Anouk Lamm Anouk

Patricia Low Contemporary is delighted to present an exhibition of new paintings by Vienna-based artist and poet Anouk Lamm Anouk. Titled Lesbian Jazz; meditating in the Alps, the exhibition features works from two signature series: the figurative vignettes of the artist’s Lesbian Jazz suite of works, and abstracts from their Zen-derived post/pre series. Executed in acrylic on Belgian linen in neutral tones, scenes of entwined female forms are juxtaposed with excerpts of poetic text – ‘you above me’; ‘skin to skin’ — in a delicate interplay of word and image. The works speak to the artist’s free-flowing, jazz-like draughtsmanship and their subtle treatment of intimacy — part of a stated aim to make visible the day-to-day of queer life and desire. Elsewhere, paintings from post/pre explore, with circular forms seeming to glow with otherworldly light, emptiness as a portal to a further dimension of thought. With this exhibition, the compositional features of both series appear increasingly related — figuration and abstraction beginning to meld.
Educated at University of the Arts, Berlin, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Anouk’s work is the product of a meditative studio practice which includes sculpture, poetry, performance and set design. “When you step into their universe, it’s like being in a gesamtkunstwerk,” says Patricia Low. Recipient of the Main Prize of the 2021 Strabag Art Award, Anouk’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Germany, Poland and Austria, including at the Strabag Art Forum and the Belvedere Museum of Contemporary Art, and they were also selected for an exhibition in book form inaugurated in late 2020 by the Austrian Cultural Forum in London along with Central Saint Martins and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Lesbian Jazz; meditating in the Alps is their first exhibition in Switzerland.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Education

2011 – 2012 University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin
2012 – 2021 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Prof. Erwin Bohatsch

Exhibitions

2022

Lesbian Jazz; meditating in the Alps, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland, solo
Grace and Grave are only one letter apart, STRABAG Art Forum, Vienna, Austria, solo
Solo Booth at SPARK ART FAIR, with MAM Mario Mauroner Galerie, Vienna, Austria
From Abstraction to Abstraction, Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland, group

2021

post/pre Lesbian Jazz, Hotel Sacher, Marble Hall, Vienna, Austria, solo
Garden of Senses, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary, Salzburg, Austria, group
Farce, curated by Stephan Stoyanov, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, group
Chronicles 3, Galerie Droste, Berlin, Germany, group
Uomo Universale La Femme, curated by Angela Fischer, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria, group

2020

I see a bird, I see a painting of a bird, I see no bird at all, I see…, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna, Austria, group
The Void is my temple, Salon Schwarzenberg, Vienna, Austria, solo

2019

Venice as lover, performance, Venice, Italy
(transit patience) the terminal phase of the empire of transit-fatigue, with Silvia Steinek Galerie at PARALLEL, Vienna, Austria, solo

2018

Testosterone was my first loss/love, performance, Vienna, Austria

2017

I miss the place where I am from, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria, solo
Everybody Anybody, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria, group

2014

Siehe was dich sieht, by Franz Graf, Belvedere Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria, group
Seduce me at Sunrise, Lehrter Ziebzehn, Berlin, Germany, group
Grand Opening of the One Work Gallery, Vienna, Austria, group

2013

Principium Privatum – Projizierte Sexualitäten en, Vienna, Austria, group

2012

Performance Night Finnissage BEDWAYS, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany, group

2011

GIF . ME . BERLIN ., HBC, Berlin, Germany, group

Artprices

STRABAG International Art award, Main Prize 2021

Collections

Wiener Städtische Versicherung Collection
Dichand Family Collection
Hotel Sacher Collection
RAK Art Foundation – Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa/ Bahrain

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