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Elisabeth Weissensteiner

Elisabeth Weissensteiner (born 24 January 1958) is an Austrian contemporary artist known for her art-science collaborations, her multidisciplinary approach to sculpture, photo-based work, and installation art, and her writing. Her work is characterized by its exploration of human perceptions, transgenerational trauma, and feminist undertones.

The artist and writer Elisabeth Weissensteiner

Education

Elisabeth Weissensteiner was born in Vienna, Austria. She pursued her formal education studying Germanic Language and Art History at the University of Vienna, Austria, completing with a PhD in Literature under Prof. Wendelin Schmid-Dengler (1983). Later, she attended the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA (1988), and the Graphic Design College, WiFi Designzentrum Pöchlarn, Austria (1995).

Life

Elisabeth Weissensteiner is member of the Künstlerhaus, Vienna, kunstraumarcade, Mödling, and the Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung, GAV. She has twice been invited as a Fellow of the Hanse Institute of Advanced Studies, Delmenhorst (2009, 2012), and has been Artist in Residence with the Red Gate Gallery, Beijing (2006), and the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Saarbrücken (2012). She has been visiting lecturer at Universität der Angewandten Künste, Wien, Austria (1994) and external examiner in the master of arts at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2010-16).

She lives between Melbourne, Australia, and Vienna, Austria.

Artistic Style

Elisabeth Weissensteiner's intellectual roots are characteristic for her approach to art: a subtle investigation of sense, of the space in-between is present in all her art work. Also a curiosity and a desire to explore is driving her, being suspicious towards default paths. Her art is often leaving us uncomfortable, being ourselves questioned in our certainties.

The Princess with her Doll (C-print mounted behind acrylic glass, 60 cm x 90 cm). (c) Elisabeth Weissensteiner, 2020

Elisabeth has exhibited and studied in many countries (USA, China, France, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Australia and Austria). Her work is represented in federal, state and regional public collections. She maintains a comprehensive documentation of her work at https://studio-ew.com/.

Art-Science Collaborations

• The Other Me - An Inverse Mirror (2015). Interactive installation about the anthropology of imaging technologies, realized in cooperation with Walter Kropatsch and members of PRIP, Technical University Vienna, Austria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQbYx4m12QA Also shown at Kunstverein Baden.
• The Blindfold Game oder Das Wissen der Welt (2014). Art-science project with Michael Schmitz (xm:lab, HBK Saarbrücken), Antonio Krüger (DFKI, Saarbrücken), and students. Interactive installation based upon the blindfold game played by children, as an ironic comment about the quest for true knowledge, which in European history has migrated from religion into philosophy and then into science. The installation depicts the quest as infinite regress which is taken up by itself. The use of ready-made technology applied in everyday life references ironically the link between the quest for knowledge and consumer society. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_-7dGSgt9I
• Mirror Brain (2011). Art-science project at the Centre for Cognitive Sciences (Cognium), University of Bremen, in collaboration with Dorothea Brückner. Video installation with sculptures. The neurobiologist and philosopher Francisco Varela describes research in the neurosciences as a mirror chamber, as self-perception and perception of nature are like mirrors turned on each other. Mirror Brain is a moving image sequence which is projected top down from the ceiling. Viewers have to "catch" the images in a vessel - the Brain Shell. The projection consists of slowly superimposing pictures, text fragments, and sounds, all derived from neurobiological research sources and Elisabeth's personal photo archive. By its viewer engagement Mirror Brain not only builds on a dialog between art and science but also turns this dialog into a media of discourse to be continued by the beholders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94p3a1C0fA Also shown 2012 in Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria; Gallery Michaela Stock, Austria; Anna Pappas Gallery, Australia; 2014 in Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken, Germany. Supported by Austrian Federal Government (BMUKK), University of Bremen, Germany, and Derma Medical. Prämie / Outstanding Artist Award Interdisziplinarität 2013, BMUKK
• Cloud Cuckoo Land (2009). Art-science project with Christian Freksa, Cognitive Systems, University of Bremen. Interactive computer installation on 22 screens. 860 random image transitions, triggered by face recognition, play with perception and imagination. The installation is relying on an effect called change blindness. Permanently installed at Cognitive Systems, University of Bremen (supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pztlLyW-2gM

Juried Exhibitions

• Connected III (2023/24). Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria, and Gallery Sdruzeni Hollar, Praha, Czech Republic.
• in.print.out (2013), Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.
• De Natura (2006). Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria.
• Sculpture by the Sea (2005). International sculpture exhibition, Sydney, Australia.
• Sculpture by the Sea (2004). International sculpture exhibition, Sydney, Australia.

