BIO. Daniela Zeilinger (1976* Linz/Austria) is a visual artist based in Vienna. Her work is situated at the intersection of different disciplines, in particular painting and photography. Ontological reflections on photographic and painterly pictorial spaces regarding the real/virtual, form a central motif. Her works – analogue photographic prints – oscillate between image and imagination, photography and painting, iconic and indexical. Zeilinger studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and UDK Berlin, as well as psychology, philosophy and theatre studies at University of Vienna. 2020 she received the State scholarship for Artisitic Photography.
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Photo: © Daniela Zeilinger
Wo ist die Realität? Wo haben Sie die? (2022)
Bro, Analogue C-Print from slide, 190 x 150 cm; Haiku #1-14, direct exposure from laptop screen on self-coated Bergger paper, drawing, watercolour, 20 x 25 cm
A wide variety of light-dependent techniques here merge into hybrid constellations that tell of the existence of multiple realities. The image sparks an investigative gaze in terms of indexicality; an attempt to separate the different levels from one another and to trace them back to actualities. But the image does not disintegrate. Instead, it references the numerous agents and ancillary techniques involved in its creation: the artist's body, the display of a laptop, colorful pigments, and so on. Some of the elements have been translated from positive to negative and vice versa, therefore implementing several contradictory realities that coexist in a singular image space. Like the layers of geological formations, from which we can read the age of rocks, the earth, and time itself, we try to look down into the ground of the photographic works and, loosely following Heinz von Foerster, ask ourselves: where is the one reality? Where are the many realities? (Sophie Publig)..
Photos: © Janine Schranz
Blend Together (2022)
Blu, Analogue C-Print from slide, 190 x 150 cm; Siam & Ray, Analogue C-Prints from slide, 20 x 25 cm
The exhibition "Blend Together" by Janine Schranz and Daniela Zeilinger, presented at Mz* Balthazar's Laboratory as part of this year's Foto Wien, follows on thematically from the joint exhibition "Passepartout," on view at hoast in Vienna in 2021. Whereas last year's attention was focused on processes of selecting, cropping and fading out, this time the focus is on situations of transparency and blending. While at hoast the focus was on techniques of inclusion and exclusion within a given architecture or within the image field, the exhibition at Mz* Balthazar's will examine possibilities of communication between inside and outside, from artwork to artwork, and between real space and image space. (Michael Wonnerth-Magnusson)
Photos: © Andrew Phelps
Yonder (2021)
Analogue C-Prints from slide, 190 x 150 cm; Analogue C-Prints from slide, 20 x 25 cm
Yonder, an English word, has several meanings. It is a place that is distant, but still within sight. This term is the point of reference for Daniela Zeilinger in her recent series of works. In her process as much as in the resulting images the most important aspect to take away may be questions of time and memory as enacted in these compositions. The immediacy of photography is met with the painstakingness of painting, where here a sort of poetic hybrid compresses these opposites into a unified whole, that is itself simultaneously a meditation on and an intervention against time. Yonder is neither here nor there, also it is between here and there, but always somewhere else, not quite fixed. However, yonder is always in relation to where one is. The works in this exhibition are thus anchored very much in the artist’s metaphysical musings, but also very much anchored on her own body and self, which in the end, fixes and grounds her work within a concrete splendor. (Seamus Kealy)