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Veronika Merklein

The in 1982 born German artist Veronika Merklein lives and works mainly in Vienna (AT). As an artist she works within different media (performance, food, text, photography, object, installation, community work) with the focus on Performance Art. Her art orbits around performance immanent topics, pop-cultural phenomenens as well as “the pure an brutal (inner)life of human beings”. Starting off with her own body she investigates body- and food politics in her latest body of work.

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Veronika Merklein enjoyed her artistic education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the School of Art and Design Kassel. She presented her artwork among others at the Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago (US), at “Neuer Kunstverein Wien”, Vienna (AT), Kaskadenkondensator, Basel (CH), Fridericianum, Kassel (D), Secession, Vienna (AT), Kiasma, Helsinki (FI) and from time to time at home. Veronika Merklein received scholarships i.a. of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York City, Austrian Chancellary, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture, Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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*1982 in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
lives and works in Vienna, Austria

http://www.veronikamerklein.com/

Education

2007-12 Fine arts studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, with the focus on performance art with Carola Dertnig and Kaucyila Brooke, graduated with honors
2012 Assistance at the research project archiv performativ, Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2004-07 Fine arts studies at the School of Art and Design Kassel with Dorothee von Windheim and Eva-Maria Schön
2002-03 Stay abroad in Australia and Indonesia

Study-related visits to Performing Arts Forum, St. Erme (09), Schloss Bröllin (11),
Helsinki (07)

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Selected solo shows

2022 The Fatter The Better, SPARK-Fair, gallery michaela stock, Vienna, Austria

2021 Der wunde Punkt (The sore spot), Salon Real / Virtual, gallery michaela stock, Vienna, Austria

2017 DIE HARD, gallery michaela stock, Vienna, Austria

2015 Fat Pig, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, USA

2013 Life-Long Weight-Gaining, Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna, Austria

Selected performances

2022 Garden Eden (with Ela A. Sattler) in the framework of Pickle Bar, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria

2021 Circus Salto Morale, public space, Vienna, Austria with Barbara Ungepflegt

2021 Chocolate scale in the framework of the festival Banal Complexities, Philomena+, Vienna

2020 FAT Life, Every Body In-Festival, Reaktor, Vienna, Austria

2019 Equilibrium in the framework of the EMBODIMENT / capture performance focus: IRELAND, gallery michaela stock, Vienna, Austria

2017 DIE HARD, gallery michaela stock, Vienna, Austria

2015 Fat Pig, Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, USA

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