Christina Werner
Christina Werner (born 1976 in Baar, Switzerland) lives and works in Vienna. Her current artistic works deal with the resurgence of nationalism, the culture of remembrance, identity politics, and questions of representation. Werner studied photography and filmography with Tina Bara and media art with Alba D’Urbano at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig from 2007 until 2013. Her works have been shown at Deichtorhallen – House of Photography, Hamburg; Lentos Museum Linz; Mattatoio, Rome; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; National Gallery Prague; Fotogalerie Vienna; Goethe Institut Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Gallery Photon – Center for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana; and others. Werner is represented in the following collections: Austrian Federal Collection, BKA, Wien Museum, Collection of Lower Austria, Lentos Museum Linz, Vienna Chamber of Labour.
Dust Covers the Landscape
2021,
installation
Anna Scherbyna, Where did it happen?, photo, digital print, grattage, 2021 (photos by Natalka Diachenko, special thanks to Iryna Kudria) Christina Werner, The Ravine of Many, video, 10 min., 2021 The installation Dust Covers the Landscape, which combines two works by Anna Scherbyna and Christina Werner, addresses Babyn Yar, a place known for its tragic history in 1941. Exploring the key locations of the place, Scherbyna superimposes modern and archival photographs. Scratched outlines of the pictures taken during the Nazi occupation and the Kurenivka mudslide tragedy appear on the surface of present-day Babyn Yar and its surroundings. After the research process, Christina Werner produced a video, a kind of walking tour in which she re-enacts parts of the route from the “death path” during the mass shootings in the year of 1941, describing the landscape past and present with audio and text.
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), station urbaner kulturen/nGbK Hellersdorf, Between Bridges, Prater Galerie
February 23–June 9