Martina Steckholzer

Martina Steckholzer (1974, Italy) lives and works in Vienna. Inspired by her encounters with artworks by fellow artists and visits to art spaces, she processes her emotions by re-enacting the episodes experienced and questioning them through her paintings. Her work changes therefore in form and content according to what she encounters in art, while painting stands as an essential tool for its capacity to freeze an image and cut out of a larger scenario. At the core of Steckholzer’s research is visual art of a given geographical and temporal context, which leads the artist to look for fractures, layers and glitches occurring in different regimes of representation. Her work aims to open to new destabilising and affirmative narratives, by transforming the exhibition space into a stage where characters, spaces and viewers perform a silent event.

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