– Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger
available works
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, O.T. (The Qalandar's), 2017
kalangi, metal, 86 × 30.5 × 18 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberg’s practice dwells on the ordinary to unravel immersive stories about cultures and how they meet.
Mainly using sculptural processes, through Johanna, materiality provokes contemplation; specifically, the contemplation of histories and their meanings. In her work, soft and hard forms juxtapose, creating space for narratives of co-existence freed from ideas of assimilation.
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Mulberry Circus, 2020
ink on linen cape, cotton thread, steel rod, acrylic on wood, 98 cm x variable height
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Mulberry Circus, 2020
ink on linen cape, cotton thread, steel rod, acrylic on wood, 98 cm x variable height
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Mulberry Circus, 2022
ink on linen cape, cotton thread, steel rod, acrylic on wood, 98 cm x variable height
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Chimera As She Called It, 2020
concrete, steel rods with acrylic, vine, 88 x 72 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Chimera As She Called It, 2020
Concrete, steel rods with acrylic, vine
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Chimera As She Called It, 2020
concrete, steel rods with acrylic, vine, 88 x 72 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, mein gott sobald ich vorbeikomm grüße ich schon oder: wenn die gestalten, 2022
weeds, metal, painted linen cloth, coconut mat, hemp mat, 44 x 150 x 51 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, karachi urknall echo, 2022
papier maché, colour, metal, 250 × 125 × 80 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Frl. B, 2022
paper, fabric, glazed porcelain, painted wood, metal, 167 × 30 × 25 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Frl. A, 2022
paper, fabric, glazed porcelain, painted wood, metal, 162 × 70 × 40 cm
Installation View
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, basis 8 (gelb schwarz flieder rost), 2022
pigmented concrete, metal, 162 × 66 × 83 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, basis 7 (wüster frühling), 2022
pigmented concrete, metal, 66 × 52 × 78 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, basis 6, 2022
pigmented concrete, metal, 148 × 80 × 83 cm
Installation View
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, clouds or a speaker (sidi al-yamani), 2018
analogue c-print, 7.4 x 5 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Skizze 2 of series 1, 2020
photograph hand coloured with a marker, 19 x 13 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, skizze 3 of series 3, 2020
Photograph hand painted with a marker , 15 x 10 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Skizze 1 of series 2, 2020
photograph hand coloured with a marker, 13 x 19 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Skizze 5 of series 3, 2020
photograph hand coloured with a marker, 10 x 15 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Sonatenhaupt (sonata main proposition), 2017
paper, metal, thread, 194 × 107 × 74 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, While the radio kept blaring incessantly, 2015
porcelain and foam, variable
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, It was very hot, but the spirit was then walking amplified, 2017
concrete, ceramics, metal, 12 × 18 × 11 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, Romanescos, 2016
concrete and fabric, variable
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, schmeeone, vase, 2022
glazed porcelains, each approx. 17 × 9 × 9 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, schmeeone, vase, 2022
glazed porcelain, 17 × 9 × 9 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, schmeeone, vase, 2022
glazed porcelain, 17 × 9 × 9 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, schmeeone, vase, 2022
glazed porcelain, 17 × 9 × 9 cm
Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger, schmeeone, vase, 2022
glazed porcelain, 17 × 9 × 9 cm
Artist bio
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: STATT BIEDERMEIR, Kunstverein, Baden, Austria (2023); Komme gleich, Wonnerth Dejaco Gallery, Vienna (2022); Beuys Open Source, Belmacz, London (2021); 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.
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