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

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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