Ausstellung Veronika Hauer & Martina Steckholzer "Loose Ends Dance"

Common to both methods of working is the interest in gesture and the score, which documents the transience of a choreography beyond the moment of its performance in new sign systems. In a performative installation by Veronika Hauer in collaboration with Australian artist Katie Lee, new, unpredictable systems of meaning emerge through the careful play with ceramic objects and language between performers and the audience. Steckholzer's paintings weave various time periods in Loose Ends Dance. They were initially created as temporary dance hand gestures for the first room of the gallery and are therefore ephemeral. In the second room, they respond to the dance movements of the shown bones of Hauer and abstractly capture them on canvas.

Veronika Hauer (*1981, Klosterneuburg) is a visual artist and educator. The interrelationships between art and viewer, gesture and language, meaning and nonsense form the core of Veronika Hauer’s multimedia works. Her conceptually shaped installations include performances, sculpture, drawing, and graphic design and have been shown, among others, at project8 (Melbourne); ICA Studio (London); Glasgow International Festival; Neue Galerie Graz; Grazer Kunstverein; Galerie im Taxispalais (Innsbruck);

Martina Steckholzer (*1974, Sterzing) works in painting on paper and canvas and designs site-specific and permanent installations. These are mostly implemented in a sculptural and photographic manner. Her works can be found in museum and private collections as well as public places in Austria and Italy.