Ashley Hans Scheirl

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Ashley Hans Scheirl also Angela Scheirl , Hans Angela Scheirl (* 1956 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian transgender - painter , concept - Mixed Media -, performance , body art - and video artist .

education

From 1966 to 1974 Ashley Hans Scheirl attended the federal high school for girls in Salzburg. She then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 1980 she completed her studies with a diploma in conservation and restoration. from 2001 to 2003 she passed her master's examination at the Master of Art studies at Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London . Ashley Hans Scheirl has been professor for contextual painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2006 .

plant

The first films from the 1980s and 1990s were made at the interface between experimental film, actions in public space, performance of lesbian and queer sexuality. The early important works contributed significantly to the development of conceptual art in Austria. The Austrian transgender artist deals with the libido of the economy. Gender is an artistic theme at Scheirl. Scheirl's work is about gender identity , which she perceives as fragile. Her artistic change from film to painting was accompanied by a physical metamorphosis of her own physique . Her female body became male through testosterone injections. Encouraged by the artistic successes of the metamorphosis, she emancipated herself again from her gender identification and became a woman again. For Scheirl, art is a field of experimentation for life and its changes.

Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl will design the Austria Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021 .

Ashley Hans Scheirl lives and works in Vienna .

documenta 14 contribution Kassel, Athens

The transgender artist was represented in Athens with a series of paintings that made use of a shattered surrealistic formal language.

In the Neue Galerie in Kassel Scheirl showed the picture Glorious Restraint from the Painters Parody series from 2016 and three videos from the TV Drawings series from 1980 to 1981. The three videos show a performance. The artist pierces a canvas. Scheirl regards the videos as a footnote to her painting.

Quote

"Interpersonal action is based, among other things, on intrapersonal competencies and always acts out its relationship to death, loss and becoming."

- From: Pierre Bal-Blanc : Daybook documenta 14. Prestel Verlag, Munich / London / New York 2017

Exhibitions

Awards

Web links

literature

  • Pierre Bal-Blanc: Daybook documenta 14. Prestel Verlag, Munich / London / New York 2017.
  • COMTEC Art 1999.
  • No place, anywhere - art as utopia. (= Yearbook of the Institute for Modern Art in Nuremberg. 2001/02). Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-933096-70-7 .
  • S. Mostegl, G. Ratzinger (Ed.): Matrix. Gender, proportions, revisions. Springer, Vienna / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-78316-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Stern from June 22, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on September 27, 2017 from Stern
  2. ↑ Der Standard from August 18, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on September 27, 2017 from the Standard
  3. ↑ orf.at of February 25, 2020: Town Hall Tower Artists at Biennale ; accessed on February 25, 2020
  4. ↑ Passauer Neue Presse from June 17, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on September 27, 2017 from the Neue Passauer Presse
  5. ^ Austrian Art Prize to Ashley Hans Scheirl. July 25, 2019, accessed July 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Scheirl, Ashley Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheirl, Angela; Scheirl, Hans Angela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian concept, mixed media and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg