E /// “I AM HERE NOW”

Galerie3 Klagenfurt, 2022

"I'm there now." - "And where are you?" - that could be the question afterwards. The exhibition >I am here now< explores the emergence of relationship and identity and invites an equal encounter.

The young sculptor Viktoria Morgenstern takes ephemeral inner worlds of feeling as the starting point for her abstract organic steel sculptures, which materialize in space like drawings. The artist sets up her comprehensive exhibition as a parcour that starts for gallery visitors with first childlike moments of relationship and leads them through different stages / spaces. Beginning with the early moment in which we establish our concept of self - childhood - to increasingly complex moments in which we enter into resonance with others, the artistic journey invites visitors to resonate.

"The quality of our relationships defines the quality of our existence," says Viktoria Morgenstern, taking a closer look at what it even means to enter into resonance or even dissonance with oneself and others. The emotional charge of her sometimes expansive works is also expressed in the titles of her works: For example, Morgenstern titles a white tall sculpture in the center of the exhibition "Ikigai," a word that translates from Japanese as "what is worth standing up for." This work is mirrored in the "Room of Resonance" in the series "Echo," which deals with different dynamics of interpersonal relationships.

"How can we succeed in forming a community?" is the question that guides Morgenstern's sculpture in these so conflicted times.