Elke Silvia Krystufek (born 1970) is an Austrian conceptual artist who lives and works in

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, Germany, and

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, Austria. She works in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, video and

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Life

Krystufek studied at the

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in the early 1990s. Her work is informed by a history of Austrian artists – from Egon Schiele to the

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and

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– who have explicitly explored sexuality in art.

Work

For her collection of images in the form of postcard-size photographs, titled “I am your mirror”, she took inspiration from the documentary work of photographer

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and the “Atlas” by the German Painter

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. With the exhibitio
“Liquid Logic”
then direction of

Peter Noever Peter Noever (born 1 May 1941) is an Austrian designer and curator–at–large of art, architecture and media. From 1986 to 2011 he was the artistic director and CEO of MAK— Austrian Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art in Vienna. Li ...

gave Krystufek access to all storages of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna and the MAK. She drew comparisons between a thematically arranged selection of objects from the museum collections that are rarely shown or on display. In 2009, she represented Austria at the 53rd

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in the Austrian Pavilion along with Dorit Margreiter, Fand ranziska and Lois Weinberger. In this show she dealt with the art-historical phenomenon of a nude male model painted by a heterosexual woman and the last film by

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''Tabu''. Since her solo exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, the gallery gives access to part of the Elke Krystufek Archive on the subject of immigration. On 13 April 2011 her first theater play ''Hub'' premiered at the Garage X, Theater at Petersplatz in Vienna. On 27 May her first public outdoor sculpture titled ''The Wall of Silence'' in the Schlosspark Grafenegg was destroyed on desire of Tassilo Metternich-Sándor.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Krystufek, Elke Living people 1970 births 20th-century Austrian women artists 21st-century Austrian women artists Austrian contemporary artists Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni

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