The group exhibition „SUR REALITÉ. Showing diferent perspectives and approaches of female painting“ addresses discourses
around equality and visibility of female artists. The presentation combines current movements as well as thematic focal points in the contemporary Viennese art scene and brings them into a dialogue.
Until the 1970s, art history was predominantly male. It was not until Linda Nochlin posed the question of all questions: „Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?“ that the lack of recognition of female artists became a topic of conversation, leading to a rethinking and (re)discovery of female positions. Equality on the art market and in the industry is still far away, so it is necessary to re-paint history, and actively participate in shaping it.
The participating artists appropriate painterly elements in their own, experimental way, in order to let the painterly shine in a new guise and with different subjects. It is about an advance to new ways of dealing with the brush – or even without – and working up a burial of potential: female painting (peinture feminine).
Elisa Alberti studied graphic design and printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Professor Gunter Damisch and Professor Christian Schwarzwald. „The reduced vocabulary of forms and the harmonious color tone, the curved surfaces and soft curves are stringently executed and characterized by a consistent painterly attitude.“ (Günther Oberhollenzer)
In the exhibition, new works based on the series here, will be shown.
Arang Choi (born 1992 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She is currently studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria and completed an exchange semester from 2019 to 2020 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany.
Sofa Cruz Rocha was born in Mexico City in 1989. Since 2014 she lives and works in Vienna. Cruz Rocha studied fne arts at the ENPEG Esmeralda Art Academy in Mexico City and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Sofa Cruz Rocha‘s work combines contemporary art and hermetic doctrines in a complex body of work with media such as painting, installation, and sculpture. She explores universal laws, the connection between microcosm and macrocosm, and the evolution of human evolution, and consciousness.
Violetta Ehnsperg was born in Graz, Austria and reflects on her Thai roots in her artistic cosmos. She began designing fashion at an early age and ran her own label before she studied abstract painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her ouevre includes abstract painting, installation, fashion, sculpture, and scenery. Currently, she lives and works in Vienna.
Katharina Kostroubina is an ultra-contemporary artist, musician and art therapist born in 1993 who deals with socio-political issues in order to make a contribution to a peaceful and empowering coexistence. She lives and works in Vienna.
Lavinia Lanner lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (University College London) and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (diploma 2010). In her artistic work, Lavinia Lanner deals with drawing – with 3B pencil, to be precise. The simplicity of the means interests her, as it is the most direct connection to give form to the thoughts and at the same time allows a generosity in the gesture. The current series Coming and going deals with the coming and going of different realities from life, and perception, be it collective or personal.
Anita Schmid studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Matthias Herrmann and Martin Guttmann. After working for many years in the field of extended artistic photography, she has devoted herself almost exclusively to painting since 2019. She lives and works in Vienna.
Her soft pastel chalk paintings deal with the voice of inner images, visions, that appear. They are concentrated energy that serve as a guide for the viewer. They start when the logical mind ends and the unconcious begins. Inner landscapes, which are brought into form, like portals that have always been there and known by you. One only needs to remember.
Käthe Schönle studied fne arts and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel with degrees in painting and illustration. Her work has since been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and is represented in private and institutional collections. Schönle has received several scholarships and grants, including the Art Award of the City of Kassel and, most recently, the ZONTA Culture Award 2023. She lives and works in Vienna.
Katarina Spielmann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class of Daniel Richter. Current exhibitions at the gallery Evelyn Drewes, Hamburg / ZOTT Artspace, Munich and SCAG contemporary, Vienna. She lives and works in Vienna.
Spielmann‘s paintings locate us in the game of life: colorful, organic, chaotic, and at the same time full of rules that are constricting and relentlessly broken. In this way Spielmann also breaks the framework of painting, translates the image into space and places the viewer in the image. The usual guidelines no longer apply and the boundaries become blurred.
Eva Yurková works across media in painting, printmaking, ceramics, and works on paper, with a particular focus on reliefs. Her work explores the male gaze and depicts moments of exposed intimacy represented by depersonalized bodily forms. In her process, Eva often refers to the methods of printmaking. She lives in Vienna, where she graduated from the graphic and
printmaking class at the University of Applied Arts in 2022.
At the end of 2022, Anita Schmid had the idea to curate, and organise the upcoming exhibition at her studio space. She wants to create a platform for female painting, and invited together with art historian Paula Marschalek 10 artists to show their work. To form alliances, to create synergies and to set an example together, is the aim of this presentation. We need visibility as artists & as cultural professionals. We want to explore the overarching theme of the zeitgeist in the present moment of contemporary painting. We inscribe ourselves in history. The Kunstraum ZRS in 1020 Vienna, served as a studio space, and is now being used as an exhibition space before it is given another purpose.
Credit: Kristina Kulakova
With kind support of: BMKOES, Bezirk 1020