Biography

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.

Works
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, "Untitled (mirror labyrinth)," as part of Art Basel Unlimited 2024 , 2024
    Installation view, "Untitled (mirror labyrinth)," as part of Art Basel Unlimited 2024 , 2024
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, "multiple voices (M9 scale model/maquette)," as part of "Multiple Voices," (2024) Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, 2023
    Installation view, "multiple voices (M9 scale model/maquette)," as part of "Multiple Voices," (2024) Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA, 2023
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, ADAA The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, 2022
    Installation view, ADAA The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, 2022
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (mirror labyrinth), 2022
    Untitled (mirror labyrinth), 2022
  • Eva Schlegel, Cloud Space, 2018
    Cloud Space, 2018
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view of "Cloud Space," as part of "Eva Schlegel: Spaces," Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, 2018
    Installation view of "Cloud Space," as part of "Eva Schlegel: Spaces," Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, 2018
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, "Cloud Space," Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria, 2018
    Installation view, "Cloud Space," Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria, 2018
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (259), 2018
    Untitled (259), 2018
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (260), 2018
    Untitled (260), 2018
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (248), 2017
    Untitled (248), 2017
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (256), 2017
    Untitled (256), 2017
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, "Floating into the Night," Kochi-Muziris Biennale Fort Kochi, India , 2016
    Installation view, "Floating into the Night," Kochi-Muziris Biennale Fort Kochi, India , 2016
  • Eva Schlegel, space with men left out – no man’s space, 2016
    space with men left out – no man’s space, 2016
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (231), 2015
    Untitled (231), 2015
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (259), 2015
    Untitled (259), 2015
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled 217, 2015
    Untitled 217, 2015
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled 225, 2015
    Untitled 225, 2015
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (152d), 2014
    Untitled (152d), 2014
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (153a), 2014
    Untitled (153a), 2014
  • Eva Schlegel, o.T. (018), 2013
    o.T. (018), 2013
  • Eva Schlegel, Untitled (031), 2013
    Untitled (031), 2013
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, video projection on rotor, Mumbai, India, 2012
    Installation view, video projection on rotor, Mumbai, India, 2012
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, "Eva Schlegel: In Between," MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 2010
    Installation view, "Eva Schlegel: In Between," MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 2010
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, Novartis Campus Walkway, Basel, Switzerland, 2007
    Installation view, Novartis Campus Walkway, Basel, Switzerland, 2007
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, Austrian Pavilion facade, Vienna, Austria, 1995
    Installation view, Austrian Pavilion facade, Vienna, Austria, 1995
  • Eva Schlegel, Installation view, Austrian Pavilion facade, Vienna, Austria, 1995
    Installation view, Austrian Pavilion facade, Vienna, Austria, 1995
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