Margit Orlogi

Margit Orlogi (*1958 in Lower Bavaria), German sculptress and painter, apprenticeship in Italy (Carrara, Pietrasanta), lives and works in Lower Bavaria and in stone centres worldwide as well.
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There’s a recurrent theme in Margit’s works, some kind of comprehensive signature shaping her paintings as well as her sculptures. In both, Margit succeeds in expanding into the core, in transforming the surface of a canvas or a stone in such a way that hidden images become visible.

As a sculptress, she treats each stone like a companion: gently, inquiringly, interrogatively. It’s like a dialogue. Usually, she faces monumental fragments of granite, marble, sandstone or travertine. Margit sees the structures and stories hidden in the stone and reveals them with a sculptress’s tools. She scrapes, scratches, breaks stones and cuts. She helps the stone to find complete expression. Once polished, it starts to sparkle and inner images come to light.

When it comes to her paintings, the creative process starts with the surface and ends inside. Thus, monochrome lacquer art becomes three-dimensional, classical canvases are primed and built-on layer by layer by layer. While those lacquer artworks take inne...

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EXHIBITION MAY 2023
Sculptures and Paintings
Schütz Art Museum - Austria

2020: Exhibition "Steine im Netz", sculptures and paintings. Seeresidenz Seeshaupt (Lake Starnberg, Bavaria/Germany) in cooperation with Josef Bierbichler and Tilman Spengler.
2015: „Stones moved by paintbrush". Exhibition of stone sculptures and paintings within des 63rd Festival European Weeks Passau (Gallery on Neuburg Castle).
2014: Large-scale sculpture „Stele for grave of honour" for Hanns Egon Wörlen (founder of Museum of Modern Art Passau).
2013: The town Pocking buys the large-scale sculpture „OM“ – placed in front of the city hall.
2012: „Sein und Stein | OM“. Exhibition of six large-scale sculptures within the 60th Festival European Weeks Passau on the campus of the university Passau.
2011: „Sculptural Lacquer Coated Paintings“, world premiere and special exhibition of lacquering-project in collaboration with piano manufactory Bösendorfer, Vienna.
2006: „Sculpturs and Paintings“, Museum of Modern Art – Foundation Wörlen Passau, Introduction: Tilman Spengler. Curator: Hans-Peter Wipplinger.
2005: „Sculptures and Paintings“, Granite Museum Hauzenberg, Bavaria. Introduction: Tilman Spengler.
2005: „networks“, Palazzo Camera...