Adriana Czernin

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

Investigation of the inside is a project in which Adriana Czernin has been engaged since 2008. The works are linked by the interplay of forms and their shadows, of foreground and background, of surface and depth. This perplexing ambiguity allows us to recognise the transitions from conscious to unconscious, from visible to invisible. Czernin's exploration of ornament as system and expression, of its legibility, mutability and wealth of variation, is also an important element of her work. She uses a variety of genres, both abstract and representational, in her approach to these complex issues.

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, 4/4 Kunst bei Wittmann, Vienna. 2003 Institute of Contemporary Art / ATA-Center, Sofia.

Group exhibitions
2014 Sigmund Freud, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna. The practice of drawing, Galerie 5020, Salzburg (AT). 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. Albertina Contemporary: Gerhard Richter bis Kiki Smith, Albertina, Vienna. 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.

Publications
Martin Janda (ed.), Adriana Czernin, Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2013.
Adriana Czernin, exh. cat. Galerie Martin Janda, Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2005.

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