Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger

Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger (b.1985, Vienna, Austria) works with seemingly quotidian objects, found following prolonged conversations, with people in places. In dialogue with these items, Johanna seeks to get beyond objective thinking by re-casting her protagonists using sculptural processes. In this way, Johanna’s artworks re-sediment both histories and meaning, creating room for new understandings, for contemplation and indeed for new experiences to arise.

Education. Johanna 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.

Select exhibitions. MODERNITIES OUT OF PLACE, philomena+, Vienna (2023); 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.