Leo Zogmayer
Date of Birth: 28 February 1949
Place of Birth: Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
Residence / Studio: Vienna and Krems, Austria
Education
1975–1981: Studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Herbert Tasquil
Artistic Media & Practice
Since the late 1980s, Zogmayer has created site-specific art projects including liturgical and architectural commissions in Vienna, Brussels, Bonn, Innsbruck, New York, and more.
In the early 1990s, his practice evolved from expressive narrative painting/drawing to stereometric installations and text-based works, integrating words into monochrome fields and steel/aluminum forms placed in architectural contexts. Themes focus on beauty, time, intercultural dialogue, spirituality, and a reductive/iconoclastic aesthetic.
1984: Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts
1985: Theodor Körner Prize
1986: Adolf Schärf Art Prize, Vienna
1996: Cultural Prize of Lower Austria
1999: Georg Eisler Prize
2014: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
2019: Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Province of Lower Austria
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015: WortBilder, zs art, Vienna
2014: visible/invisible, Schauraum 35/nullnull, Krems; Zeit Unzeit, Berlin
2011: IT IS SIMPLE, Ortner 2, Vienna; Die Welt wie sie ist, MUMOK, Vienna
2009: WHY CHINA (II), NEXUS Kunsthalle, Saalfelden; Is your journey really necessary? (II), Oviedo
2006: schön, Kunsthalle Krems; Wort-Ding-Bild, Dombergmuseum Freising
2001: Kein Bild, Kunstverein Marburg; Discursive Painting, MUMOK, Vienna
1991: Sculpture, MUMOK, Salzburg, and Museum Folkwang, Essen
1985: Theodor Körner Prize
1986: Adolf Schärf Art Prize, Vienna
1996: Cultural Prize of Lower Austria
1999: Georg Eisler Prize
2014: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
2019: Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Province of Lower Austria
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015: WortBilder, zs art, Vienna
2014: visible/invisible, Schauraum 35/nullnull, Krems; Zeit Unzeit, Berlin
2011: IT IS SIMPLE, Ortner 2, Vienna; Die Welt wie sie ist, MUMOK, Vienna
2009: WHY CHINA (II), NEXUS Kunsthalle, Saalfelden; Is your journey really necessary? (II), Oviedo
2006: schön, Kunsthalle Krems; Wort-Ding-Bild, Dombergmuseum Freising
2001: Kein Bild, Kunstverein Marburg; Discursive Painting, MUMOK, Vienna
1991: Sculpture, MUMOK, Salzburg, and Museum Folkwang, Essen
Public Projects & Architectural Commissions
Liturgical and public architectural works:
Saturn-Tower Vienna (2010)
MUMOK facade projections (2009
Y-House New York (2000), church redesigns in Aschaffenburg (1998)
Ternberg (2009), text sculptures in St. Pölten (2001).
Public Collections
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Albertina (Graphic Collection), Vienna
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Lentos Art Museum, Linz
Landesmuseum Lower Austria, St. Pölten
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus
Museum Folkwang, Essen
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
Albertina (Graphic Collection), Vienna
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Lentos Art Museum, Linz
Landesmuseum Lower Austria, St. Pölten
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus
Museum Folkwang, Essen
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
Publications & Catalogues
REDEN SCHWEIGEN WOVON, Museum Krems exhibition catalog (2019)
Miscellaneous, Zeit Unzeit, Wort-Ding-Bild, Is your journey really necessary?, and other monographs from the 1990s onward.
Miscellaneous, Zeit Unzeit, Wort-Ding-Bild, Is your journey really necessary?, and other monographs from the 1990s onward.