In the castle chapel, the artist presents an installation in which she continues the theme of her current body of work, the Biocultural Community. She follows the theory of biocultural diversity, according to which the diversity of culture and nature are inseparably linked and as such are the creative source of life, and resists the exploitation of people and resources. Because everything is connected to everything else. This is also the case in the former chapel, where the artist's world of ideas develops beyond its manifestations on the canvas of the central painting in the sanctuary and into the room, where it enters into concrete communication with the historical depictions of the baroque frescoes, Christian legends and saints as well as with the visitors in the form of real plants, flowers and blossoms, various artifacts, ritual objects, bones and other objects.
Installation view: Karin Pliem, Vieleinigkeit, 2024, Burgkapelle MMKK, 2024, Photo: F. Neumüller, © Bildrecht, Vienna 2024
Karin Pliem was born in Zell am See in 1963. After training in weaving and textile sculpture at the Atelier Iris Mansard in Biarritz, she studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1983-87. Numerous study trips took the artist from Europe to America, Africa, Asia and Oceania as far as the South Pacific region. Today she lives and works in Vienna and Salzburg. On her travels, Karin Pliem collected impressions of the different countries, their stories, cultures and landscapes. In her paintings, she combines these into overwhelming, lively and exuberant images of condensed compositions. In these, botanical elements, all manner of creatures, cultural set pieces and her own fantastical inventions are symbiotically combined with historical and personal narratives in a new cosmos in order to report on people, the earth and life - beyond geographical, political, cultural or religious boundaries.
March 7 to May 19, 2024
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