Elisabeth Czihak

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Elisabeth Czihak (* 1966 in Tübingen ) is an Austria ical visual artist . She has lived in Vienna since 2000.

life and work

Czihak grew up in Salzburg , where she attended the Musisches Gymnasium . From 1985 to 1991 she studied ceramics at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz and then from 1991 to 1992 sculpture with Lothar Fischer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin . She began her artistic work with sculptures and later transferred her strong interest in three-dimensionality to drawings and photographs, whereby the space as a whole, its effect and how it is influenced is essential to her. Since 1989 she can refer to numerous solo and group exhibitions in the areas of drawing , photography , object and installation . In 2003 and 2005 she taught as assistant to Judy Fox and 2007 to Wang Fu at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg. The artist is a member of the IG Bildende Kunst , the Upper Austrian Art Association (since 1998, also on the board since 2008) and the Salzburg Art Association (since 2002). Elisabeth Czihak has received several awards for her work. In 1999 she won first prize at the first International Biennale for Ceramic Sculpture in Kapfenberg and in 2000 she received the talent promotion award of the state of Upper Austria. In 2007 and 2008 she worked in Paris and Warsaw with the help of studio grants from the State of Salzburg.




Exhibitions (selection)

  • Happy building , photography, Galerie Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Linz, 2010
  • Traces , Kunstverein Baden bei Wien, Baden, 2007
  • Creatures , Stadtturmgalerie Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 2006
  • Vacancies , photo project with Walter Ebenhofer , Galerie Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Linz, 2003
  • Objects , sugar factory, Enns, 1995

architectural art

  • Redesign of the Marian prayer room in the tower chapel of the parish church Naarn (2012)
  • 3-part wall design as digital print on non-woven wallpaper in the waiting area of ​​the outpatient clinic for radiotherapy and radio-oncology of the Salzburg State Hospital , Salzburg, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Elisabeth Czihak , in: Ostlicht's web presence )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ostlicht.at
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Czihak , in: Web presence of the Upper Austrian Art Association
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Czihak , in: Web presence of the Upper Austrian Art Association ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Elisabeth Czihak , in: Web presence of the State of Salzburg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Markus Hochgatterer: Mariengrotte as a special jewel of the renovated parish church Naarn , in: Tips Perg from December 5, 2012 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Elisabeth Czihak , in: Webpräsenz des Landes Salzburg, accessed on October 4, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Czihak, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ceramist, sculptor, graphic artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen