Artists Tatjana Danneberg, Nilbar Güres, Christoph Meier, Cecilie Nørgaard, Lukas Posch, Kazuna Taguchi, Sharon Ya'ari
Curator Melanie Ebenhoch and Martin Janda
Venue Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Text Ilona Braun
All images Courtesy by the artists and Galerie Martin Janda
The exhibition is curated by Melanie Ebenhoch and Martin Janda and presents works by Tatjana Danneberg, Nilbar Güres, Christoph Meier, Cecilie Nørgaard, Lukas Posch, Kazuna Taguchi and Sharon Ya’ari.
Tatjana Danneberg utilizes movement, colour, intensity, and rhythm, to capture blurred, fragmented moments on canvas. She uses photographs as the basis for her works and focuses on the possibilities that can unfold through their manipulation and deconstruction. The bold gestures left by the brushstrokes used in the transfer process turn the images into expressive illustrations of an instant in time.
By means of figurative codes Nilbar Güres explores scenes from everyday realities. She stages her protagonists into theatrical frames and gives voice to disparate cultural identities, in particular female and queer narratives. Her paintings, like her textile collages and photographs, are an assembly of people, objects, metaphors, and layering. She questions worldviews, politics, and conventions of representation.
Christoph Meier has created a series of wooden birdhouses whilst blindfolded. They explore architecture, scale, idea and concept, authorship, silliness, poetics, or the use of language. Each object is a lightweight and small cubicle there to function as a bridge between two parts: the words bird and blind, but at the same time between a bird and an ornithologist, a gallery and its audience or a space and its purpose.

Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Photographer: kunst.dokumentation.com

Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Photographer: kunst.dokumentation.com

the world is not enough, 2020
inkjet print, gesso, glue on canvas
70 x 46 cm
Courtesy the artist and LambdaLambdaLambda

small talk comes from small bones, 2020
inkjet print, gesso, glue on canvas
70 x 46 cm
Courtesy the artist and LambdaLambdaLambda
The act of whistling for Cecilie Nørgaard is bodily, she believes it has a physicality that makes people copy. In her recorded sound piece, she uses melody to transport you, change the feeling of the space and form connections and associations. It is a tool used to affect mood and can be implemented to be uplifting and cheerful as well as sinister and eerie. Just as birds can enter a space through a gap, a chimney or window, are then caught and cannot escape, a whistle can become contagious, enter your head, settle in your mind and stick.
Lukas Posch’s works capture the essence of a single object. He uses painting and point of view as tools to question our consumption of digital images. The forms occupy the canvas and become a decoding tool for a wider context outside of the image’s boundaries. He reduces the surrounding scene to its humblest form. The objects evoke screen pictograms, urging you to examine the constant flow of images penetrating your awareness.
The boundary between photography and painting is blurred by Kazuna Taguchi. Through profiling fictional characters, she turns monochrome paintings into photographs that portray constructed romance. We view the staged, ghostly features of non-existent characters. This subtle technique questions and emphasizes stylistic expression, ambiguity, and self-reflexivity.

Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Photographer: kunst.dokumentation.com

Linen, 2020
oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

Untitled, 2020
oil on molino
100 x 70 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Photographer: kunst.dokumentation.com

Untitled (still life), 2012
gelatin silver print on baryta paper
7.8 x 10.8 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Photographer: kunst-dokumentation.com

remembering what´s been forgotten (with cosmic dust), 2006 - 2016
gelatin silver print on baryta paper
42.3 x 28.2 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

mirage seen in gray, 2013
gelatin silver print on baryta paper
21.1 x 14.2 cm
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Sharon Ya’ari uses photography as a way of visual thinking. The point of departure for his work is often the Israeli landscape. At first glance he creates impressions of inconspicuous, everyday scenes. However, the photographs, frequently tinged with a melancholy undertone, can be read on a multitude of layers. They depict contradictions that only gain in significance and impact once they are placed in a context of the country’s history, politics, and societal structure. In Private Courtyard we gaze upon the action of an anonymous person washing the dust off garden decorations. The work is intensified and takes on cinematic scope through its unusual lighting situation, as shimmering crystals and water droplets reflect the sunlight.

Private Courtyard, 2019
archival pigment print
150.5 x 187.5 cm
Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

Flowers, 2020
acrylic on canvas
50 x 60 cm
Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Photographer: kunst-dokumentation.com

Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Photographer: kunst.dokumentation.com