Judith Egger
The Munich-based artist began in a very classical way: she moved to Oberammergau and came back as a wood sculptor, only to move on to London to study art, design and communications. Since then, she has steadily expanded her artistic spectrum: it ranges from performance to video and photography to comic books, ceramics, objects and installations ...not to forget: drawings.
Judith Egger is like a system of satellites orbiting around a central theme, namely 'energy'. Not just any physical unit. No, she is interested in the primordial energy. This pure energy that flows through everything that exists ... that gives life the initial spark so that it begins to breathe. This all- encompassing, pure energy fascinates Judith Egger because it is in all of us and drives us like an engine. The vital, creative, visionary element in us is given the spark it needs to enter the world.
Judith Eggers' cartoon-like drawings, spiced with a good pinch of the legendary 'dark humour' of the British, tell of this power. Amorphous masses swell, swell and push in all directions to grow and develop. But it is not easy for them - geometric structures put up quite a fight against the developmental urge of the bulging mass of life. They set the direction and keep the untamed 'life force' in check.
The vitality of life is increasingly disappearing from our society. Judith Egger observes this development attentively, in which life is more and more constructed and controlled, but less and less lived. The artist's observations flow into works that are often carried by a delightful irony. Her "insect hotels" are a fine example. The source of inspiration was the local DIY stores in and around Munich. Various models of such a so-called insect hotel can be purchased there. "Interesting", says Judith Egger, a certain ambiguity caught her eye here. 
ARTWORKS
Objekt, 2020
Latex, Leder und Kette
H 75 cm, B 70 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Untitled, 2015/16
Aquarell auf Papier
57 x 76 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Untitled, 2015/16
Aquarell auf Papier
57 x 76 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Untitled, 2015/16
Aquarell auf Papier
57 x 76 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Untitled, 2015/16
Aquarell auf Papier
57 x 76 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Untitled, 2015/16
Aquarell auf Papier
57 x 76 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Bio Deluxe Insect Hotel, 2019
Ceramic and Mixed Media
36.0 x 24.0 x 20.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Fruit Fly Hotel, 2021
Clay, wax, pigments, string, sponge, fruit net
52.0 x 26.0 x 32.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
SOLD
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
SOLD
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
SOLD
Dark Collage, 2017/20
Collage on paper
40.0 x 30.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
Dornen (thorns and cloud), 2021
Blackberry thorns, nail varnish, pencil and watercolour
30.0 x 24.0 cm
Copyright Judith Egger
EXHIBITIONS
2021 in Retrospect
Group Show
02 December 2021 - 08 January 2022
The Wind Blows
Judith Egger & Susanne Thiemann
11 February - 20 March 2021
Body \\ Politic
Group Show
04 August - 05 September 2020
Paper Matter
Group Show
21. July - 1. August 2020
BIOGRAPHY
Photo by Barbara Hartmann
Education
2018 Funding through the Golart Stiftung
2015 “zwei:eins” new art prize Munich
2010 Fellowship at the Federal Ministry for Culture, Bonn
2012 Projectgrant from the state capital of Munich for the performance „Bardo“
2000 Scholarship (1 year), DAAD, London
1999 - 2001 Masters of Arts, Royal College of Art (RCA), London
1993- 1997 Studies Communicationdesign, FH Augsburg & Lancashire University, Preston/ England
1992 - 1993 Apprenticeship wood sculptor, Oberammergau
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2019 Lauschen & Lauern, Maximiliansforum, Munich lost in shrubland, Galerie Aural, Alicante, SPain
2019 Superzelle, short time GALERIE, Munich shelter, Installation in the “Erlöserkirche”, Munich
2018 Transmission Wood, sometimeStudio, Paris, France
2017 HUNDUN, Installation, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Defethaus, Nürnberg
2017 URSPRUNG/ORIGINS – a test approach, whiteBOX, Munich(K)
2016 Biotopias Parasitas, Root, Gm3 Landscape Studio, Madrid, Spain
2015 Kraftraum für feinstoffliche Wesen, Kunstraum Bogenhausen, Munich (K)
2013 Shape & Control, Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich
2012 hamber of resonance mit Manuel Eitner, OPERATION TABLE/QMAC:Kitakyushu City, Japan
2012 Sumpf II, Galerie Max Weber Six Friedrich, Munich (K)
2012 ciment bourbeux - gegen die Vermullung der Welt, sometimeStudio, Paris, France
2012 Sumpf, Neue Galerie Landshut e.V., Landshut
Group exhibitions (selection)
2021 “The Wind blows” with Judith Egger and Susanne Thiemann, Boutwell Schabrowsky gallery, Munich
2020 Paper Matters, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich Sehnsucht..., DG Kunstraum, Munich
2019 The big sleep, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2019 100 works on paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York, USA
2018 BLICKFANG, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren (K)
2018 Eines Morgens vielleicht. DG – Galerie, Munich
2018 SUPEROPTIMIZE ME!, Große Rathausgalerie, Landshut (K)
2018 Versehrt sein, Stadt- und Spielzeugmuseum Traunstein (K)
2018 Förderpreise Bildende Kunst 2018 der LH Munich (nominated), lothringer–13_halle,
2017 Stand by me, Galerie der Künstler, Munich (K)
2017 DING UND WESEN; Interaktionen an der Tiermaschine, Galerie Bridget Stern, Hamburg
2016 In Ewigkeit, Galerie der DG, Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst e.V., Munich
2016 1884 to 1915 - an artistic position, National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia
2016 les séntiers de la création, Galérie du Lycée Jean de la Fontaine, Chateau Thierry, (FR)
2015 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich
2015 „The Kentler celebrates 25: the advisory board selects!“, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York
2015 CURIOSITY KILLS THE CAT, Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich
2015 Kunstgriff! Natur als Konstruktion, Städtische Galerie Traunstein
2015 München Zeichnet II, Galerie der Künstler, Munich (K)
2014 Jahresgaben (Annual Gifts), Kunstverein Munich
2014 Kulturpalast, Galerie Zwitschermaschine, Berlin
2014 lézards pour l ́école, lizières, Epaux-Bezu, France (K)
2014 Singing Sculptures, Rathausgalerie Munich
2014 100 works paper benefit, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York
2012 Kunst- und Wunderkammer revisited, Große Rathausgalerie Landshut/Bayerisches Nationalmuseum (K)
Performances (Selection)
2019 Bardo, mit Michael Northam (sound) Sala Equis, Madrid (mit Galerie Aural)
2016 HUNDUN, Munich Biennale für Musiktheater, Muffatwerk, Munich
2014 Körperkasten, Evangelische Stadtakademie Munich, ARTIONALE
2012 Bardo, Performance im Mundinnenraum, with Michael Northam (sound), MUG, Munich
2012 white unknown entity, Chiyofuku 10th anniversary summer festival, Japan
2008 grüne Erde, 4th International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento
2008 24h chopsticks, with Shiina Takehito via internet video, zkMax, Munich
2006 endurance, 4th Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing, China
2006 Vor der Imago – die letzte Häutung, i-camp, Neues Theater, Munich
2004 Nomadenlager, lothringer13, Munich
2002 Eingriff - Operationen an Obst und Gemüse, Opening of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich