# Hugo Markl

Hugo Markl (born December 6, 1964, in Pasadena, California) is a contemporary American artist, curator. He studied Visual communication at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (1985–90), where he graduated with an M.A. in fine arts. His practice spans a range of media, including sculpture, photography, video, drawing, printmaking, installation art, and performance. Markl lives in New York City.

## Work

Hugo Markl’s work examines the imagery of consumer society and popular culture, incorporating elements such as media images, logos, fashion magazines, traffic signs, and culturally significant objects like the Winchester rifle. Through collages, drawings, sculptures, and installations, Markl explores the relationship between images and their meanings, often juxtaposing references from both low and high culture. For example, his IQ drawing series (2009) combines text and imagery, such as overlaying the word "ROCK" on a nude figure or the IKEA logo with a reproduction of Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.
Markl’s work has been discussed in publications including Art in America and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. In his 1997 exhibition Peter Builts at Galerie Walcheturm in Zurich, he explored the impact of audio-visual stimuli on contemporary perception. His work was compared to Richard Serra's minimal opulence and Richard Prince's aesthetics, for engaging with themes of aesthetic experience and the cultural significance of artistic creation.

## Selected exhibitions
### Solo exhibitions

* 2012 - DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, SSSSS, Berlin
* 2010 - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, "One day 1917, while his director was out sick with a hangover, John Ford made his first feature. ...", Zürich
* 2009 - AMP Gallery, DR FRANKENSTEIN, Athens
* 2008 - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Link, Zürich
* 2007 - Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, MAMATSCHI, Naples
* 2006 - André Schlechtriem Temporary, CALCIUM, New York
* 2006 - Galleria Raucci / Santamaria, SHRUG, Naples
* 2006 - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, BROWN, Zurich
* 2003 - Gruppe Öesterreichische Guggenheim, PETER BUILTS OFFENE RECHNUNG, Vienna
* 1999 - Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, The Birth of Peter Builts and the Death of Hugo Markl Because I No Longer Am I Am Everybody I Am Everything, Zurich
* 1998 - Galerie am Andechshof, Hugo Markl & Paloma / Installativ und Konzert, Innsbruck
* 1997 - Liste 97 the young art fair, Basel
* 1996 - Austrian Institute, NOSTALHU, London
* 1995 - ACME studios for the artists, superapologize 60 min., (major support by the Austrian institute, London), London
* 1994 - Galerie Walcheturm, Hugo Markl, Gudrun Enslin, Zurich
* 1992 - Galerie Walcheturm, Hugo Markl, Zurich
* 1991 - Shedhalle, Manum de tabula, Zurich
* 1987 - Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Kieltrunk, Vienna

### Group exhibitions

* 2016 - They printed it!, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
* 2014 - La Gioia, Maison Particulière - Art Center, Brussels
* 2012 - Un‘espressione geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
* 2010 | 2011 - PLUS ULTRA, Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection. Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
* 2010 - Haus für Kunst Uri, Edition 5, Erstfeld, Switzerland
* 2009 - Hamburger Bahnhof + Flick Collection, DIE KUNST IST SUPER!, Berlin
* 2009 - Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Galerie Eva Presenhuber, We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Paris
* 2009 - Burger Collection, CONFLICTING TALES, Berlin
* 2008 - Gladstone Gallery, No Information Available, curated by Francesco Bonami, Brussels
* 2007 - Yvon Lambert Gallery, Mario Testino‚ At Home, New York - House Eva Presenhuber, Jubilee Exhibition, Vnà, Switzerland - Palais de Tokyo, The Third Mind, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Paris
* 2005 - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, INTERSTATE, New York
* 2003 - Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck - Gruppe Öesterreichische Guggenheim, Kunstverein, GLÜHWEIN + KESCHTN – Lavuapappn, Vienna
* 1998 - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, 20 Haus, Die Sammlung, Vienna
* 1996 - Artothek im Parlamentsgebäude, Ausstellung 96, Vienna - Kunsthaus Zürich, Wunderkammer Öesterreich, Zurich - MAK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Austria im Rosennetz, Vienna - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Coming up, Vienna - Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
* 1995 - Fondazione Querini, Lokalzeit – Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, (curator Peter Weibel), Venice - Karin Kilimnik, Galerie Walcheturm, window display by Hugo Markl, no face entertainment row, Zurich - ACME studios for the artists, superapologize 60 min., (major support by the Austrian institute, London), London
* 1994 - Museum und Galerie Moderner Kunst Laibach, Lokalzeit – Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Laibach / SLO - Kunstraum Strohal, Lokalzeit – Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Vienna - Galerie im Taxispalais, Art Tirol, Innsbruck
* 1993 - Centre d' Art Contemporain Martigny, Martigny
* 1991 - Shedhalle, Manum de tabula, Zurich
* 1990 - Group Show, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
* 1989 - Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, (curator Oswald Oberhuber), Vienna
* 1988 - Galerie Grita Insam, Akte der Beschreibung, Vienna

## Collections
### Private collections

* Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
* Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
* Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
* MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
* Pomeranz Collection, Vienna, Austria
* Andreas Züst († 2000) Collection, Switzerland
* Joel Wachs, President of the Andy Warhol Foundation, New York, N.Y.
* Shane Akeroyd, Former Executive Vice President at Markit, London, U.K.
* Claude Berri († 2009), Paris, France
* Sofia Coppola, New York, N.Y., and Paris, France
* Urs Fischer, New York, N.Y.
* Ugo Rondinone, New York, N.Y.
* Mario Testino Art Projects at Home, Paris, France, and New York, N.Y.
* David Teiger († 2014), New York, N.Y.
* Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
* Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

### Public collections

* Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
* Hampshire College Art Gallery
* Historic Deerfield
* Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
* The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
* Smith College Museum of Art
* University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst