Photo: Universalmuseum Joanneum/N. Lackner
Neue Galerie Graz, Tonstudio JV
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Katrina Daschner
Daschner
DASCHNER stages the acts of showing and concealing. In the title alone, which makes a trademark of the filmmaker and artist’s name, the transfer is evoked as the suspensed state of a desirable intermediate space. The exhibition, which links three cooperation partners in Neue Galerie Graz, Diagonale and Kunsthaus Graz, moves between medial, filmic and gender-based spaces, thematising media realities and characteristics, as well as stereotypes presented both before and behind the camera lens. Various configurations of showing, creating and performing present exhibition, theatre and cinema space as a closely related, sensual event.
Appearance: White Cube. Silver dance floor. Professional lamp tripods, intensely-coloured pictures made of flowing paint, tapes, and textile bases are the protagonists of the small, separated art room in front of the bright green curtain. Behind it, a studio-like Black Box is concealed, in which large-format, jet-black pictures with silvery, sparkling embroidery define the side-walls.
At the end of the room, two films on a continuously alternating loop demonstrate mysterious affinities between the body and the backdrop: with its steady camera, its precisely choreographed close-ups, Pferdebusen (2017) – awarded the Diagonale Film Prize for Innovative Cinema the previous year – reveals the interplay and transfer between architectural details, bodily fragments and surface definitions as the sensual stage and focus of Katrina Daschner’s work. The film is part of an eight-part series that has been worked on since 2012, a re-writing based on Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story, which is permeated by suppressed erotic fantasies, restricting gender roles, and a disturbing desire for secrets. Daschner’s Pferdebusen, with its detailed views of animal and human body parts, its feeling of leather surfaces, masks and smoke, or with its horses’ clip-clopping, is able to tempt – and unsettle – on both the auditory and visual level. The film emphasises the theatrical element of the situation, introducing us to a glamorous world of leather saddles, naked behinds, the seams along theatre seats – capturing that all on film with a camera that moves forward tentatively.
With the second film Hiding in the Lights (2013), filmed in the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, stage presence is studied at the moment of apparent relaxing and leaving the role, when Denice Bourbon and Daschner herself indulge in the applause from the invisible audience, complete with gloriously vulgar stage smiles, lascivious movements, and playfully coy gestures. ‘Daschner’s preferred trope is a visual synecdoche, where one surface stands for another. Clothing and accessories imitate body surfaces. The tension between them exposes literally that which is concealed in the spotlight (“in the lights”) and can quickly be disregarded.’ (Ewa Szabłowska) The film, like the whole exhibition, is a precisely timed format of the narrated and the exhibited, sensual heterotopia. In the sense of a space of changed hierarchies, non-linearities, stereotypes or gender allocations, the audience plunges into a dreamy novella, in which space and time are wonderfully timed in filmic terms, yet cannot be categorised overall. A dream-like and associative suspended state of free, ecstatic corporeality. The stage in Daschner is not only the location and medium of the negotiation, but also the place of truth, which can only be ambiguous.
Once before she already built an exhibition with two rooms, in the Kunstpavillon in Innsbruck, where the venue became the negotiating space of staging, representation and ascription. Her embroidered pictures are choreographic architectural sketches, whose outlines drawn with the thread recall the coolness of modernism. At the same time, the glittering storyboards are handicraft of strange homeliness, in the marvellous ambiguity of which the inadequacy of clarity is echoed. DASCHNER answers the question as to the necessity of classification and ascription in art, too, with a fertile concealment, when props turn into sculptural objects, and surfaces into vague secrets with sensual properties. DASCHNER ‘tells us that – and how – apparently clearly divided spaces, spheres, strata, are connected with one another, and also want to be: once again, and at last, it does not matter to which categories things are usually ascribed: artificial or real, two- or three-dimensional, fantasy or reality – here they become one, the collage makes it so, animated by a vision of life in which things are permitted to flow into one another. Longing has an end, the celebration of existence begins in its all-encompassing splendour.’ (Olaf Möller)
The departure is certain: physically pervasive, mysteriously intoxicated.
Curated by Katrin Bucher Trantow
Biography
Born 1973 in Hamburg, lives and works in Vienna
Selected Solo Exhibitions / Filmfestivals
2025
Vagina Dentata, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
2024
The Borrowed Eyes of a Needle, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2023
„Wir wollen kein Theater. Wir wollen ein anderes Theater“ (stage design), WerkX, Vienna
Hiding In The Lights, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2022
Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon! Thousand Years of Troubled Gender, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2021
GLOWING ACTS, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Hiding in the Lights, New Horizons Festival, Wrozlaw
Hiding in the Lights, Stadtkino, Vienna
Hiding in the Lights, Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz
POMP, Short Waves Festival, Poznan
Plum Circus, XPOSED International Queer Film Festival, Berlin
2020
Schüttblenden, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
Hiding in the Lights, Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz
Hiding in the Lights, New Horizons Festival, Wroclaw
Special Mention/ Queer Art Competition, Queerlisboa Lesbian & Gay Festival, Lisbon
Eine achtteilige „Traumnovelle“ von Katrina Daschner, Kurzfimtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen/Germany
66. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition Oberhausen / Germany with „Pomp“)
Pomp, Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria
Pomp, Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna
Pomp, Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz
2019
Peacock Hole, Transilvania Film Festival, Cluj
2018
Daschner, Studio / Neue Galerie, Graz
Film festival Trailer für die Diagonale 2018 - Festival des Österreichischen Films, Graz
Pferdebusen, BIEFF Int Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest
Pferdebusen, Filmfest, Dresden
Pferdebusen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor
Pferdebusen, Mix Brasil, Sao Paolo
2017
Filmfestival Trailer für die 63. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
63. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition) Oberhausen
2016
Hiding in the Lights – Films by Katrina Daschner, brut Theater, Vienna
62. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen
2015
DASCHNER, Tiroler Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck
61. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen
Daschner, Kunst im Schaufenster, Vienna
Frameout Filmfestival, Vienna (Personale)
2014
60. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen
Nouvelle Burleque Brutal, 7th Beijing Queer Film Festival, Beijing
2013
Katrina Daschner – „Was guckst du, bin ich Kino?“, MUMOK Kino, Vienna
Katrina Daschner - Mixtape, 13. Int. Film Festival, Wroclaw
59. Int. Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (int. competition), Oberhausen
2012
Portraiture Series #1: Daschner, Blickle Kino 21er Haus-The Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
DASCHNER, Krobath Wien │ Berlin, Berlin
2011
Flamingo Massacre, Krobath Wien │ Berlin, Vienna
BERTLMANN / DASCHNER (together with Renate Bertlmann), Kunstbunker, Nuremberg
2010
Daschner – ein Dialog, Jesuitenforum, Vienna
BERTLMANN / DASCHNER (together with Renate Bertlmann), VE.SCH, Vienna
Against the act – 3 essays about violence, Centre d’art passerelle, Brest
2009
ARIA DE MUSTANG, upstream gallery, Amsterdam
2008
HAFENPERLEN, k/haus passage, Vienna
2007
Fear eat soul up, thrust projects, New York City
TäterIn, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
2006
Nature, nature I´m your bride; take me as I am, upstream gallery, Amsterdam
Nature, nature I´m your bride; take me as I am, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna
1+1+1 presents „Salon Lady Chutney“, Sinaloa 199#12, México D.F.
2005
Dolores, factory Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
2004
Killing the systems softly, video-and book presentation, galerie kunstbuero, Vienna
Katrina Daschner, upstream gallery, Amsterdam
Murderess, Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna
2003
Carmilla: Sie, Dracula tritt auf, die Prinzessin tritt ab, und der Held weint, Antonio Ferrara, Emilia Reggio
No fear is seen, unless upon the green, buro empty, Amsterdam
2002
>photocopied mrs. d<, Auto, Vienna
Vincent, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
2001
Dreaming Still, Salon Lady Cutney, Vienna
Wanting sweet, Antonio Ferrara, Emilia Reggio
1999
Ojos bien cerrados, La Panaderia, México D.F.
1998
Mutter mit Marmelade, Galerie 5020/Studio, Salzburg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
The Artist´s Intelligence, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Burgenland
2024
You You, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
2023
... and they lived..., Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava
Precious, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2022
Body and Territory, Art and Borders in Today´s Austria, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb
Little Precious Things, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2021
Of things baroque (Stretchy-Feely) with POMP, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig
2020
attempt at rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
The body and the territory: art and borders in today's Austria, Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb
The body and the territory: art and borders in today's Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2019
Up and including Limits: Carolee Schneemann, Muzeum Susch, Susch
Zeig mir Deine Wunden, Dom Museum, Vienna
2017
Material Traces, Galerie Charim, Vienna
BONE- Performance Festival, Bern
lightness and matter/matter and lightness, Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna
Bilder der Sprache und Sprache der Bilder, Dom Museum Wien, Vienna
2016
art & function, Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag
femtrails – I gave my cock a woman`s name, The Sorority, Spektakel, Wien
Chapeau!, Wien Museum, Vienna
Gomenes, Athen Biennal 5-6, Athen
Zeta Galery, Tirana, Albania
2015
Travestie für Fortgeschrittene, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Self-timer Stories, MUSAC, León
In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, Fluc, Vienna
2014
Selbstportraits, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Self-timer Stories, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
STAGE SET STAGE, SBC Gallery, Montreal
Call me on sunday, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2013
S/he is the one, Kunstraum NÖ, Vienna
re.act.feminism # 3, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
HEISSE STEINE, NASSE ZONEN, SCHNELLE MELONEN, VBKÖ, Vienna
The Great Stage, Blackbridge Off, Beijing
2012
re.act.feminism # 3, Fundació Antoni Tàpies
, Barcelona
Rosa Arbeit auf goldener Strasse – Queere Abstraktion, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna
Vollmilch – Der Bart als Zeichen, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (catalogue) re.act.feminism # 2, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Night, Ostlicht, Vienna (catalogue)
L'éducation de Rosette, Schloss Harmannsdorf, Harmannsdorf (catalogue)
Bleibender Wert? Kooperation >springerin<, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
2011
living on the edge of a silver future, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
Wiener Innen Aussen, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin
2010
Architektur und Körper, Krobath Wien │ Berlin, Berlin
Crossing Limits. Art in urban transition, (curated by U.M.Probst), ViennaArtWeek, Vienna
raum_körpereinsatz, MUSA, Vienna (catalogue)
2009
A Ladies Almanach, (with Ines Doujak and Dorit Margreiter), tranzitdisplay, Prague
Performance und Gender, Politik und Intercultural Studies, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna (catalogue)
The Seen and the Hidden, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City
Smell it!, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Kunstpreis der Böttchergasse, Weserburg - Museum für Moderner Kunst, Bremen
The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (catalogue)
2008
just different, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (magazine)
MATRIX – geschlechter/Verhältnisse/Revisionen, MUSA, Vienna (catalogue)
Seems to be. Differente identitäten zwischen ich/wir/queer, Kunstpavillion der Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck
I QUEERELANTI, Galleria Neon, Bologna
Dear Anus, Vbkö, Vienna
Diskonta 3 - Fotografie, IG Bildenden Kunst Galerie, Vienna
2007
<auto in riga>, Showroom 6, Riga
Art Rotterdam, (upstream gallery), Rotterdam
2006
Potential Dialogue, RCM The museum of modern art, Nanjing (catalogue)
Queer arts of Vienna, Universität Wien, Vienna
QueerulantInnen, auto, Vienna
Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (catalogue)
Von Crossdressing zu Dragkinging, Palaver, Graz
arabesque süperiör-Postfeministische Montagen an der Islamrezeption, Lothringer13/Laden, Munich
Missbrauch. Bilder davon, IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna
2005
ongoing. feminism & activism, galerie 5020, Salzburg
Junge Liste Basel, (upstream gallery/Amsterdam, galerie kunstbuero/Vienna), Basel
8th Festival Cultural de Mayo, Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara/México
<Gosh! Where are you? ... now ... >, Auto, Vienna
viennAffair, galerie kunstbuero, Vienna
2004
bukowski-hommage, ex-teresa, México City/México
Lippenstiftbilder, Halle A/14, Berlin
Der doppelte Blick, Künstlerhaus Bregenz (folder)
Junge Liste Basel, (upstream gallery/Amsterdam), Basel
No risk no glory, loop raum, Berlin
2003
mothers of invention, mumok, Vienna (catalogue)
Blurrr, Performance Biennale, Tel Aviv (catalogue/cd)
5th International Performancefestival Navinki 2003, Minsk (catalogue)
In faccia al mondo, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova (catalogue)
Artforum Berlin, gallery antonio ferrara, Reggio Emili
Zugluft, Zurich 4th Austrian Triennal on Photography, Graz (catalogue)
2002
Wien umgehen, Tanzquartier Wien Vienna
Let´s twist again, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Autum in Reggio Emilia, Antonio Ferrara
Artforum Berlin, gallery antonio ferrara, Reggio Emilia
2001
Trammelled-Untrammelled, Zacheta, Warsawa (catalogue)
Never stop the action, Steirischer Herbst, rotor, Graz (cd)
Festival Autriche, (Killing the systems softly), Batofar, Paris, (catalogue)
Chutney Mary, Info-screen, museum in progress, Vienna
Artforum Berlin, gallery antonio ferrara, Reggio Emilia
Double life, Generali Foundation, Vienna (catalogue)
Moving out, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (catalogue)
2000
Die neue Künstlergeneration, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (catalogue)
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Etsdorf (book)
Residue, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Never alone again, La Panaderia, México, D.F.
