Ernst Logar born 1965 in Klagenfurt (A), living in Vienna

Since 2019 Research associate and lecturer at University of Applied Arts Vienna
Since 2018 Advisory board for visual arts/ Government of Carinthia (A)
2006-2007 Culture and Organsation - Institut für Kulturkonzepte, University of Vienna
1999-2004 Degree at the Institute for Media Arts - "Medienübergreifende Kunst" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
1997-1999 Study of "Experimentelle Visuelle Gestaltung" at the University of Arts and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria
1995-2003 Multimedia Engineer at the Generali Foundation, Vienna
1993-1994 Schule für künstlerische Fotografie - Friedl Kubelka, Vienna
1992-1994 Fotokollege at Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Vienna

Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects

2021 Statement #11 | Ernst Logar — Crude Oil Experiments, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (A)
2018 Place of Unrest, steirischerherbst´18, Graz (A)
2017 Reflecting Oil, Vienna Art Week, Studio-Logar, Vienna
2016 Tar Sands – Approching an Anthropocentric Site, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon
          Carinthian Horizon, Lendhafen Klagenfurt (A)
2015 Tar Sands, Gallery Bildraum, Vienna
2014 Elements of Remembrance, Theater am Hundsturm/ Volkstheater Wien (A)
2013 Place of Unrest, GrazMuseum, Graz (A)
2010 Sustainable Transformation, GLOBArt Academy, Krems (A)
2009 Monetary Interventions in Public Space, Vienna (A)
        The Hong Kong Project (Part II), Hong Kong
2008 Invisible Oil, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (UK)
        Den Blick hinrichten, Stadtmuseum Graz
        The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans, Memorial Museum Peršmanhof (A)
        The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans, Culture centre St.Primus/ Kulturni dom Šentprimož (A)
        The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans, District criminal court Vienna (A)
        The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans, The Austrian Parliament, Vienna (A)     
2006 Non Public Spaces - Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts - Yokohama, Japan
        Uncanny Carinthia - MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna (A)
        Non Public Spaces - Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
2005 Non Public Spaces - Delfina Studio Trust, London (UK)
        Den Blick hinrichten 3 - Galerie Freihausgasse, Villach, Austria
2004 Den Blick hinrichten 2 - University for Applied Arts Vienna
        Den Blick hinrichten - (Focussing the Gaze [on executions by rifle squad]), Kunsthalle Wien - project space, Vienna
2002 Non Public Spaces - Photowall - Kunsthalle Wien
2001 silence - Vienna Underground Area, Vienna
1999 Ernst Logar is cooking a soup of his childhood - Project Tigerpark, Vienna
1996 Urban speed - The Slovenian Society, Klagenfurt, Austria

Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects

2021  Doubtful Practices / Practices of Doubt, Austrian Pavillion, EXPO Dubai (UAE)
         Oil Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
         Markt der Zukunft 2021 - Ein Innovationsfestival für Graz“, Priesterseminar Graz (A)
         Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia
         Understanding Art & Research, University Tongji Shanghai, China
         Oil - Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2020 PULL:FAKTOR Festzug der Tiere durch Kärnten/ Povorka Živali po Koroškem, UNIKUM, Eisenkappel (A)
          #HGMneudenken, Exhibition and conference about the Heeresgeschichtlichen Museum Wien, Vienna
2019 Understanding Art & Research, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
          19892019 KEX OPEN- Mobilizing Memory, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
          Sculptures in Exile, Prenninger Gespräche, steirischerherbst´18, Deutschfeistriz, Austria
          Understanding Art & Research, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna
2018 The Other Land, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
          The 90s,MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna
          Into Town, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
          Auf die Plätze/ Na Mesta/ Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Kärnten 2017, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Austria
2017 Aesthetics of Change, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna
          fokus sammlung 05. STILLLEBEN, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
          Lightness and Matter. Matter and Lightness, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien
2016 Erinnerungskultur, <rotor>, Landhaus Steiermark Graz, (A)
          opera publica, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2015 Verdrängte Geschichte und Kontaminierte Orte, <rotor>, Graz, (A)
          Share - Too Much History, More Future, Palais Porcia, Vienna
          Creating Common Good, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna
           Hotel Metropole, Wiener Festwochen 2015/ Into the City, Vienna
2014 Post Colonial Flagship Store Vienna, Freiraum - Quartier21 / MuseumsQuartier Wien (A)
         Share - Too Much History, More Future, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt (A)
         Chto Delat - Face to Face with the Monument, Into the City/ Wiener Festwochen (A)
         Share - Too Much History, More Future, Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo/ Serbia
         Remembering, NÖ Dokumentaionszentrum für moderne Kunst, St. Pölten (A)
2013 PHOTOS - Points of view in Austrian Photography from the 1930s until today, 21er Haus/ Belvedere- Vienna
         Industry, Galerie Ostlicht - Vienna
2012 Wie zusammen leben?, Salzburger Kunstverein
         KEIN SCHÖNER LAND, Regionale 2012, Murau (A)
         Borderline: Welcome to Europe - Insha'Allah, Maribor 2012 (Slovenia)
         Beneath a Petroliferous Moon, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (Canada)
         Tatort: UMWELT, Fotogalerie Wien
         nicht eingelöst, Medienwerkstatt Wien
2011 Haus-Berg-Verbot - Unikum, Dobratsch Villach (A)
         Heilige in Europa. Kult und Politik - Diözesanmuseum Graz (A)
2010 Heimat/ Domovina - Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten(A)
2009 Genuine Happiness - New Generation - Gallery Amer Abbas, Vienna
2008 Protest und Widerstand im Eigensinn der Kunst - Galerie 5020, Salzburg (A)
        The end of Remembrance - Carinthian Partisans, Carinthian Museum of Modern Art, Klagenfurt (A)
        Pillars of Memory - Collection Dichter, Vienna
2007 Orte mit Geschichte - Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
        Lange nicht gesehen. Begegnungen mit dem Museum auf Abruf - MUSA, Vienna
        Stoffwechsel-Stube - Unikum, Klagenfurt, (A)
        SLOW - Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (UK)
2006 publicly privat - Spazio Antonino Paraggi, Treviso, Italy
        Eisenberger, dies ist doch kein Porno! - Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz (A)
        Schau mich an, Wiener Porträts - Wien Museum, Vienna
        Interpretationen 06 - Schloss Retzhof, Styria (A)
2005 Spaces of Memory - Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
        Tiere in der Großstadt - Wien Museum, Vienna
2004 Bilder von Wienern - Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
        Facing - WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie, Vienna
        ... and in between - Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
        Blickwechsel - Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt (A)
2003 Bilder von Wienern - Hôtel d´Albret, Paris
        Ort - Raum - Zeit - Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
2002 Gegengewalt - GalerieGrita Insam, Vienna
2001 Shopping - Generali Foundation, Vienna
        Insider trading - Mandeville Hotel, London
        En avant - Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
        Bilder von Wienern - Museum auf Abruf, Vienna
        Coming out_Analyse - Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt (A)
1999 Roomates - Galerie Winter, Vienna
        David Kleindl, Doris Krüger, Ernst Logar - Department of Art History, University of Vienna
1998 Limited - University for Applied Arts Vienna
        Standpunkte der Fotografie - Galerie Arterie, Vienna
        lese´98: Lernfelder - Schloß Wolkersdorf, Lower Austria (A)
1997 Hong Kong Experiment - Fringe Festival 97, Hong Kong
        Perfect Tense - Le French May, Hong Kong
        Friulimmagina 97 - Villa Florio, Udine, Italy
        Station 2: Gürtel - Trans Wien, Vienna
        Architektur IV - Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
1996 Friulimmagina 96 - Villa Florio, Udine, Italy
1995 Zaungäste - Swatch Austria, Vienna
        Augenfäden - Stadthaus Klagenfurt, Austria

Residencies/ Awards

2016 Banff Research in Culture: On Energy, Banff Centre, Canada
2013 Foreign exchange scholarship for Fine Arts - Crumlaw, BMUKK
2012 "Invisible Oil" Book - Winner of " Die schönsten Bücher Österreichs 2011"
2011 „Invisible Oil“ Book - Winner of the "red dot award 2011 – Communication Design"
2008 Grant for Fine Arts, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture (BMUKK)
2007 Gugler Forum Prize, Austria
2007 Foreign exchange scholarship for artistic photography - Rom, BMUKK
2005 Residency at Delfina Studio Trust, London (UK)
2004 The "Kunsthalle Vienna 2004" prize, Vienna
2002 Foreign exchange scholarship for artistic photography - New York, BMUKK
2001 Foreign exchange scholarship for artistic photography - Paris, BMUKK
1999 Foreign exchange scholarship for artistic photography - London, BMUKK
1991 Photography scholarship of the Institute ISES (Cultura della Fotografia) in Spilimbergo, Italy

Selected Publications

2018 Ernst Logar - "Place of Unrest", Drava Publishers Klagenfurt/ Celovec
2011 Ernst Logar - "Invisible Oil", Publisher: Springer Wien - New York
2011 Ernst Logar - "The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans", Publisher: Drava Verlag Klagenfurt/ Celovec
2005 Ernst Logar - "Den Blick hinrichten", Publisher: University of Applied Arts Vienna Wien

Selected Residencies/ Awards/ Conferences/ Talks/ Workshops