Luisa Kasalicky

born 1974 in Prague, Czech Republic

lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Luisa Kasalicky studied at the Glasfachschule (Glass Art Academy) Kramsach, Tyrol, Austria, from 1996 to 1998 and painting at the Akademie der bildenden Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) Vienna with Gunter Damisch 1998–2004.

Kasalicky’s works, which oscillate between painting, sculpture, and installation, shift the specific qualities of the different genres and the boundaries between thinking and experiencing, seeing and understanding. Painterly components meet sculptural layers in her assemblage of elements that, although designed to stand alone, create new systems of reference. The motifs and symbols are integrated into the narrative in pictorial space, where they enrich one another. What is drawn in space becomes picture-like writing that expresses something through addition and subtraction at the same time […] Located between a conceptual approach, in which language is regarded as a picture, and a deliberate return to the traditional craft of creating a three-dimensional work using painterly elements, Kasalicky’s suggestive three-dimensional paintings are colorful constructions based on constellations that double as compositions. (Vanessa Joan Müller)

Selected exhibitions: Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (G) (2024); Leopold Museum, Vienna (G) (2024); Villa Löw-Beer, Brno (with Siegfried Zaworka) (2023); Kunstverein Kärnten Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt (G) (2023); Schloß Waldegg, Feldbrunnen-Sankt Nikolaus (G) (2022); Kunstwerk Krastal, Kras (with Siegfried Zaworka) (2022); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (G) (2022); ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York City (S) 2018; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (S) (2013); Kunstraum Burgkapelle, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt (S) (2013), Haus der Kunst, Galerie G99, Brno (S) (2011); BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (S) (2011).

Luisa Kasalicky was awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Otto-Mauer-Prize in 2023 and a residency in 2028 at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP, New York.