Sich verwandt machen
In her book Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016), feminist theorist Donna Harraway blurs the boundaries between humans, animals, plants and technologies. She understands kinship as an active, collaborative practice in which all species and creatures are connected and care for each other. In order to foster new relationships, the participating artists are taking up Haraway's approach for a more sustainable and solidary coexistence.
Social aspects as well as interactions between organisms and living beings are also the subject of Lena Rosa Händle's expansive installation Mykhorriza (2023/25), which is constructed from roots. While Johanna Tinzl's series Archiv des Verschwindens (2019–23) is dedicated to the rapidly shrinking glaciers whose topographies and surfaces the artist has documented. The fact that there are more than two genders is a thesis that Nora Jacobs explores in her work: In the video Ctenophoria (2022/25) apnoea divers slip into the skin of comb jellyfish and imitate the movements of these intersex animals. While Klaus Hollauf translates the aggressive behavior of catfish into a dynamic, gestural formal language in his series Raubfische, Doris Libiseller's floating cocoons open up a space for interpretation between beginning and origin, aim and destination. It almost seems as if Edith Richter's insects on paper have hatched from these objects ready to go armed into battle.
critically examines historical and contemporary societies and searches for their utopian potential. Her works reflect social, political, historical and ecological conditions for a liveable future.
studied painting at the Mozarteum with Peter Prandstetter and was awarded the "Förderungspreis der Salzburger Landesregierung" in 1984. He is a member of Kunstverein Kärnten as well as Kunstverein Baden and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
works in the fields of acting, performance and visual arts and develops large-scale installations with performative elements for public spaces. Her work deals with issues such as gender, borders and horizons.
completed her training at the Landesfachschule für Keramik und Ofenbau Stoob (Burgenland) and is a member of the Kunstverein Baden and icca (international contemporary ceramic art). She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was awarded the City of Salzburg's prize for Graphics. In recent years, she has mainly worked with pastel and oil chalk drawings.
Her practice spans across a wide range of media and is based on a critical and participatory examination of the history of specific people, communities, places and landscapes. In doing so, the artist explores questions of collective memory and politically motivated processes of representation.