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VM | Die Hard
VM | Die Hard
DIE HARD, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2017, photo: Kati Bruder
DIE HARD, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2017, photo: Kati Bruder
DIE HARD, exhibition view, galerie michaela stock, 2017, photo: Kati Bruder
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Performance, Veronika Merklein, 18.3.2017, duration: 90 min, performance documentation, photo: Kati Bruder, exhibition: DIE HARD, galerie michaela stock, 18.3. - 1.5.2017
Im Keller (In the Basement), 2017, photography, 120 x 80 cm, edition: 3 + AP
DIE HARD, 2017, photography, laminated behind acrylic glass, 84 x 120 cm, edition: 3 + AP; DIE HARD, 2017, poster, 70 x 100 cm, edition: 80 + 20 AP
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DIE HARDER, 2017, photography, laminated behind acrylic glass, 180 x 140 cm, edition: 3 + AP
DIe HARD, EDITION-BOX, 2017, Trailer-Video, Zeit: 00:48min, Animation: Anja Hartmann, Auflage: 10 + 3 AP Postkarte, Performance Dokumentation, Fotografie / Performance, signiert
ART POSTCARDS, Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, with frame, open edition
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ART POSTCARDS, various motifs with frame, open edition
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ART POSTCARDS, various motifs with frame, open edition
ART POSTCARDS, various motifs with frame, open edition
ART POSTCARDS, various motifs with frame, open edition
VM | Fat Pig
VM | Fat Pig
FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
Fat Pig is no understatement, it is the appropriation of the energy of its opponents. Fat Pig is an expression of anger and the search for truth in the opinion jungle of nutrition fundamentalists, self-proclaimed health experts, and know-it-alls.
Fat Pig is indeed also the question, “What do we actually eat and how do we eat it. Why do we eat it? How is it grown and produced? And why have people stopped cooking?” I approach these questions with the principle of “treating the similar with the similar" - namely with food.
The exhibition consisted of a 4 1/2-hour opening performance in a kitchen-like environment. During the one-week exhibition the kitchen installation was continuously used, and in particular for a brunch concurrent to the one-hour artist lecture “I want to live forever.”* Another important part of the week was a video screening about body diversity of work by six different artists.FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
At 7:00 pm four performers and I enter the space and put on green and gold aprons. While Sharon Hoyer, Chris Puente, Angela Trakas and I move into the kitchen installation and start cooking, Emer Kinsella stands on a pedestal and begins to play her violin. A subdued and sacred atmosphere fills the room.
Soon the first course, the aperitif, is ready, I put the cups on a tray and adjourn directly to two empty pedestals. I turn one pedestal upside down and one after the other I throw the cups into the container before I return to the kitchen space. Over the next 4 1/2 hours, this dumping scenario is repeated for all other courses with different protagonists.
Hours later, the Defibrillator Gallery is a condensed, heated atmosphere, and the crowd rushes eagerly to the outgoing trays: chicken, carrot soup, a vibrant spaetzle with lentils, fried vegetable chips. Fat is in the air. Also we sweat. At one point, Chris Puente runs to the pedestals with chocolate desserts. The people loudly. The violin only whispers at this point.
After the last course, the filled-up pedestals are turned back over, the aprons are hung back on the wall and all the performers leave the room. The audience applauds.FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
FAT PIG, 2015, Performative Installation (solo show) Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago
VM | Woman laughing alone with salad
VM | Woman laughing alone with salad
Woman laughing alone with salad, 2014, photo: Robert Bodnar, (c) Veronika Merklein
Woman laughing alone with salad originated from the search engine-optimized term, ”Women laughing alone with salad”. Using that term you will find lean smiling women with natural make-up, bright clothes in an inviting setting, who eat green or mixed salad. Referring to a psychopathology of fatness and the corresponding pictorial propaganda in which overweight people are represented as ”fat, lazy and stupid,” these (re)presentations are thwarted in the work.
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
The photo-food-art-work Woman laughing alone with salad as well as the offical part Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner) is a continuation of the work cycle „Redefining Fat Identity“. I would like to point out a hardly questioned discrimination of fat people and different bodies in general on a daily basis. Especially bodies of fat people are sensitive targets for arguments of different political and medical views. But, what is more, I would like to strengthen enjoyment in connection with contemplation, sensibilities and downshifting.
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
Daddy's little Girl lädt zum Essen (Daddy's little Girl invites for dinner), 2014, Das YIX, Vienna
VM | Life-Long Weight-Gaining
VM | Life-Long Weight-Gaining
Life-Long Weight-Gaining, Foto: Robert Bodnar, Make-Up/Haare: Manuela Maderthaner
Life-long Weight-Gaining Stand-up (photo print, 170 x 60cm), Postcard (21 x 14,8cm): Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition) Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
”Life-Long Weight-Gaining” is the awards ceremony of a fictional beauty contest. It ironically overacts the cult of skinniness as it awards for ”life-long weight-gaining”.
Within a live-performance, exhibition, and intervention in public space, the artist not only highlights the practice of discrimination against heavy people. In a humorous manner it also invites a maddening affirmation of fatness.
In this performative installation, one can see the ”LIfe-Long Weight-Gaining” sash upon a life-sized cardboard stand-up of myself. The stand-up serves as a placeholder for heavy people. It shows myself as a (half)naked body. One foot rests on several stacked bathroom scales while I hold my ”love handles” in my hands.Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013 Performance installation (solo exhibition) Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Within the installation a live performance takes place. I stand on the stacked scales, which have been cast out of chocolate, as the chocolate melts from my body heat. I am naked, my body is painted in an artificial skin color, and my hair is hidden underneath a mask of the same artificial color. A kind of a seam, an outline, runs across my skin which imitates the two parts of a casting form (e.g. chocolate easter bunnies).
The heroic gesture of the cardboard stand-up is in dialogue with the vulnerability of the naked performer within the installation. Furthermore, this dialogue is accompanied by the question of exhibiting performance art–a balancing act between an object in motion and a motionless subject (as theorized by French curator, Pierre Bal-Blanc)…
Happy Valentine's day, Object (Photgraphy, foliert, auf Aluminium kaschiert, MDF-Sockel lackiert, 6kg Pralinen, 110x40x65cm) | Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Ho
The third art work in the exhibition is called ”Happy Valentine’s Day”. A photo collage of two photographs lies on the oblique surface of a pedestal which is filled up with pralines to two-thirds. The upper part of the collage shows my faultless face. In the bottom part of the photo my heavy belly with stretch-marks appears slowly when the pralines are eaten. Pralines represent the ambivalence between pleasure and sin. The single candy resembles a fat cell in its cross-section. The know-how of manufacturing chocolate candies is always accompanied by the question: ”What is inside?”. This question is not only foiled by the lively hollow shape of the performer but could be interpreted in a more common sense. Our culture is determined by ritualized enjoyment and the claim of life-long abstemiousness (e.g. ”restraint eating”).
