Eröffnung am
Do, 05. Dezember 2019
19 Uhr

Öffnungszeiten der Ausstellung
07.12. – 12.13.2019
15:00 – 18:00 Uhr

www.annahofbauer.com
www.clevergretel.com

Anna Hofbauer

wave, Hasendraht, Leinen, Acryl auf Leinwand,
variabel, 2019
Doppelstern C, KB – Farbdia, 2003/2019
Doppelstern B, KB – S/W Dia, 2003/2019
Doppelstern K2, S/W Kontaktblatt, 30,5 x 24,3 cm, 2003/2019

 “There is an irony in our use of terminology here. In 1839, Talbot was very careful to refer to his various methods as ‘fixing’ – they operated very much like the fixative one puts on chalk drawings – the underlying image is still vulnerable but the artist has done something to protect it. Today we refer to these methods as stabilisation, for they impart a degree of durability to the photographic image, however leaving behind a complex residue of chemistry. Herschel on the other hand very descriptively called his use of hypo a ‘washing-out’ method. The hypo permitted the remaining silver salts to be removed completely. But soon this careful distinction was turned on its head, and Herschel’s approach came to define the meaning of a fixer.” (excerpt from To fix or not to fix? – Sir John Herschel’s question, posted on 22nd January 2016 by Larry J. Schaaf, 
https://talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/2016/01/22/to-fix-or-not-to-fix-sir-john-herschels-question/

Anna Hofbauer works between sculpture and photography, often based on narrative structures borrowed from novels, diaries, myths, essays or screenplays and film. She has participated in exhibitions and sculpture workshops in Europe and Asia and performs slideshow presentations. Anna Hofbauer is also   co-founder of the non-commercial exhibition space BLACKBRIDGE OFF空间, Beijing, where she curated group-shows and film programs from 2010 till 2015.


Stefanie Seibold

o. T., C-Print, gerahmt, 71 x 91 cm, 2018
o. T. (Eckobjekt VI), 19,5 x 50 x 18 cm, 2017

“Stefanie Seibold examines in her artistic work forms of social performativity and possibilities of its transformation and resignification. In live performances, video and sound pieces as well as (archival) installations Seibold rephrases influential rituals, gestures and speech acts that are applied to form subjects. She appropriates images and texts from the heterogeneous areas of the mainstream, subculture but also of the avant-garde and weaves them together in form of a subjective archive. Her interest aims at building spaces that question strategies of visibility as well as defer fixed areas of meaning in order to develop and provide new narrative structures.”(Peggy Buth)

Stefanie Seibold is an artist producing work in various media, usually employing a number of diffferent strategies like research, publishing and curating in her practice. Her work has been supported by grants and stipends from the Jan van Eyck Academy, the DAAD, and the Austrian Chancellory/Art Section and is represented within the collection Verbund, Vienna. She has published with Dea-Verlag, Camera Austria and Sternberg Press, most recently Censored Realities: Changing New York at Camera Austria and Resist: Be modern again with John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, which are both co-authored with Alice Maude-Roxby. Her work has been shown at venues such as the De Appel arts centre, Amsterdam; 21er Haus and MUMOK, Vienna; Akademie der Künste, Berlin and the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart etc.