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IRENA POSNER
MAY 11TH – JUNE 17TH
Irena Posner works primarily with marble and limestone. Her material research is informed by ancient carving techniques, examining the space between object and body, and ritualistic connections between stone and landscape. The spontaneity of direct monolithic carving and the reductive approach looks for playfulness, accident and humour to explore feminine subjectivities, ageing and immortality embodied in animal forms and situated bodies. Animals or bodily fragments are monumentalised and venerated seeking out approaches which re-contextualise marble, a material associated with masculine endeavour and permanence, cold and historically problematic, to question existing hegemonic structures and gender roles.
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Irena Posner (b.1987) works between Carrara and London. She graduated from Royal College of Art in 2022 with a Masters in Sculpture. She was awarded the Harlow Sculpture Town Artist in Residence for 2023 and was the recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award in 2021. She was shortlisted for the Kenneth Armitage Award in 2022 and has undertaken residencies in Carrara, Italy and Weymouth, England, and most recently completed a 6-month carving residency at the University of East London. Her works are held in Odunpazari Modern Museum, Turkey and Fondazione Benetton, Italy.
Select solo and exhibitions include: D Contemporary, (2023), Groundwork, Studio West (2022), Ashburner Sculpture Prize (2022), Stone Lane Gardens (2022), Making Marks, Battersea Park (2022), Degree Show, Royal College of Art (2022), Equal quantities of everything, The Baths Hackney Wick, London, (2022), Flesh, Old Operating Theatre, London (2020), WIP, Royal College of Art, London (2020), Movement, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London (2019), Unfinished, Peckham Levels, London (2018), Light Ignites our Inspiration, Asylum, London (2018), Snorkel, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea, London (2018), Fragments, The Garage, London (2017), Still Lives, Erarta Gallery (2016), London Griffin Gallery Open, Griffin Gallery (2015)
Galerie Kandlhofer
Brucknerstrasse 4, 1040 Vienna, Austria info@kandlhofer.com
+43 1 503 1167
Cover
Detailansicht Maximilian Prüfer, Von Innen/Außen, 2021, Naturantypie und Papier, 178 x 120 cm, 70 1/8 x 47 1/4 in © Courtesy of the Artist
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Maximilian Prüfer, Honey-Pictures © Studio Maximilian Prüfer
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Acaye Kerunen, Kakare, 2021, Mixed media, 370 cm H x 860 cm W x 50 cm D (145 5/8“ H x 338 1/2“ W x 19 3/4“ D inches). Photo courtesy: © Acaye Kerunen Studio
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Acaye Kerunen, Ouganda, 2021, Mixed Media, 155 cm H x 115 cm © Acaye Kerunen Studio
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Sofia Borges, Collage with Face, Door and the Absolute. , 2019, Printed and mounted in January 2020, signed by the artist., Pigment print on Hahnemühle Ultra Smooth Rag 305g paper, 225 x 150 cm, 88 5/8 x 59 1/8 in, Edition of 5 plus 1 artist‘s proof (#3/5) © Courtesy of the Artist
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Sofia Borges, matter, clay or trance #4, 2021, photography, courtesy of the artist © Courtesy of the Artist
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Markus Redl, Stein 158132 [Mediazän I-III], 2021, Statuario Marmor, 145x105x55cm, 780kg © Courtesy of the Artist
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Markus Redl, Stein 158132 [Mediazän I-III], 2021, Statuario Marmor, 145x105x55cm, 780kg
© Courtesy of the Artist
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Maximilian Prüfer, Honey-Pictures © Studio Maximilian Prüfer
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Xie Lei, Breath, 2021, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm. Private Collection, photo: Philippe de Gobert, Courtesy of the artist, Meessen De Clercq and Galerie Kandlhofer
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Installation view of Galerie Kandlhofer © Manuel Carreon Lopez
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John Robinson, StNickface, 2022, Oil on paper on canvas, 41 x 60 cm, 16 1/8 x 23 5/8 in, © courtesy of the artist
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Janine Antoni, I open the gates, 2019, Mixed media gilded with 24 karat gold leaf, 58.42 x 65.72 x 5.72 cm 23 x 25 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches, Edition of 3 plus 2 artist‘s proofs (#2/3), (C35697), © Image Credits to Ralph Smith
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Arvida Byström, The end of the world, 2022, Photographic print, 50 x 40 cm, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in, 10 editions 2 AP, © courtesy of the artist
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Arvida Byström, Coexist, 2022, Photgraphic print, 30 x 40 cm, 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in, 10 editions 2 AP, © courtesy of the artist
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Frauke Dannert, Rauminstallation, Papiercollage 2022, Ausstellungsansicht: „Ortswechsel, die Kunstsammlung der Deutschen Bundesbank zu Gast im MGGU“, Museum Giersch Frankfurt, Foto: Wolfgang Günzel, Offenbach
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Frauke Dannert, Laufen 2022, Papiercollage, Acryl, 27,9 x 21,5 cm, Foto: Studio Dannert
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Marc Henry, Living Inside The Mind Of Somebody Who Lost His Own, 2022 oil on canvas, stainless steel frame, 50x65cm ©Jana Perusich
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Marc Henry, Sie Gestatten - Die Revolte, 2022 oil on canvas stainless steel frame 65x50cm ©Jana Perusich
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Alicia Viebrock, Installation View, Filiale, 2022 © Wolfgang Günzel
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Maximilian Prüfer, Seven Fish, 2021, Naturantypie; Fabriano Paper 650 g/m2, 141 x 140 cm, 55 1/2 x 55 1/8 in © courtesy of the artist
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Installation view of Galerie Kandlhofer © Manuel Carreon Lopez
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Fredy Solan, Sunflower in Gb2_Bluish-Yellow_III, Acrylic and ink on canvas, 63 x 72 inches / 160 x 180 cm, © Courtesy of the Artist
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Davide Bernadis, Materia, Filmstills, 2022 © Courtesy of the Artist
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Davide Bernadis, Materia, Filmstills, 2022 © Courtesy of the Artist
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Irena Posner, Cross your toes, 2022, Portland stone on pine sleepers, 120 x 80 x 50cm, © Courtesy of the Artist
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Irena Posner, Eva perched on a wood beam, 2022 , Statuario marble on tree trunk, 70 x 53 x 48cm, © Courtesy of the Artist
Backcover
Detailansicht Maximilian Prüfer, Von Innen/Außen, 2021, Naturantypie und Papier, 178 x 120 cm, 70 1/8 x 47 1/4 in © Courtesy of the Artist
