Katrina Daschner’s universe of self-reflexive glamour – emitting her inner gaze in multiple ways – is tightly woven around sensual imaginaries, fervent interventions in rigid patriarchal structures, and community-oriented physicalities. Daschner is a generous storyteller who combines love and pleasure, violence and resilience, death and rebirth, all in one hand. Nurtured by an intersectional practice in film, performance, and sculpture, her confrontational and inviting visual politics dance a fluid horizon of multiple embodiments in a chorus. The stages of these cut-and-paste stories are the places where bodies dream and enact different possibilities of what else they can be, as hybrid extensions of nature.
The works presented in “GLOWING ACTS” connect some of the threads of more than two decades of her queer practice in Vienna, from Salon Lady Chutney to Club Burlesque Brutal. The paths she describes always lead to a ‘somewhere else’. Everything can be a dream; it disappears, changes and reappears.
Övül Durmusoglu
Georg Kargl BOX
Georg Kargl Fine Arts specializes in contemporary art. Since 2018, under Inés Lombardi's guidance, the gallery mission incorporates ambitious exhibitions and artists projects, performances and talks, art fairs and biennials, institutional collaborations and public projects. Founded by Georg Kargl in 1998, the gallery has focused on innovative emerging and established artists, both Austrian-based and international, who work across various media—supporting their visions and promoting vital dialogue with institutions, critics, curators and collectors. With an exhibition space of more than 350 m2, Georg Kargl Fine Arts has the scope to produce exhibitions to match artists' intentions and vision. Today the gallery has two additional locations: BOX, with a storefront designed by Richard Artschwager and PERMANENT, dedicated to experimental projects. Furthermore, since its inception Georg Kargl Fine Arts has provided a strong impact on revitalizing the neighborhood as well as on the Viennese art scene.
Katrina Daschner: Glowing Acts
16 Oct 2021 - 23 Dec 2021
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