Eva Schlegel (b. 1960, Tyrol) creates photography, objects, and installations. Her photography often focuses on the aesthetic - though perhaps overlooked - allure of intimate, commonplace spaces - such as the interior of a book, found photography, and our built environment. By removing details in her images, often by capturing images out-of-focus or blurring the details later, Schlegel distills what is otherwise familiar and unremarkable into compositions of abstract beauty. Schlegel's practice also extends into objects and installations that explore cosmic and human time and an imagined defiance of physical limitations of the body.
Since 1995, Schlegel has completed numerous public art projects in Austria and abroad and is collected by over 40 major institutions including the Albertina Collection, Vienna, Austria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, New York Public Library, New York, NY, TEUTLOFF PHOTO + VIDEO COLLECTION, Bielefeld, Germany, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Schlegel's work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world including at the Austrian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, in cooperation with Coop Himmelb(l)au, Venice, Italy; Sydney Biennale, Australia; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India; Holbaek Art Festival, Holbaek, Denmark; Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria; Höhenrausch 16, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria; Galerie 422, Gmunden, Austria; Winterpalais, Vienna, Austria; Photobiennale, Ekaternia Foundation, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Russia; Salz Festival, Salzburg, Austria; Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; China International Gallery Exhibition, Beijing, China; Galerie CUC, Berlin, Germany; Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; Mak Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; and at the Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Installation view, "Untitled (mirror labyrinth)," as part of Art Basel Unlimited 2024 , 2024
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Installation view, "multiple voices (M9 scale model/maquette)," as part of "Multiple Voices," (2024) Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, 2023
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Installation view, ADAA The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, 2022
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Untitled (mirror labyrinth), 2022
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Cloud Space, 2018
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Installation view of "Cloud Space," as part of "Eva Schlegel: Spaces," Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, 2018
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Installation view, "Cloud Space," Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria, 2018
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Untitled (259), 2018
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Untitled (260), 2018
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Untitled (248), 2017
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Untitled (256), 2017
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Installation view, "Floating into the Night," Kochi-Muziris Biennale Fort Kochi, India , 2016
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space with men left out – no man’s space, 2016
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Untitled (231), 2015
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Untitled (259), 2015
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Untitled 217, 2015
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Untitled 225, 2015
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Untitled (152d), 2014
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Untitled (153a), 2014
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o.T. (018), 2013
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Untitled (031), 2013
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Installation view, video projection on rotor, Mumbai, India, 2012
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Installation view, "Eva Schlegel: In Between," MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 2010
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Installation view, Novartis Campus Walkway, Basel, Switzerland, 2007
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Installation view, Austrian Pavilion facade, Vienna, Austria, 1995
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Installation view, Austrian Pavilion facade, Vienna, Austria, 1995
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Multiple Voices
Ambreen Butt, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Chitra Ganesh, Julio César Morales, Ranu Mukherjee, and Eva Schlegel May 16 - July 13, 2024Gallery Wendi Norris presents Multiple Voices, a group exhibition exploring the idea of multiplicity, material and metaphorical. Bringing together gallery artists Ambreen Butt, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Chitra Ganesh, Julio César...Read more -
Three Fates
Ambreen Butt, Chitra Ganesh, Eva Schlegel January 13 - February 6, 2022GALLERY WENDI NORRIS OFFSITE EXHIBITION Fort Mason Pier 2 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA, 94123 San Francisco, CA. Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present Three Fates, featuring works...Read more -
Broken Lines | Julio César Morales, Yamini Nayar, Miguel Angel Ríos, Eva Schlegel, and Peter Young
October 18, 2018 - January 2, 2019GALLERY WENDI NORRIS CURATORIAL PROJECT 140 Maiden Lane, San Francisco, CA Gallery Wendi Norris, in collaboration with Whitewall Magazine and ISAIA , proudly presents Broken Lines, a curated exhibition within...Read more -
Threads of Memory
One Thousand Way of Saying Goodbye October 21 - November 15, 2017Gallery Wendi Norris’ final exhibition at 161 Jessie Street, Threads of Memory: One Thousand Ways of Saying Goodbye, presents a celebratory survey of the gallery’s program, including emblematic works by...Read more -
(ism) | 80 Years of Nonconformity
July 13 - September 15, 2017Gallery Wendi Norris presents new and never-before-exhibited modern and contemporary artworks by Firelei Baez , Chitra Ganesh , Yamini Nayar , Wolfgang Paalen , Eva Schlegel , Dorothea Tanning and...Read more -
Eva Schlegel | Subverting Solidity
January 18 - March 18, 2017Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present Subverting Solidity, the gallery's second solo exhibition for Vienna-based artist Eva Schlegel . Schlegel's new large and mid-scaled photographs depict the abstraction of...Read more -
Eva Schlegel | Solo Exhibition
October 6 - December 20, 2014Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present the gallery's first solo exhibition by Austrian artist Eva Schlegel . On view will be her latest rotor installation, Rotor (Morse), debuted at...Read more
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Art Basel 2024 | Unlimited
June 13 - 16, 2024For Art Basel Unlimited, Gallery Wendi Norris proudly presents Untitled (mirror labyrinth) by gallery artist Eva Schlegel, in collaboration with Galerie Krinzinger and Bo Bjerggaard....Read more -
ADAA The Art Show 2022
Eva Schlegel November 2, 2022 - November 6, 2023We are thrilled to announce our participation in The Art Show, 2022. We will present a solo booth featuring a curated selection of large-scale photographs...Read more -
EXPO Chicago 2019
Ambreen Butt, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Chitra Ganesh, Ranu Mukherjee, Yamini Nayar, and Eva Schlegel September 19 - 22, 2019Gallery Wendi Norris will present works by six artists spanning various media: Ambreen Butt, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Chitra Ganesh, Ranu Mukherjee, Yamini Nayar, and Eva...Read more -
Dallas Art Fair 2017
Ana Teresa Fernández, Eva Schlegel, and Peter Young April 6 - 9, 2017For the 2017 Dallas Art Fair, Gallery Wendi Norris presents Post-Primitive, an exhibition of works by Ana Teresa Fernández, Eva Schlegel, and Peter Young. With...Read more
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arterritory | Other ways of perceiving space
A conversation with Austrian artist Eva Schlegel June 10, 2024Una Meistere June 10, 2024 Eva Schlegel is an Austrian conceptual artist who works across various mediums, including photography, painting, installations, sculptures, and site-specific...Read more -
Eva Schlegel | In the Studio
November 1, 2022Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present Eva Schlegel | In the Studio, a video recently shot on location in Schlegel’s Vienna-based studio. Schlegel reflects...Read more -
New Light, Oklahoma Contemporary | #ArtistSpotlight: Eva Schlegel
Get to know the artists behind Bright Golden Haze March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Light and architecture collide in the dizzying work of Viennese artist Eva Schlegel. By blurring the focus — as in her Untitled...Read more