ernst logar

Understanding Art & Research
University Togji Shanghai, China
BAC Art Center
15 - 31.05.2021

Opening: 14.05.2021

This artistic action and book presentation in public space sets out to highlight the problem of commemoration, to reflect on the monument, and to probe the background of official commemoration culture by considering today’s Belgier-Kaserne, the former SS barracks. The starting point are the events of May 1945 when the SS had the bodies of those who had been executed and buried on the site of the SS barracks Graz-Wetzelsdorf disinterred to cover up Gestapo crimes in April 1945. This does not appear to have been completely successful, however, with repeated hints and rumors of the bodies of murder victims on the grounds of the barracks.
Ernst Logar, who already examined Nazi crimes at the Feliferhof firing range and the SS barracks Graz-Wetzelsdorf in depth in Den Blick hinrichten (Focusing the Gaze [on executions by the rifle squad]) in 2004, is currently looking at the Gedächtnishain (memorial grove), the new monument erected on the supposed site of the mass graves in 2011. This is a place with many facets: a scene of historical crimes, the last resting place of people who were executed, and a place of memory. It is still not known for sure whether the victims’ remains are actually buried on the grounds. The site has thus equally become a place of probability, uncertainty, and unrest.

Mario Asef (ARG)*, Nasrin Abu Baker (ISR/PSE)*, Bernhard Draz (GER)*,
La Vie en Bô/ Agnès Guipont (FRA)*, Sven Kalden (GER)*, Mansour Ciss
Kanakassy (SEN)*, Georg Klein (GER)*, Ingeborg Lockemann (GER)*,
Ernst Logar (AUT), Israel Martinez(MEX)*, Lamyne Mohamad (CMR/FRA)*,
Erik Pauhrizi (INA)*, Joachim Seinfeld (GER)*,Signe Theill (GER)*, Steffi
Weismann (SUI)*, Gudrun F. Widlok (GER/GHA)*

*Artist-in-Residence of quartier21/MQ

The exhibition project Post Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS) tackles the
structures and methods of a new worldwide economic colonialism, presenting
16 artworks in the camouflage of commercial culture. What the colonial
goods store was a hundred years ago is today the global flagship store.
The objects and projects exhibited in the PCFS toy with commercial
identity, reversing the roles or seducing the visitor with modern forms of
colonialism, creating an explicitly post-colonial space – a space in
which we become aware of both the past and the present manifestations of
colonialism.

PCFS - Post Colonial Flagship Store
Date: Oct 03 to Nov 23, Tue-Sun 13-19:00, Admission free
Press Tour: Tue, Sept 30, 11:00
Opening: Thu, Oct 02, 19:00
LA VIE EN BÔ (Agnès Guipont) - Sound Intervention
Erik Pauhrizi - Djamu Intervention
Venue: freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL/ MuseumsQuartier Wien

www.quartier21.at
www.pcfs-vienna.com

The installation shows Telouet as a post-colonial village with a mix of
country life, weekly markets and tourism, while also serving as a shop
in which the bureaucratic process of a physical and economic passage
across borders is documented.

The memorial recently built on the premises of today's Belgier barracks in Graz represents a complex historical site where Nazi crimes occurred at the end of the war. In 1945 the SS committed mass shootings at the barracks. The mass graves were located and marked using a recent scientific study, but many questions remain open about how the memorial on the barrack premises should be dealt with in the future.

In his latest film Ernst Logar looks at the historical events directly connected with the Belgier barracks and documents the process of creating the memorial, which was erected in 2011, in order to shed light on the background of the official culture of remembrance.

- Heidemarie Uhl, Historian, Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Friedrich Schrötter, Officer, Federal Ministry of Defense and Sports
- Ernst Logar, Artist

Denkmal für die Verfolgten der NS-Militärjustiz
Ausstellung mit den Wettbewerbsentwürfen zum Denkmal für die Verfolgten der
NS-Militärjustiz am Ballhausplatz.
18. - 24.07.2013

Wettbewerbssieger: Olaf Nicolai "X"
Das 10-köpfige Beurteilungsgremium hat sich am 27. Juni 2013 für das Projekt "X" des deutschen Künstlers Olaf Nicolai entschieden. Stärke, Kraft und intellektueller Überbau des Projektes haben die Jury überzeugt. Insgesamt wurden acht Entwürfe präsentiert. KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien hat den international geladenen Wettbewerb ausgelobt und ist in der Folge mit der Realisierung beauftragt, mit der noch heuer begonnen wird.