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Etsdorf (catalogue)
Saloon Lady Chutney, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
1999
Video stage 1.0, Candid Arts Trust, London
Kurzfilmfestival, Munich
Modebus, Museumsquartier, Vienna
Gender troubles, Schikanederkino, Vienna
Weiße Spritzer, Museum Karlsruhe, KarlsruheHearing, iftaf, Vienna
1998
Junge Szene 98, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)
2 plateaux II, Ausstellungsraum mezzanin, Vienna
)limit(ed., Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (Folder)
Auch Heinz und Susi, Künstlerhaus/Passagegalerie, Vienna (Folder)
Nach 68 VERLANGEN UND BEGEHREN, Salle de Bal, Vienna
1997
Gruppenaufnahme, Messepalast, Vienna
JAM, Semper Depot, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna
1996
Das Festival, Künstlerhaus/passage, Vienna
Selected Performances
2017
CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL (Anti Valentines Ball), WUK, Vienna
2015
CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL (Queer Performance Festival Vienna), Kosmos Theater, Vienna
2014
CLUB GROTESQUE FATAL – Sylvester Gala, brut/Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2013
Club Burlesque Brutal – Best of 2013, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal, performance at Bookpresentation of Denice Bourbon, Elysium, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal, performance at Gender Crash, brut Vienna, Vienna
2012
Club Burlesque Brutal – Gourmet Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – ANIMALÖS MONSTRÖS, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
2011
Club Burlesque Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), Staatstheater Dresden, Dresden
Club Burlesque Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), SO36, Berlin
Club Burlesque Brutal, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Club Burlesque Brutal – ZUM DIKATAT BITTE!, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – BEST OF, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – MEDIKAMENTÖS, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
2010
Club Burlesque Brutal – FAIRY TALES, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – BOOBS AND BALLS, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
Club Burlesque Brutal – LA TRISTESSE, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
2009
Gala Burlesque Brutal – DER GROSSE AUSRITT, Host/Performance Katrina Daschner (Frau Professor la Rose), brut/Konzerthaus, Vienna
The gun is still loaded (as „Frau Professor la Rose“), Kosmos Frauenraum, Vienna
2008
Orlanding the Dominant – Eine queere Burlesque, Performance (with SV DAMENKRAFT,Gustav, Sissy Boyz), brut-konzerthaus, Vienna
Frau Professor la Rose, solo performance im brut/Foyer, Vienna
2005
Der Leichenschleicher, echoraum, Vienna (with Gini Müller)
Der Ohrenzeuge (Elias Canetti Festival), Kleylehof/Burgenland/Austria (with Gini Müller)
2004
No risk no glory, loop raum, Berlin, solo performance
2003
Blurrr, Performance Biennale, Tel Aviv, solo performance (catalogue/cd)
5th International Performancefestival Navinki2003, Minsk, solo performance (catalogue)
2002
>photocopied mrs. d<, Auto, Vienna, Performance with Sabine Marte
Wien umgehen, Tanzquartier Wien Vienna, solo performance
2001
Trammelled-Untrammelled, Zacheta, Warsawa, solo performance (catalogue)
Never stop the action, Steirischer Herbst, rotor, Graz, solo performance (cd)
Dreaming Still,Salon Lady Cutney, Vienna, solo performance
Wanting sweet, Antonio Ferrara, Emilia Reggio, solo performance
Killing the systems softly, Festival Autriche, Batofar, Paris, solo performance (catalogue)
2000
Residue, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, solo performance
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Etsdorf, solo performance (book)
1999
Ojos bien cerrados, La Panaderia, México D.F., solo performance
Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, solo performance
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