Biografia
I am a visual artist who works with drawing, painting and performances. Drawing is for me a form of visual diary about my life as a mother artist, embedded in different cultures and languages. To give the drawings a shelter, the right form for me can be in an artist book or in a wooden doll house installation. My inspiration is located in my social and natural environment, in language and communication. In my work I explore the ephemeral nature of the physical being and its projections and interpretations in society.
My rising awareness for mother artist issues found its origin in the reading group about motherhood, organised by founding director of the international m/other voices foundation Deirdre M. Donoghue. I love to collaborate and discover other artist perspectives. In collaboration with the Tomorrow Girls Troop (TGT), an activist and feminist group in Japan, I gave a lecture performance called Mother Artist in Action in Tokyo.
I am also contributed with a performance about bonding at the Mothers in Arts project of Csilla Klenyanszki and wrote in collaboration with the women activist, feminist and artist Shira Richter for the wall newspaper Ausreisser. Born in Austria I studied first in Vienna ( Akademie der Bildenden Künste), then in Paris (èsnba) and in Frankfurt(Städelschule) and I finished the master program of the Dutch Art Institute (DAI).
Since then I am living and working in the Netherlands and in Austria. My works have been shown internationally and since the first lockdown I run an intervention place in my studio, called Viennese Coffee House.
Curriculum
Born 1977 in Graz/ Austria, lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Vienna (A)
Education and activities:
since 2020 start of the project series The Viennese Coffee House, Amsterdam
2015 collaboration with Andrea Inglese´s project ‘The Description Of The World’
2007 – 2009 Degree (MA) at the Dutch Art Institute (DAI)
2003- 2004 Degree of the Academy of Fine Arts (MA), Vienna
1997 -2002 Degree ( DNSEP) of the Academy of Fine Arts (énsba), Paris
2001 -2002 Residency at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
Art residencies:
2014 residency Artist on a Hill, Wald (ZO), Switzerland
2003 artist in residency, project Secret Views for Rhizom, in cooperation with Styrian autumn festival ( Steirischer Herbst) and Graz 2003
Solo exhibitions (selection):
2020 Mothers Matter, exhibition and artist book presentation at the gallery Ortner, Vienna Knock down, open air exhibition in the museum gardens, Cairo
2017 Immunity/security without guaranty, exhibition and artist book presentation at the gallery Ortner, Vienna Mum Artist In Action, lecture performance at the 331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Echo-Walk, performance in the hills around Wald (ZO), Switzerland
2010 Special Features, Galerie Sommer (Kunst&Handel), Vienna
2006 Cockaigne, performance and exhibition at the Minoriten Gallery, Graz
group exhibitions (selection):
2021 Mutterseelenallein ( All alone the world), performance at the conference TheMissingMother, Bolton
2020 Parallel Vienna, Altes Gewerbehaus Rudolf- Sallinger- Platz 1, project Ortner,
Vienna
2019 Austrian Graphic Competition, Taxipalais Kunsthalle Innsbruck
2018 SheShows, Leyden Gallery, London
Show at Eurojust /the European Court, Den Haag
Squat, Den Haag
2017 MSQ-AMS-PAR#1, performance with Andrea Inglese and Aleksei Shinkarenko at the CONTEXT_festival at the lettrétage in Berlin
Matching objects, performative intervention at the Mothernists II conference in
Copenhagen
String Games ( Himmel und Hölle), performance for MotherInArts, Goleb,
Amsterdam
Immunity/security without guaranty, presentation during the Oxyotocin conference at the Royal College of Art, London
2016 Are we our own public?, conference at the art residency Motherhouse, London
2015 The Procreate Project Archive, at the Women’s art library (MAKE), London
Paris, Ausstellung in der remixx- Galerie in Graz
Echoing, artist talk , organised by Mbassady Unlimited, Den Haag
2013 Unpacking Performativity, Lecture Performance im Universiteit Theater,
Amsterdam
2010 Capturing Metamorphosis, Uva ErfgoedLab, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
2009 Public Gesture, in Zusammenarbeit mit If I can’t dance , Dublin
Nitsch, Vorbilder/Zeitgenossen/Lehre, Künstlerhaus Wien
Publications and press (selection):
about my work:
2021 Npo1, radio station, Mothers artists rukken op, with Joke de Wolf
TEA with MAM, live video podcast, directed by Helen Sargeant
2020 Interview with Evelyn Schalk for her article Knock Down – and then? in Tatsachen/ Ausreisser, of the interview series: Voices from the Crisis, Voices against the Crisis
40 Austrian paints describing the impact of corona life, article written by Ahmed
Abd El Alim at Rosalyoussef Daily Newspaper
Journal intime d´une artiste confinée, written by May Selim in Hebdo Al-Ahram
Publication of my artist book Mothers Matter, limited edition
2018 MSQ-AMS-PAR, Andrea Inglese/Barbara Philipp/ Aleksei Shinkarenko
at Idiome, Hefte für Neue Prosa, nr.11
2017 In the magazine issue #78 Feminismus/ Basta of the Austrian Wall Newspaper Ausreisser, article “Feminist symbol readjusted”, written by Shira Richter.
Publication of my artist book Immunity/security without guaranty, limited edition
Written/ drawn contributions:
2021 Mothers, Mothering and Covid-19: Dispatches from the Pandemic, edited by Andrea O´Reilly and Fiona Joy Green
2020 Maternal Art Magazine, First Issue Stay at home, edited by Helen Sargeant Contribution to ziar, newspaper/ art publication, produced by Cătălina Nistor Contribution to Manuskripte 228, Austrian literature magazine
2017 The problem with beauty, article about Shira Richter´s work, written by Barbara Philipp, in the magazine issue #78 Feminismus/ Basta of the Austrian wall newspaper Ausreisser
