Elke Krystufek

Size does not matter, age does matter. 2006
courtesy: ELKE KRYSTUFEK. Georg Kargl Fine Arts Vienna. (c) 2006
photo MAK/GEORG MAYER

Mrs Ader. 2006
courtesy: ELKE KRYSTUFEK. Georg Kargl Fine Arts Vienna. (c) 2006
photo MAK/GEORG MAYER

From the series “In the Arms of America”. 1995
Black chalk and acrylic on paper . 61 × 45 cm

I hate my desire for food. 1999
Pencil on paper. 60 x 40 cm

TABOU TABOO. 2009
Installation view at Austrian Pavillion for the Venice Biennale 09
hescape. acrylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Courtesy Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Photo: HERTHA HURNAUS

TABOU TABOO. 2009
Installation view at Austrian Pavillion for the Venice Biennale 09
painting on glass: One Day, 2009. right: hescape, 2009
Courtesy Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Photo: HERTHA HURNAUS

TABOU TABOO. 2009
Installation view at Austrian Pavillion for the Venice Biennale 09
hescape. acrylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm
Courtesy Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
Photo: HERTHA HURNAUS

Chris Two. 1991
courtesy: ELKE KRYSTUFEK


During the past twenty years, Viennese-born artist ELKE KRYSTUFEK has created a complex, often provocative, internationally acknowledged body of work comprising of drawings, texts, photomontages, photographs, sculpture and video in the performative scenarios of her installations, in which she usually features herself as the central figure.

Her work is dedicated to transgressing social taboos but in the same time, opens up new perspectives of the survival as well as the temporality of art, and the role of women in art, all closely interwoven with themes such as religion, femininity, and myth.

Recently she has been commissioned by VALIE EXPORT and SILVIA EIBLMAYR to represent Austria at the Venice Biennale in 2009 along with DORIT MARGREITER and FRANZISKA & LOIS WEINBERGER (picture 5, 6, 7).



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