Sarah Bogner
Love and embarrassment
December 2022 - March 2023
The Vienna-based artist Sarah Bogner created her works especially for the old fire station of KiS - Kunst in Seefeld. She chose a line from one of her poems for the title „Love and Disgrace“. „Like my paintings, it's about openness, about being open, about showing oneself - all of which also includes the possibility of embarrassing oneself,“ says Bogner.
For the fourth exhibition curated by him, KiS initiator Rafael Jablonka chose a young artist and the first woman in the exhibition programme. Sarah Bogner's horse creatures in soft pink against a partly bright red background are not limited to animal characteristics. They look mischievous and cheerful, 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 electro-acoustic 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 in 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 then, and I'm amazed at how much they have changed shape over the years.“ Ink, egg tempera and acrylic are the techniques Sarah Bogner works with and which she favours, 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 eras „with which I can dialogue well“: this ranges from ancient friezes and frescoes to medieval and Renaissance painting to classical modern art and beyond. As a publisher, she spends a lot of time with books. They serve her, as she says herself, as „pictorial vehicles“ in which she constantly discovers new things.
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