Petra Kodym at gaya

Der Mann, der die Frauen haßte / "The Man who hated Woman", 2008, Petra Kodym, Acrylic, Collage on Canvas, 40 x 30 cm

Exhibition "Zu wenig Blut" by Petra Kodym

Exhibition Opening on Monday, 12th January 2009, 7 pm in Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria, at the Gallery for Young Art.

Latest works of the young Austrian Artist are shown until 16th February.

http://www.petrakodym.com/

http://www.gaya.at/

Marion Brandstetter

Marion Brandstetter 2008

The new works of Marion Brandstetter, an Austrian artist (born 1971 in Vienna, Austria) who made her bachelor of arts in 1996 at the Wiener Kunstschule, refer to the natural in relation to the artificial, man made. The materials ( bark, vine, polythene sheet, nails, coil springs,..) she uses reflect this idea, sometimes you get the feeling the "dead" material is alive and you don´t always discover what is natural and what is artificial, which makes viewing the works exciting. Plastic suddenly looks like skin, coil springs like worms, the whole assemblage seems to be a strange creature.

http://www.marionbrandstetter.com/

Austria conTemporary

From 14 November 2008 to 08 February 2009 you can visit the Austria conTemporary exhibition (emerging artists exhibition series) at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg.
The 16 artists selected from over 1000 applications are from 25 to 53 years old, so this is one of a few competitions for young art without age limits (!). The whole concept seems exciting and fair, the choice of emerging artists is interesting, curated by Christine Humpl.

Barbara Vögel, 2 Frauen in Luang Trabang erfreuen sich an einer Postsendung, 27.7.2008,

Collage

P.P.s favourite artists are Barbara Vögel- who is an autodidact and has been devoting herself exclusively to art for some years. For her works of art she uses objets trouvés, which she composes into collages without changing them- and Barbara Musil whose art work is based on a conceptual approach. In the video installation "Shift Expectations" she addressed a key issue in the artist’s every-day life, the "rejection letter", and transformed it into a work of art. Both artists works are thouhtful and humorous at the same time.

http://www.sammlung-essl.at/

http://www.barbara-voegel.com/

http://oe1.orf.at/highlights/29661.html