Victoria Coeln

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Victoria Coeln (born December 20, 1962 in Vienna ) is an Austrian artist who works and lives in Vienna. Light , colors and space are the focus of her artistic engagement.

Life

Victoria Coeln studied set design at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1981 to 1985 and mathematics at the University of Vienna and the Technical University of Vienna . The artist is primarily known for her large-scale, walk-in light interventions in public spaces. Coeln works three-dimensionally in the form of temporary and permanent interventions as well as in two-dimensional image space. She changes dichroic glasses with etching and scraping techniques that are reminiscent of the preparation of the printing plates in traditional gravure printing processes . She then does not use these glasses as printing plates, as is customary in printmaking , but as filters through which she projects light. With the resulting photos she builds polychrome light spaces, which she calls “Chromotopes” and uses as a setting for portrait series, movement studies and performances , as a visual counterpart to musical compositions and as places for social encounters in public space. In 2015 the artist founded the Atelier Victoria Coeln in Vienna.

Works (selection)

  • "Lichtfest Leipzig 2019", temporary light interventions in public space as part of the Lichtfest Leipzig 2019, 30 stations along the inner city ring, Leipzig 2019.
  • "DYSTOPIA EUTOPIA", temporary light intervention in public space, inner and outer Burgtor, Vienna, 2016.
  • "Chromotopia on the Move", international travel and exhibition project, AT / TR, since 2015.
  • "Chromotopia Heldentor", temporary light intervention, Vienna, May to September 2014.
  • “Chromotopia Kokoschka”, temporary light intervention at the Leopold Museum, Vienna, 2013.
  • "Chromotopia St. Stephan", temporary light intervention, Stephansplatz, Vienna, May 2011 to December 2014.
  • "Chromotopia Stadtpark I Painting the Night", permanent light intervention at the entrance of the Stadtpark / Reisnerstrasse, Vienna, since 2008.
  • "Chromotopia Konzerthaus", permanent light intervention on the facade of the Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, since 2007.

  • Konzerthaus, Vienna

  • Chromotopia Stadtpark light installation, Vienna

  • Stephansdom, Vienna

literature

  • Peter Roehlen: FARB LICHT SPIEL: Dichroic Glass in Fine Arts and Architecture . Prinz Optics, Berlin, 2013, pp. 14-19.
  • Doris Lippitsch: Light spaces in Vienna: lights of the big city . Bohmann, Vienna, 2009, ISBN 978-3-9019-8387-0 , pp. 32-47.
  • Peter Weibel & Gregor Jansen: Light Art from Artificial Light - Light as a Medium of Art in the 20th and 21st Century / Light Art from Artificial Light - Light as a Medium in 20th ad 21st Century Art . (Exhibition catalog ZKM), Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern, 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1774-8 , p. 373.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renata Schmidtkunz speaks to Victoria Coeln, light artist. In: oe1.orf.at. Retrieved March 26, 2015 .
  2. ↑ http://www.news.at/a/Kultur-Kunst-Wien-Lichtinstallation-Heldentor , News, accessed: March 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Chromotopia Kokoschka," Leopold Museum, www.mqw.at/jp/programm//programmdetail/chromotopia-kokoschka-victoria-coeln , access: March 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/wien-stehansdom-installation-chromotopia-st-stephan-der-lichtkunstlerin-victoria-coeln , Merker-online, accessed: March 25, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Coeln, Victoria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna