| Ulrich Egger | Exhibition 2026 | |
Ulrich Egger was born in 1959 in San Valentino alla Muta in the province of Bolzano. He lives in Merano.
From 1981 to 1986 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, graduating in the sculpture section.
Alongside sculpture, he soon began to take an interest in photography, and his compositions of images and industrial materials were successful. They are industrial and urban landscapes, buildings, interiors and facades in a state of abandonment. The technique consists of the use of different materials, such as steel, iron, wood, glass, combined with photography. The common thread is the interpretation and documentation of the transience of the urban world.The works convey to the viewer the presence of evident traces of buildings, of houses full of memories and stories that continue to survive despite everything. The absence of the human figure in his past works is noteworthy. In his more recent works, however, we find it in a wide variety of forms.
He works in Italy and abroad and has had many solo exhibitions in public and private spaces that are among those selected since the 2000s: La misura del vuoto, Spazio Thetis, Venice (2001); Galleria Biedermann, Monk (2002); Sopralluogo, Galleria Plurima, Udine (2003); Sopralluoghi, Galleria Oredaria, Rome (2004); Ricostruzione, Galleria Fioretto, Padua (2006); Towndown, curated by Valerio Dehò, Galleria Antonella Cattani, Bolzano (2008); In/finito, curated by Daniele Capra, Galleria Plurima, Udine (2009); In nome del padre, curated by Nicola Galvan, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padua (2011); Inside/Outside, Gallery 00A, Merano (2017); Ulrich Egger_UNHEIMLICH, curated by Pietro Gaglianò and Antonello Tolve, Manifattura Tabacchi, Florence (2024); Scisti e Vinisti, first edition of the artistic residence promoted by CON Red Lab and Red Lab Gallery at The ApARTment, Salento (September 2025); Ulrich Egger. La solitudine dell’architettura, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Il Ponte Gallery, Florence (May 2026). Among the group exhibitions, in addition to his repeated participation in Fairs Artefiera Bologna; Miart Milan, ArtVerona, Artissima Turin, Art Karlsruhe (from 2000 onwards), they are mentioned MART Trento and Rovereto (2000); Art Innsbruck, Kunst Koln (2002); Bruxelles Expo (2004); Plurima 35, curated by Federico Sardella, Galleria Plurima, Udine (2008); LIV Venice Biennale, Eventi Collaterali (curated by Martina Cavallerin, 2011); VIENNAFAIR, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome (2012); Modes of Democracy, Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (2014); ICEBERG, curated by Conny Cossa, Das verborgene Museum, Palais Mamming Museum, Merano 2016); The Game, a che gioco giochiamo?, curated by Lisa Trockner, Palazzo Ducale Massa (2017); UpCycle – Quando l’arte reinventa il mondo – RESIDENCE OF ITALIAN EMBASSY, curated by Antonello Tolve and Silvio Mignano (2022); Artefiera, Bologna – with Il Ponte gallery (2025).
