Award-winning artwork is at the moment welcoming guests to the PowerTower of Energie AG Oberösterreich in Linz within the present curated by Reinhard Gattinger and Maria Venzl within the lobby. Hess Jeon, Maria Orciuoli, Sara Piñeros Cortes, Blazej Kotowski and Sara Koniarek actually bought to the underside of native lakes of their “Lake Monitoring” (Dream Grant OK Pals and Energie AG 2023): Their multi-part set up combines stones fashioned by the water and high-quality traces of lime by means of evaporation and divulges the great thing regarding water – the supply of all life. Many a sunken golf ball has additionally been raised once more due to “sea monitoring”.
Analogue and digital on the identical time
The Expertise Promotion Award from Energie AG and Linz College of Artwork went to Beate Gatchelhofer for her ceramic works, by which the Styrian traces the fluid transition between analog and digital: she manually gave her clear, geometric objects from the 3D printer a seemingly velvety mushy floor that tempts you to assault.
Klemens Brosch Prize winner Michaela Kessler lets high-quality strains with ballpoint pen on paper develop right into a seven meter lengthy self-portrait, the place the Vorarlberg native is anxious with “how femininity takes up its house” – in mushy curves that proceed to develop from exhibition to exhibition. On the fence of the Energie-AG location in Gmunden you will discover the award-winning intervention of the studio “Ziller & Naderi”, proven in massive format on a canvas in Linz: Of their massive wave, the Salzburg native Florian Ziller and the Iranian Fatemeh Naderi, each graduates of the artwork college, illustrate Linz, how artwork and know-how may be introduced collectively, how water is used as a supply of electrical energy.
In line with the overarching motto of the exhibition, “Gifted & Established,” pictures by Anna Jermolaewa from her collection “Discovered Objects” may also be seen, which – in a brand new, generally abstruse context – ask regarding their which means and use and thus inform tales. This yr’s Austrian contribution to the Venice Biennale, backed by Energie AG, comes from the Linz artwork college professor.
Information: Linz, Böhmerwaldstraße 3, on view till September twentieth
