Estrid Lutz & Melissa Steckbauer: Focus On

19 October - 17 November 2023

  • Estrid Lutz & Melissa Steckbauer

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  • Galerie Kandlhofer is pleased to present an international duo show, bringing together works by Estrid Lutz & Melissa Steckbauer.
     
    While Estrid Lutz's practice focuses on the intersection between technoscience, nature and aesthetics, Melissa Steckbauer's intricate shapes and compositions evoke emotions and human connections using paper as an „image-bearer" to explore vulnerability and the importance of sharing.
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  • Estrid Lutz
    Estrid Lutz
    Collapse 0000005, 2023
    Inject prints on photographic paper-lenses UV treated-air injected, honeycomb aluminium anti corosion/high temperature resistant, epoxy-resin, glass fibre
    102 x 71 x 12 cm

    Estrid Lutz

    Estrid Lutz is a French artist born 1989 living and working in Puerto Escondido - Oaxaca Mexico. Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and currently residing in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, the intersection between technosciences, nature, and aesthetics has always been at the forefront of Lutz’s artistic practice. 
    As an artist, Lutz is preoccupied with those poetic zones of contact where science or new techno- logies take their inspiration from organic processes or otherwise enter into a new relationship with the natural world. Her work engages in a speculative aesthetics that allows us to imagine a cosmos where such processes might run their course freely. A world, that is, where the distinction between the natural and the scientific has become irrelevant; a world in which the biomorphic entities we call humans are folded back into the giant pool of nature-technology.
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  • To achieve this effect, Lutz works with materials that are developed for high-tech purposes and that take their inspiration from...
    Estrid Lutz
    Collapses Mesh Generator , 2023
    Epoxy resin, honeycomb aluminum, ink, glass fiber
    230 x 140 x 4 cm
    To achieve this effect, Lutz works with materials that are developed for high-tech purposes and that take their inspiration from organic processes. Many of these materials, like kevlar, are thought to be outside the scope of the visual arts and are instead connected to warfare or survival under extreme conditions. By bringing them into the realm of the visual arts in an unexpected and original way, Lutz creates a technopoetic synthesis of organic and crafted materials that is both poetical and critical. It is critical, in the sense that it is a way for Lutz to reconceptualize creativity in a world in which technology and the organic have merged with one another. It is poetic, in the sense that Lutz’s reconceptualization works with distinct formal and textural techniques that speak to our visual imagination. For unique textural effects and to intensify this poetic trajectory, Lutz induces chemical reactions by injecting water or air in her works or by burning parts of the work.
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  • Melissa Steckbauer
    Melissa Steckbauer
    Untitled, 2023
    acrylic on paper, 20 x 15 cm
    (Lady 264)

    Melissa Steckbauer

    Melissa Steckbauer was born in Tucson, USA, in 1980. She lives and works in Berlin. Melissa Steckbauer was a member of the collaborative artist network ƒƒ, and founding director of the exhibition space, The Wand, she lives and works in Berlin. After a comprehensive focus on pain- ting – she has been developing a body of work on paper, exploring all of the facets and complexities of this medium. Since 2006 she is also working with photography. Melissa Steckbauer‘s intricate shapes and compositions evoke emotions and human connections. Using paper as an „image-bearer,“ she explores vulnerability and the importance of sharing. Her art invites viewers to engage with life‘s complexities.
     
    "In my work I seek a pluralist framework for ecstasy and family that is all in. I want to use an iconographic language that more accurately (and respectfully) describes multiplicities of con- sciousness. What I make is as much about power in sex and culture as it is about shame and empathy as experienced by all of earth’s weirdos (myself included)." - Melissa Steckbauer
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    • Melissa Steckbauer Untitled, 2023 acrylic on paper 20 x 15 cm 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in
      Melissa Steckbauer
      Untitled, 2023
      acrylic on paper
      20 x 15 cm
      7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in
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    • Melissa Steckbauer Untitled, 2023 acrylic on paper 20 x 15 cm 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in
      Melissa Steckbauer
      Untitled, 2023
      acrylic on paper
      20 x 15 cm
      7 7/8 x 5 7/8 in
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    • Melissa Steckbauer Untitled, 2023 acrylic on paper 24 x 18 cm 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in
      Melissa Steckbauer
      Untitled, 2023
      acrylic on paper
      24 x 18 cm
      9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in
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    • Melissa Steckbauer Untitled, 2023 acrylic on paper 18 x 24 cm 7 1/8 x 9 1/2 in
      Melissa Steckbauer
      Untitled, 2023
      acrylic on paper
      18 x 24 cm
      7 1/8 x 9 1/2 in
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    • Melissa Steckbauer Untitled, 2023 acrylic on paper 15 x 20 cm 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
      Melissa Steckbauer
      Untitled, 2023
      acrylic on paper
      15 x 20 cm
      5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in
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    • Melissa Steckbauer Untitled, 2023 acrylic on paper 24 x 18 cm 9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in
      Melissa Steckbauer
      Untitled, 2023
      acrylic on paper
      24 x 18 cm
      9 1/2 x 7 1/8 in
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  • Artist CV's

