Maria Loboda
What’s Best Is Hidden, Obvious, and Correct (2023)
Maria Loboda, What’s Best Is Hidden, Obvious, and Correct (2023), installation view, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-documentation.com, courtesy of the artist
Maria Loboda, What’s Best Is Hidden, Obvious, and Correct (2023), installation view, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-documentation.com, courtesy of the artist
Maria Loboda, What’s Best Is Hidden, Obvious, and Correct (2023), installation view, photo: steirischer herbst / kunst-documentation.com, courtesy of the artist
Maria Loboda’s installation for the courtyard of Minoriten Monastery, a folly whose title references the classic puzzle game Myst (1993), is full of secrets. In a garden landscape adorned with laurel trees, the playful, ornamental intelligence of Italian modernism meets the asceticism of Eastern Bloc architecture. The question arises: What was more important in modernist architecture, the representation of power or its subversion? This is still a mystery, of which rising vapors and gases referring to the oracle of Delphi serve as a reminder.
Maria Loboda (1979, Kraków, Poland) is an artist who creates installations and sculptures that investigate cultural codes and the grammar of materials and objects, questioning the historical transformations and translations of their meaning. Loboda took part in the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Taipei Biennial (2014); and Documenta 13, Kassel (2012). Recent solo exhibitions took place at Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (2023); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2018/19); Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2019); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2019); and Kunsthalle Basel (2017). She lives in Kraków and Berlin.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of the Polish Institute in Vienna
Maria Loboda at Artist Talks
22.9., 11:00–12:00
Installation
Church of Ruined Modernity
Group exhibition
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of the Polish Institute in Vienna
Maria Loboda at Artist Talks
22.9., 11:00–12:00