Lucas Gehrmann Livres

This year's Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2017 winners Marlene Maier (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) and Olena Newkryta (University of Applied Arts Vienna) are interested in the logics of cinematic image production. Framings that are used in picture production--that usually remain unnoticed or invisible--are made perceptible in their multi-part installations. The conceptual relationship between the works of the two graduates led to the joint exhibition title Everything a Hand Can't Take. In her 3-channel video installation Food only exists on pictures, Marlene Maier finds a visual "language" for the blurring and absence resulting from the opaque merging of technological and techno-political processes. In her multimedia installation folding unfolding refolding Olena Newkryta creates several possibilities for viewing the "real" in order to simultaneously create a "visual language of the touch" that allows a connection between haptic and visual perception. Exhibition: Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (30.11.2018- 14.01.2018)

The Kunsthalle Wien Prize is a joint project of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, theAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the Kunsthalle Wien. A jury annually awards an artist from the universities’s programs who independently address sociopolitical topics within their art. The award funds an exhibition and catalog. For 2017, the topic focused on digital imaging and its far-reaching political and social ramifications in the twenty-first century.Marlene Maier (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) was awarded for her three-channel videoinstallation Food only exists on pictures, a multidimensional space of uncertainty, wherethe present and the absent encounter each other simultaneously. The artist obtained thetext and image material for her scripts from the internet, and employed a diverse range ofimage concepts to reformulate this material—from assembling video-stock footage toreenacting found photographic material, to the reduction of the visual level on close-upsof a monitor. The compact catalog features a foldout poster, installation shots, and aconversation between the artist and Kunsthalle Wien director Nicolaus Schafhausen.