SEVDA CHKOUTOVA | ANDREAS LEIKAUF | ANNA STANGL | VERONIKA SUSCHNIG

SEVDA CHKOUTOVA

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1978
Studied applied arts at the University of Applied Arts in Sofia and art history at the University of Sofia. Studied art history at the University of Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna

Sevda Chkoutova deals with constructions of femininity. …she provocatively questions shame, morality, and female desire between social attributions, norms, and constraints. The body is political; her own naked body becomes an instrument. She demonstrates physical autonomy while simultaneously contrasting sensuality, sensitivity, and fragility.

ANDREAS LEIKAUF

Born in 1966 in Judenburg
Studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna

Andreas Leikauf creates expressive images that capture the zeitgeist as manifested in film, fashion, music, and lifestyle with striking motifs and memorable slogans. He depicts selected scenes from our visual culture on a bright color tone with matte black dispersion. He always adds a phrase, slogan, or aphorism to the image, creating an image-text relationship that evokes a narrative that is as associative as it is enigmatic, as open as it is hermetic.

ANNA STANGL

1961 * in Salzburg
1983-1987 Studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris
Foreign scholarships, workshops, and teaching assignments in Japan, China, India, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, Paris, Rome, and Budapest.

Anna Stangl’s works are poetic and figurative, often depicting female bodies, animals, and plants in fairy-tale-like, dreamlike landscapes. Her delicate yet decisive lines lend her works a tender sensuality, while subtle hints allude to the enigmatic and profound aspects of existence.

VERONIKA SUSCHNIG

1989 * in Korneuburg

2012-15 Vienna University of Technology, Architecture – Bachelor’s degree
2015-22 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Art & Architecture – Master’s degree | Sculpture, Textual Sculpture | Painting, Expanded Pictorial Space

Behind the translucent “soft skills” lies a complex working process. Ink drawings are mirrored from the analog to the digital space, where they are alienated through overlays and shifts, only to find their way back to the gauze-covered stretcher frame by means of screen printing, where the acrylic paint is pressed through the grid of the fabric in an impasto manner, creating an inimitable plasticity.