Adriana Czernin

Adriana Czernin, born in Sofia in 1969, has lived and worked in Vienna and Rettenegg (AT) since 1990. In 1998 she graduated in Graphic Art from the Vienna University of Applied Arts.

Since 2008, Adriana Czernin has been engaged in the project Investigation of the inside. This is an attempt to discover, understand and express psychological procedures. The works are linked by the interplay of forms and their shadows, of foreground and background, of surface and depths. This perplexing ambiguity allows us to recognise the transitions from conscious to unconscious, from visible to invisible. In addition, Czernin sees this project as an exploration of ornamental as well as non-ornamental forms, their legibility, mutability and wide range of variations. In her approach to these issues, Czernin uses a variety of genres, both abstract and representational.

Solo exhibitions: 2013 Investigation of the inside, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna. 2009 Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna. 2006 Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna. 2005 1/4 Adriana Czernin, façade design, 4|4 Kunst bei Wittmann, Vienna. 2003 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Sofia.

Group exhibitions: 2014 Desiring the Real. Austria Contemporary, European Parlament, Strassbourg (FR). Art Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajewo (BIH). 2013 Die Sammlung #3, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna. 2012 Albertina Contemporary, Albertina, Vienna. Desiring the Real, Contemporary Art University Museum (MUAC), Mexico City. 2011 Political Patterns – Das Ornament im Wandel, ifa-Galerie, Berlin. 2009 The Seen and the Hidden: (Dis)covering the Veil, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York. Die Macht des Ornaments, Belvedere, Vienna. 2008 Nach 1970. Österreichische Kunst aus der Albertina, Albertina, Vienna. 2004 Strategies of Desire, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH).

Publications
Martin Janda (ed.), Adriana Czernin, Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2013.

Adriana Czernin, exh. cat. Galerie Martin Janda, Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt 2005.

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