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013 Performance installation (solo exhibition) Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Life-Long Weight-Gaining Performance, 3 1/2Std with chocolate scales: Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Happy Valentine's day Object (Photgraphy, foliert, auf Aluminium kaschiert, MDF-Sockel lackiert, 6kg Pralinen, 110x40x65cm): Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohe
Happy Valentine's day Object (Photgraphy, foliert, auf Aluminium kaschiert, MDF-Sockel lackiert, 6kg Pralinen, 110x40x65cm): Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohe
Happy Valentine's day Object (Photgraphy, foliert, auf Aluminium kaschiert, MDF-Sockel lackiert, 6kg Pralinen, 110x40x65cm): Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohe
Happy Valentine's day Object (Photgraphy, foliert, auf Aluminium kaschiert, MDF-Sockel lackiert, 6kg Pralinen, 110x40x65cm): Life-Long Weight-Gaining, 2013, Performance installation (solo exhibition), Neuer Kunstverein Wien, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohe
VM | Poses
VM | Poses
Poses, 2012, solo exhibition in the frame of "Xposit", Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, exhibition view, photo: Teresa Novotny
Postcard (21x14,8cm); Pose 1 - Marina Abramovic, photo: Christian Messner
exhibition view: Stand-up, installed on wall (MDF, photo print), 210 x 85 x 40cm; Pose 1 - Marina Abramovic, photo: Teresa Novotny
Postcard (21x14,8cm); Pose 2 - Veronika mit dem Schweißtuch, Photo: Julia Kujat, Retouche: Veronika Merklein
Exhibition view: Stand-up (MDF, photo print, lamp), 210 x 62 x 40cm; Pose 2 - Veronika mit dem Schweißtuch, Foto: Teresa Novotny
Pose 3 - Künstlerin mit Rektorin und Meerschweinchen (artist with rector and guinea pig), 2012, postcard matte, 21 x 14,8cm, photo: Amelie Zadeh
Pose 3 - Künstlerin mit Rektorin und Meerschweinchen (artist with rector and guinea pig), 2012, medium-format photos, digital imprinted, laminated on aluminum composite panel 70 x 70cm, frame of the 19th century, black w golden edge, photo: Teresa Novotn
VM | I`ve got bigger boobs than your mother
VM | I`ve got bigger boobs than your mother
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
I've got bigger boobs than your mother, 2012, Performance, 2 x 25min, in public space in the frame of "Irritazioni momentanee. Attenzione!" of AktionsTheaterKassel
VM | I didn`t say anything
VM | I didn´t say anything
I didn‘t say anything. (Ich habe nichts gesagt.), 2011 Performance, 1 x 8min, Ida Nowhere, Berlin
I didn‘t say anything. (Ich habe nichts gesagt.), 2011 Performance, 1 x 8min, Ida Nowhere, Berlin
I didn‘t say anything. (Ich habe nichts gesagt.), 2011 Performance, 1 x 8min, Ida Nowhere, Berlin
I didn‘t say anything. (Ich habe nichts gesagt.), 2011 Performance, 1 x 8min, Ida Nowhere, Berlin
VM | The silent neighbor
VM | The silent neighbor
The silent neighbor, video installation, 2011; Performance / Video (HD, 4:27min) 3 x 3 hrs / 3 x the whole night (Loop), art festival „Tatort Hernals“, Vienna, photo: Christian Messner
The silent neighbor, Performance, 2011, Performance / Video (HD, 4:27min) 3 x 3 hrs / 3 x the whole night (Loop), art festival „Tatort Hernals“, Vienna photo: Christian Messner
The silent neighbor, 2011, film still, camera: Bernhard Staudinger
The silent neighbor, 2011, film still, camera: Bernhard Staudinger
The silent neighbor, 2011, film still, camera: Bernhard Staudinger
The silent neighbor, 2011, film still, camera: Bernhard Staudinger
The silent neighbor, 2011, film still, camera: Bernhard Staudinger
The silent neighbor, 2011, film still, camera: Bernhard Staudinger
VM | Cold brown coffee
VM | Cold brown coffee
Cold brown coffee (Kalter brauner Kaffee), 2009, Performance, 2 x 12min, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Rundgang, photo: Georg Oberleitner
Cold brown coffee (Kalter brauner Kaffee), 2009, Performance, 2 x 12min, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Rundgang, photo: Silvia Pogoda
Cold brown coffee (Kalter brauner Kaffee), 2009, Performance, 2 x 12min, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Rundgang, photo: Silvia Pogoda
VM | rabbits/bubbles/ducks/cocks/railway
VM | rabbits/bubbles/ducks/cocks/railway
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
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Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
Installation Performance series with Toni Schmale, hasen/hähne/eisenbahn (rabbits/cocks/railway), 2009, 2 x 20min, Projekt- und Hörgalerie „ A und V“, Leipzig
VM | Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14
VM | Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m
Bestandsabnahme Murhardstrasse 14, Kassel, 2007, Installation, 5 x 3 x 2,60m