Marianne Maderna

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Marianne Maderna (* 1944 in Vienna ) is an Austrian installation artist .

Life

Maderna's mother Katharina was an editor, her father the author Karl Bruckner . Maderna attended the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna from 1959 to 1964 and then emigrated to the USA. In 1964 she returned to Austria and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1969 (diploma 1972). In 1991 she received the Appreciation Prize of the Province of Lower Austria and in 1996 the Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts. Maderna lives in Vienna and Aggsbach-Dorf in Lower Austria. In 2014 she took part in the founding of the MMMuseum in the Aggsbach Charterhouse.

Works are in the collections of the Artothek des Bundes in 21er Haus , Vienna; Blickle Foundation, Museum of the 21st Century; Generali Foundation ; in the Albertina Graphic Collection , MUSA Collection of the City of Vienna, Lentos Art Museum , Lower Austrian State Museum and Austrian Sculpture Park .

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Marianne Maderna is an interdisciplinary installation artist and performer. It addresses socially relevant issues relating to the human condition. She combines sculpture, video, drawing, indurance performance, free music and lyrical texts. She examines and finds new formulations for human behavioral patterns and hierarchical systems. In 2005 she painted a Vienna flak tower from World War II with graffiti during a climbing performance . In 2013 she presented her world theater Humanimals in the Dominican Church in Krems ,

Marianne Maderna: Humanimals , sculpture installation Dominikanerkirche / Krems Zeitkunst, Lower Austria 2013

a large-scale installation with thousands of noctilucent floating sculptures and a hand-drawn 3-D animation as a walk-in video projection. In the same year she walked across the Danube as the “Popess” wearing self-made water shoes. In 2015, on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna , Marianne Maderna juxtaposed 36 busts of famous women with the permanently installed 153 busts and memorial plaques of male dignitaries.

Marianne Maderna: Radikal Busts , sculpture installation on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna

Solo exhibitions

  • 2015 Radical Busts , Arkadenhof of the University of Vienna
  • 2014 Foundation of the MMMuseum in the Aggsbach Charterhouse.
  • 2013 Humanimals , Dominican Church / Krems, Zeitkunst Niederösterreich
  • 2011 Mighties & Frighties & Academy mm , Palais Kabelwerk / Artspace, Vienna
  • 2006 One To , kunsthaus muerz , Mürzzuschlag
  • 2005 One To , Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • 2005 Budhinen, Christinen,… , installation and graffiti performance, Flakturm Arenbergpark, Vienna
  • 1996 The first house , Architekturzentrum Museumsquartier , Vienna
  • 1991 Room and exit , Vienna Secession
  • 1987 Sculptures in the surrounding area , Vienna Secession
  • 1984 Sculptures and Signs , Landesmuseum Niederösterreich , Vienna
  • 1982 Marianne Maderna , Vienna Secession

Catalogs

  • Radical Busts , with texts by Maia Damianovic, Sigrid Schmitz, and Luce Irigaray. Poems: Marianne Maderna.
  • Humanimals . Contemporary art of Lower Austria. With texts by: Eva Badura, Maia Damianovic and Alexandra Schantl. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86984-445-9 .
  • Historysteria , with texts by: Kerstin Braun, Jacques Derrida, Sophie Freud, Elisabeth List, Elisabeth von Samsonow, including Springer, Vienna, New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-75582-2 .
  • Room and exit , with texts by Jacques Derrida, Hildegunt Amanshauser, Ulli Moser, Marianne Maderna. Wiener Secession, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-900803-45-5 .
  • Room and exit , with facsimile text. Triton Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-191310-69-X .

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Commons : Marianne Maderna  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Maderna, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna