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Walter Pichler. House Next to the Smithy

Location: Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
Exhibition: 16 May 2002 - 29 July 2002

Walter Pichler

1936 born in Deutschnofen, South Tyrol
1952-1955 Innsbruck vocational college
1955-1959 Studied graphic design at the College of Applied Art in Vienna
1959 The first sculptures
1960 A year in Paris
1962 Begin of collaboration with Hans Hollein
1963 Exhibition in collaboration with Hans Hollein: "Architektur" at the Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, travels to New York, Mexico; works for the publishing house Residenz Verlag as a graphic designer
1965 Designer and editor of the architecture magazine "Bau" in collaboration with S. Dimitriou, G. Feuerstein, H. Hollein and G. Peichl (until 1967)
1966 Development of the "Galaxy" aluminium chair for Swoboda
1967 Exhibition: "Visionary Architecture" at the MoMA in New York (with Hans Hollein and Raimund Abraham)
1968 Participation at the Documenta IV, Cassel
1971 Exhibition of works at the Museum Des 20. Jahrhunderts
1972 Purchase of a farmyard in St. Martin (Burgenland), since when he has been working on the conversion and extension of buildings for his sculptures as well as having participatied in numerous exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2001
"Drawings, Sculpture, Architecture", Barbara Gladstone Gallery

1997
"Walter Pichler: Zeichnungen" Galerie Ulysses, Vienna
"Walter Pichler: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat,)
"Pichler: Prototype 1966-1975", Generali Foundation, Vienna (cat.)

1996
"Joseph Beuys, Walter Pichler: Zeichnungen", Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen; Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim (cat.)

1995
Galerie Museum, Bozen - Italy

1994
"Walter Pichler: Der Grosse und der Kleine Wagen", Stadtraum Remise, Vienna (cat.)

1990
"Walter Pichler: Skulptur", Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (cat.)

1988
"Walter Pichler: das Türmchen", Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck (cat.)

1987
"Walter Pichler - Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Modelle", Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt (cat.)

1986
"Bilder", Galerie Ulysses, Vienna

1982
Biennale di Venezia, Venice (cat.)

1980
Galerie Klewan, Munich

1978
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1977
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover (cat.)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Kunsthalle, Tübingen

1976
"Skulpturen, Planen, Zeichnungen", Galerie Shapira & Beck, Vienna (cat.)
"Walter Pichler: Zeichnungen von 1961 bis 1975", Galerie Heike Kurtze, Vienna (cat.)

1975
"Projects", The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974
Galerie Grünangergasse, Vienna

1973
"111 Zeichnungen", Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (cat.)
Galerie Buchholz, Munich

1972
"Walter Pichler", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
"Walter Pichler", Galerie im Taxis-Palais, Innsbruck

1971
Kunsterverein Kassel, Kassel
"Pichler: Zeichnungen", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
"Walter Pichler", Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna (cat.)

1968
"Österreichs Stolz", (with Christian Ludwig Attersee) Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (cat.)
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf (cat.)
"Projekt: Schlafsaal von Walter Pichler", Kunstmarkt, Cologne (cat.)

1967
"7 Prototypes", Galerie im Taxis - Palais, Innsbruck (cat.)
"Kulturtage Kapfenberg", Kapfenberg (with Hans Hollein)
"8 Prototypes", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (cat.)
"Visionary Architecture", The Museum of Modern Art, New York (with Hans Hollein and Raimund Abraham)

1963
"Architektur" (with Hans Hollein), Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (cat.)

Group Exhibitions
1996
"Wunschmaschine Welterfindung", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (cat.)
"Visionäre Architektur in Österreich", International Architecture Exhibition - Biennale di Venezia, Venice (cat.)

1991
"Werkstatt Kollerschlag", Galerie im Taxis-Palais, Innsbruck

1987
"Österreichisches Künstler der Gegenwart", Galerie im Taxis-Palais, Innsbruck (cat.)

1985
"Rennweg", Castello di Rivoli, Turin und Nationalbankbibliothek, Madrid (cat.)

1978
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1977
"Documenta 6", Kassel (cat.)

1973
"The Austrian Exhibition", Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (cat.)
"Zeichnungen der Österreichischen Avantgarde", Galerie im Taxis-Palais, Innsbruck; further stations of the exhibition: Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz; Galerie Stampa, Basel; Bundner Kunsthaus, Chur; Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz; Austrian Cultural Institute, New York (cat.)

1969
"14 x 14", Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (cat,)
"Surrealismus ohne Surrealisten. Kunstler ohne Kunst", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Galerie im Taxis-Palais, Innsbruck (cat.)
"Künstler um die Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Wien", Galerie Seebacher, Nuziders.

1968
"Galerie Nächst St. Stephan", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (cat.)
"Neue Dimensionen der Plastik in Österreich", Galerie im Taxis-Palais, Innsbruck (cat.)
"4. Documenta", Kassel, (cat.)
"Super-Design", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (cat.)

1967
"Graphik International", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
"Biennale des Jeunes", Paris
"Accrochage 68", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

1966
Selection 66", Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (cat.)
"Weihnachtsausstellung", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (cat.)


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