SHORT INFO
For his two- and three-dimensional works, Gerold Tagwerker relies primarily on everyday and industrially prefabricated materials such as mirrors, gratings, fluorescent tubes, aluminum pipes or chipboard. Photography also plays an important role in his work strategy. Using complexes of works, many of which have a modular structure, he reflects on the grids of architecture, cityscapes and human existence and at the same time decodes the structures from which the world is built.
Gerold Tagwerker, born 1965 in Feldkirch (A), lives and works in Vienna and Feldkirch. His works have been shown in several national and international solo and group exhibitions, including Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (2022), MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2019), Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt (2018), Kunstmuseum Appenzell (2018 & 2015), 21er Haus, Vienna (2018 & 2015), Landesgalerie Linz (2017), IKOB, Eupen (2017), Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz (2015), MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Klagenfurt (2015), MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2014 & 2005), Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna (2014), Forum Stadtpark Graz (2010), Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2009), Kunstverein Augsburg (2008), Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (2006), ZKM, Karlsruhe (2005), Künstlerhaus Wien (2005), The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2004), Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössischer Kunst, Münster (2004), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (2003), Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (2003), Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg (2003), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2003).
www.geroldtagwerker.com
SCHOLARSHIPS / PRIZES
| 2012 | New YorK grant for artistic photography from the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture |
| 2006 | State Scholarship for Fine Arts of the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture |
| 2004 | 7th Hypobank Art Prize, Bregenz |
| 2001 | Chicago Scholarship for Fine Arts from the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture |
| 2001 | Working grant from the City of Vienna |
| 1999 | Paris Scholarship for Fine Arts from the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture |
| 1996 | Rome Scholarship for Fine Arts from the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture |
| 1993 | Working grant from the City of Vienna |
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2022 | _einXfüreinU, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Berlin |
| 2020 | HARTMUT BÖHM / GEROLD TAGWERKER, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg 2019 mondrian_revisited, Gallery c.art, Dornbirn |
| 2018 | _constructor, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt |
| 2017 | EPIPHENOMENON, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems |
| 2015 | _grids.zeroXV, Appenzell Art Museum _mirror.zeroXV, Galerie c.art, Dornbirn _safe, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg WERNER FEIERSINGER / GEROLD TAGWERKER, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz |
| 2013 | tube.flash, at the Pavillion, Wels |
| 2011 | _modulator, Galerie Neumeister, Munich |
| 2010 | _constructor, artfinder Gallery | Mathias Güntner, Hamburg zero_X, Gallery Grita Insam, Vienna Rochade, Gallery of the City of Wels, Wels (with Sepp Auer) INTERMITTENT GEOMETRY, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (with Manuel Knapp) |
| 2009 | tube.flash, in the Pavilion, Wels grid.zero9, Galerie c.art, Dornbirn zero.nine, Galeria Lluciá Homs, Barcelona |
| 2008 | gridzero08, artfinder Gallery, Hamburg |
| 2007 | formfollowsfunction, Gallery Grita Insam, Vienna |
| 2006 | On Tunnels and Corridors, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz zero.sechs, gallery c.art, Dornbirn/Bregenz |
| 2005 | alphaville/zero5, artfinder Gallery, Hamburg |
| 2004 | grid.zero4, Gallery Grita Insam, Vienna 10x58W/840.flash - o.p., Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Muenster |
| 2003 | urban studies - friedrichshafen, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen REMIS, Remise Bludenz, Bludenz |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2023 | Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the consequences, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg |
| 2022 | the world many deep worlds, Kunstmuseum Appenzell REFLECTIONS / SPIEGELWELTEN, Museum for Concrete Art Ingolstadt Play becomes art, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch |
| 2020 | 90°, Remise Bludenz |
| 2019 | Fiction and Fabrication, MAAT-Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon |
| 2018 | If you need guidance, ask your colleague, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg The 90s. A Viennese Divan, MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna all our darlings never seen before, Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte, Appenzell, Switzerland |
| 2017 | collected #7: Andre Räume, Tresor Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna Scope. Art that can be changed, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz Ressentiment - Cultures of Dissent, ikob, Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium |
| 2016 | Light II - Light Spaces, Photo Gallery Vienna, Vienna |
| 2015 | WERNER FEIERSINGER - GEROLD TAGWERKER, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz Flirting with Strangers, 21er Haus, Vienna Transparency, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna Display of the Centuries - Frederick Kiesler and Contemporary Art, Austrian Cultural Forum New York |
| 2014 | Light & Reflection, Gallery c.art, Prantl & Boch, Dornbirn/Bregenz The other side. Mirrors and reflections in contemporary art, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna Raw Materials - From the DIY market to the museum, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst Happy Warriors, Part III, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2013 | Raw Materials - From the DIY market to the museum, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen |
| 2012 | The Collection #2, 21er Haus, Vienna Monday is the day after tomorrow, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna Space Affairs, MUSA - Museum on Demand, Vienna Raw Materials - From the DIY market to the museum, Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt The Sigird and Franz Wojda Collection, Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt Me & I, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg Mirror Mirror, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg |
| 2011 | Happy Warriors, artfinder Gallery | Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2010 | NineteenEightyFour, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York Constellations, MUMOK Museum of Modern Art, Vienna |
| 2009 | FIFTY FIFTY. Art in dialog with the 1950s, Museum Wien, Vienna COLOUR URBAN STRUCTURES, artfinder Gallery, Hamburg |
| 2008 | Kunstverein Krems, Krems YO, MO' MODERNISM 1 & 2, CCNOA, Brussels Aesthetic Complexes, Kunstverein Augsburg, Augsburg |
| 2007 | Alice & Co in Wonderland, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg ABSTRACTS OF SYN, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz |
| 2006 | HEIMSPIEL 2006, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen THEAUSTRIANABSTRACTS, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam A common place, Lentos Art Museum, Linz |
| 2005 | Light art from artificial light, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe |