Christiane Spatt

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Christiane Spatt (born 1966 in Innsbruck ) is a contemporary Austrian artist. She works artistically in the fields of painting , photography , collage and installation .

Live and act

Christiane Spatt grew up in Tyrol , where she graduated from high school . Between 1985 and 1995 she studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Oswald Oberhuber , Ernst Caramelle and Mario Terzic , who also supervised her thesis . In 1986, during her studies, she received a scholarship from the Tyrolean provincial government .

Christiane Spatt's picture and collage components come from an environment that is directly related to her origin, e.g. B. from the attic of her parents' house. With which the artist also pursues her cultural identity in her work. In collages, she is interested in the act of appropriating elements of everyday culture , their decontextualization and recoding new composition. Her main artistic interest is “cultural spaces in which she addresses traces of the past in the present. She finds traces of this kind in artefacts , wallpaper - ornaments , photographs from the family album and curious furnishings from bourgeois society. "

Spatt is a representative of “a staged photography”. In her art she often takes up autobiographical themes that she implements in series. She often uses self-presentation as an artistic stylistic device, especially when it comes to topics such as cultural imprinting and identity. “She slips into different roles and thereby sets the scene for the UM room. Often she stages the recordings, sometimes she also becomes part of an ambience discovered by chance. The focus is on the question of the self and self-reflection. "

The artist is a member of the IG Bildende Kunst , the Tyrolean Artists 'Association , the Emergence of Projects (eop) network and the GEDOK artists' association . Her works of art are in the public possession of the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, Innsbruck Cultural Office, the Tyrol Cultural Department, the Austrian National Bank , the Hypo Tirol Bank and the Innsbruck City Archives .

Christiane Spatt lives and works in Vienna.

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2002: In love, yours. Tyrolean artists, Innsbruck
  • 2005: moral concepts. Austrian National Bank, Innsbruck
  • 2006: ex sampling . Künstlerhaus, Vienna
  • 2007: KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS. 24 dialogues between scientists and artists. University of Vienna
  • 2007: drawing boundaries. Member exhibition of the Tyrolean Artists, Innsbruck
  • 2008: frauwoman between reality and fantasy. Bethlehem International Center
  • 2008/2009: eMOTION. GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse , Berlin
  • 2011: Sensitive EXTRA . Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
  • 2011/2012: No TIME. GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse, Berlin
  • 2013: Still . RLB Art Bridge, Innsbruck
  • 2015: IDOL + Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle Munich
  • 2015: Burning questions. ABOUT: OFFER. Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 2015/2016: Augustina dreams - in progressius. GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse
  • 2016: WORK . Galerie am Park, Vienna
  • 2017/2018: 20 positions by GEDOK artists. Tutzing
  • 2018/2019: Schein und Spiegelung, a relational position project. GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse, Berlin

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2006: Flowershow. Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna
  • 2010: Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly . Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck
  • 2010: the story of ... Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna
  • 2014: do ducks fly. ublk space, Vienna
  • 2014: Everything is better. styleconception, Innsbruck
  • 2014: never walk alone. WUK, Vienna
  • 2018: Private samples. k48 - Offensive for contemporary perception, Vienna
  • 2018: Calypso. Babsi Daum workshop, Vienna
  • 2019: Stay. WUK, Vienna

Works (selection)

  • 2005: Put money under the pillow (objects with shredded banknotes)
  • 2008/2009: shoe show (photo series, sewn on fabric)
  • 2010: Family album (photo installation, 5 photo collages)
  • 2012: Beautiful appearance (photo series)
  • 2014: Schall und Rauch (installation: photo, disco ball)
  • 2014/2015: Over the Brim (installation, participatory project)
  • 2017: Who the gods love (photo series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Spatt. In: International Action Group of Female Artists. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Lucas Gehrmann: The view of things. 2008, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ Bernhard Braun: Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly. 2010, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Michaela Stock: Christiane Spatt. In: Wiener Zeitung. June 25, 2011, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ A lid for every shape. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. 2017, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ in disguise . In: GAS-station Berlin - petrol station for art and impulse. (Ed.): Schein und Spiegelung. Exhibition catalog. Berlin 2018, p. 57-59 .
  7. ^ A b Edith Schlocker: Photography from today. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. 2017, accessed March 9, 2020 .
  8. ^ To the exhibition Christiane Spatt. University of Innsbruck, November 5, 2010, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Stay. WUK, 2019, accessed March 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Spatt, Christiane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter, photographer and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck