Anneliese Schrenk (born in 1974, lives and works in Vienna) will present a selection of her current works in spring 2025 at the Tresor in the Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna. For many years, the skin has been the central theme of Anneliese Schrenk. The artist uses "exhausted skin" – leather that is not further processed due to various "defects" – as her working material. She stretches the leather on canvases and tattoos or burns delicate motifs into the surface, reminiscent of anatomical drawings from the early modern period. The "skins" reveal beauty as well as cruelty and revolve around themes such as life in a society of abundance, the animal exploitation industry, body cult, and body perception. Schrenk also arranges iron and steel tools, used in processes like slaughter or livestock farming, into sculptures and installations, thereby opening new horizons of meaning full of ambivalence – both pleasurable and painful, sometimes poetic and quiet, sometimes penetrating and almost brutal.
Anneliese Schrenk (born 1974, lives and works in Vienna) will showcase a selection of her current works in the spring of 2025 at the Tresor in the Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna.
For many years, the skin has been the central theme of Anneliese Schrenk. As a working material, the artist uses, among other things, "excretion skin" – leather that, due to various "defects" during processing, is not used further. Stretched on stretchers, the artist tattoos or burns delicate motifs into the surface, reminiscent of anatomical drawings from the early modern period. The "skins" reveal beauty as well as cruelty and circulate around themes such as life in a society of abundance, the animal exploitation industry, body cult, and perception. Schrenk also arranges iron and steel instruments, used for example in slaughter processes or in livestock farming, into sculptures and installations, thereby opening up new horizons of meaning full of ambivalence – pleasurable as well as painful, sometimes poetic and quiet, sometimes penetrating and almost brutal.
The outcry in the art world was rightly loud when the Bank Austria Kunstforum on Wiener Freyung had to close its doors on August 31, 2025, due to lack of funding. The Community TV is reopening the doors to this high-caliber art: OKTO brings the high-quality videos produced during the exhibitions for their first broadcast on television. The content produced by CastYourArt focuses on the artworks within the setting of the exhibition. Conversations with curators and artists provide entertaining information about the shows and bring them back to life.
KUNSTFORUM REVISITED, exactly.
