Installationview, „Deep Touch Pressure“, Semperdepot Vienna, 2021

Before I forget

Sound drawing in space

Performance by Anna Dian

To see the whole performance go to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJI-64QORQ

We all drink the same water

1. October 2022 – 28. February 2023
„Galery in Public Space“
„KAUFHAUS BARESCH“
Attersee am Attersee
Installation in public space in 4 acts, based on a saga about the Attersee, transferred into a contemporary context. 
16 x 2,4 x 1 m
Powder-coated and hand painted steel
2022

The water spirits of Lake Attersee

Once upon a time, a small village on Lake Attersee was in isolation and unhappiness. Everyone had tried to get the best out of life for themselves and one was full of jealousy of the other for what he did not have himself. People did not speak to their neighbours, who were so different, it was envy that was shared.

The water spirits of the lake, who had already been rumoured to inhabit the lake, took note of the people‘s misery and decided to give them their most important possession. So they gave each of the villagers a small white stone.

Not knowing what to do with these stones, the villagers asked the water spirits: „Your stones are beautiful, but what good will it do each of us to have such a small stone?“ Disappointed, the people threw their stones away. One of the children in the village picked up some of them and looked at them, and sure enough, they matched in a strange way. One by one, each of the villagers brought their stone. It took days to put all the pieces together. Without the people noticing, they started talking to each other again. It wasn‘t long before the word got out that there was a village with two special stone pillars. People came from near and far to see them and hear the story of the water spirits.

The last habitat

In cooperation with Gallery Rudolf Leeb

Installation in public space

Sculpture Park (Toscanapark) Gmunden together with Parallel Vienna

2,9 x 3 x 3 m

Hand painted steel, hand brushed steel

2023

The last habitat describes a zone in which a primordial form of Gaia has spread and occupies a habitat that will be reconquered by nature bit by bit. Over time, Gaia‘s form will no longer be visible, or only partially. Inspired by the „ciritical zones“ and their inhabitants around volcanic areas, the work focuses on the space of the caldera, the eye of the volcano, which cannot be occupied (by humans). It is one of the last bastions of Gaia - it cannot be conquered and eludes any attempts to approach it. What if there were more such zones?

"Tiefes C / Low C" Viktoria Morgenstern
 

“ICH BIN JETZT DA” , Galerie3 Klagenfurt

„Ich bin jetzt da.“ - „Und wo bist du?“ – so könnte die Frage im Anschluss lauten. Die Ausstellung >Ich bin jetzt da< untersucht das Entstehen von Beziehung und Identität und lädt zur gleichberechtigten Begegnung.

Die junge Bildhauerin Viktoria Morgenstern nimmt ephemere innere Gefühlswelten als Ausgangspunkt für ihre abstrakten organischen Stahlskulpturen, die sich wie Zeichnungen im Raum materialisieren. Die Künstlerin legt ihre umfassende Ausstellung als Parcour an, der für die Galeriebesuchenden mit ersten kindlichen Beziehungsmomenten startet und sie durch verschiedene Etappen / Räume führt. Beginnend mit dem frühen Moment, in dem wir unseren Ich-Begriff etablieren - der Kindheit - bis hin zu immer komplexeren Momenten, in denen wir in Resonanz mit Anderen treten, führt die künstlerische Reise, die zum Mitschwingen einlädt.

„Die Qualität unserer Beziehungen definiert die Qualität unseres Daseins“, sagt Viktoria Morgenstern und sieht genauer hin, was es überhaupt bedeutet, mit sich selbst und anderen in Resonanz oder auch Dissonanz zu treten. Die emotionale Aufgeladenheit ihrer mitunter raumgreifenden Arbeiten drückt sich auch in den Titeln ihrer Werke aus: So betitelt Morgenstern etwa eine weiße hohe Skulptur im Zentrum der Ausstellung mit „Ikigai“, einem Wort, das aus dem japanischen übersetzt so viel wie „wofür es sich aufzustehen lohnt“ bedeutet. Gespiegelt wird diese Arbeit im „Raum der Resonanz“ in der Serie „Echo“, die sich mit unterschiedlichen Dynamiken zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen auseinandersetzt.

„Wie kann es gelingen, eine Gemeinschaft zu bilden?“ so die Frage, die Morgensterns Bildhauerei in diesen so konfliktreichen Zeiten leitet.

E /// “I AM HERE NOW”

"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.

Exhibitionview “I AM HERE NOW2” Galerie 3, 2022

Exhibitionview “I AM HERE NOW2” Galerie 3, 2022

Exhibitionview “I AM HERE NOW2” Galerie 3, 2022

Exhibitionview “I AM HERE NOW2” Galerie 3, 2022

Exhibitionview “I AM HERE NOW2” Galerie 3, 2022

Exhibitionview “I AM HERE NOW2” Galerie 3, 2022

„EDEN - A place of longing in dystopian times“, Sotheby's Vienna Artist Quarterly, Viktoria Morgenstern

„EDEN - A place of longing in dystopian times“, Solo Show, Sotheby‘s Artist Quarterly, 2022 // „Eros came for a hug and stayed“ Hand-painted steel, 33x24x39,5 cm, 2021

powered by: Hema Makwana/HM Communication

Exhibition view EDEN, 2022, Sotheby's Vienna Artist Quarterly, Viktoria Morgenstern
Exhibition view EDEN, 2022 Sotheby's Vienna, Artist Quarterly, Viktoria Morgenstern
Exhibition view EDEN, 2022 Sotheby's Vienna, Artist Quarterly, Viktoria Morgenstern
Exhibition view EDEN, 2022 Sotheby's Vienna, Artist Quarterly, Viktoria Morgenstern
AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END  Artist Statement, Parallel Vienna 2021  powered by: HM Communication, Viktoria Morgenstern Parallel Vienna 2021

AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END

Artist Statement, Parallel Vienna 2021

powered by: Hema Makwana/HM Communication

AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END  Artist Statement, Parallel Vienna 2021  powered by: HM Communication, Viktoria Morgenstern Parallel Vienna 2021
„Sisters“ Exhibition view, Semmelweisklinik Vienna, at Parallel Vienna 2021, Viktoria Morgenstern
„Sisters“ Exhibition view, Semmelweisklinik Vienna, at Parallel Vienna 2021, Viktoria Morgenstern
AT THE BEGINNING AND AT THE END Artist Statement, Parallel Vienna 2021 powered by: HM Communication
„Me and my friends“ Exhibition view, Ankerbrotfabrik, 2021 curated by Esther Mlenek, Viktoria Morgenstern

sponsored by Hema Makwana/HM Communication

„Zwischen dir und mir liegt einmal atmen / The distance between you and me is drawing one breath“ 12x29,7x42 cm, Framed // Acryl and pencil on paper // 2021, Ankerbrotfabrik, Curated by esther Mlenek, Viktoria Morgenstern
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„Erinnerung an einen guten Tag / Memory of a good day“, steel, concrete, 26 x 10 x 10 cm, 2013

„Erinnerung an einen guten Tag / Memory of a good day“, steel, concrete, 26 x 10 x 10 cm, 2013

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