The 4 Graces
The 4 Graces is a group of four visual artists in Vienna . You work conceptually with painting , performance , photography and video .
Petra Gell, Mela Kaltenegger, Susanna Schwarz and Maria Wetter got to know each other as students of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , where they have already been named 4 Graces . They completed their studies with Gunter Damisch with a master’s degree. In 2002 they joined together as an artist collective and moved into a joint studio in Vienna's new building .
The name of the group reminds them of the “photography performance gang” Die Damen , who in the 1980s showed existing sexisms with self-portrayals, according to Nina Schedlmayer in 2009 in Art Magazine . In contrast to this, the 4 Graces with their exhibition Salon Gier seemed to "largely withdraw into the not exactly new inwardness - mood: cheerful to cloudy". In 2014, the artist collective took part in the major exhibition Idol. Prehistoric and contemporary images of women in the Künstlerhaus Wien , which was also shown in Munich in 2015, took part in a video work in which The 4 Graces dance around a bull-headed Zeus "on a roof as a girl group (ies). In the Wiener Zeitung , Peter Zawrel described Die 4 Grazien 2016 as a girl group whose videos are "entertaining dismantling of male transfigurations".
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2004: Club Lungo - Enjoying the beautiful world , Artothek Gallery "Alte Schmiede", Vienna
- 2007: 4 Gracje - bitchball , Austrian Cultural Forum , Warsaw
- 2009: Salon Gier , Young Austrian Art Barbara Preyer, Vienna
- 2010: The 4 Graces - Painting and Video , Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck
- 2012: Hit rate , photo work in the exhibition Halali - the hunt for the contemporary , Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
- 2013: Salon Gier II, Museum of Young Art (MoYA), Vienna
- 2013: Out of the Dark , Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
- 2013: Great Balls of Austria , group exhibition of contemporary Austrian artists with the support of the Austrian Embassy, Contemporary Art Meeting Point (Camp), Athens
- 2014: The ONE , mo.ë Vienna
- 2014: IDOL - Prehistoric and Contemporary Images of Women , Künstlerhaus Vienna
- 2015 IDOL , Rathausgalerie, Kunsthalle am Marienplatz Munich
- 2015/2016: Marking , Künstlerhaus Vienna
- 2016: XPOSIT / TWO SIXTEEN - In memoriam Gunter Damisch , Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- 2018: Art on prescription - art sur ordonnance , Musée du quai Branly , Paris
- 2018: Paradise Girls - 4 female contemporary art positions in cooperation : The 4 Graces, Edelgard Gerngross, Sophie Tiller and Valentina Wecerka. Vienna Art Week
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The female artist collective "Die 4 Graien" , Oe1, ORF.at, May 22, 2012
- ↑ Nina Schedlmayer: Die alte Innerlichkeit , Art Magazin, February 25, 2009
- ↑ Flora Schausberger: Doris Day, Tongöttinnen and the space in between , Art Magazin, December 1, 2014
- ^ Peter Zawrel: Girl Group. The 4 Graces , Wiener Zeitung, March 18, 2016
- ↑ Website of the MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website of the Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of the gallery
- ↑ Art Aspects
- ^ Exhibition announcement of Great Balls of Austria in Athens
- ↑ The ONE , Art Aspects
- ↑ Art Aspects
- ↑ The 4 Graces. Mark . Künstlerhaus, Passage Gallery, November 13, 2015 to January 10, 2016
- ^ Exhibition report from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- ↑ Art on prescription - artists issue recipes (pdf)
- ↑ Paradise Girls - Nature, Affect, Memory and Harmony. Four female contemporary art positions in cooperation. In: Art in Words, November 19, 2018
