Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions
Since his participation in Peter Greenaway's legendary Vienna exhibition "100 Objects to represent the world" in 1992, Virgil Widrich has been involved in the creation of exhibitions and entire museums in various roles as project manager, conceptual designer, exhibition designer or artistic director. Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2023
IMAGE POWER POLITICS: Yoichi Okamoto. Post-war photography icon
Graphic design of the exhibition in the State Hall of the Austrian National Library.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2023
tx-mirror
The real-time installation "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is part of the exhibition
"Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media – An Operative Canon" presented at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary
Art and Urban Planning in China.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2022
tx-mirror
tx-mirror in the exhibition "Understanding Art & Research" – UM Gallery. Academy of Arts,
Architecture and Design – Prag – Czech Republic
Exhibition, Film screening, 2021
tx-mirror
tx-mirror in the exhibition "Transformations – Abstract art in motion" – Künstlerhaus – Wien
Exhibition, Film screening, 2021
tx-mirror
Galerija na katu – Kulturno informativni centar – Zagreb – Croatia
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2021
The Danube. A journey into the past
Graphic design of the spectacular 44-meter reproduction
of the famous Pasetti map.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2021
tx-mirror
Art Vault Santa Fe – The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation – Santa Fe – USA
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2020
Music everywhere!
The princely court of Salzburg – a centre of European musical culture 1587 – 1807
19.7.2020 to 2.1.2022, DomQuartier Salzburg
Artistic direction: Virgil Widrich, exhibition design: Hans Kudlich
19.7.2020 to 2.1.2022, DomQuartier Salzburg
Artistic direction: Virgil Widrich, exhibition design: Hans Kudlich
Exhibition, Film screening, 2020
tx-mirror
AIL x Sound:frame Conference: Navigating the postdigital – Angewandte Innovation Lab Vienna –
Austria
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2019
sconarium Visitor Centre for Bad Schönau
Artistic director of the exhibition.
Exhibition, 2019
Data Loam
"Data
Loam" in the exhibition "Understanding Art & Research" - Yuga gallery and Rittaikobo in cooperation with Tokyo University
of the Arts - Tokyo - Japan
Exhibition, Film screening, 2019
tx-mirror
Ars Electronica 2019 – European Platform for Digital Humanism – Postcity – Linz – Austria
Exhibition, Film screening, 2019
tx-mirror
"Writing the History of the Future" – The ZKM Collection – Karlsruhe
Exhibition, Film screening, 2019
tx-mirror
Vienna Biennale for Change 2019 – Understanding Art & Research – MAK Museum für angewandte
Kunst – Wien
Exhibition, Film screening, 2019
tx-mirror
The "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is shown at "The Triennial of Expanded
Media, Multimedia Art, and New Media Art" in Belgrade:
"Cvijeta Zuzoric" Pavilion, Mali Kalemegdan 1, Belgrade
18.4.2019, 19:00 until 13.05.2019
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, from 11:00 to 19:00 hrs.
"Cvijeta Zuzoric" Pavilion, Mali Kalemegdan 1, Belgrade
18.4.2019, 19:00 until 13.05.2019
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, from 11:00 to 19:00 hrs.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2019
tx-mirror
The "tx-mirror" is exhibited as part of the VR focus of sound:frame and Diagonale 2019. Curated
by Eva Fischer
21. and 22.3.2019, 10.00 to 19.00 o'clock
Designforum Styria, Andreas-Hofer-Platz 17, 8010 Graz, Austria
21. and 22.3.2019, 10.00 to 19.00 o'clock
Designforum Styria, Andreas-Hofer-Platz 17, 8010 Graz, Austria
Exhibition, Film screening, 2019
tx-mirror
The "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is shown in the exhibition "Data Loam":
Opening: 25.2.2019, 7 p.m. Exhibition duration: 26.2. to 8.3.2019, Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Franz-Josefs-Kai
3, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Film production, Exhibition, 2019
Teleplasmatic Views of Vienna
On two corresponding screens the video installation "Teleplasmatic
Views of Vienna" deconstructs and reinterprets Vienna's Stephansplatz.
Exhibition, Research, University of Applied Arts, 2019
Data Loam - Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
Exhibition on the research
project on contexts of meaning through categorization and indexation.
Exhibition, Multimedia, 2018
Vienna Design Week 2018 – Voyage Around My Room
Video installation in an endless loop in the former
Sophienspital for the Vienna Design Week 2018.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2018
back track
Film contribution to the exhibition "Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media –
An Operative Canon" at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
Exhibition, Film screening, 2018
tx-mirror
The real-time installation "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is part of the exhibition
"Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media – An Operative Canon" presented at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und
Medien Karlsruhe.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2017
Sound of Music World Salzburg
Exhibition in Salzburg about central stages in the life of the
Trapp family, known from "The Sound of Music".
Exhibition, Film screening, 2017
tx-transformator
The "tx-transformator" is presented in the exhibition "Aesthetics of change - 150 Years of the
University of Applied Arts Vienna" from 15.12.2017 to 15.4.2018 in the MAK - Austrian Museum of
Applied Arts / Contemporary Art.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2017
Aesthetics of change – 150 years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
The exhibition "Aesthetics of change: 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna" in two parts casts a glance back
onto 150 years of the University’s history, while at the same time daring to look into the future.
Exhibition, 2017
Memory Palace
The installation
“Memory Palace” reflects the house from the film "Night of a 1000 Hours" which has been built using rear projections, backdrops,
props, costumes and light and brought to life around the actors for the film.
Exhibition, 2017
Side by Side
Media
installation as part of the exhibition "ANALOG_DIGITAL. Media (Ex)changes" at METRO Kinokulturhaus.
Exhibition, 2017
Exhibition and retrospective "analog_digital – The Dichotomy of cinema"
On the occasion of the exhibition
"Analog_Digital. Media (Ex)Changes" the Filmarchiv Austria is showing a fascinating cross section of national and international
analogue/digital cinema in a retrospective curated by Virgil Widrich.
Exhibition, Multimedia, 2017
Vienna Design Week 2017 – Panzerschrank Potemkin
Film director and multimedia artist Virgil Widrich transforms the strongroom
of a former bank into a surface for projections.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2017
The Essence17
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, Stage, checkpointmedia, 2017
70 Years of the Marshall Plan
Design and implementation of the
anniversary event.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2017
Circuit Training
Exhibition of the classes Art & Science and Site-Specific
Art in cooperation with CERN, art@CMS and HEPHY.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2016
tx-transform
"tx-transform" is shown as part of the exhibition "ReFashioning. Austrian Fashion Art Exhibition"
- Liu Haisu Museum - Shanghai/Zhongguo - China
Exhibition, University of
Applied Arts, 2016
The Essence16
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2016
[dis]placement – Information through Sound
Annual exhibition of Art
& Science on the topic "Information through Sound".
Exhibition, Film screening, 2016
Copy Shop
Dresden – Motorenhalle, Exhibition "Gestatten, Kästner", Spiegelungen, Widersprüche, Doppelgänger
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2015
Figaro Parallelo
The large-scale media installation "Figaro Parallelo" allows a comparison of recent productions
of "The Marriage of Figaro".
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2015
"Parallaxis" – Media installation for the exhibition "A Rush of Color" at the Leopold Museum
Media installation for the exhibition "A Rush of Color – Masterpieces of German Expressionism"
at the Leopold Museum Vienna.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2015
The Essence15
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2015
make/real
Exhibition "Robot Essay" at MMCA – National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.
Works by Rebecca Horn, Virgil Widrich, Patrick Tresset, Peter William Holden, Kim Sangjin, Rho Jaeoon, SHINSEUNGBACK KIMYONGHUN,
EXP LAB
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2013
Funeral Museum at Vienna Central Cemetery
The consortium of checkpointmedia
Multimediaproduktionen AG / OMS Objektmanagement Service GmbH was commissioned in June 2013 as sole contractor for the design,
construction and furnishing of the new museum.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2014
The Essence14
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2014
Biosphere n+1
Exhibition and transdisciplinary pieces in 3 acts by Art &
Science students at the University of Applied Arts at University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU).
Exhibition, Lecture, 2014
Biosphere n+1
On 23 June 2014 the symposium "Biosphere n+1" is held in cooperation between University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna, "Art & Science".
Exhibition, 2013
Liquid Things
Participation
with "Liquid Things" by Roman Kirschner in the exhibition "Out of the box - 10 questions to artistic research".
November 29, 2013 - January 5, 2014
MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
November 29, 2013 - January 5, 2014
MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2013
Crucial Experiments
An exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna during
Vienna Art Week 2013.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2013
Experimenta Heilbronn – Music workshop
checkpointmedia develops and installs a new
music workshop with three studios for experimenta Heilbronn.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2013
The Essence13
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2013
14/16, on-site research
Micro-exhibitions at 6 locations by students of Art
& Science at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2012
make/real
The movie "make/real" is presented as a video installation in the exhibition "Robots - man and
machine?" at Technisches Museum Wien (14.12.2012 to 14.07.2013).
