Galerie Ernst Hilger

Different parameters, linked innovatively to each other, characterize Oliver Dorfer’s new works: in the creation process he combines traditional and currently available techniques and, at the build-up of his individual set of motifs, concentrates on regulating elements that are disparate and deriving from most divers sources into one plausible composition. Computer-assisted, he arranges the image layout his work is built upon, based on hand sketches and with additional image matter that comes from his archive or which he has found on the internet or while studying various print media. In this way, Dorfer constructs narrative artworks, engineered between aggression and melancholy, latent threat and irony, whose details, disintegrating, melting into one another or rigorously separated, all claim attention individually.

Oliver Dorfer 1963 born in Linz, AT, 1986 studies Sociology at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU) / Austria, 1990 Member of Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, 1993 works for four months in Toronto and Montreal / Canada, 1997 Magister der Soziologie an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, AT lives and works in Linz Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 storyboard / njord, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Wien 2018 Sonderpräsentation Oliver Dorfer, Sammlung Sanziany, Palais Rasumofsky, Wien Parallel Vienna, Galerie Hilger, Wien 2017 the yolo iteration, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin 2016 dystopia, MAERZ Kunstverein, Linz 2015 Cameron Platter, Oliver Dorfer, Far Relations, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City/NJ 2014 oliver dorfer, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami wasteland, Galerie Hilger NEXT, Wien 2011 hole in one / the pulpproject, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin fullscreen, Hilger BROTKunsthalle, Wien crankedup underbelly, Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul 2009 the pulpproject, freight + volume, New York City 2008 lime wire, Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantova 2007 recent recordings, Baukunst Galerie, Köln stills, Artcore, Toronto

Galerie Ernst Hilger (founded 1971) represents the works of artists such as Erró and Mel Ramos, along with exponents of Austrian modernism from the 1950s onward and the main exponents of the most important international art movements of the 20th century. The contemporary department Hilger NEXT assembles those positions and provides artists from cutting-edge countries with a platform. The gallery’s labour has been rewarded through the participation of its artists in important international exhibitions and biennales like the Biennale di Venezia: Erik Binder (2001), Ivana Franke (2007), Ivan Moudov (2007), Cameron Platter (2013) Simon Vega (2013), Ángel Marcos (2013) and Peterson Kamwathi (2017).