Gertrude Moser-Wagner

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Born at St.Georgen/Murau in Styria, Austria, in 1953.
Lives and works in Vienna as a free-lance artist.
Studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, with Bruno Gironcoli.

1982-90 Lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts for Arnulf Rainer's master class. Summer 1990 artist/lecturer at the Progetto Civitella d'Agliano, Italy.
1990-92 Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, in "Interdisciplinary Techniques" for the master class of guest professor Beverly Piersol. 
Since 1996 VICE VERSA art projects together with Beverly Piersol.
Since 1995 guest lecturer for arttherapy at the Österreichisches Kolleg für Kunsttherapie. Workshops and lectures abroad (Bologna, Los Angeles, Munich, Glarus, Plüschow, New York, Owen Sound, Durham etc.)
Since 2000 Adjunct Professor at Webster University, Vienna.

Studios abroad: Rome (1994) and Kraków (1997). Artist in Residence at UMAS, Durham, Ontario (2000)

Fields of Artistic Endeavour:
Concept, sculpture, video. Since 1979 exhibitions and projects; since 1983 video; since 1985 art in public spaces, interventions, symposia, communication projects, texts; cooperating with artists and scientists from other disciplines

Address:
Anton Denglergasse 15
A-1210 Vienna
Tel/Fax ++43-1-270 79 39 
e-mail: gertrude.moser-wagner@nextra.at

[gertrude_moser-wagner]

 
 
  Solo Exhibitions and Project Realizations since 1995, Catalogues, Internet (*)
 
1995  HALLO BONSAI, ORF Kunstradio/Radiokunst *
1996  TIME SHARING (with Beverly Piersol), Experimental Intermedia Huis, Ghent, Belgium *
TIME SHARING (with Amanda Stewart, Beverly Piersol), ORF Kunstradio/Radiokunst *
INDICATORE, Oberrieder Stollen, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany *
"Strange Movies", Galerie bei den Minoriten, Graz
1997  Galerie Gmünd, Carinthia
1998  IT'S ALL ONE, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York City, USA
SOIL SAMPLE SERIES, Fotogalerie Wien (with Maria Blondeel) *
CRACOVIENSIS (with Beverly Piersol and Héctor Fiore), ORF Kunstradio/Radiokunst *
1999  VICE VERSA (with Beverly Piersol), Esprit Nouveau, Le Corbusier Pavilion, Bologna, Italy *
KRAKÓW/KRAKAU (with Beverly Piersol), Krakaudorf, Styria *
ACH DAS DORF, ACH DER FLUSS, Ach, Upper Austrian Festival of Regions *
POETI, Palestra de' Poeti, Bologna, and Narrenturm, Vienna
Personale, Videoworks, Medienwerkstatt, Vienna
2000  VIA POETI (with Beverly Piersol), Studio D'Ars, Milano*
SOIL SAMPLE SERIES, IMC at Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
BLACK NEUTRAL OBJECTS, Durham Art Gallery, Durham/Ontario (curator Ilse Gassinger) *
ARTIFICIAL MOUNTAINS, urban project in Bologna (for "Observing the City, Documenting Time", Orchestra Stolpnik ) *

Group Projects and Exhibitions since 1995
1995  Vux6, Galleria Bastione Fiorito, Trieste, Italy
"Zeichen/Symbole", Galerie Robol, Vienna *
"OSMOSI", Studio di Via Nota, Milan, Italy
"Immagini dell'Interno", Galleria En Plein Air, Pinerolo, Italy *
"The Meridian Crossing", Hermit Foundation, Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic *
SNOWING PRÄSENTIERT BETEILIGTE, Blau-Gelbe Galerie, Vienna
1996  "Fragile-Handle with Care", Picture Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna *
ELABORAZIONI, Galerie Eboran, Salzburg
"Passaggi a Nord-Ovest", Biella, Italy *
1997  ILLIMITE, Baluardo di San Paolino, Lucca, Italy, and Galerie am Mölkersteig, Vienna
"Fort Azimut 2000", Fort Sztuki, Kraków, Poland *
"TORNASOLE", video installation, as part of "Sauerstoff", Encounter with Artists, St.Lambrecht Monastery, Austria *
"Realtime Artemis", video installation in conjunction with ORF Kunstradio/Radiokunst (Concept by Peter Pessl) *
1998  "Artomatica", Torre Matilde, Viareggio, Italy *
"Nonlieux", Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland *
"Austrian Artists take Space", Otis Gallery, Los Angeles, USA *
"Interim", Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Germany *
"Die Handlungsreisenden", cuba-cultur, Münster, Germany
"Tra Scrittura ed Immagine", Villa Gori di Stiava, Massarosa, Italy *
"Letter, Word, Sentence", Fort Sztuki, Kraków, Poland *
1999  "Translocation", Galleria Museo, Bolzano, Italy *
7th Performance Conference, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland *
"CounterRhythm/Controritmo", Alte Fabrik, Thalgau/Salzburg and Italian Cultural Institute, Vienna*
2000  "Abitare la Galleria", Massenzio Arte, Rome