Wettbewerbsentwürfe:
Luis Camnitzer, Claire Fontaine, Vera Frenkel, Johanna und Helmut Kandl, Ernst Logar,
Olaf Nicolai, Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch, Heimo Zobernig

Artists:
Anatoliy Babiychuk, Carla Bobadilla, Edward Burtynsky, Elisabeth Czihak, Michael Goldgruber, Birgit Graschopf, Katharina Gruzei, Cornelia Hauer, Ernst Logar, Walter Niedermayr, Markus Oberndorfer, Sascha Reichstein, Thomas Ruff, Margherita Spiluttini, Max Wegscheidler

OstLicht. Galerie für Fotografie
Absberggasse 27
A-1100 Vienna

www.ostlicht.at

nicht eingelöst
Ernst Logar I memoryPROJECTS
Eva Brunner Szabo 1961–2012 | Gert Tschögl

Opening
Thuresday, 22. November 2012, 7pm
Talk: Gerda Lampalzer in conversation with Ernst Logar and Gert Tschögl

Medienwerkstatt Wien
Neubaug. 40a, 1070 Vienna

23.11.2012 - 10.12.2012
Opening times: Fri, Sat, Mon 2pm to 6pm

In his work Welcome to Europe Insha'Allah designed for Maribor 2012 ,
Ernst Logar makes reference to economic factors and emigration between
North Africa (Morocco) and Europe and broaches the issue of the passage
across borders and the exchange of goods.

As part of this, Rachid B., who comes from Telouet, a mountain village in the
High Atlas with a colonial history, has been invited to Maribor. He will make
a statement regarding the European Union and his economic situation in the
form of a performance, and at the same time introduce goods from his
cultural area into Europe to sell.

The installation in Maribor market square in the form of a sea container will show
Telouet as a post-colonial village situated between life on the land, weekly market
and tourism, and act as a sales store in which the bureaucratic process of a physical
and economic passage across borders is documented.

Welcome to Europe Insha'Allah takes up the ideas of borders and culture at
various social systematic levels and places them in the context of the
European Capital of Culture 2012.

Borderline
Jasmina Cibic (SLO), Søren Engsted (DK), ILA (A), Beba Fink (A), Klaus-Dieter Hartl (A),
Ernst Logar (A), Klaus Schafler (A), Gustav Troger (A), Vojna (RU)

Curator: Michael Petrowitsch
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark/ Universalmuseum Joanneum

Opening Reception: Friday, September 28 at 8 p.m.
Talk/Tour: Saturday, September 29 at 1 p.m., with artists Ernst Logar, Robyn Moody,
and David LaRiviere, and curator Jen Budney

In his art installation designed for the Maribor 2012 European Capital of Culture celebrations,
Ernst Logar makes reference to economic factors and emigration between North Africa (Morocco)
and Europe in which he broaches the issue of passage across borders and the exchange of goods.
A sea-freight container in Maribor's market square will set the scene for these cross-border passages.

Borderline
Curator: Michael Petrowitsch
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark/ Universalmuseum Joanneum

Work of remembrance - Ernst Logar:
Posters at the community departments
of the district and direct mail to household about the
history of the forced laborers in Murau in the Third Reich.

Borderline
Maribor/ Slovenia (European Capital of Culture 2012)
October 2012

Art in public space
Artists: Jasmina Cibic, Vojna, Ernst Logar, Gustav Troger, Beba Fink, ILA, Sören Engsted

HAUS-BERG-VERBOT
11. 06. - 15.09.2011 |Dobratsch/Dobrac (AT)
Art-action to commemorate the "ban on Jews" climbing Carinthia's Dobratsch in 1921 | Umetniška akcija v spomin na leto 1921, ko je bil judom prepovedan dostop na Koroški Dobrac | Azione artistica in ricordo del divieto agli ebrei di accedere al Dobratsch nel 1921

Participants | SodelujoCi | partecipanti:
Wolfram Kastner (DE), Ernst Logar (AT), Paul Gulda (AT)

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Based on reflections from Sigmund Freud's The Uncanny, Ernst Logar explores the phenomenon of the border
according to the "ego".
The inner dichotomy of the individual into the familiar and the uncanny corresponds with the dichotomy between what is intrinsic and what is foreign, constants which play a part in the definition of the concept of Heimat. The decisive factor is the boundary between the two areas. The artist draws a virtual boundary, in the form of two parallel boundary lines in red and white, through the town of Klagenfurt. Along this boundary there are posters with concise statements about terms such as "I" and "you", the internal and the external, what is intrinsic and what is foreign, directly addressing the reader and calling for identification. Through the placing of these statements on either side of the boundary, this becomes a mirror, the "I" and "you", so that what is intrinsic and what is foreign become interchangeable. The previously excluding units begin to communicate with each other, allowing for an inner monologue on identification and demarcation.
In his project I [= I in Carinthian dialect], Ernst Logar emphasises the human psychological disposition as a prerequisite for identification and exclusion, and thus for the existence of Heimat, of what is foreign, and the boundary between them. He suggests xenophobia as a possible consequence of the projective abilities of the person who, according to Freud, recognises his own repressed characteristics in the other, and he proposes crossing the boundary as a possibility for mutual understanding - on both a social and a political level. (MF)

HEIMAT | DOMOVINA
23.09.2010 - 28.11.2010
Eröffnung | opening: Mittwoch |, Wednesday 22. September 2010, 19.00 Uhr | 7 pm

Ernst Logar produces credit card blanks from bioplastics. The credit card is the medium and expression of our present-day systems of economics and values. In this object, the artist symbolically ties together the economic and ecological levels and then proceeds by giving the cards over to a process of natural degradation. In this way, the cards once more turn into soil-and thus a new starting point for ecological growth.