Public Commissions

• Arcadian Dances (2011), Ubertas Property Management Pty Ltd. Wrapping up exhaust risers in front of Rhapsody Apartments, 568 St Kilda Road, Melbourne.
• Joy and Grief in St Kilda (2009). Frame from the movie Diggers (1931) courtesy NSFA, photoprint on toughened glass. St Kilda Memorial Hall Redevelopment, CH Architects, Melbourne (Finalist "Best Contribution to Urban Art", City of Port Phillip Design Development Awards 2010)
• Bundle of Sticks (2008). Wall mounted sculpture for the Clarinda Community Center, commissioned 2007 by the City of Kingston, Victoria.

Videos

• The Other Me: An Inverse Mirror (2015). Interactive installation about the anthropology of imaging technologies, realized in cooperation with Walter Kropatsch and members of PRIP, Technical University Vienna, Austria. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQbYx4m12QA
• Ada’s Keepsake as Space-Time Machine (2014). Commission by Christian Freksa, Cognitive Systems, University of Bremen. The video plays with cognitive theory, women’s history, science fiction and technology. These components are put together by means of an aesthetic process. Insofar there is less calculation behind it than curiosity about which kind of interpretations beholders will come up with. These interpretations can be taken in themselves as starting points for scientific investigations, however, they need not be. Beholders of non-science background will understand it in different ways than scientists. Thus, Ada’s Keepsake contributes to an art-science discourse by trying to trace the tacit connectedness of science and art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-B1ITLTwTM
• Das Wissen der Welt oder The Blindfold Game (2014). Installation in collaboration with Antonio Krüger, Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saarland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_-7dGSgt9I
• Bodies and Spirits (2014). Installation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czAtn-EFMow
• Mirror Brain (2013). Installation in collaboration with Dorothea Brückner, Kognitionswissenschaften, Universität Bremen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94p3a1C0fA
• Cloud Cuckoo Land (2012). Animation of a permanent installation for Christian Freksa, Cognitive Systems, Universität Bremen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pztlLyW-2gM
• Family Tree (2011). Animation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WdBmIgy8Ok

Publications

• Hands (platinotype). Avocado pit (platinotype). In Pradip Malde (Ed.): Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process. Routledge 2021. ISBN 9780367415952
• Zum Teufel (short story). In Wolfgang Kühn (Ed.): Mein Industrieviertel – Anthologie, S. 273-289. Literaturedition Niederösterreich, Sankt Pölten, Austria, 2017. ISBN 978-3-902717-38-2
• Elektroenzephalographie (poem). In Helga Cmelka and Ingrid Gaier (Eds.): Vermessen – Texte und Bilder, S. 53-56. Confusibombus, Mödling, Austria, 2017.
• Das Weizentier: Tangos, Sonette und andere Gedichte. Sujet Verlag, Bremen, Germany, 2013. ISBN 978-3-933995988
• Die Fröschin: Geschichten zwischen den Orten. Sujet Verlag, Bremen, Deutschland, 2013. ISBN 978-3-933995995
• Mirror brain: Picture and experience (with Dorothea Brückner, 2014). Leonardo, 47(3): 216–224. DOI 10.1162/LEON_a_00678
• Wolkenkuckucksheim: Art as metaphor of the mind (with Christian Freksa, 2012). Leonardo, 45(5):414–422. DOI 10.1162/LEON_a_00437

Press

• Monica Karpinski: review: elisabeth weissensteiner's 'mirror brain'. Lip magazine, Dec 2012
• Blick in Gehirnschale legt Gedanken offen. Weser Kurier 31.10.2011.
• I See, I Site, I Sight. NY Arts Magazine 2007.
• Khadija Carrol: Within Without: Elisabeth Weissensteiner, Sculpture, 24, 3, April 2005.