Sarah Bogner
Love and Embarrassment
December 2022 - March 2023
Vienna-based artist Sarah Bogner created her works especially for the Alte Feuerwehrhalle of KiS - Kunst in Seefeld. For the title "Love and Embarassment" she chose a line from one of her poems. "As in my paintings, it is about openness, about being turned towards, about showing oneself - all this also includes the possibility of embarrassing oneself," says Bogner.
KiS initiator Rafael Jablonka chose a young artist and the first woman in the exhibition round for the fourth exhibition curated by him. Sarah Bogner's equine creatures in delicate pink against a partly strong background red are not limited to animal characteristics. They look mischievous and amused, smoke or even merge with each other. They radiate cheerfulness as well as thoughtfulness and bring movement into the room.
Sarah Bogner
Painter, musician and publisher
Sarah Bogner, born in Munich in 1980, attended the Academy of Fine Arts there. She then studied electroacoustic music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she now lives and works. Music and lyrics are also an essential part of her artistic work, "my heart is attached to hip-hop and rap, which is sung poetry".
Pink horses and their accompanying creatures have been a predominant motif in Sarah Bogner's work since 2016. "They haven't left me since, and I'm amazed at how much they've changed form over the years." Ink, egg tempera and acrylic are the techniques Sarah Bogner works with and prefers, regardless of the subject.
The artist, who also works as a publisher and founded Harpune Verlag together with Josef Zekoff in 2010, draws inspiration from artists and art epochs "with which I can converse well": this ranges from ancient friezes and frescoes to medieval and Renaissance painting to the art of classical modernism and beyond. As a publisher, she deals a lot with books. They serve her, as she says herself, as "picture vehicles" in which she always discovers something new.
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