Opening
21. August 2010 6pm

A commitment to deepening our understanding of the past, present and future pervades Ernst Logar's artistic work. Examining contemporary issues in our globalized society, Logar casts light on what is hidden and
collectively suppressed, rendering this visible in a variety of media.

concerns itself with the material money and creates irritating situations
in public space. Between 2009 -2010 various actions and interventions
occur in public space using the material of money. The first events are
to take place in Vienna and in the following months will expand to also
other cities and metropolitan areas.

www.monetary-intervention.com

GENUINE HAPPINESS
NEW GENERATION

EVA CHYTILEK
CHRISTIAN GANZER/KURT RUDOLF
GERHARD HIMMER
FRANCO KAPPL
CHRISTINE KOFLER
SUSE KRAWAGNA
ERNST LOGAR
OSWALD STIMM
RONALD ZECHNER
KLAUS DIETER ZIMMER

OPENING
WEDNESDAY 28th of JANUARY 2009 7 P.M.

29.01. - 21.02.2009

30.10. - 18.11.2008

Opening: Wednesday 29 October, 9 pm

Gallery Mikado
Slovenska cesta 6
Ljubljana SI1000
Slovenia

Preview Night
Fri 3 Oct 6 - 8pm

4 Oct - 15 Nov
Open Tues - Sat 9.30-5.30

Artist's Talk
Sat 4 Oct, 2pm

Peacock Visual Arts
21 Castle Street
Aberdeen (UK)
www.peacockvisualarts.com

DEN BLICK HINRICHTEN

Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 7:30 pm

Opening:
Otto Hochreiter (Director stadtmuseumgraz)
Dr. Heimo Halbrainer (CLIO)
Ernst Logar (Artist)

17 September 2008 - 29 March 2009
Tue - So: 10 am - 6 pm
stadtmuseumgraz, Sackstraße 18, A-8010 Graz
www.stadtmuseumgraz.at

Further informationen - Den Blick hinrichten

Gallery Opening Times:
20 January - 18 March 2007
Monday - Saturday 10am - 8:30pm
Sunday 5:30pm - 8:30pm

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Ernst Logar
Non Public Spaces

Opening Times
Tue - Sun, 10:00-18:00

Current works and that what lies behind
Lecture by Ernst Logar: 7. December 2006, 16:30
RAIOSHA Symposium Space

Keio Research Center for the Liberal Arts
Keio University
Hiyoshi 4-1-1, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama
Kanagawa, 223-8521 Japan

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MAK NITE © Tuesday, 10.10.2006 / 8pm

Uncanny Carinthia
an Aktion evening by Ernst Logar

On the occasion of the carinthian anniversary of the referendum of October 10th, 1920, Ernst Logar has realized an evening which raises the issue of the phenomenon of the split identity within austrian/slowenian Carinthia
as well as Carinthia's historic events and todays political relation to the subject.

Panel discussion to the topic "Being carinthian!"

Trautl Brandstaller political scientist, publicist
Lojze Wieser publisher, editor, publicist, spokesperson for the initiative
"Pro Kärtnten"
Stefan Karner historian, since 2005 presenter of "Kärnten-Konsenses"
(Karner-Paket)
Presentation: Peter Huemer journalist and editor

Concept and video installation: Ernst Logar

With the contribution of the Choir of the Slowenian Students in Vienna
Richard Amon (choirmaster)

MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art
Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

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Opening: 19 April 2006, 7pm
Opening times: Mo - Fr, 3 - 7pm

Kunstraum Lakeside
Lakeside Science&Technology Park
Lakeside B02
9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
www.lakeside-kunstraum.at

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Niclas Anatol, Theres Cassini, Ernst Logar, Ina Loitzl Kropiunik, Tita Ruben, Anna Rubin, Katarina Schmidl

Mestna galerija Ljubljana/ City Art Museum Ljubljana
Mestni trg 5
SI 1000 Ljubljana
www.mestna-galerija.si

Ernst Logar raziskuje s svojo instalacijo kot osrednjim elementom zgodovino gradu Katzenstein v slovenskih Begunjah.
Grad, v neposredni bližini meje z avstrijsko Koroško, je v letih 1941 - 1945 Gestapu služil kot zapor za talce.
Na tem obmocju so zabeležili povecano aktivnost partizanov, na katero so nacionalsocialisti odgovorili s povracilnimi ukrepi
nad civilnim prebivalstom.
Psihiatricni oddelki begunjske bolnišnice danes zavzemajo prostore nekdanjega zapora.

With his installation as a central element, Ernst Logar picks out the history of the Katzenstein castle situated in Begunje, Slovenia. The castle, in the immediate proximity of the Carinthian borders, served the Gestapo as a prison for their hostages between 1941 and 1945.
This area has registered strengthened partisan resistance and guerrilla activity which was dealt by the National Socialists
with repressive retaliatory measures against the civilians of this area.
Today the psychiatric units of Begunje hospital occupy rooms of the former prison.

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Opening: 16 September 2005 6pm - 8pm, Skylight Gallery
Opening times: Fri, Mon 10 -5, Sat 12 - 4pm, Sun by appointment only - call 07946387732

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