Angelika Loderer

Angelika Loderer is an Austrian sculptor. The tension between opposites, what is ephemeral and what is permanent, what is visible and what is hidden, the negative and positive forms, run like a thread through Loderer’s work. Critically exploring the notion of sculpture, Loderer also initiates collaborations with other beings: she casts metal sculptures of nest cavities of woodpeckers, or mole tunnels, rendering these negative spaces visible. In yet another body of work Loderer allowed for fungal mycelium to grow, thereby altering photographic prints. The outcome of these artistic endeavours is driven by elements of chance and fosters an organic coexistence, and, one might argue, embraces post-humanist ideals. 

Loderer studied at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, at Wimbledon College of Art, London and at Hendrix College, Arkansas. Her recent institutional solo exhibitions include Soil Fictions at Belvedere 21, Vienna (2024); Pretend to be Fine at Kunstfenster Gnas, Gnas (2019); Poems to Gadgets at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (2018); Angelika Loderer at Secession, Vienna (2017); Animate at Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2016); and Coming in Pieces at Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2015).

Born 1984 Feldbach, Austria
Lives and works in Wien, Austria

Selected solo exhibitions

2025
Angelika Loderer: City Body, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria

2024
Soil Fictions, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria

2023
Phantoms, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2022
Marshlands, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria

2018
Poems to Gadgets, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

2017
Quiet Fonts, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria
Angelika Loderer, Secession, Vienna, Austria

2015
Coming in Pieces, Kunstverein Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Wasted on a Memory, Galerie Clemens Gunzer, Zurich, Switzerland

2012
Sankt Feldbach, Schloss Limberg, Erwin Wurm, Maissau, Austria

2011
Chronicle of the Ephemeral, para SITE Gallery, Graz, Austria
Pinker Schnee, Diploma Exhibition, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Selected group exhibitions

2025
Die beste aller Welten!? 20 Jahre Kardinal König Kunstpreis, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz, Austria
Wifi & Watercolours, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna, Austria
Breaking Free: The collections, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

2024
Re-Enchantment, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
The Beauty of Diversity, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria

2023
Der Bio-Adapter, CFA, Berlin, Germany
Mud Keeper’s Promise, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
Canned Heat, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2022
Avantgarde und Gegenwart, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
Sammlungspolitik, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Ebbing Touch, Galeria Madragoa hosting Sophie Tappeiner, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal

2021
Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA
Dilithium, Futura Center for Contemporar y Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Foster, The Soil and Water Residency, Vienna Biennale, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Germany

2020
Pina at 4649, 4649, Tokyo, Japan

2019
Shifts in Time, curated by Macnamara Art Projects, Over the Influence, Los Angeles
Demolished Beauty, Spouse, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21 – Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria

2018
Le Bel Été, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Noire Galler y, Turino, Italy
Dream’n Wild, ALASKA, Sydney, Australia

2017
To figure it out, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria
Platonic Dust, El Quinto Piso, Mexico City, Mexico

2015
Interjection, Galerie Clemens Gunzer, Zurich, Switzerand
Politische Landschaft, Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum, Altausee, Austria; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

2014
Loss of Control, curated by Ursula Maria Probst, Super, Vienna, Austria
The Faintest Idea, Oben, Vienna, Austria
London Vienna Calling, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria

2013   
The Styrians, Förderpreis des Landes Steiermark für Bildende Kunst, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
The Abortion of Tragedy, Showroom 170, New York, USA
Open Studio, Red Gate Residency, Beijing, China

2012   
Sleepwalking, Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2011
Photomeeting, Kunsthaus Engel, Luxembourg
Traveling Artist, Labor: Budapest, Weisses Haus: Vienna, Artachment: Basel, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland

2010
Das goldene Dorf, Emscher Kunst, Ruhr Kulturhauptstadt, Recklinghausen, Germany
Expanded Egypt, Kunstraum Praterstrasse, Vienna, Austria
Der alte Mann und das Meer, Stadtmuseum, St. Pölten, Austria

2009
Basker ville, die Veranda, Agitas, Vienna, Austria
Cannizaro Park 09, University of Art London, UK
Dimensions of the present Moment, Tunnel Gallery, Kent, UK

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