bauer paul
bohusch wolfgang
bollenberger ulrike
brucic carmen
de keller sandra
del missier renée
freuis catharina
gavrich irina
girardoni johannes
guschelbauer markus
hardegg luise
hosch rainer
klomfar bruno
koller severin
larcher claudia
manfredi anja
monaco julie
nguyen monika
oberndorfer markus
okazaki elsa
oláh stefan
ribarits tina
rodiek romy
sailer gregor
schell moritz
schmid anita
six&petritsch
traxler helga
waldschütz andreas
zeisel magdalena
ziegler laurent
GREGOR SAILER Dipl.-Des.
ABOUT THE WORK
Participation at the Exhibition ARCHITECTURE | LANDSCAPE (2012)
In his highly impressive series, the Austrian photographer Gregor Sailer has investigated closed communities in Algeria / Western Sahara, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Chile, Qatar, and Russia. By means of refined architectural and landscape photography, he has succeeded in giving a face to these otherwise effectively invisible, artificially created urban agglomerations that are hermetically sealed off from the eyes of the world either by walls or by their hostile surroundings. His subjects are raw-material mines, military bases, and refugee camps, as well as gated communities for the wealthy. These temporally circumscribed forms of urban settlement succinctly reflect and reveal a historical turning point that the world is now experiencing at the turn of the 21st century: dwindling resources, climate changes, political conflicts, and the wish for absolute security.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
*1980 in Schwaz/Austria
EDUCATION
2002 - 2007 2001 - 2002 2001 - 2002 since 2005
Studies Communication Design, Focus on Photography and Experimental Film, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund (D) Prague School of Photography School of Photography and Optics, Hall i. Tirol (A) freelance photographer and designer
AWARDS
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
Award for Contemporary Art of the State of Tyrol (A) Art Sponsorship Award, RLB Tyrol (A) Nomination DEW21 Art Award (D) Winner_Alps Biennale of the Alpine and Mountains Landscapes (I) Special Award 4th Int. Marianne-Brandt-Contest (D) Finalist Iris Award 2010, Perth Centre of Photography (Aus) Nomination “Durst Photo Art Competition 2009“ (A, I) Grant Government of Tirol (A) Nomination “German Photo Book Award 2009“ BEST FILM Fluxus 06, Category E-CINEMA, Brasil Europaean Prize of Architectural Photography 07 red dot award, communication design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS | SELECTION
2012 2011 2010 2009
Gallery of Europe, „Ladiz“, Pilsen (CZ) Krajska vedecka knihovna v Liberci, „Ladiz“, Liberec (CZ) Ostrava Museum, „Ladiz“, Ostrava (CZ) Austrian Institute, „Ladiz“, Brno (CZ) Kunsthalle Wien & Le Meridien, „Subraum“, Vienna (A) Kunsthalle Wien, „Kokerei Hansa“, Vienna (A) Rakouske kulturni forum v Praze, „Ladiz“, Praha (CZ) Galerie im Andechshof, City Gallery of Innsbruck, „Ladiz“ (A)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | SELECTION
2012 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006
Paris Photo, „Closed Cities“ (F) Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, „Visual Traces in the Restless Present“ (D) Rupertinum, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, „Tage und Nächte“ (A) Galerie Ostlicht, „Nacht“, Vienna (A) Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, „Alter, Situation!“ (A) Galerie Fotohof Salzburg , „On Screen“, Contemporary Austrian Photography (A) Kunsthaus Mürz, „Ground Control“ (A) Austrian Cultural Forum New York/Belvedere Wien, „Alpine Desire“, NYC (USA) Palazzo Firmian, „Ecopoli vs. Metropli“, Trento (I) Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg, „The Alps – Theatre of Longing“ (A) Museum fuer Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, DEW21 Art Award (D) RLB Kunstbrücke, „Mythos Berg“, Innsbruck (A) Folkwang Museum „Next 1“, Essen (D) Triennale Linz 1.0, „update“, State Gallery Upper Austria (A) Edinburgh Art Festival, ‚Shelf Life‘, a biblio-sideshow (GB) Marianne-Brandt-Award, Sächsisches Industriemuseum Chemnitz (D) IRIS AWARD 2010, Perth Centre of Photography (AUS) Galerie Taxispalais, State Gallery Tyrol, „The World as a Backdrop“, Innsbruck (A) Fotomuseum Winterthur, plat(t)form 08 (CH) Epson Kunstbetrieb, „Digital Romantic“, Düsseldorf (D) vhs-Photogalerie, EPAP, Stuttgart (D) Architekturzentrum im Kulturbahnhof, EPAP, Kassel (D) Galerie Fotohof, Sailer-Steinbacher-Ziegler, Salzburg (A) Photokina, EPAP, Köln (D) Goethe-Institut, EPAP, Singapur OMC Gallery, „How I see Germany“, Huntington Beach, California, USA European Prize of Architectural Photography, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (D) Red Dot Design Museum, Kokerei/Zeche Zollverein, Essen (D) feldstärke 06, Kokerei/Zeche Zollverein, PACT, Essen (D)
COLLECTIONS
Fotomuseum Winterthur Ferdinandeum, Tyrolean State Collection Tyrolean Archive for Photographic Art & Documentary Belvedere Vienna, Austrian State Gallery Wienerberger AG, Kunsthalle Wien, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Videoarchive Raiffeisen Landesbank Alto Adige, Austrian State Collection, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria