Elke Krystufek

Elke Silvia Krystufek (born 1970 in Vienna) is an artist and writer based in Vienna and Berlin.

Life

Elke Silvia Krystufek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1988 to 1993 with Arnulf Rainer and taught at the following art academies: Visiting Professor at the Art University Linz, 2001-2002, visiting professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, 2005-2006, Chair at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2005-2006. Your work is a feminist research project, which is inspired by feminist strategies in the visual arts and literature such as, for example, by the artist Valie Export and writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus.

Work

Elke Silvia Krystufek is a visual artist and writer. Since her first major solo exhibition at the Vienna Secession in 1997, she has worked on the subject archive. Your there issued photo atlas of postcard-sized photographs with the title I am your mirror took loans from Nan Goldin and Gerhard Richter. With the exhibition Liquid Logic at the MAK under the former principal of Peter NOEVER which granted her access to all museum depots, they drew comparisons between a thematically arranged selection of never before seen on sections from the depots and the biography of the 1975 disappearance of Dutch- American artist Bas Jan Ader. Excerpts of a movie, they turned in the context of the exhibition on Easter Island, can be seen in the context of a lecture by the artist at the Brooklyn Museum in New York on YouTube. In 2009, she represented Austria in the Austrian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale together with Dorit Margreiter and Franziska and Lois Weinberger, where they grappled last with the art-historically rare phenomenon of a painted of a heterosexual woman male nude models and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's film Tabu. Since the solo exhibition in February 2011 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects manages a part of Elke Silvia Krystufek archive on the subject of immigration. On 13 April 2011 the play " Hub" by Elke Silvia Krystufek in the garage X, play was first performed at St. Peter's Square in Vienna. On 27 May 2011, the first work by the artist in public space, the outdoor sculpture Wall of Silence in the park at Grafenegg was destroyed at the request of Tassilo Metternich - Sándor. A documentation of the destruction and a fragment of the sculpture are archived as a gift from the artist in the Lower Austrian Provincial Museum.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Awards

• 2003: City of Vienna Prize for Fine Arts

Publications

• No. Camera Austria, Graz 2008.