Verena Dengler

Verena Dengler transforms visual techniques by exploring the divisive comparison of craft and fine art using needlepoint, collage, and painting to consider how stereotypes in these chosen mediums are altered by her identity as a woman, artist, and writer. The artist connects the fragmentary nature of textiles that build a larger piece of fabric and pixels that generate a digital image. Her interest in divisions and simplification can be applied to her process as well as her consideration of the political and socio-economic associations the two mediums muster. She often adds text to her work to remind her audience of its self-referential bias, and of the biases that divide practice and theory when one talks about art.

Dengler has exhibited at institutions including Belvedere, Vienna, mumok, Vienna, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, Kunstraum St. Virgil, Salzburg, 21er Haus, Vienna, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, Autocenter, Berlin, and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, to name a few. Her performances have also been featured at Le Magasin, Grenoble, France, Manifesta 8, and mumok, Vienna, among others. She participated in Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial and the Vienna Biennale in 2015