Roland Wegerer

Roland Wegerer (°1974, Amstetten, Austria) creates media artworks, photos, sculptures and performances. By questioning the concept of movement, Wegerer tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctness's, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface.

His media artworks focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualize reality. The attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language will be concentrated. In short, the lacks of clear references are key elements in the work. By investigating language on a meta-level, he plays with the idea of the mortality of an artwork confronted with the power of a transitory appearance, which is, by being restricted in time, much more intense.

Roland isolates the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. By applying a wide variety of contemporary strategies, he finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humor that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experienc...

2010 Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Linz (Mag.art.).

2015
- Camouflaged paper, DK Kebab, Plaza España, Cuenca (ES)
- Camouflaged paper, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence, Florence (IT)
- Bunker Project, Pittsburgh (USA)
- NEXTCOMIC, Videospace Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz (A)
- PROTECHT, CASS - Bank Space Gallery, London (UK)
- Liegen – Sitzen – Stehen – Gehen – Springen – Fliegen/Fallen. Was Menschen tun – und wie. E.P.I Zentrum, Künstlerforum Bonn (DE)

- Bizarre sound Creatures, Glaspaviljoen, Plug-In-City, Eindhoven (NL)
- SIMULTAN Festival, Timisoara (RO)
- 60Seconds Film Festival, Copenhagen (DK)
- Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)
- Drents Museum/CBK Assen (NL)
- Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (NL)
- Museum Hilversum (NL)
- Museum De Pont, Tilburg (NL)
- SCHUNCK*, Heerlen (NL)


2014
- TRACTIONARTS, 821 Traction Ave #110, Los Angeles (USA)
- Electric Walls, On the Ground Floor, Los Angeles (USA)
- NE Fest, NO Studio Foundation with the cooperation of the National Academy of Arts (NAA), Sofia (BUL)

- Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (NL)
- Dortmunder U, Dortmund (DE)
- FILMIDEO, Index Art Center, Newark, New Jersey (USA)
- Transmodern Performance Festival, Baltimore, Maryland (USA)


2013
- Videorover: Season 6, NURTUREart G...