CV

-        born 1964 in Bressanone

-        studies at the institut of art, Ortisei

-        1987 graduates as a sculptor

-        1994 – 2025 exhibitor at UNIKA

-        1999 - 2004 president of the art association UNIKA

Soloshow

-        09.11 – 22.11.2019 Art Gallery - Gli Angeli - Bergamo/Italy

-        17.10. - 07.11.2020 „Ёur“ - Vijion Art Gallery – Ortisei/Italy

-        20.07. – 30.09.2023 “Druck und Dehnung” Museum Hans Wassermann Niederdorf/Italy

-        19.06. – 29.09.2024 „Egon Digon – Holzskulpturen“ Galerie im Venet Haus Neu-Ulm/Germany

Groupshows

-        2018 exhibitor at the monumental sculptor event Bad Ragaz/Switzerland

-        18.07. – 31.09.2018 House 17 Lussenburgo “Taking Shappe” Gallery Zadra Luxembourg

-        06.03 – 31.03.2019 House 17 Luxembourg „Auf den Spuren unsere Vorfahren“

-        2019 15° „Sculptura“ - Wasserburg Bodensee/Germany

-        27.08 – 24.09.2022 “Capacity of Line” Vijion Art Gallery Ortisei/Italy

-        20.01. – 02.03.2023 “Raumwunder” Galerie von Braunbehrens Stuttgart/germany

-        18.03. – 04.06.2023 “Mudazion” Museum Franzensfeste South Tyrol/Italy

-        14.12.2023 – 13.01.2024 „Eternal Moment“ Galerie Reitz Zürich/Switzerland

-        12.07. –13.10.2024 - Palazzo Aliprandini, Livo, Val di Non

-        28.03. –31.05.2025 “Pesc” Gruppenausstellung UNIKA Stadtmuseum Klausen

-        artist represented from the Galleria Gagliardi San Giminiano Tuscany/Italy

-        artist represented from the Gallery Massone Genova/Italy

-        06.2018 publication of the monograph “Distortions” Egon Digon printed Dialogwerkstatt Brixen 

-        exhibit at different national and international Art Fairs and exhibitions (Positions Berlin, Art Salon Zürich, AAF Hamburg, Art Karlsruhe, Volta Basel, AAF    London, Discovery Art Fair Köln/Frankfurt)

Egon Digon – Illusion and Irritation

Egon Digon’s artistic work is a fascinating journey into the world of geometric forms—a realm he deliberately dissolves, questions, and redefines. With great sensitivity, he explores the possibilities of distortion, transforming wood into powerful sculptural works that challenge the viewer’s perception and expectations.

Through the intentional deformation of geometric structures, Digon breaks their formal rigidity and endows them with an unexpected, almost organic softness. His profound engagement with line, edge, and volume gives rise to a distinctive visual language in which precision and sensuality exist in a dynamic balance.

The masterfully carved sculptures reflect exceptional craftsmanship and a deep attention to detail. Upon closer inspection, a complex interplay of density and void unfolds, of smooth transitions and sharp cuts. The fragmentation and reconfiguration of geometry generate striking visual illusions that continually set the viewer’s gaze in motion.

Digon’s works both irritate and fascinate: they resist a single, fixed interpretation and continuously open new perspectives. By dissolving the apparent rigidity of wood as a material, fluid and sometimes biomorphic forms emerge, lifting the material from its weight and imbuing it with an unexpected sense of lightness.

In the ongoing evolution of his work, Egon Digon consciously embraces change. It becomes the driving force of his artistic practice—an impulse for renewal, for open and self-determined thinking, and for a continually renewed and dynamic creative process.