection)
Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Vienna

Graphic Collection Albertina, Vienna

University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Museum of Modern, Salzburg

Lentos, Art Museum Linz

Landesmuseum of Lower Austria, St. Pölten

Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht

Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux

Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève

Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander

4 	Literature und Reference (Selection)
Karl Baier, Erste Worte. Gedanken zu Leo Zogmayers Wortbildern. in: Den Menschen im Blick. Phänomenologische Zugänge. Würzburg 2012

Dieter Willim, Vom Ausrahmen der Welt. Schauen als Ortsbezogenheit in der Kunst Leo Zogmayers. Unpublished dissertation, University Vienna 2010

Project Vienna. How to React to a City. Museum für Applied Arts. Vienna 2010

Leo Zogmayer, Is your journey really necessary? Galerie Vertice. Text: Fernando C. Flórez, Oviedo 2008

Leo Zogmayer, schön/beautiful. Kunsthalle Krems. Talk Leo Zogmayer, Tayfun Belgin. Krems 2006

Leo Zogmayer. Wort-Ding-Bild. Dombergmuseum Freising. Texte: Peter Steiner, K. Baier. Freising 2006

11th Triennale India, The Austrian Contribution. Text: Carl Aigner. New Delhi 2005

Leo Zogmayer. Galerie Medium, Bratislava u. Museum of Modern Art, Passau. Texte: F.X. Baier, Mária Orisková. Bratislava 2000

Leo Zogmayer. Verknüpfende Trennungen. Text: Rainer Fuchs. Klagenfurt 1997

Positionen – Reisen an die Grenzen der Malerei. Museum Folkwang Essen. Essen 1996

Leo Zogmayer, Skulpturen. Museum moderner Kunst Wien, Rupertinum Salzburg und Museum Folkwang Essen. Texte: Gerhard Finckh, Lóránd Hegyi, Henriette Horny, Dieter Ronte. Wien 1991

Leo Zogmayer, Zeichnungen 1986 - 1991. Museum Folkwang Essen. Texte: Hubertus Froning, Andrea Hofmann. Wien 1991

5	Weblinks
www.leozogmayer.com

www.basis-wien.at

www.kunstaspekte.de