Annelies Štrba, Cécile Wick, Hyunae Kang und Ursula Palla​

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In recent years, Annelies Štrba's photographs have explored a dreamlike world whose protagonists seem almost like fairies. Her carefully constructed images transport us into a dream-like fantastical world, while at the same time using the real, everyday environment as a setting. Her photographs, which capture the psychological experience of the moment when a memory is transformed into an image, are often printed on canvas to enhance the painterly effect.

 

Cécile Wick's photography is characterized by its analogue sensibility. By experimenting with various older photographic techniques such as graphics, heliogravure and inkjet printing, she explores different possibilities of photographic expression. Her landscape series “Islands”, produced in a kind of complex heliogravure technique, reinforces the impression and character of analog photography through its extraordinary coloration.

 

Known for her poetic-looking sculptures, her media art and her immersive video installations, Ursula Palla has developed an artistic practice that not only focuses on nature in all its splendor and beauty, but also as something that can easily disappear and be forgotten. The aspect of fragility and transience is paradoxically emphasized by the hard, metallic materiality of her sculptures, which appear strangely delicate and fragile.

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Kang's unique style, which captures the dynamism and dazzling colors of nature, began with her sculptural work of the 1990s as a restrained expression of the ‘inner energy’ of materials by means of textural accumulation.While some works draw their imagery from the infinitely varied motions of nature (such as ridges and waves), and place these in relation to distinctly abstract elements, most are dominated by ‘classical’ geometric shapes reminiscent of the larger celestial and philosophical realms of the sun, moon and void.