Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger (b.1985, Vienna, Austria), studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Arabic and Islamic studies in both Vienna and Pakistan before joining the Fine Arts Academy Vienna to study under Pawel Althamer and Julian Goethe. Working with seemingly quotidian objects, found following prolonged conversations, with people in places, Johanna seeks to get beyond objective thinking by re-casting her protagonists using sculptural processes. In this way, Johanna’s objects re-sediment both histories and meaning, creating room for new understandings, for contemplation and indeed for new experiences to arise.

Select exhibitions include: Hand it Over, Belmacz, London (2020); Estragon, Belmacz, London (2019); The Ashtray Show West, Belmacz, London (2018-19); Newjörg Immendorf, New Jörg, Dusseldorf (2018); this is (not) the time to (get up and) walk away, Belmacz, London (2017); blue monday on the moon, Republica des Artes, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal (2016); Leisure as a Mechanism of Resistance, curated by Daily Lazy, fAN Vienna at Parallel Vienna (2016); Interkontinental, Belmacz, London (2016); und nun stehen also wir da (“and now it is us, a standing here”), Camera Matteotti, Vienna (2016); einige unwählbare wege. die gespräche der esel (“some inexplicable paths. the donkeys’ colloquy”), curated by Max Henry, Parallel Vienna Alte Post, Vienna (2015); VON WEGEN RASCH – sprachbewegte Bedeutungsziegen, Performance, altes Finanzamt, Vienna (2015); vom weg zum weg existiert ein weg (“from path to path exists a path”), Rundgang, Academie of fine arts, Vienna (2015); don’t fool & privatisez vous & baynatna, Public Performances, Beirut (2014).

Johanna currently lives and works in Vienna.

This is (not) the time to (get up and) walk away | publication

Artworks

Mulberry Circus Tentmanteau, 2020

ink on linen cape, cotton thread, steel rod, acrylic on wood
98 cm x variable height
Mulberry Circus Tentmanteau, 2020

ink on linen cape, cotton thread, steel rod, acrylic on wood
98 cm x variable height
Chimera As She Called It, 2020

concrete, steel rods with acrylic, vine
88 x 72 cm
Elephantenohr, 2020

steel rod, dry plant leaves, thread, acrylic on wood
165 x 23 cm
Flag, 2020

steel pole, fabric
pole 190 cm, flag 94 x 62 cm
Handwaage, 2020

concrete, steel rod, thread, flowers
dimension variable
Table, 2020

metal, concrete, rope
90 x 90 x 75.5 cm
Table, 2020

metal, concrete, rope
dimension variable
Installation View
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

Sonatenhaupt (sonata main proposition), 2017

paper, metal, thread
194 × 107 × 74cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

Basis 5 (eselpositiv), 2017

concrete, metal
113 × 65 × 55 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

Basis 5 (eselpositiv), 2017

concrete, metal
113 × 65 × 55 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

O.T. (The Qalandar's), 2017

kalangi, metal
86 × 30.5 × 18cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

Long gone / neither here nor there, 2017

epdm rubber, fabric, wood
98 × 84 × 44cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

He didn't tell anything to his dogs (but it was also not snowing), 2017

plastic bags, linen
119 × 84 × 15cm
Porzellanfuß, 2015

porcelain
50 × 23 × 10cm
Installation View
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

O.T. (hat), 2017

porcelain
16 × 20.5 × 23cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

It was very hot, but the spirit was then walking amplified [2], 2017

concrete, ceramics, metal
12 × 18 × 11cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

Untitled (interkontinental), 2016

analog c-print
120 × 80cm, unframed
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

while the radio kept blaring incessantly, 2015

porcelain, foam
dimensions variable

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