    Estrid Lutz (b. 1989, lives in Puerto Escondido, Mexico)
     
    Education& Research 
    2016- École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; DNSAP with honors; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Los Angeles.
     
    Selected Solo Exhibitions
    2021 u space debris -CFAlive ,Milano; 2021 Stream Weavers, La Trinidad, Oaxaca City; 2020 Pipelines Mashups, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp; 2019 The Body of Tears curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Moco; 2018 Toxins, Future Gallery, Berlin; 2018 Should I resist?, Jelato Love, Palma de Mallorca; 2018 Hash Through, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg; 2017 The Retinal Afterglow, Future Gallery, Berlin; 2016 I dusts, The Composing Rooms,Berlin.
     
     
    Selected Group Exhibitions
    2023 Witch you were there , La Station , Nice; 2022 Cloud Point ,Paradise Row ,London curated by Nicolas Bourriaud; 2021 Human Nature, Everyday Gallery , Antwerpen; 2019 XYXX010101000 Galeria Curro, Guadalajara, curated by Dorothée Dupuis; 2019 Biotechnosphere, Tranen Copenhagen, curated by Toke Lykkeberg, Copenhagen; 2019 Swamp Horses, Spirit Vessel, Espinavessa; 2019 Unsupported Message Format, Galerie Valeria, Cetaro, Paris; 2019 Transnatura , Galerie 22,48m2 Paris; 2019 This Placement- Mexico City; 2019 Ants and Elephants - Kunstverein Arnsberg; 2018 Crash Test -La révolution moléculaire, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée 2017 Hard to explain, Future Gallery, Berlin; 2017 Narcose, Galerie H.L.M., Marseille; 2017 Afterbirth of a Dream, Meetfactory, Prague; 2017 Felicità, Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris.
     
     
     
    Melissa Steckbauer (b. 1980 in Tucson, USA. She lives and works in Berlin)
     
    Founding Director, The Sensorium Institute, Berlin, DE, 2019-
    Member ƒƒ, 2013 - 2016
    Founding Director & Chief Curator of The Wand, Berlin, DE, 2012 - 2014
    Founding Member of Secondary Narratives: Bublitz & Lukas Töpfer, Julia Martha Müller & Frederiek Weda, Neue Berliner Räume, and The Wand, Berlin, DE, 2014
     
    Education & Research
    2008 Independent Research, The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, US
    2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, B.F.A., US; 2006-2007 Study Abroad Program, University Utrecht, Utrecht, NL ; 2006 Study Abroad Program, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, IT.
     
    Selected Solo Exhibitions
    2018 The Sonancy of Falling and Standing Repeatedly, curated by Sylvia Sadzinski, Galerie im Turm, Berlin, DE; 2016 CADRE, Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Turin, IT, publication; 2015 Melissa Steckbauer, Skopia Art contemporain, Geneva, CH; 2014 Trans dans, Launch for Revue-Magazine, Lehrter 17, Berlin, DE; 2013 The Architectonics of Love, Liebkranz Galerie, Berlin, DE, catalog; 2012 A Sensuist's Guide, LSD Galerie, Berlin, DE; 2012 Melissa Steckbauer, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, US; 2010 Behind the Curtain and in the Closet, The Bella Building, curated by Isabella Levedag, Munich, DE; 2010 I The Hunter, Galerie Saupe, Berlin, DE; 2010 Half Camp, Van der Stegen Gallery, Paris, FR; 2010 CARTE, Bureau Mathieu Cénac, Paris, FR.
     
    Selected Group Exhibitions
    2024 69, curated by Mike Rea, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, US; 2023 Focus On: Melissa Steckbauer & Estrid Lutz, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT; 2023 BOYS BOYS BOYS, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, DE; 2022 Pornotopia Revised, curated by Sarah Held and Sylvia Sadzinski, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT; 2021 La somme et l’absence, essentiellement, Skopia Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH; 2021 O TEMPORA O MORES, Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Turin, IT; 2020-21 XOXO, curated by Julien Carbone & Léo Fourdrinier, Galerie Axolotl, Toulon, FR.