Ernst Hilger


Ernst Hilger a curator as well as the owner and founder of Hilger modern/contemporary and Hilger BrotKunsthalle.
A gallery owner and a philanthropist mediator, Hilger travels the world in search of new art while also providing a platform for established artists. He has championed the less well-known contemporary art of countries like Iran and continents such as Latin America and Africa. Hilger makes decisions on exhibiting based on his extensive knowledge of the international art market and also his on site researches in the art hotspots in the cities he visits.

Biography

Ernst Hilger was born on 28 February 1950 in Vienna.
In 1976, first publication together with Manfred Chobot, and with illustrations by Alfred Hrdlicka.
Next, H. C. Artmann and Uwe Bremer: "die Heimholung des Hammers"
Alfred Hrdlicka – Register of art works from prints and graphics to sculpture and writings, more exhibition catalogues and catalogues on various topics:
Museum Moderner Kunst Passau, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Vienna Künstlerhaus.
Karl Korab – Register of graphic works, together with Dr. Walter Koschatzky and monography with Dr. Assmann and Prof. Dr. Ronte.
Gunter Damisch.
Franz Ringel, commissioned by the Museum of Art History/Palais Harrach; Hans Staudacher ; Georg Eisler ; Karl Korab ; Christian Attersee ; Alfred Hrdlicka 1998, 2002.
Amor Roma, commissioned by the Museum for Modern Art, together Lorand Hegyi as author.
Contemporary Art from Rome, Leo Zogmayer, Nikolaus Moser
Sebastian Weissenbacher, Hans Fronius, Adolf Frohner – among other things: Albertina catalogue.
Christian Ludwig Attersee, Oscar Bottolo
The Art of Bronze Casting – The Zöttl Studio.
Etchings – The Kurt Zein Studio.
Central – New Art from Central Europe,
Register of works by Mel Ramos.
Numerous publications for artLab – An initiative by Siemens Austria and Galerie Ernst Hilger.
Publications on contemporary artists : Sandro Chia, Bruno Ceccobelli, Tirelli, Pizzi Canella and artists of Figuration Narrative – Erró, Gérard Fromanger, Peter Klasen, Jacques Monory, Bernard Rancillac.

International Museums – Exhibitions and Exhibitions of Austrian Art with Publications

Surface Radical – Young Artists from Austria at Grand Palais, Paris, with Lorand Hegyi as curator, 1990.
Master works of Albertina at Grand Palais – Special showing at SAGA Paris, 1989.
4x4 Generations of Austrian Art, Düsseldorf, 1990, together with Dr. Lorand Hegyi, Dr. Dieter Schrage, Prof. Peter Baum.
SERVUS – 5 Artists from Austria, at Mannheimer Kunstverein, 1997.
Infeld Collection 1 – 3; Portrait of a Collection, at Landesgalerie Eisenstadt.
Art and Virtual Reality – The Collection of Bank Austria, Palais Harrach, 1998; Poliakoff from the Würth Collection, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 1998.
Moser, Wölzl, Zogmayer – Künstlerhaus, Vienna.
Leo Zogmayer at the Museum of Modern Art/Liechtenstein, curator Lorand Hegyi, 1990.
7 exhibitions in the course of the Bank Austria/trend-profil series of exhibitions at the Museum of Art History/Palais Harrach, Österreichische Galerie Oberes Belvedere and Albertina at the Austrian National Library, 1997 to 2002.
"Wagnis Wagner", together with Alfred Hrdilicka, Meiningen 2002.
Central – New Art from Central Europe at Museumsquartier, curators Carl Aginer and Lorand Hegyi, 2001
Alfred Hrdilicak at the Museum of Art History/Palais Harrach, curator Peter Baum.
Central Europe revisited I+II at Castle Esterházy/ Eisenstadt 2006/2007
tbc…

Important Positions