Elisa Andessner
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Elisa Andessner (born 1983 in Leoben) is an Austrian fine artist and curator for exhibitions and international exchange projects between artists. She lives and works in Linz.[1]
Education[edit]
Elisa Andessner studied Experimental Art at the University of Art and Design Linz and Fine Art at the College of Art & Design in Marseille between 2001 and 2009. She was also educated in performance art under Boris Nieslony and received further performance training from Monica Klingler. From 2014 to 2017 she completed an ecucation as voice trainer and speaker at the Private University of Education, Diocese Linz.
Art work[edit]
Elisa Andessner is a freelance artist who works in the area of self-timer-photography, video art and performance art. Since 2006 she has been participating in festivals, exhibitions and Artist-in-residence programs.
From 2006 to 2013 she especially focussed on performance art: Andessner organised several performance events and participated in international festivals, for example in Vietnam (14th Performance Art Conference, Ho Chi Minh City), Indonesia (Undisclosed Territories), Poland (Performanceplatform Lublin, Performance Arsenal Bialystok), Belarus (Navinki Festival Minsk), Spain (Mujeres en Accion Madrid, Etica i Accio Girona), Belgium (Momentum Festival Brussels), Switzerland (Kaskadenkondensator Basel, PPP Performanceplatform Bern), Germany (Paersche Cologne, Primakunst Kiel).
In the year 2012 she started working with self timer photography and video art. 2012 to 2015 she developed the project Surrender to spaces, a series of self-timer-photographs in which she relates her body with spaces and landscapes. In 2015 to 2018, the series Between time and space followed. This project too deals with body, space and performativity, but adds a kind of virtuality by working with photo prints within the actual photograph.
Political art works[edit]
2009 to 2010 Andessner worked together with the artist Denis Romanovski on historical phantoms and ideology in appartment architecture during the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin in Linz and Minsk. The result was the video STALINKA HITLERBAU which was shown 2012 at the Nordico Stadtmuseum in Linz and at Crossing Europe Film Festival in 2013.
Elisa Andessner is a professionally trained speaker and voice & speech teacher and currently works on the topic voice and gender roles. Her artist residency in Teheran in 2018 made her deal more and more with gender roles, feminism and women’s rights connected to her artistic work. In Teheran, she startet her first feminist work, which is titled Messages (2018-2019). In 2020, Andessner initiated the project PIRATE WOMEN*, a series of group photos dealing with the extension of the traditional role of women.
2021 she organised a project called FEMALE* UPGRADE, a project which claims the renaming of Glaubackerstraße into Agathe-Doposcheg-Schwabenau-Straße. Glaubackerstraße is a street in Linz which is named after the painter Franz Glaubacker, who was a member of NSDAP. Agathe von Schwabenau was an important dedicated artist in Linz.
Residencies[edit]
Elisa Andessner did several artist residencies, for example in Germany (Künstlerhaus Dortmund), Italy (Paliano and Malo), Austria (Hotel Pupik), Switzerland (Museum in Bewegung) and recently, in Iran (Austrian Cultural Forum Teheran).
Curatorial and international work[edit]
Andessner regularly organises and co-organises exchange- and exhibition projects with local and international artists and art initiatives as well as performance festivals, f.E.:
2010 - 2015 Performancelaboratorium - a series of performance events at the art space bb15 (including cooperations with PAN Vienna, Bbeyond and Interval Essen). 2010 Soft Bodies in cooperation with Didi Bruckmair and Ars Electronica Festival 2011 Rundum das Feld, am Wasser, in cooperation with Sibylle Ettengruber and Amel Andessner 2012 Performance Project Days, in cooperation with Red Sapata and bb15.
In 2011, 2013 and 2015 she co-organised Art of Encountering together with asa international and Die Fabrikanten in Linz with artists from Hong Kong, the Philippines and China.
Art of Encountering is an ongoing project of Boris Nieslony, who invites Asian performance artists to Europe to meet and work with local artists from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium.
Elisa Andessner curated exhibitions at Atelierhaus Salzamt, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Künstler*innenvereinigung MAERZ, die KUNSTSAMMLUNG des Landes Oberösterreich and organised exchange projectes with artists from Linz, Vienna, Dresden, Belfast, Brussels, Bologna and Teheran.
Collections and exhibitions[edit]
Elisa Andessner was honored with several awards, scholarships and art purchases of public art collections. Her works are part of the collections of the Federal State of Austria, Francisco Carolinum Linz, the collection of the Province of Upper Austria, the collection of the City of Linz. Her works have been exhibited amongst others at Soo Galery Teheran, Galerie 5020, Francisco Carolinum Linz, Motorenhalle Dresden, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Porgy & Bess Vienna, Festival der Regionen, Künstler*innenvereinigung MAERZ, die KUNSTSAMMLUNG des Landes OÖ, Architekturforum OÖ, Medienwerkstatt Wien, Künstlerforum Bonn, Offenes Haus Oberwart, Lux Art Gallery Trieste, Brunnhofer Galerie, Atelierhaus Salzamt and others.
Awards and scolarships[edit]
Andessner received the Talent Award for Photography (Povince of Upper Austria, 2014), the Gabriele Heidecker Recognition Award (2015) and the Art Scolarship of the City of Linz (2015). Several times already, she received the project scolarships of the City of Linz named LinzImpuls, LinzExport and LinzImport.
External links[edit]
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- ↑ "Elisa Andessner". andessners Webseite! (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ↑ Interview 2021, GFP Steiermark: https://www.dorftv.at/video/35827 Interview 2020, Medienkulturhaus Wels: https://www.dorftv.at/video/33843 Interview 2019 Festival of Regions, Canal180: https://www.canal180.pt/article/what-is-social-warmth/ Interview 2019 Festival of Regions, DORFTV: https://www.dorftv.at/video/31642 Interview 2018 Hot Spot Atelier, DORFTV: https://www.dorftv.at/video/30649 Interview 2016, Johanna Klement, DORFTV: https://www.dorftv.at/video/25434 Interview 2011, Simone Boria, DORFTV: https://www.dorftv.at/video/3169