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Michael Wegerer challenges cultural and historical perception
transforming text, image and objects into spatial installations.
Michael works with paper architectures, sculpture,
printmaking, drawing and video.

Michael Wegerer is a London and Vienna based Artist
born 1970 in Austria

Education

2009-2011 Royal College of Art, London UK
2006 National College Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
2002-2008 University of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria
1984-1989 School of Electronical Engineering

Solo Shows

2011 You make Me feel mighty Real, Haus der Kunst, Baden Austria
2011 In Black Dust, Final Show, Royal College of Art, London UK
2009 Planta Baja, Ingráfica, Cuenca Spain
2009 Translab (distant divergences), RMIT University, Melbourne Australia
2009 Open Source, Kunstraum Arcade, Austria
2008 Reset, (mit Gerhard Kaiser) Galerie Schloss Bad Fischau, Austria

Group Shows

2012 Abra Kadaver, dieausstellungsstrasse, Vienna Austria
2011 Central Print Exchange Exhibition,Hongqiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai China
2011 Beyond the Screen, 12 Star Gallery, London UK
2011 Folio RSC, Shakespeare Project, London UK
2011 Expanded Painting, VisarteM54, Basel Switzerland
2011 Paradise, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2010 Hockney Gallery, London UK
2010 RCA Secret, Royal College, London UK
2010 8e Triennale de Chamaieres Mondial, AMMAC, France
2010 consequences, Parfitt Gallery, London UK
2010 multiple matters, Künstlerhaus, Vienna Austria
2010 Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London Uk
2010 MMX, RCA, London Uk
2009 From a Matrix, Ljubjana, Slovenia
2009 Int. Print Triennale, Krakow, Poland
2009 Technik und Kunst, Kellergalerie, Vienna
2009 Druckort:Wien, Nationalgalerie Sofia, Bulgarien
2008 multiple spaces, Qubik, Karmeliterkriche Wr.Neustadt
2008 Sommer Dialog, Educult Museumsquartier, Vienna Austria
2008 Skulptur, Kahnweilerpreis Ausstellung, Rockenhausen, Germany
2008 Displayced, Diplomausstellung, Universität f. Ang. Kunst, Vienna Austria
2007 Baghdad in love; Symposium; WUK, Vienna Austria
2007 Triangel,  Schloß Bentlage Rheine, Germany
2007 Print, Graphik-Triennale, Künstlerhaus, Vienna Austria
2007 Essence07, MAK, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria
2007 Maximize the Minimum, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Vienna Austria
2007 Premio de Gravado „MaximoRamos“, Concello de Ferrol, Espana
2007 Holz & Papier, Galerie Feuerwerk, Fügen/Tirol, Austria
2007 fünffach, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Vienna Austria
2006 Ursula Blickle Videopreis 2006, Kunsthalle Wien Videolounge, Vienna
2006 Debutnale06, VideoAward, IFKE, Linz Austria
2006 Installation#7, Qubik Space, Wr.Neustadt Austria
2006 Kunst im Raum, KV Favoriten, Vienna Austria
2006 Essence06, MAK, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria
2005 Installation#1, Qubik Space, Wr.Neustadt Austria
2005 Essence05, MAK, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria
2005 Ausstellung,  Kunstakademie Münster, Germany
2005 Robert Schmitt Print Award, Kleine Galerie, Vienna Austria
2004 Figurama 04, Brünn, Znaim, Cech-Republik
2004 Aqua forte, Kleine Galerie, Vienna Austria
2004 Sechs aus Drei, Mc Kinsey, Vienna Austria
2003 Figurama03, Wien-Brünn-Prag-Mainz, Austria, Cech-Republik, Germany

Residencies/Memberships

2011-present Member PCM Printmakers Council, London
2009-present Member Wiener Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2009 Artist in Residence RMIT University, Melbourne Australia

Talks/Teaching

Speaker Impact7 Conference Monash University Melbourne Australia 2011
Visiting Lecturer Shanghai University China 2011
Guest Lecturer Wimbleton College of Art London 2011
Guest Lecturer Metropolitan University Manchester UK 2010
Guest Lecturer Charles Darwin University Alice Springs 2009
Guest Lecturer RMIT University Melbourne 2009

Awards

2011 Sheila Sloss Memorial Award, Printmakers Council London UK
2009 Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Stadt Wiener Neustadt
2009 Stipendium AIR Krems/Melbourne/Australien
2009 Ankauf Landesmuseum/Artothek NÖ
2008 Ankauf des BMUKK
2008 Förderpreis des Landes NÖ
2008 Otto Prutscher Fohn
2007 EmanuelSofie Fohn-Stipendium
2007 "A Brave New World" Vivatis-Anerkennungspreis
2006 Film Award, Debutnale06-Siegervideo "Spacedrawings", IFKE Linz
2006 Design Award, Briefmarkenentwurf (Stamp layout) "keine Gewalt an Frauen" (Post AG)
2005 Design Award, Braukunst Etikette(Beer label) "Jazz" (Stiegl)
2005 Design Award, Braukunst Etikette(Beer label) "Mozart" (Stiegl)
2004 Design Award, Braukunst Etikette(Beer label) "Aufzug" (Stiegl)
2004 Design Award, Briefmarke(Stamp layout) "Überdruck" (Post AG)

Publications

Future Works - A publication of prospective artworks,
Royal College of Art, London 2011
ISBN: 978-1-907342-35-6

Critical Mass, Richard Noyce (new perspectives in contemporary Printmaking)
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd (7 Aug 2010)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1408109395
ISBN-13: 978-1408109397

UM:DRUCK, Zeitschrift für Druckgrafik und visuelle Kultur
(Nr 8 Juni 2008)
ISBN: 1991-5365

Public Collections

Sammlung Leopold Kogler, Noe Austria
RSC Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon, UK
Royal College of Art, London
Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv Kunsthalle Vienna
Landesmuseum/Artothek Lower Austria
Artothek des Bundes /BMUKK Austria
RMIT University / collection of contemporary art, Melbourne Australia