Maria Legat
Artist
Maria Legat (B. 1980, Villach) lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. She graduated from the Ortwein School of Visual Arts in Graz and studied “contextual painting” with Ashley Hans Scheirl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and “extended painting space” with Daniel Richter. She has always had a passion for drawing and painting in all their variants. Her visual idiom is unmistakable and reflects the socio-political tensions of her surroundings, with a major focus on composition and criticism. Legat has made a name for herself during recent years with large-scale paintings presented at numerous exhibitions and art fairs.
Maria Legat
Artist
Maria Legat (B. 1980, Villach) lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. She graduated from the Ortwein School of Visual Arts in Graz and studied “contextual painting” with Ashley Hans Scheirl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and “extended painting space” with Daniel Richter. She has always had a passion for drawing and painting in all their variants. Her visual idiom is unmistakable and reflects the socio-political tensions of her surroundings, with a major focus on composition and criticism. Legat has made a name for herself during recent years with large-scale paintings presented at numerous exhibitions and art fairs.
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Someone Is Getting RichApr 21, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024This exhibition explores the relationship between colonialism and the global financial system. Dutch financial innovations, but also people – bankers, investors and savers – played an essential role in financing colonial campaigns and slavery plantations. (more…)
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Tom Hegen / Salt WorksLimited EditionThe archival pigment print inserted in Tom Hegen’s special edition Salt Works shows one of the many sea salt production sites the photographer portrayed from the air and captured in their unique beauty as an abstract field. (more…)
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Ulrike Rosenbach: Today Is TomorrowJun 24, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024To mark her 80th birthday, the ZKM Karlsruhe is presenting a major exhibition on the work of media artist Ulrike Rosenbach. Ulrike Rosenbach was one of the first artists in Germany to use the medium of video – as early as the beginning of the 1970s. (more…)
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Ingredients MiningAug 5, 2023 – Jan 7, 2024Beginning in 2023 BusanMoCA Platform: Ingredients Mining is to be an annual program held by Busan Museum of Contemporary Art with the aim of exploring, manifesting, and disseminating ongoing social concerns and reflections on ecosystems and the environment (more…)
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Yutaka Aoki / Levels of IntimacyAug 26 – Sep 30, 2023Yutaka Aoki expands the scope of painting through an examination of the relationship between painting and the surrounding world, and through the many new possibilities that are born from that exchange. This exploration results in works that migrate freely between two- and three-dimensionality, and in works that respond not only to the material and production process, but also to their relationship with the audience’s gaze. (more…)
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UPHA Made in UkraineUkrainian Photographic AlternativeUPHA Made in Ukraine is the first book published by BOOKSHA. The work on the project started in 2017. The book is the result of creative work by the participants of the Ukrainian Photographic Alternative group. (more…)
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Sanja Iveković / Works of HeartJun 15 – Nov 1, 2023Works of Heart (1970–2023) is the first major museum survey of one of the most important Croatian artists, Sanja Iveković, in her city. The exhibition is a collaboration of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb with Kusthalle Vienna (more…)
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Thailand Biennale 2023 / The Open WorldDec 9, 2023 – Apr 30, 2024The first edition of Thailand Biennale was initiated by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Thailand’s Ministry of Culture in Krabi in 2018, followed by Korat in 2021. By alternating the locations from various provinces throughout the country, the spirit of the Thailand Biennale decentralizes artistic activities (more…)
