Austrian conceptual artist Eva Schlegel's multifarious practice encompasses photography, paintings, installations, and public projects. Her work focuses on themes of materiality and the ephemeral, and how the interaction of the two influences the audience’s perception of space. Past works included a kinetic rotor installation based on Morse code, large-scale photographs of blurred female figures, and intimately-sized pornographic paintings. With these works, the artist traces the ephemerality of codification–from the translation of recently decommissioned military code to the constructed image a woman creates for herself. 

Schlegel’s solo exhibitions have been hosted throughout Europe including Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, and the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Transforming office buildings, universities, and public spaces, her numerous public art projects are found in Copenhagen, Basel, Vienna, Munich, and London. In 2011, Schlegel was the Commissioner for the Austrian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, where she was previously represented as an artist in 1995.

Courtesy of Gallery Wendi Norris