Image: Katrin Hornek, testing grounds, production shot, Secession, 2024. Photo: Sophie Pölzl.
Join us for the opening reception of Half-Life, the 24th iteration of Garage Exchange Vienna—Los Angeles featuring works by Katrin Hornek and Brody Albert at the Mackey Apartments Garage Top Gallery.
Katrin Hornek
Katrin Hornek (1983) lives and works in Vienna. She studied Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the geologic Anthropocene, where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth. Both her artistic and her curatorial practice assert an understanding of the entwinement of nature and culture, implicitly arguing for more complex formulations – most recently, at secession, Vienna (2024), ar/ger Kunst, Bolzano (2021), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2021), the Riga Biennale (2020), Hysterical Mining at Kunsthalle Wien (2019), and I: project space, Beijing (2018).
She teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Department of Site-Specific Art) and is a member of the interdisciplinary research group The Anthropocene Commons. She was awarded the Msgr. Otto Mauer Award (2021), the Studioprogram of the Federal Ministry for Arts (2020-2026), the Austrian State Scholarship for visual arts (2017) and the Theodor Körner Award (2013).
BRODY ALBERT
Brody Albert lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA from University of California, Irvine (2016), and a BFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2011). Albert is the Associate Professor of Sculpture at Chaffey College and the co-director of the experimental publishing imprint, OHPAPERS. Selected exhibitions include Shapes from The Extramundane with Sara Ellen Fowler, Soldes, Los Angeles (2024), Empty Except for the Ghost, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles (2023); Wavelength, TIMES Museum, Beijing (2022), Built In, Neutra VDL, Los Angeles (2021), We Are All Guests Here, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles (2021); Strata, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena (2018); Nonlocal, Access Gallery, Vancouver (2018); Exit Strategy with Sara Ellen Fowler, River Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); Solids, Contemporary Art Center, Irvine (2016); Open To The Public, VACANCY, Los Angeles (2016).
This exhibition series is made possible by The Austrian Federal Chancellery with additional support from the Austrian Consulate General Los Angeles.
September 12, 2024 — December 08, 2024