Sebastian Schager

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

About Sebastian Schager

Sebastian Schager (born 1984) has enrolled at the Unversity of Vienna to study the history of the arts after having graduated from a college for graphicand communications design in 2007. The same year he founded PERFEKT WORLD with his partners. Next to his artistic and commercial work within PERFEKT WORLD operating as a art collective as well as a design agency he mainly focuses on curating and running a small gallery and showroom founded in 2013 (PERFEKT BOX) and the related Artists-in-Residence program at Viennese MuseumsQuartier. In 2013 Sebastian Schager founded the screen print series PERFEKT PRINTS with artist and printmaker Andreas Nader which still is cointinued. The project brings together international art to young audiences and also seeks to dissolve barriers. All curative and creative activity is subject to the agenda of bolstering and promoting young art. The art collective PERFEKT WORLD worked at the intersection of artistry and commercial performance, between advertisement and white cube. A constant transfer of aesthetics between both worlds is taking place. Commercial services are run through the filter of artistic - conceptional reflection which points out commercial aesthetics in artistic - sculptural works exceedingly. Commercially the group was predominantly booked by clients like Red Bull or Absolut Vodka to develop special solutions which lie between both worlds of art and commerce and manage to draw bridges between them. After nine years the group decided to discontinue to work together as a collective which ends a period of experiments and cooperations in different fields. Seemlessly Sebastian Schager started his work as a solo artist and continues his work as an independent curator. In 2015 the gallery name has been changed to Jan arnold Gallery and is now run by Sebastian Schager and three other curators. The same year Sebastian Schager was asked to curate MQ‘s Streetartpassage and which he still continues. In 2016 Sebastian Schager founded ARTIS.LOVE combining his work in art as well as his work as a curator.

Education:

Graphics and Communications Design
Art History

Exhibitions:

- Into the Unknown, Solo Exhibition, (Miami Spaces, Miami USA) 2016
- They All Went to the Beach, (Novomatik Forum, Vienna Austria) 2016
- Cash, Cans & Candy (Hilger, Next, Vienna, Austria) 2016
- Mural for Streetartpassage (MQ, Vienna, Austria) 2016
- Eat or Be Eaten (Offspace Vienna, Austria) 2016
- ARTmART, (Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria) 2015
- Foyer, (Jan Arnold Gallery, Vienna, Austria) 2015
- Laser Summit (Künstlerhaus, Venna Austria) 2014
- YAA Vienna (Albertina, Vienna Austria) 2014
- Redux Inoperable Grad Opening (Inoperable Gallery, Vienna) 2014
- Ein Wandblatt aus Wien, Magazinbeteiligung und Exhibition (Rem Gallery, Vienna, Austria) 2014
- Early Birds, (Kunsthalle Wien) 2014
- Miami in a Box, (Perfekt Box, Mq Vienna) 2014
- Cash Cans & Cocaine, (Fountainhead Residence Miami) 2013 / 2014
- PERFEKT PRINTS at Neni am Naschmarkt (Vienna Austria) 2013
- Amateur Magazine #13 Release (Rem Gallery, Vienna, Austria) 2013
- Bound by Authority! (Krems, Austria) 2013
- Love for Leni, Silent Auction Fundraiser, Charity event
(Reed Space, New York City)
- Living Studio (Perfekt Box, MQ, Vienna Austria) 2013
- Cash Cans & Candy (Next Hilger Contemporary, Ankerbrotfabrik, Vienna Austria) 2013
- BurnLab Opening, Exhibition (Vienna, Austria) 2013
- Shirty Vienna (Vienna, Austria) 2013
– Letzte Weltausstellung, Arche 2012 ( Gschwandner, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2012
– PERFEKT BOX - This is Contemporary, Opening
(MQ, Electric Avenue, Quartier 21, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2012
– EARLY BIRDS
(Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz Projectspace, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2012
– Still Pictures (Stift Eberndorf, Eberndorf AUSTRIA) 2012
– Vasilena Gankovska featuring PERFEKT WORLD
(Hilger Contemporary, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2012
– ART Brussels (Place de Belquique, Brussels Belgium) 2012
– HOME STREET HOME (Semperdepot, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2012
– PULSE (PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Miami USA) 2011
– METAmART (Künstlerhaus, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2011
– Comics Make Art -Art Makes Comic (Gallerie Hilger, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2011
– WOW NOW (82 Gallery/ Shoreditch Underground, London ENGLAND) 2011
– Senseperiance (Pratersauna Artspace, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2011
– Please Be Quiet (Stift Eberndorf, Eberndorf AUSTRIA) 2011
– Escape 2010 (Projekträume Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2010
– Living Studio (Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt AUSTRIA) 2010
– Photomeetings Luxemburg
(Konsthaus beim Engel, Luxembourg-City LUXEMBOURG) 2010
– Kunst am Berg (Saline Altaussee, Altaussee AUSTRIA) 2010
– Repurpose (MOE, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2010
– Best Kept Secret (Vordere Zollamtstraße, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2009
– M.P.C.A.P.G. Soloshow (Galerie Inoperable, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2009
– Ocho - Contemporary Silence (Galerie Inoperable, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2009
– Absolutely Free (Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz AUSTRIA) 2009
– Artmart (Künstlerhaus, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2008, 2010
– Appropriation Now (Kunstraum Praterstraße, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2008
– Paint & Roll (Forum Stadtpark, Graz AUSTRIA) 2008
– Sioseh #32 (Sabotage Artspace, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2008
– Inoperable in Nü York (Alphabeta Gallery, Brooklyn/NYC USA) 2008
– Tehran Sticker Combo (Tehran, IRAN) 2008
– International Poster Art 3 (ESC Loft, Rom ITALY) 2008
– Stencil History X Tour (Barcelona, Vienna, Paris, Mulhouse, Brighton, New York, London) 2008
– PlakArt (Galerie Inoperable, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2007
– Artcycle: Bicycle Film Festival (Galerie Inoperable, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2007, 2008
– 4 Elements Festival (Forum Stadtpark, Graz AUSTRIA) 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
– SkateboardArt (Noua Art Gallery, Bukarest ROMANIA) 2007
– Streetart: Die lesbare Stadt (Freiraum MQ, Vienna AUSTRIA) 2006