Bittersweet Transformation

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Location: Space01Location: Space01 The Pole Alina Szapocznikow is considered one of the pioneering female sculptors of the post-war period and a strong female voice in the discourse between the image of a surreal, powerful sensuality shaped by Pop Art, and the existential impermanence of the body. Starting out from the works of the outstanding sculptress, self-promotor and profound thinker Alina Szapocznikow, who died over 40 years ago, a sculptural dialogue unfolds with the work of two younger female artists, a dialogue that extends beyond the realisation of a relational existence in the world, revealing it in a fragile stability and malleable structure. Szapocznikow’s experimental sculptures of various materials enter into a discourse with a younger generation of female artists who act in a way that transcends boundaries between genres, and who lend a voice to the physical as the location of spiritual and social engagement.Camille Henrot, who originates from France and is known to the wider public since being awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2013, dedicates herself in both her filmic and graphic works to her fellow-humans of the digital age who are driven by fierce curiosity. In their layering, they demonstrate above all the excess of a fury for order that presumably yields insight. Henrot thus experiments with various standards and chronologies that range from the history of the universe to the universe of the artist’s studio.Kateřina Vincourová from Prague in turn is known for her works inspired by feminism, which arise in an explorative engagement with a capitalist consumerist attitude. Her installations concern a crisis of identity. In the exhibition in Space01 three female positions – those of Alina Szapocznikow, Kateřina Vincourová and Camille Henrot – engage in a dialogue that transcends generational differences on the notion of the body as material – the creative hand and the heritage scorched within it, both in historical and social terms. The body, its fragmentariness and precisely its technical and technological extensions too, are just as much a field of projections in this as the real location of insight.Kunsthaus GrazLendkai 1

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Selection of further exhibitions in: Austria

29.01.2016 - 26.06.2026
Albertina Museum Wien
Albertinaplatz 1
Wien

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Bittersweet Transformation Kunsthaus Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum Main address: Kunsthaus Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum Lendkai 1 8020 Graz, Austria Kunsthaus Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum Lendkai 1 8020 Graz, Austria Location: Space01Location: Space01 The Pole Alina Szapocznikow is considered one of the pioneering female sculptors of the post-war period and a strong female voice in the discourse between the image of a surreal, powerful sensuality shaped by Pop Art, and the existential impermanence of the body. Starting out from the works of the outstanding sculptress, self-promotor and profound thinker Alina Szapocznikow, who died over 40 years ago, a sculptural dialogue unfolds with the work of two younger female artists, a dialogue that extends beyond the realisation of a relational existence in the world, revealing it in a fragile stability and malleable structure. Szapocznikow’s experimental sculptures of various materials enter into a discourse with a younger generation of female artists who act in a way that transcends boundaries between genres, and who lend a voice to the physical as the location of spiritual and social engagement.Camille Henrot, who originates from France and is known to the wider public since being awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2013, dedicates herself in both her filmic and graphic works to her fellow-humans of the digital age who are driven by fierce curiosity. In their layering, they demonstrate above all the excess of a fury for order that presumably yields insight. Henrot thus experiments with various standards and chronologies that range from the history of the universe to the universe of the artist’s studio.Kateřina Vincourová from Prague in turn is known for her works inspired by feminism, which arise in an explorative engagement with a capitalist consumerist attitude. Her installations concern a crisis of identity. In the exhibition in Space01 three female positions – those of Alina Szapocznikow, Kateřina Vincourová and Camille Henrot – engage in a dialogue that transcends generational differences on the notion of the body as material – the creative hand and the heritage scorched within it, both in historical and social terms. The body, its fragmentariness and precisely its technical and technological extensions too, are just as much a field of projections in this as the real location of insight.Kunsthaus GrazLendkai 1

8020 Graz, Österreich



T +43-316/8017-9200





F +43-316/8017-9212



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