LiISA GROßKOPF
“I
menstruate
on your patriarchy. “
#PHOTOGRPAHY #VIDEO #INSTALLATION #MULTIMEDIA
BIO. Lisa Großkopf, born in 1989 in Vienna, studied at the University of Art and Design Linz, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
In her interdisciplinary artistic practice, she explores the macro and micro systems in which she operates as an artist, citizen, consumer, and other roles, while doing almost everything except painting.
Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in private and public collections. Lisa Großkopf received the Start Scholarship for Photography, the Gabriele Heidecker Prize, and was nominated for the Follow Fluxus Scholarship from the Naussische Art Association, and the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize.
Photo: © Lisa Großkopf
Das Glück des Zufalls (2023)
Installation
The underwater world is one of refracted and metamorphosed light as it travels through the density of water. This video work is an observation of the air-water-interface and part of a series of surface samples.
A great complexity lies in the threshold in between two things and it seems to speak to us, or like Jorge Luis Borges said: “[…] certain Twilights […] try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something“.
Water is an essential element for me, I seek its closeness and power. Instead of looking into the water, I direct my gaze or that of the camera out of the water and onto the line between water and air. The refracted light and the vibrations between the worlds become visible and the possibility of silent observation arises. Hidden levels and subtle elements emerge, which could be a portal or a membrane between past and future.
Photos: © Lisa Großkopf
The Photographic Studio (2016-23)
: Installation / Photography
Lisa Großkopf stages fictitious photogrqphic studios in the storefronts of former shops, which at first glance look completely ordinary. However, upon closer inspection, we find that the “Photo Studio” project subversively examines the social norms of contemporary society. Through subtle interventions or striking modifications, Großkopf creates unsettling shifts that disrupt traditional notions of gender roles, identities, the concept of family, and the ideal of beauty.
Given that conventional photographic studios often convey a conservative family model and reproduce traditional gender roles, the artist in her project focuses on increasing social diversification. Since each of the documented shop windows has been installed in a real space for some time, Lisa Großkopf invites a broad public to engage in a dialogue about current societal changes in viewing and perceiving the world.
Photos and Videos: © Lisa Großkopf
Noticeable Unnoticeable (2018-19)
Performative Action / Videoinstallation
In the performative action “Noticeably Unnoticeable” Lisa Großkopf explores the current trend of self-optimization. To attain perfection in her day job as a museum supervisor she took various measures ranging from physical training to acquiring professional qualifications and profound expertise. She invested her entire income in her self-compiled education plan. In this way, the ambivalent relationship of artistic and non-artistic work becomes evident. The performance as well as the documentation of this process blurs the border between symbolic representation and economic reality.