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2012
Museum of Natural History Vienna – The Meteorite Gallery
For the
reopening of the world’s largest and oldest collection of meteorites in 2012, the vast collection of extraordinary exhibits
is expanded by the skilful inclusion of media stations, interactive hands-on stations and animations.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2012
The Essence12
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2012
Erste-Campus-Schauplatz – Visitor centre for Erste Group’s new headquarters
Visitor
Centre "Erste Campus-Schauplatz" about the future headquarters of Erste Group on the site of the former Vienna South Railway
Station.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2011
Copy Shop
Participation with "Copy Shop" in the exhibition B Hotel at MoMA PS1 from 9.12.2001 to 27.1.2002
Selection Committee: P.S.1 Chief Curator Klaus Biesenbach; Associate Curator Larissa Harris; Associate Curator Daniel Marzona; Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Video, The Museum of Modern Art; and artist Jonathan Horowitz.
Selection Committee: P.S.1 Chief Curator Klaus Biesenbach; Associate Curator Larissa Harris; Associate Curator Daniel Marzona; Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Video, The Museum of Modern Art; and artist Jonathan Horowitz.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2011
Things that talk
Exhibition of the University of Applied Arts/Art & Science at
the Museum of Natural History Vienna on the occasion of the Vienna Art Week 2011.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2011
The Essence11
Annual exhibition of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2011
Copy Shop
Human Frames. Zehn Seelenzustände – 77 Videokünstler und Filmemacher aus Europa und Asien – KIT
Kunst im Tunnel – Düsseldorf – Germany
Exhibition, Film screening, 2011
warning triangle
Creation of a found-footage film titled "warning/triangle" for the exhibition "Fetisch Auto.
Ich fahre, also bin ich." at the Tinguely Museum Basel (8. June to 9. October 2011) showing a destructive love-triangle between
a man, a women and her car.
Exhibition, University of
Applied Arts, 2011
Parameter{world} - parameters for every or no thing
Annual exhibition of the
students of the Master course "Art & Science Visualization" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2010
Exhibition "90 Years of the Salzburg Festival – The Great World Theatre"
The history of the Salzburg Festival as a accessible spatial sculpture with different layers of mediation in the Salzburg
Museum.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2010
The Essence10 – Hyperactive Prototypes
Annual exhibition of the
University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, 2010
make/real
Virgil
Widrich produces a film entitled "make/real" for the exhibition "Robot Dreams" which is being staged at the Museum Tinguely
in Basel (8 June to 12 Sep. 2010) and the Kunsthaus Graz (8 October 2010 to 20 February 2011).
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2009
Exhibition "Linz. City in Luck" – Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture
The history of Linz was worked out on the basis of different, partly very personal perspectives to a house with many rooms.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2009
The Essence09 – Digital Traces
Annual exhibition of the University
of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2009
Alias in Wonderland
Exhibition of the Department of Digital Art at the University
of Applied Arts Vienna at Freiraum/quartier21 Vienna.
Exhibition, University
of Applied Arts, 2008
The Essence08 – Digitale Kunst
Annual exhibition of the University
of Applied Arts Vienna.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2008
Krones AG – Company Museum
The corporate museum designed by checkpointmedia presents 50 years of
Krones' history and technical developments.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2007
Swarovski Crystal Worlds – Redesign 2007
In the course of the redesign of the Swarovski
Crystal Worlds, further attractions attracting the public were conceived and implemented in 2007.
Exhibition, 2006
checkpointmedia GmbH – Multimedia Productions
checkpointmedia at the exhibition "360° Design Austria"
As a starting point for this exhibition, 36 leading Austrian design studios are pinpointed along an axis from Vienna to Vorarlberg from 28 June to 3 September, checkpointmedia among them. The exhibition offers insights into the designers' strategic approaches. A book has been published as an accompaniment to the exhibition. (120 pages, 240 x 297 cm).
Date: 28 June to 3 Sept. 2006.
Location: designforumMQ, quartier 21, Museumsplatz 1/Hof 7, A-1070 Wien
As a starting point for this exhibition, 36 leading Austrian design studios are pinpointed along an axis from Vienna to Vorarlberg from 28 June to 3 September, checkpointmedia among them. The exhibition offers insights into the designers' strategic approaches. A book has been published as an accompaniment to the exhibition. (120 pages, 240 x 297 cm).
Date: 28 June to 3 Sept. 2006.
