JULIA HOHENWARTER *1980, lives and works in Vienna (AT).
Her installations, displays, and sculptures have been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Wien, MAK Schindler House Los Angeles, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo, The Tip Bangkok, mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 21er Haus Belvedere, and Arcadia Missa London. She taught at the University of Art Linz as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) with Monica Bonvicini and Marina Grzinic.
She received the Prize for Fine Arts from the State of Carinthia in 2014, as well as numerous studio grants abroad. In 2020 she was awarded the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts. She is shortlisted for In Sesto. The place as art 2023, an international prize for contemporary art.
Her interests concentrate on classic sculptural questions as of gravity, connectedness, absence and presence. She focuses on the tense relations between the consistencies of empowerment and spatialization. She would introduce strategies of capturing space. 'I would rather think space from the center than from its boundaries and reflect upon possibilities to stretch it here and there and shift its margins. Space is my partner.'
In her way of working, she likes to emphasize the volatility and precarity, the solidarity moment in the material, the stiffening and the occupying of spaces. That all is in a constant process of change, and with it the instability and fragility of reality. For her this means dealing with a concept of site-responsive instead of site-specific: her sculptures and installations explore sites as the private, the institutional, the public, the political and the social.
Presented in the selection from Bettina Steinbruegge by theartistsnet
first monograph, published August 2023 by DISTANZ PRIVATE BOOK
(c) JULIA HOHENWARTER, VIENNA 2022