Annemarie Arzberger
dreamed awake

Slide show

3.12.2025

Annemarie Arzberger, *dreamed awake*, 2025
Performance view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

Annemarie Arzberger, *dreamed awake*, 2025
Exhibition view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

Annemarie Arzberger, *dreamed awake*, 2025
Annemarie Arzberger, *dreamed awake*, 2025
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

The light is dimmed, and dreamed awake unfolds as a series of scenes and situations with different artworks and arrangements – a lively spectacle that develops step by step before the eyes of the beholders, drawing them ever deeper into the piece’s immersive world. The different scenes are spatially separated through semi-transparent netting, a selection of different textiles. Detailed paintings, puppets, and other artworks meet up with an arrangement that deliberately refers to elements of DIY, or reminds us of a dreamy staging of our childhood. For the music, the artist has selected works from the work of popular hits from her own childhood, as well as sounds of nature such as are used in meditation.

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Solo exhibitions (selection): Puuul, Vienna (2023, 2021), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2021), 12erHaus, Pöllau (2020), Galerie 3, Parallel Vienna Art Fair, Vienna (2019).

Group exhibitions (selection): ES49, Vienna (2025), Maerz Künstlervereinigung, Linz (2024), Galerie3, Klagenfurt / Vienna (2022, 2021, 2018, 2016), 5020, Salzburg (2023), Kunstverein Paradigma, Linz (2023), Phileas Projekt, Vienna (2022), Sodom, Vienna (2020), brut, Vienna (2019), WUK Kunsthalle, Vienna (2019), Taxis Palais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (2019).

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