Location: designforumMQ, quartier 21, Museumsplatz 1/Hof 7, A-1070 Wien
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2006
Mozarthaus Vienna – Multimedia Exhibition
Since 27 January 2006 (Mozart's 250th
birthday), this fully refurbished house containing Mozart's former apartment, the only one of his Viennese residences still
in existence today, has paid homage to the life and work of the musical genius.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2005
Exhibition – Palais Epstein
Five media stations equipped with high-format 30-inch screens
enable visitors to call up texts, pictures, graphics, animation films and short video clips.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2005
Vienna Parliament Visitor Centre
The media stations in the visitor centre of the Austrian
Parliament serve to impart knowledge and are integrated into the architecture.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2002
Salzburg Museum – Sattler Panorama
Supplemented by an interactive module, the original
Sattler-Panorama is now once again open to the public at the Salzburg Museum
Exhibition, Film screening, 2005
Fast Film
Exhibition participation with film and paper objects at "Dreams are my reality," La B*A*N*K, Emerging
Art and More...
42, rue Volta - 75003 Paris, 23.09.2005 to 19.11.2005, Monday to Saturday, 11:00 to 19:00.
42, rue Volta - 75003 Paris, 23.09.2005 to 19.11.2005, Monday to Saturday, 11:00 to 19:00.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2005
Copy Shop
"Dreams are my reality," La B*A*N*K, Emerging Art and More... 42, rue Volta -
75003 Paris, 23.09.2005 to 19.11.2005, Monday to Saturday, 11:00 to 19:00.
Exhibition, Film screening, 2004
Fast Film
Participation in the exhibition "Bewegung im statischen Bild" on the occasion of the Simon von
Stampfer Symposium.
Vienna University of Technology, TU, Prechtlsaal, Vienna
Vienna University of Technology, TU, Prechtlsaal, Vienna
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2004
Hans-Moser-Exhibition – Austrian Theatre Museum
The exhibition Hans Moser on the
popular Austrian actor and the virtual national institution was one of the most successful exhibitions ever held in the Austrian
Theatre Museum.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2003
Swarovski Kristallwelten – Redesign 2003
The Crystal Worlds, designed by André Heller
in Wattens, Tyrol, was opened in 1995 for Swarovski's 100th anniversary. Since then it has been continually expanded and further
attractions have been added.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2003
Red Bull Hangar-7 – Multimedia Staging
Extensive multimedia planning and implementation of
Red Bull Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2003
Exhibition "Archbishop Paris Lodron" at the Dommuseum Salzburg
For the exhibition "Archbishop Paris Lodron (1619-1653), Statesman between War and Peace" at the Salzburg Dommuseum, checkpointmedia
designed and installed a complex projection installation and an information display for the entrance hall of the Salzburg
Dommuseum.
Exhibition, 2002
Copy Shop
Participation
in the group exhibition "SALON 2002. im zentrum: diskurs. Neuaufnahmen 1990-2001" at the Künstlerhaus Vienna
Exhibition, 2001
Copy Shop
Künstlerhaus
Wien presents "Copy Shop" together with a short "making of" and numerous original paper frames as an installation in
the passage gallery of the Künstlerhaus. Opening on 21 November 2001 at 19:00 in the presence of Virgil Widrich.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2001
Museum Ladin – Media stations
The multimedia station "Historical Panorama" portrays their history
using video animations and audio commentaries in four languages; the interactive "Language Atlas"offers entertaining insights
into the Ladin language.
Exhibition, checkpointmedia, 2001
Lower Austrian Provincial Exhibition 2001 – Media stations
checkpointmedia
was responsible for developing the majority of the media stations and the hardware and software.
Exhibition, 2000
tx-transformator
This automat, based on the theory of relativity, allows viewers for the first time to modify their perception of the familiar
relation between space and time by experiencing time in a transverse flow to their spatial movements.
Exhibition, 1999
100 Media Stations for Technisches Museum Wien
Large-screen projections and video loops, audio stations, interactive
mini-cinemas, selectable videos, interactive terminals and Internet research stations enrich and supplement the permanent
exhibition.
Exhibition, Film screening, 1999
tx-transform
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, Great Britain, permanent exhibition
Exhibition, Film screening, Lecture, 1998
tx-transform
Presentation at the IST 98 exhibition, Digital
Theatre, Austria Center Vienna, 30.11.1998, 15:30.
Exhibition, 1992
100 Objects to represent the world
Exhibition by Peter Greenaway on the occasion of the 300 anniversary of the Academy of Fine
Arts Vienna in the Vienna Hofburg, the Semper Depot and in the Academy of Fine Arts.