Gabi Mitterer

Gabi Mitterer is based in Austria and studied Painting and Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. As a multi-discipline artist with a focus on painting, her work ranges from the influences of digital aesthetics through concrete, constructive art to the topics of everyday analysis or identity. “My main focus is on painting, but whenever an idea or a thought can be better conveyed in another medium I can switch to photography, sculpture or embroidery. I like this contradiction of bringing new media or ideas together with old, traditional techniques and tools.  We live in a time where images are created and deleted in seconds, and there are more of them than ever before. I'm interested in dealing with this topic in my artistic practice, using an old, traditional and “slow” medium like painting. How can volatility get depicted and how can the aesthetics of a digital medium be represented visually? Painting finds possibilities of translation and has the ability to react to the flood of pictures - and this also applies to both, the artist and the viewer - with calm and contemplation!” - Gabi Mitterer