475 - Peter Kogler* (born 1959 in Innsbruck)

Peter Kogler* (born 1959 in Innsbruck) Ants, 2005 screen print/paper 47,5 x 68,1 cm signed Kogler, dated 05 numbered 12/20 SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 1000 - 2000 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 1000 Peter Kogler is an Austrian media, installation, and computer artist. He is considered an early pioneer of an artistic practice that combines digital image production, architecture, and the perception of space. Since the 1980s, he has developed a distinctive visual vocabulary based on recurring motifs such as ants, brains, tubes, light bulbs, and network-like structures. His work thus situates itself within the broader international context of media and video art—a field fundamentally shaped by figures like Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman. Kogler studied first at the School of Applied Arts in Innsbruck and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He began using the computer as an artistic medium as early as 1984. He increasingly translated his initially two-dimensional drawings, graphic works, and screen prints into immersive installations: printed strips, projections, computer animations, video, and sculpture cover walls, floors, and ceilings, transforming exhibition spaces into visually dynamic, labyrinthine environments. His exploration of architecture, perception, and media-mediated space can also be viewed in relation to the work of Dan Graham. At the heart of his oeuvre lies the experience of space as a system of perception, communication, and control. Kogler’s technical grids and organic-looking pictorial symbols create a tension between real and virtual space, body and network, and individual orientation and visual overload. Within the landscape of contemporary Austrian art, his work exists in a productive dialogue with artists such as Peter Weibel—who engaged theoretically and artistically with media, technology, and cybernetics—as well as VALIE EXPORT and Peter Kubelka, whose works fundamentally redefined the relationships between body, film, image, and perception. Heimo Zobernig, Gerwald Rockenschaub, and Franz West also represent key reference points in Austrian art since the 1980s—art that engages with the conditions of exhibition, the object, space, and reception. Kogler has been represented at documenta IX and X in Kassel, among other events, and has exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, mumok in Vienna, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. From 1997 to 2005, he headed the Department of Computer and Video Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; since 2008, he has been a professor of graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He lives and works in Vienna. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.