The
focus will be on three central themes (ropes, tassels and columns), which will be used to analyse ornamental forms and their
culturalhistorical significance. The second part of the lecture is dedicated to the operation of an art space: What challenges
and opportunities does a self-organised
exhibition space entail?
The lecture will conclude with an open question
and answer session.
Terese Kasalicky, born in 1988 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee and based in Vienna,
graduated in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2017 under Gunter Damisch and Veronika Dirnhofer. Her artistic
practice moves between sculpture, drawing and research. In her work, she intensively explores ornamental forms and types of
representation, emphasising the arabesque and breaking through common clichés of ornamentation. Her exploration is reflected
indiverse forms of expression, including columnar sculptures such as the ‘piled up to pillars’ series, the ‘Ropes’ works and
graphic patterns with ornamental motifs. She is particularly fascinated by the cultural history of tassels and trimmings,
to which she devotes herself in an extensive archive and which she incorporates into her works in various ways.
In
2024, she was awarded the Carinthian State Prize for Fine Arts. Terese Kasalicky received support for her artistic development
through various scholarships, which enabled her to realise larger installations both indoors and outdoors. Her works have
been presented in various solo and group exhibitions in galleries, art spaces, at fairs and in a museum context. She is part
of several art collections such as the Wien Museum, the Artothek des Bundes and the Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, and is
represented by Galerie3.
Since 2019, Kasalicky has been organising the nomadic exhibition project Tombola together
with Heti Prack and has been running the artist-run space ES49 since mid-2024.
www.teresekasalicky.com
