A MIND OF THEIR OWN* Jewellery from Austria. A focus on female artists.
Featuring jewellery objects, sculptural and conceptual works by 53 artists, this exhibition – held in the graphics rooms at Museum Angerlehner – and the accompanying catalogue offer an exciting insight into jewellery-making in Austria dating back to the 1970s.
Emphasis is placed on the female protagonists of this period, whose works are presented in relation to specific roles assumed by the middle and young generations of both sexes. This exhibition illustrates the diverse developments in the exciting and heterogeneous jewellery scene that has developed in Austria, thanks to some specific circumstances.
* Reference to the exhibition Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn. Aktuelle Kunst von Frauen (“Willful Art: Contemporary Art by Women”), 1985 at the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (“Museum of the 20th Century”), Vienna
Concept and organisation:
@ursula.guttmann, @susannehammerjewellery, @gabriele.bischof.kutschera
I’m honoured that my pieces “have you got the guts?” and “hold it together” are included in this important exhibition.
Skin – the barrier between our self and the world. Worn outside of this barrier, these pieces become like an extension to our self. Like adding a protective layer to our self or slipping into someone else’s skin, mimic of reality or the chance to be someone else. Or like the phrase “being thin skinned”, meaning being sensitive and in need of a thicker skin, or protective layer. Being inspired by the body itself, they create a sense of confusion in us. Fascination and disgust, they are in a way a part of us, but at the same time they are like a disfigurement that we catch ourselves staring at. Or like a repressed feeling that materializes in form of a growth or a tumor, for us to carry with us.
* Have you got the guts? – necklace – balsa wood, stockings, thread, latex – 2011
* Hold it together. – body object – balsa wood, textile, latex – 2011
