13 December – 02 March
 
Heimspiel 2024 at Kunstraum Dornbirn

As part of “Heimspiel 2024”, Kunstraum Dornbirn is showing under the title “Place and Space” sculptural works by four artists of different generations: Katharina Fitz, Ursula Palla, Judith Saupper and Lucie Schenker. The open architecture of the historic assembly hall sets the groups of sculptures and installations in a fascinating dialogue. In their diversity of form and artistic approaches, the works touch on a variety of themes in architecture and the use and definition of space. The themes range from urban to natural space, from public to private space and from studio to exhibition space.

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Katharina Fitz: “Catch and Release”, 2021, © Katharina Fitz

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22 February
14 00 
A family afternoon with Christa Bohle

Family afternoon: guided tour & open studio
22 February 2025, 2 – 5 p.m.

An exciting afternoon with art mediator Christa Bohle awaits adults with children aged around 6. We start with an eventful guided tour through the exhibition at Kunstraum Dornbirn. Afterwards, we take a walk together to Halle5, where a well-equipped work area invites you to get active in the ‘Penguin Workshops’. Joint projects can be realised and new things tried out.

Snacks and warm drinks will be provided. Please be sure to dress warm and weatherproof, both halls are not heated and there is a 15-minute walk between the Kunstraum Dornbirn and Halle5 (campus grounds) (or alternatively you can get there by bike/car).

Registration at office@kunstraumdornbirn.at by 18 February 2025. Participation is free of charge, the workshop is held in German.

Foto Darko Todorovic
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14 March – 09 June
 
Sophie Hirsch

The Austrian artist Sophie Hirsch (born in 1986) dissects the relationship between body and psyche in a subtle, aesthetically fascinating way. She casts this relationship in an exciting artistic language defined by the dynamic interplay of surfaces and material connections. Her sculptural works made of silicone and neoprene provoke a kind of sensual disgust: The gaze into motionless sticky fascia or fat-marbled flesh is beautifully repulsive, shockingly close, and irresistibly attractive at the same time. Hirsch’s furniture sculptures, such as chair objects with acupressure mats or massage balls, play with the haptic and tactile perception of the world. Sculptural and installation works exist in a fragile balance of weight and counterweight, tension and relaxation, control and surrender.

For Kunstraum Dornbirn’s historic assembly hall, Hirsch is developing a new site-specific installation of monumental proportions.

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Sophie Hirsch: ‘Chaise Longue #2’, 2023, Anxiety is Neutral, Bildraum 07, Vienna, Photo kunstdokumentation.com, © the artist/Bildrecht Vienna 2024, courtesy of the artist/Galleria Doris Ghetta/Zeller van Almsick.
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27 June – 02 November
 
Karla Black

Karla Black‘s artistic practice moves skilfully between worlds: She arranges her sculptural works into extraordinary spatial experiences. The range of her materials seems almost endless, as she not only draws on traditional art materials such as acrylic paint, pigment or plaster, but also incorporates any materials from everyday life that serve her purpose, such as plastic film, soap, make-up or cotton wool. In this unconventional practice, the Scottish artist (born in 1972) takes up the meanings and traditions inherent in the materials and affords us a special opportunity to see ourselves reflected in them.

For the exhibition in the former assembly hall of Kunstraum Dornbirn, Black has designed a site-specific compilation of her previous and new sculptures that incorporates both the special lighting of the space and its monumental dimensions.

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Karla Black, ‘The Academy’, 2023, installation view ‘Karla Black’, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2023, Photo Ilona Zielinska of Elona Photographer, © Karla Black, Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne | Modern Art, London .
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14 November – 01 March
 
Anna Hulačová

The defining themes of Anna Hulačová’s œuvre are ecology and agriculture. Her drawings and sculptures – of processing machines, plants, animals and people – made of concrete, ceramics and wood take up the tense dualism between utopia and dystopia, which she develops from her core themes. The works are hybrid beings whose physicality and function are transformed, connected and merged into one another. Understanding yesterday in order to enter into dialogue with today and shape tomorrow is a central tenet of the Czech artist (born in 1984). This receives expression in her highly charged artistic language, which spins fictional narratives out of history, biology and ecology in a virtuoso manner.

For the exhibition at Kunstraum Dornbirn, Hulačová combines new works with previously existing ones to create a narrative specifically shaped for the space.

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Anna Hulačová, ‘Dialog’, 2021, hand-carved wood, bee honeycomb, courtesy of the artist and hunt kastner, Prague, Photo Václav Litvan.
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