Two exhibitions
dal 5/2/2008 al 12/4/2008
Segnalato da
5/2/2008
Two exhibitions
Salzburger Kunstverein - Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg
Maria Hahnenkamp presents an installation with a number of images, as well as sung, spoken and projected texts, and she explores the question: How are the body, image, space, time and language related to one another? Catrin Bolt stages an exhibition in different acts. In it, mattresses form a changing picture; an old table is converted into an unsteady sculpture and towels into abstract images.
Maria Hahnenkamp
Images are first and foremost a victory over fear. Without the ear, the eye would not be able to stop.
Dietmar Kamper, Bildstörungen. Im Orbit des Imaginären, 1994
In her exhibition at the Salzburg Kunstverein, Maria Hahnenkamp uses text quotations such as those of cultural theorist Dietmar Kamper. The artist presents an installation with a number of images, as well as sung, spoken and projected texts, and she explores the question: How are the body, image, space, time and language related to one another?
Elements of the installation include a new audio work Kantate/Bild, two large video projections in which she continues her work with found image material but now also in the area of film, and a new video V5/08 with texts by Judith Butler. The exhibition is supplemented with an info station, which attempts to explore the theme of woman, feminism and emancipation using film productions and psychoanalytical audio lectures.
Since the end of the 1980s, Maria Hahnenkamp’s work has explored societal attributes given to the female body and the stereotype repertoires of roles, rituals, gestures, and especially images of the female body.
Maria Hahnenkamp was born 1959 in Eisenstadt, lives and works in Vienna.
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Catrin Bolt Pictures of an Exhibition
In the small exhibition room of the Salzburger Kunstverein Catrin Bolt stages an exhibition in different acts. In it, mattresses form a changing picture; an old table is converted into an unsteady sculpture and towels into abstract images. An installation of cigarette packs acts as a bad miniature model of a city, a record player is combined with a pillow, while 10 monitors are a cross between sculpture and a reduced video installation. Oil paintings also contribute to the plot of this exhibition; an abstract painting becomes figurative, while the figurative unveils its abstract qualities.
Catrin Bolt elevates the works of art to actors and at the same time makes them props. She presents them in complex, ultimately fictional exhibitions, fed from the endless possibilities that the art as well as the film medium have to offer. Catrin Bolt was born in 1979 in Friesach; she lives and works in Vienna. From 1997 to 2003 Bolt studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has already had numerous single exhibitions, for example at the Hubert Winter Gallery in Vienna and the National Art Center in Tblissi among others.
Image: Maria Hahnenkamp
Press preview: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 9.30 am
Opening: Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 7 pm
Salzburger Kunstverein, Kunstlerhaus
Hellbrunner Strasse 3 - Salzburg