Promesse du bonheur #1
Heimo Zobernig, Luisa Hübner, Veronika Suschnig
04. 12. 2021 - 26. 02. 2022
The first exhibition of the series Promesse du bonheur - confronting emerging artists and the masters with whom they trained or to whom they refer to- engages the post-conceptual artist Heimo Zobernig (1958, AT) and the artists Luisa Hübner (1988, DE) and Veronika Suschnig (1989, AT), who will create an environmental installation for the occasion.
The work of Heimo Zobernig (1958, Austria) spans an array of media, from architectural intervention and installation, through performance, film and video, to sculpture and painting. His practice across all these forms is connected by an interrogation of the formal language of modernism, at its most familiar in the tropes of the monochrome and the grid, yet also concerned with Constructivism, colour theory and geometric abstraction.
Zobernig was part of Documenta IX (1992) and Documenta X (1997), and represented Austria at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). He also exhibited in important solo and group exhibitions including those at the Center Pompidou (2019) and at The Whitechapel Gallery (2015)
Veronika Suschnig (1989, Austria) conceptually combines painting, sculpture and installations of materials from industrial production for health and body care to investigate human nature, its physicality, and the cultural processes and political issues they generate. Suschnig studied Fine Arts, Painting & Sculpture with Daniel Richter and Heimo Zobernig, as well as Architecture with Alessandra Cianchetta and Antje Lehn at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work was awarded the Bank Austria Art Award 2018 and has been acquired by pubblic collections like Art collection Kärntner Sparkasse and Wien Museum, Vienna.
Luisa Hübner (1988, Deutschland) uses photography and moving images to conduct an ironic and playful analysis of the politics of corporeality, often using her own body as the object of her research. Hübner studied at the Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. She exhibited in various international events, including Parallel Vienna art fair (2020) and Belfast Photo Festival (2021), and her work has been published in magazines such as dienacht # 19 and PhotoKlassik. In 2021 was awarded by the Hoepfner Foundation.