Documentation of the Artist's Work as a Video
Distribution by Medienwerkstatt Vienna "Indicatore Project", "Synapsen", "Video Edition Austria".
"Video works 1984-1991" (installations/events, short videos, documentations of exhibitions, video portraits);
"Installationen/Projekte/Prozesse", video documentation of the projects 1993-1995; "Luftloch", 1997, art video, inserts of existing works and interventions.



Documentation of the Artist's Work on the Internet
Soil-Projekte 2000, www.art-metabolism.com
Indicatore-Projekt, http://www.fotonet.at/bois/galerie/
Ö1 Kunstradio/Radiokunst, http://thing.at/orfkunstradio/BIOS/moserwagnerbio.html
Kunstverein w.a.s. Graz, http://www.mur.at/was
Stagione di Caccia, Bologna, http://www.dsnet.it/stagionedicaccia
comartgraz, http://kultur.wkstmk.at/comart/wagner/wagner96.htm
 

Selected Bibliography
Reinhard Priessnitz in: Malerei, Plastik etc. Aufsätze, ed. by Ferdinand
Schmatz, Edition Neue Texte, Vienna, Linz 1988
Reinhard Priessnitz, Werner Reiss in: MOSER-WAGNER, WERKE/KONZEPTE 1978-1988, Verlag Sonderzahl, Vienna 1988
Burghart Schmidt, Herbert Muck in: MELTING PLOT, ein Ausstellungskonzept im Theseustempel; Gertrude Moser-Wagner with Ferdinand Schmatz and Peter Böhm, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 1988
Henriette Horny in: EINIGE TOPOGRAFISCHE SETZUNGEN, Galerie Stalzer, Vienna 1990
Heidi Grundmann in: PROGETTO 1990, Civitella d'Agliano, Italy
Ursula Baatz in: Arbeiten mit Glas, Galerie Stalzer, Vienna 1991
Franz Josef Czernin, Heidi Grundmann, Henriette Horny in: "MOSER-WAGNER", Interferenzen VII-Transpositionen, published by Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna 1992
Friedemann Malsch, Livio Zeller, Ferdinand Schmatz in: MOSER-WAGNER, VIDEO-PROZESSE, published by Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Vienna 1993
Burghart Schmidt in: MOSER-WAGNER, VIDEOMAN-SPIEGELRAUB, published by Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna 1994
Herbert Muck in: Zeichen/Symbole, Galerie Robol, Vienna 1995
Paolo Bianchi in: "Atlas der Künstlerreisen", Kunstforum International, 1997, vol. 137
Ferdinand Schmatz in Maler als Stifter. Poetische Texte zur Bildenden Kunst, Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1997
Ursula Baatz, Franz Josef Czernin, Roswitha Ennemoser, Rainer Gruber, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Susanna Morgenstern, Peter Pessl in MOSER-WAGNER, FÖRMLICH WÖRTLICH, Triton Verlag, Vienna 1999

Selected Published Texts
MONTE FORATO, Catalogue, Gertrude Moser-Wagner and Antonino Bove, Vienna/Viareggio 1991
UNTERNEHMUNGEN ZU VACAT, Catalogue, Gertrude Moser-Wagner, (vol. 1 "Werke/Konzepte/Taten", vol. 2 "Schriften und Schnitte"), Vienna 1991
"SYNAPSEN", Catalogue/video with Elizabeth McGlynn and others, Rosa Luxemburg Institute, Vienna 1992
"Medienkünstlerinnen im Gespräch", text in Medien.Kunst.Passagen., No. 3, Passagen Verlag Vienna 1993
"Martin Dickinger, Halde Nr.5", text, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, 1996
"eduard tauss, programmer and selector-self organized", text, Galerie Peter Lindner, Vienna 1998
VICE VERSA, Nos. 1-6, Publications of projects by Gertrude Moser-Wagner with Beverly Piersol, with the participation of several authors, published by Institut für Interaktive Raumprojekte, Vienna 1995-2000



 
 
 

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