Marianne Maderna (born 1944) is an Austrian installation artist.

Life

Maderna's mother, Katharina, was a publisher's reader, her father the young people's writer Karl Bruckner. Maderna attended the Graphic Training and Research Institute in

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, Austria, from 1959 to 1964, then emigrated to the US. She returned to Austria in the same year and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1969 (MA 1972). In 1991 she was awarded the Honorary Prize of Lower Austria, and in 1996 the City of Vienna Prize for Visual Art. Maderna lives in Vienna and Aggsbach in

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

. In 2014 she participated in the foundation of the MMMuseum in the Aggsbach Charterhouse. Her works can be found in the Artothek des Bundes im 21er Haus, Vienna, the Blickle Foundation, the Austrian Museum of the 21st Century, the Albertina Graphic Collection, the MUSA Collection of the City of Vienna, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, the State Museum of Lower Austria, and the Austrian Sculpture Park in Graz.

Work

Marianne Maderna is an interdisciplinary installation artist and performer. Her work discusses social themes relevant to the human condition, combining sculpture, video, drawing, endurance performance, improvised music and poetic texts. Maderna examines and finds new formulations for human behavior patterns and hierarchical systems. In a climbing performance in 2005 she painted a Viennese flak tower from the Second World War with graffiti. In 2013 she presented her world-theater Humanimals at the Dominican Church in Krems. MMadernaHUMANIMALS

This was large spatial installation with thousands of nocturnally glowing hanging sculptures and a hand-drawn 3D animation as a walk-in video projection. In the same year she walked over the Danube as a female pope in self-constructed aqua shoes. In 2015, on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna, Marianne Maderna presented 36 busts of famous women in juxtaposition to the 153 permanently installed busts and plaques of male notables. MMadernaRadicalBUSTS

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Solo exhibitions

* 2015 Radical Busts, Arkadenhof,

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* 2014 Foundation of the MMMuseum in the Aggsbach Charterhouse * 2013 Humanimals, Dominican Church / Krems, Zeitkunst,

* 2011 Mighties & Frighties & Academy mm, Palais Kabelwerk / Artspace, Vienna * 2006 One To, kunsthaus muerz, Mürzzuschlag * 2005 One To,

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. History The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was founded in 1692 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di Sa ...

* 2005 Budhines, Christines ..., installation and graffiti performance, Flakturm Arenbergpark, Vienna * 1996 Das erste Haus,

Architekturzentrum Wien The Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) is a museum in Vienna, in the Museumsquartier. It is conceived as a centre for exhibitions, events and research into architecture and related topics, particularly the architecture and urban design of the 20th a ...

Museumsquartier,

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* 1991 Raum und Ausgang,

Wiener Secession The Vienna Secession (german: Wiener Secession; also known as ''the Union of Austrian Artists'', or ''Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs'') is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austri ...

* 1987 Skulpturen im Umraum,

* 1984 Skulpturen und Zeichen, Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, Vienna * 1982 Marianne Maderna,

Catalogues

* ''Radical Busts'', with texts by Maia Damianovic,

Sigrid Schmitz Sigrid Schmitz (born 1961, Aachen, Germany) is a visiting professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and was formerly the chair of gender studies and scientific head of the Gender Research Office eferat Genderforschungat the University of Vi ...

, and Luce Irigaray. Poems: Marianne Maderna * ''Humanimals. Zeitkunst Lower Austria'', with texts by Eva Badura, Maia Damianovic, and Alexandra Schantl, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg 2013, * ''Historysteria'', with texts by, Kerstin Braun, Jacques Derrida, Sophie Freud, Elisabeth List, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Springer, Vienna, New York et al. 2008, * ''Raum und Ausgang'', with texts by Jacques Derrida, Hildegunt Amanshauser, Ulli Moser, Marianne Maderna, Wiener Secession, Vienna. 1991, * ''Raum und Ausgang'', with facsimile text, Triton Verlag, Vienna 1997,

References

External links

Website of Marianne Maderna

Marianne Maderna in the databank Gedächtnis des Landes on the history of Lower Austria, Landesmuseum Niederösterreich
* * Zeitkunst Lower Austria
''Marianne Maderna. Humanimals''
* Ursula Blickle Video Archiv
Marianne Maderna
* Videoportrait by CastYourArt, 2013
Künstlerporträt Marianne Maderna
* Review in Der Standard
''"Radical Busts": 33 Frauen im Kreise von 153 Männern''
* Review by orf.at
''33 goldene Frauenbüsten an der Uni Wien''
* Exhibition
''Radical Busts by Marianne Maderna: 3.3-26.4.2015'' (Arkadenhof der University of Vienna)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maderna, Marianne 1944 births Living people 20th-century Austrian women artists Artists from Vienna Austrian installation artists Women installation artists Austrian sculptors Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni Interdisciplinary artists