Krobath Wien curated by Bettina Steinbrügge
„EMAK BAKIA“

9.9 - 15.10.2016 Press release

Krobath Wien, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Vienna
www.galeriekrobath.at

Curator(s):

Bettina Steinbrügge More

Bettina Steinbrügge (*1970 in Ostercappeln, Germany) is the Director of the Hamburg Kunstverein.

Artist(s):

Haleh Redjaian More

Born 1971 in Frankfurt am Main. Lives and works in Berlin. She studied Art History at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and furthered her studies in Drawing and Printmaking followed by Sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp. She completed a Postgraduate degree in Fine Art from the Higher Institute of Fine Art in Antwerp. Later, Redjaian moved to Berlin where she worked as assistant to well-known Venezuelan artist Arturo Herrera for eight years. During these years, Redjaian maintained her own practice and participated in several group exhibitions at independent project spaces and institutions and also created site-specific installations in temporary exhibition spaces. She staged her first solo exhibition at Arratia Beer in Berlin in 2015. She works in a variety of medium, predominantly works on paper, textiles, murals and spatial installations often referring to architecture. Grounded in geometry, she uses its rules to reshape and retrace the apparent order of angles and lines. Her compositions subtly belie their own errors and form what she calls a ‘natural abstract language’.
Henri Michaux More

Born 1899 in Namur, Belgium. Died 1984 in Paris, France. He was a Belgian-born French lyric poet and painter who examined the inner world revealed by dreams, fantasies, and hallucinogenic drugs.
Nasreen Mohamedi More

Born 1937 in Karachi, Pakistan. Died 1990 in Kihim, India. She was an Indian artist best known for her line-based drawings, and is today considered one of the most essential modern artists from India. Despite being relatively unknown outside of her native country during her lifetime, Mohamedi's work has been the subject of remarkable revitalisation in international critical circles and has received popular acclaim over the last decade. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, documenta in Kassel, Germany, and at Talwar Gallery, which organised the first solo exhibition of her work outside of India in 2003, Today, Mohamedi is considered one of the major figures of the art of the twentieth century.
Man Ray More

Born 1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 1976 in Paris. Man Ray was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his pioneering photography, and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself.
Sofie Thorsen More

Born 1971 in Århus, Denmark. Lives and works in Vienna. As a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, she has shown her work internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions. She is currently an associate professor at Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark, and held a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 2005 to 2009. Her mostly installation-based work is dedicated to questions of perception, space, and the architectural object.