Günther Selichar

Günter Selichar (b.1960, Austria) lives in Vienna. He studied Art History and Classical Archeology at the University of Salzburg and the Art Institute of Chicago (1979–86). Between  2007–2013, he was active as a professor of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB). He is a member of the advisory council for photography of the federal chancellery of Austria (2017–20 and 2023–2025), a board member of Bildrecht, Vienna (2020 - present) and a member of the Vienna Secession.

His work has been exhibited at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT), The Maribor Photography Festival (SI), Forum Limbach (AT), Schlossmuseum Linz (AT), Kunstverein Medienturm (Graz, AT), Creative Time (New York, US), Landesgalerie Linz (AT), Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Tiroler Landesmuseen - Ferdinandeum (Innsbruck, AT), Museum der Moderne Salzburg Altstadt (Rupertinum) (Salzburg, AT), Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, MX) Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), Museum Moderner Kunst – Palais Liechtenstein (Vienna, AT), Kunsthalle Krems (AT), Fotomuseum Winterthur (AT), Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles (FR), Museum Folkwang (Essen, DE), The Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki (FI), Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, US), Centraal Museum (Utrecht, NL), and Deichtorhallen Hamburg (DE), amongst others. 

Selichar’s work is part of the collections of Fotomuseum Winterthur (AT), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AT), the City of Vienna (AT), the Belvedere Museum Vienna (AT), Landesgalerie Linz (AT), Landessammlungen Niederösterreich (Sankt Pölten, AT), the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection (Stuttgart/Berlin, DE), the Oberbank Collection (Linz, AT), Museum Liaunig (Neuhaus/Suha, AT), the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna, AT), Tiroler Landesmuseen - Ferdinandeum (Innsbruck, AT), Artothek des Bundes - Belvedere Museum Vienna (AT), and mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Vienna, AT).

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