Elke Krystufek
Katherine Mansfield
2008
ink on canvas
70 x 50 cm
© the artist

upcoming exhibitions

elke krystufek
4 december 2009 – 7 february 2010

Elke Krystufek, Austria’s representative at the 2009 Venice Biennale, stands in alignment with feminist artists like Cindy Sherman, Carolee Schneemann and Valie Export. She works predominantly in multimedia installation, painting and performance to achieve a direct relationship to the viewer. The artist flaunts and oversteps the boundaries of sensitive and societal taboos, displaying her face and body in diverse and excessive ways. The purpose of the artist’s nudity has much less to do with provocation than it does to masquerade with the deeper levels of meaning between power, protection and vulnerability in society.