Stages of transcendence
Exhibition Details:
Stages of transcendence is a cross-disciplinary project which digs in the roots of the construction of reality.
Ana Loureiro & Verena Tscherner have set up two realities based on their own experiences in the whole exhibition space. The viewer is invited to be a part of this transformed space, to have a glimpse of the artists spatial memories and may connect to their emotions related to these places.
Featuring:
Ana Loureiro (Portugal, 1991) is an interdisciplinary artist who currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Between 2009 and 2013, she studied Fine Arts - painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto University. During the last semester of her degree, she attended the figurative painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the guidance of the Professor Silke Otto-Knapp. In Vienna, she was a member and curator of two art collectives named Friday Exit (2014-2016) and Mz*Baltazar’s Lab (2017-2021), broadening her knowledge and experience in the city's Art and Cultural scene.
Born in Tyrol, Verena Tscherner came to Vienna shortly after graduating from high school. She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (MDW), where she graduated in 2014. From 2018 to 2019 she was a studio artist at studio das weisse haus. In her time as a studio artist she studied at the Friedl Kubelka School, School for artistic photography, which she graduated in 2019 with a diploma. From 2019 to 2024 she studied digital art (Prof.Ruth Schnell and UBERMORGEN) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and graduated in June 2024. She was on multiple residencies at home and abroad. 2021 she received the prize for the Kunstlitfaßsäulen from the city of Salzburg and 2023 the Neptun State Prize for water in the category waterCREATIVE. She lives and works as a freelance artist in Vienna.