Cäcilia Brown / Anna Hofbauer / Mikkel Holm Torp
SINGING SHELLS
18. 8. 20, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Does collaborative work start with communication? Everything you’ve seen in your life and all the exhibitions you have visited – no one is genuine, you’re never alone. It’s collaborating not at the same time nor in the same place, or the other extreme of ten people in the same room discussing one idea. You need other tools, tools of communication. What is authorship? What is the position of the individual in a group? What is the economic aspect? Do you appear bigger through collaboration? Forces are bundled. If you're present in a room, together, what kind of communication is that? Things you can’t express in words – communicating through action – like installing an exhibition – you do it, you move an object in the space and you feel the difference immediately, and only afterwards you find words, arguments, for your action. Work in a stone-quarry is tough, everybody's grey in the face, eating only porridge, it has this stigma of prison. Collaborative work is working against a stigma, surfing around the rocks, creating your own work burden – becoming your own stone.
Cäcilia Brown, Anna Hofbauer and Mikkel Holm Torp will talk about collaborative work and common ground in their art practice.
Information
- Date
- 18. 8. 20, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
- Venue
- Stadtgalerie Lehen
Cäcilia Brown
Cäcilia Brown, born in Sens (FR) in 1983, focuses with her sculptures on questions concerning the social and public sphere and its immanent hierarchies, combining them with sculptural questions of weight, volume, texture and material. Her latest works use clay from recent digging for a new underground in Vienna, roof beams and other material from demolished buildings.
Education
2004–2011 Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
2008–09 Marmara University, Istanbul.
Teaching
2015 (ongoing) Lecturer in the department of Sculpture and Transmedial Space, University for Art and Design, Linz (AT).
2019 Guest lecturer at University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
2020 Teaching Minerals and Overalls with Anna Hofbauer & Mikkel Holm Torp at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
2013 and 2014 Co-teacher in Robert Kusmirowski Sculpture class at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
2012 Co-teacher in Manfred Pernice Sculpture class at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
2009-2017 Leading and developing art courses for children at Atelier Zoom Children's Museum, Vienna
2015-2017 Developing and organising volunteer-based art courses at refugee centres in Vienna
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Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (recent)
2022 Landstreicherinnen, E-Werk, Freiburg (DE). Imi Knoebel/Cäcilia Brown, Galerie Senn, Vienna. 2018 Es gibt Ecken, aus denen kommt man nicht mehr raus, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna. 2017 Spuren der Zeit, Leopold Museum, Vienna. Luxusprobleme, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna. Normalities, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY (US).
Group exhibitions (recent)
2021 Biennale Internazionale Donna, Triest (IT). 2020 Everything was clear, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna. In case of an avalanche, Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg (AT). 2019 Brown, Meier, Raff, Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel (CH). Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere 21, Vienna. 2018 Susi klebt sich in die Ecke und schreibt Biedermeier an die Wand, Belvedere 21, Vienna. Women of the Town, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin. Performance – Körper als Kontinuum in der Kunst, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna. Space for Kids. WeltTraumStadt, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.
Anna Hofbauer
Anna Hofbauer works in the media of sculpture and photography, often based on structures borrowed from narrative forms such as novels, diaries, myths, essays or screenplays. She has participated in exhibitions and sculpture workshops in Europe and Asia and performs slideshow presentations that link depictions of sculpture and landscape with historic and ongoing narrations of sculpture and society. She is a co-founder of the non-commercial exhibition space BLACKBRIDGE OFF 空间, Beijing, where she curated group shows and film programmes from 2010 until 2015.
Education
2003–2009 Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
2003 Industrial Design, École de Design Industrielle, Nantes.
2000–2005 Stage Design, University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Teaching
2020 Teaching Minerals and Overalls with Cäcilia Brown & Mikkel Holm Torp at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
2018 Co-teaching, Working with stone with Andreas Lolis, at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
2018 Senior artist, Objektbildhauerei / Julian Goethe, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna.
2017 Co-teaching, Working with stone with Andreas Lolis, at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
2016 Senior artist, Objektbildhauerei / Julian Goethe, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna.
Website
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (recent)
2020 ada is … Anna Hofbauer, ada – artistic dynamic association, Vienna. 2018 BOSCH & HOFBAUER. Anna Hofbauer: Drucke, Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. 2017mein Vulkan bricht nur für dich nicht aus Anna Hofbauer, FOX, Vienna. 2016 GHOSTS look somewhat different 2016, A307, Vienna. terracotta conflisi, Galerija 42°, Cetinje (ME).
Group exhibitions (recent)
2021 transfers, Charim Galerie, Vienna. 2020 in case of an avalanche, Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg. cerebro con huevo, Biquini Wax EPS, Mexico City. 2019 Al fresco, V.esch, Kaltenleutgeben (AT). TWO MEN STANDING. Part 2, Out of Sight, Antwerp (BE). #oblaka. Dave’s house, Detroit, MI (US). 2018 Newjörg Immendorf, New Jörg, Düsseldorf (DE). Shifting Point(s), periscope, Salzburg (AT). Mittelbau, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna.
Publications
Anna Hofbauer, Bianca Regl (ed.): BLACKBRIDGE OFF, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2018.
Mikkel Holm Torp
Mikkel Holm Torp, born in Frederiksberg (DK) in 1987, lives and works in Copenhagen and Carrara (IT). He works with sculpture, ceramics and installations. His works are developed from knowledge in stone masonry and investigations of mineral materials. He explores how art forms correspond with geology, landscape and archaeology. His latest works question how stones are valuable elements, not only as minerals, but also as metaphors for navigating in historical landscapes, cultural memory and iconology.
Education
2011–2015 Apprenticeship at Raadvad Stenhuggeri, Hovedstaden (DK)
2015–2018 Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara
Teaching
2020 Teaching Minerals and Overalls with Cäcilia Brown & Mikkel Holm Torp at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
2019 Co-teaching, Listen to the stone with Karin Reichmuth, at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
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