THOUGHTS • EDUCATION • EXHIBITIONS • PUBLICATIONS
I. THOUGHTS“living in a material world”
Dealing with the complexity of human experience and perception is of central importance to my work, for example questions about desire, meaningfulness and alienation. I see the world as a „built and constructed world“ and my sculptures are an expression of what has developed and consolidated in the course of modernization.
It is always about questions of stabilization, security and their comparison with the prevailing power relations. Our material-determined world gives us an ostensibly apparent stability and security in which we move every day - physically and mentally. I understand my sculptures as a record of a constructed, material-based world. My work process is an exploration of the formal potential of artifacts or architectural elements in terms of nuanced psychological states and aesthetic experiences.
The objects find their reflexive basis within the complex entanglements of functionality, representation and collective images. My sculptures are placeholders, architectures, artifacts, anonymous objects, figures and showmen at the same time. The most commonly used material concrete serves here as a synonym and iconography of a „built world shaped by the paradigms of modernism“.
I am interested in fluidity and formation, in set pieces and connecting parts, in gravity and exposure, in projection surfaces and manipulations, in truth and measurability, in transgression and standardization, in templates and clichés, in dissections and retouching, in the verifiability of states and forms of being, and in the parallelism between the human body and objects, as well as the restrictions and constraints to which both are subject.
Materially, I work with industrial material like rubber, silicon, aluminium and a sensitivity to building spatial narratives. Through my work in various media, I investigate identity, cultural norms in modern society. I transform pieces of today´s mainstream life as well as historical fragments of exterior and interior design. The juxtaposition of high and low materials and fabrications techniques allows me to address contemporary issues of equality in a thoughtful and upfront manner. The minimal forms of her sculptures reference architecture, interior and exterior design and parts of the human body.
II. EDUCATION
Higher technical institute for graphic, design and photography
Classical and contemporary dance education
Space- and designstrategies, Art University Linz; Bachelor, („Field of a singular organism“, Elsa Prochazka)
Higher technical institute for graphic, design and photography
Classical and contemporary dance education
Space- and designstrategies, Art University Linz; Bachelor, („Field of a singular organism“, Elsa Prochazka)
Art history and cultural studies, Art University Linz; Master Degree, („Ironische Propheten. Eine Untersuchung des Paradoxen innerhalb des kuratorischen Konzepts der 9. Berlin Biennale mit Verweis auf einen hypothetischen Ironie-begriff“, Anne von der Heiden)
Fine art / Sculpture department, (Bildhauerei – Transmedialer Raum)
Art University Linz; Diploma („It ́s better to get off quickly“, Ali Janka & Tobias Urban)
III. EXHIBITIONS
2014
FREMDLINGE
Salzburg Museum, Austria
2014
NFO.Split/screen
Raumschiff Linz
2015
RAUMDRANG
Exhibition in public space
2016
Fremde Engel,
Höhenrausch OK Center for contemporary art Linz, Austria
2017
Karma chameleon, efes42,
Verein für Skulptur Linz, Austria
2017
One two more
One work Gallery, Vienna
2018
Ich fühl mich nicht persönlich, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis Bregenz, Austria
2018
Clean Cube: Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Kulturtankstelle Linz, coopLab OÖ Kulturquartier und Art University Linz, Austria
2018
Hang over Balcony, edition: Linz, Austria (solo)
2019
Benefits & prototypes – the meaning of vertical, K2 Linz, Austria
2019
Stein Shine
Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz
kuratiert von Stefan Brandmayr
2020
It´s better to get off quickly
K2 Art University Linz
2020
Common ground, Salzburger Kunstverein, Museumspavillion, Austria
2021
Thick air, efes42, Linz, Verein für Skulptur, Austria (solo)
2021
48°16'41.5"N 14°17'06"E Skulpturengarten
edition: Linz, Austria
2021
parallel Artfair Vienna, Austria
Semmelweisklinik,
2021
It´s better to get off quickly
Artprice exhibition
Arbeiterkammer Linz, Foyer
IV. PUBLICATIONS
2009
FOOD & GRID
Prochazka, Elsa, (Editor)
Baldauf, Anette
2014
Fremdlinge. eine Ausstellung zu Georg Trakl; [Ausstellung: 28.5. - 4.6.2014, Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek, Residenz Salzburg,
in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Salzburg und dem Salzburg Museum) Eva Grubinger (Editor)
2017
Ironische Propheten. Eine Untersuchung des Paradoxen innerhalb des kuratorischen Konzepts der 9. Berlin Biennale mit Verweis auf einen hypothetischen Ironiebegriff
2020
Referenzsysteme in skulpturaler Transformation.
(Referencesystems in sculptural transformation)
2021
Clean Cube: Zur Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
Von Jasmin Mersmann, (Editior)
Anne von der Heiden (Editor)