Transmediale Kunst: Maruša Sagadin
Maruša Sagadin, Citizen Janes, 2018, courtesy Syndicate, Cologne
Examining fields such as architecture, gender, language, and sculpture in her artistic
practice, Maruša Sagadin creates deceptive art objects and installations. Methods of reference and exaggeration are crossed
with the usage of elements from architecture, pop, and subculture.
The artistic process of Sagadin’s
work is a permanent questioning of the semiotic systems that are surrounding us. In ingenious ways, she manages to engage
the viewer in the innuendos of
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Maruša Sagadin was born in 1978 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) and is based in
Vienna (Austria). She studied architecture at TU Graz before transitioning to performative arts and sculpture at the Academy
of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2015/2016, she was awarded the ISCP Grant in New York City (USA), and in 2010, the Schindler Grant
at the MAK – Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (USA). From 2011 – 2017 she was Assistant Professor at the Academy
of Fine Arts Vienna, in the department for Performative Arts and Sculpture.
Her recent exhibitions include Christine
König Gallery in Vienna, SPACE London (London, United Kingdom), NADA (NYC, USA), Austrian Cultural Forum New York (NYC, USA),
Syndicate (Cologne, Germany), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria), Neue Galerie (Innsbruck, Austria), Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia), 21er Haus (Vienna, Austria), Grazer Kunstverein (Graz, Austria), and Room of Requirement/Horse
& Pony Fine Arts (Berlin, Germany). In 2016, her monograph © MMXV, designed by longtime collaborator Christian Hoffelner
and published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst, was a finalist for Schönste Bücher Österreichs 2016, a prize for books made in
Austria from any discipline.
