Ingeborg G. Pluhar

Biography

1944
born in Vienna / A           
1962–1966
sculptural training at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, masterclass of Prof. Fritz Wotruba.
During her studies, she attended the summer academy in Salzburg twice (painting class under Oskar Kokoschka and sculpture class under Joannis Avramidis) and took part in Karl Prantl´s sculpture symposium in St. Margareten / A. 
1966/67
Paris-scholarship at the École des Beaux Arts / F
1969/70
Residency in Berlin / D
1979
Assistant at the Institute for Artistic Design, TU Vienna (University of Technology)
1980-1992
Lecturer for the subject "photo and graphics", TU Vienna
1990-2003
Assistant Professor Institute for Artistic Design, TU Vienna
 
Lives and works in Vienna.

2012 Award of the City of Vienna  for fine arts

Member of:
Wiener Secession (Vienna Secession)

Works held by various private and public collection:  (Selection)
Albertina Wien
AKH Vienne
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
BMUKK
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Neue Galerie Graz
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek / Haus der Geschichte Österreich
Sammlung Ettl
Sammlung Liaunig
SAMMLUNG VERBUND
Stadt Wien
Österreichische Nationalbank
Volksbank
 
some private collections
 
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions  (Selection) 
2019 
 Art Vienna (with Roland Goeschl) zs art galerie, Vienna / A
2018 
 Unterwegs, zs art galerie, Vienna
2012 
 Jennersdorf, EXPOSITION.AT, Jennersdorf / A
2005 
 Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
1994 
 Genovevaburg, Mayen, Rheinland-Pfalz / D
1994 
 Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Atelier beim Ambrosi-Museum
1993 
 Prechtl-Saal of TU Vienna
1992 
 BAWAG-Foundation, Vienna
1988 
 Secession, Vienna
1985 
 Galerie Würthle, Vienna
1978 
 Modern Art Galerie, Vienna
1977 
 Secession, Vienna
 
 English Theatre, Vienna
 
 Galerie H, Graz
1976 
 Galerie Christian Brandstätter & Co., Vienna
1975 
 Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
1974 
 Galerie Christian Brandstätter & Co., WienVienna
1970 
 Forum Stadtpark, Graz
1966 
 Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

Group exhibitions  (Selection) 
2024
Dialogues I – 15 years zs art galerie; zs art galerie, Vienna / A
20 years VERBUND COLLECTION, Albertina, Vienna
2023
Raum(un)möglichkeiten; zs art galerie, Vienna
Feminale 23; zs art galerie, Vienna
Public Matters, Belvedere Garden, Vienna
2022 
 Collage II; zs art galerie, Vienna 
 
 UNE AVANT-GARDE FÉMINISTE de la COLLECTION VERBUND; Les Recontres de la Photographie d’Arles / F (C)
 
 Feminist Avant-Garde; SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad / SRB (C)
 
 Amazons of Pop! Woman artists, superheroines, icons 1961 – 1973; Kunsthaus Graz (C) / A
2021 
 Avant-Garde and the Contemporary – The Belvedere Collection from Lassnig to Knebl; Belvedere 21, Vienna
 
 Female Sensibility. FEMINISTISCHE AVANTGARDE from the colltection VERBUND; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz / A
2020 
 THE BEGINNING, Kunst in Österreich von 1945 – 1980; Albertina modern; Vienna / A (C)
 zselection, zs art galerie, Wien
 FEMINISTISCHE AVANTGARDE, MADE IN AUSTRIA, collection VERBUND, Vienna
2019 
 Kopf-Variationen, zs art galerie, Vienna 
2018 
 Aufbruch ins Ungewisse - Austria since 1918, Haus der Geschichte Österreich, Vienna
 
 Die Collage, zs art galerie, Vienna
2015
 WortBilder, zs art galerie, Vienna
2014 
 5 Jahre zs art galerie Wien, zs art galerie, Vienna
2013 
 Geometrie beredter Stille, zs art galerie, Vienna
2011 
 Franzi´s multiple choice", Muzej Premoderno Umetnosti / SLO
2008 
 Matrix (Geschlechter/Verhältnisse/Revisionen), MUSA, Vienna
 
 Bildpolitiken", Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
 
 ViennArt: "Entscheidungen. Wien und das symbolische Kapital", MUSA, Vienna
2007  
 Happy Birthday Monsignore!, domMUSEUM, Vienna
 
 Herbstausstellung 2007, Galerie 16, Vienna
2006 
 Type Faces, Museum, Waidhofen/Ybbs / A
 
 3 Generationen - Regionen, Burg Schlaining, Burgenland / A
 
 NÄHE FERNE, Deutschvilla, Strobl
 
 Einblicke, Europäische Zentralbank, Frankfurt am Main / D
2005  
 Zu Zweit, Galerie Altnöder, Salzburg
2004  
 Gegenpositionen. Künstlerinnen in Österreich 1960 - 2000, Museum Moderne Kunst, Passau / D
2003 
 Künstlerinnen. Positionen 1945 until today, Kunsthalle, Krems / A
1993
 Pro-tektur, Vienna
1989 
 Graphikmappe, Secession, Vienna
1981 
 Foto und Grafik, Technische Universität Vienna
1979 
 Konzepte, Secession, Vienna / The members of the Vienna Secession, Vienna
1978 
 Secessionistinnen 1978, Secession, Vienna
1975 
 Lengenfeld, Schloss Lengenfeld / A
1966 
 accrochage, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
1965 
 Plastiken im Stadtpark, Vienna
 
 Europäische Plastik, Den Haag / NL
1964 
 Geist und Form, Vienna

Literary work
2002 
Her novel "Paradox" is published by Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna
1995–2000 
 Working on the manuscript of a new novel
1983 
Her novel "Leopoldstag" is published by Christian Brandstätter publishing house, Vienna
Bibliography

Ingeborg G. Pluhar’s abundant artistic life starts in the master class of Prof. Fritz Wotruba at the academy of fine arts vienna in the early 1960s.

She soon emancipated herself from the figural mandate and henceforth engaged in a sophistical reflection on the little trivialities along the path of life. She finds her motifs in snapshots, images and texts, and she then shapes their meaningless aesthetic into new meaning. The results consist of collages, paintings, theatrical designs, drawings and poetry.
 
The work of Ingeborg G. Pluhar surprises us with its many-faceted reflections on everyday culture. Her immediate surroundings, trivial everyday life, always form the sources of inspiration for her series of works. "What is it about these seemingly inconsequential and – for us – meaningless motions, uttered sounds, letters and images that the conveyor belt of a single day pushes past us?" She asks this question in one of her letters to "Kunstl", a fictional figure whose name is an affectionate diminutive form for "art" and who represents an expansive, completely indeterminate concept of art.