Claudia Märzendorfer

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Claudia Märzendorfer (born August 17, 1969 in Vienna ) is an Austrian visual artist.

Life

Märzendorfer spent her childhood in Vienna and Graz and grew up in a musical environment. From 1994 to 2001 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Bruno Gironcoli . She lives and works in Vienna.

Work and action

Claudia Märzendorfer began doing autobiographical sculptures during her sculpture studies, in which a series of ice works - casts with frozen water - were created from 1996 onwards. She began the ongoing series of ice works with Cold Wash in 1996. In the following years "Perfect Disappearance 2000", "House 2001", "Corridor 2002", "Banquet 2004", "Much Ado About Nothing / frozen records 2005–2007 followed "in cooperation with Nik Hummer . In 2005 there was a world premiere with ice records in the Kunsthalle Wien, from 2007 "frozen archive" as a follow-up to their development of ice records.

In 2012, as a homage to Arnold Schönberg's typewriter , Märzendorfer realized a new construction as part of the Against the Specialist exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York . The machine was poured onto a fiberglass support mold in inked ice. The small sculpture melted over a stack of music paper and the flowing ink "wrote" the score. Her work also includes several "library works". Since 2005 the artist has been knitting a truck in 1: 1 format in individual parts.

From 2003 to 2004 she taught at the Institute for Fine Arts of the Art University Linz . Claudia Märzendorfer is a member of the Vienna Secession .

Her works can be found in some public collections, such as the collection of contemporary art at Admont Abbey .

Prizes and awards

  • 2010 State grant for fine arts.
  • 2011 atelier on the grounds of the Federal Ateliers for Sculpture (Prateratelier) as a grant

literature

  • Catalog A Runaway House , Triton Verlag 2002
  • Catalog The Hotel Was OK, But The Food Wasn't Good . 2007
  • Catalog with catalog raisonné here's to you, Revolver Verlag by VVV 2011, awarded the title: “One of the most beautiful books in Austria” 2011, graphics and font design by Nik Thönen Binnenland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Audio images ORF Ö1 , October 26, 2013
  2. ^ Andreas Spiegl: a matter of form - The birth of the library and the empty archive , 1997
  3. ↑ CM - MOTOR ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Exhibition at vorAnker, November 15-22, 2013, Vienna  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.voranker.org
  4. ^ Artist of the Contemporary Art Collection , Admont Abbey
personal data
SURNAME Märzendorfer, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna