LUISA KASALICKY
SONIA LEIMERvokuhila

Exhibition

Grünangergasse 1

1010 Vienna

28 Jan – 28 Mar 2015

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LUISA KASALICKY and SONIA LEIMER present a jointly conceived installation under the title vokuhila in the Login and in the project space, whose narrative strands are generated by the merging of the disparate formal vocabularies of both artists.

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LUISA KASALICKY

Luisa Kasalicky works in the border area of installation, painting and sculpture and combines constructivist stylistic elements with baroque ones. Through the arrangement of simple forms, narrative arrangements emerge that are reminiscent of baroque stages and can be understood as a reaction to the medial homogenization of visual image production in photography and film of the present. Kasalicky follows intentions of material justice in her use of building materials and raw materials of everyday culture such as polystyrene, bitumen sheets, wood, tiles, and synthetically produced carpets. On the one hand, the materials she uses are to be seen as childhood-related and cultural-anthropological relics of the 1970s and 1980s; on the other hand, the fabrics used possess a painterly value through their respective specific color, texture, and materiality and emphasize tactile qualities. The motifs, some of which are large in scale, speak of a desire for a clear formal language that retains a baroque pull toward the sublime despite the earthiness of the materials used. Ornament also finds its way into Kasalicky's working world as a creative possibility and a tribute to craftsmanship.

Born 1974 in Prague, Czech Republic, lives and works in Vienna. 1998 - 2004 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Exhibitions (selection): 2013 Intro: desiderio, Lentos, Museum der Stadt Linz, Linz, Frontispiz Juxtaposition, Kunstraum Burgkapelle, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt | 2011 Haus der Kunst, Galerie G99, Brno, en suite, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Wiener Glut, Neue Kunst aus Wien und Düsseldorf, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf | 2010 Lives and works in Vienna 3, Kunsthalle Wien. Otto Mauer Prize 2013, Förderpreis der Stadt Wien 2011, Vienna, Förderstipendium des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur 2011, Vienna, Theodor Körner Prize 2006, Vienna.

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SONIA LEIMER

In her artistic work, Sonia Leimer deals with space and time as categories of reality construction. In her cross-media work, the artist negotiates questions about the foundations of our perception, which are formed on the basis of individual, historical, and medially shaped patterns of experience. In doing so, she combines elements from the fields of film and architecture and links a conceptual approach with a partly minimalist formal language. The materials Leimer takes on are characterized by the meanings implicit in their context, but change their status in the transformation process of the work. The categories of space and time as well as the question of the meaning of the material in the context of its conceptual treatment intertwine in a complex manner in Sonia Leimer's artistic practice, which is also characterized by its openness to interpretation and multifaceted points of connection.

Born in 1977 in Merano, Italy, lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Exhibitions (selection): 2015 Le souffleur. Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum, Aachen | 2014 Wow!, LAMOA Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles | 2013 5th Moscow Biennale | 2012 Artothek, Cologne, Museion, Bolzano, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles | 2011 Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt/M. | 2010 BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Triennale Linz | 2008 Manifesta 7, Rovereto | 2006 Kerava Museum, Helsinki. State Scholarship for Visual Arts 2009, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Scholarship 2009, MAK Schindler Scholarship, Los Angeles 2005.

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LUISA KASALICKYSONIA LEIMERvokuhila

LUISA KASALICKY

SONIA LEIMER

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LUISA KASALICKY
SONIA LEIMERvokuhila