Martina Steckholzer: Playing Cards

Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard, Stéphane Mallarmé wrote in 1897: A throw of dice will never abolish chance.

Fool
Hanged Man
Temperance
Juggler
Love
Judgement
Devil
Fortitude
Justice
Wheel of Fortune
Death
Chariot
Popess

Playing Cards Nr.2, egg tempera on paper, each 52 × 26cm, 2021

Image: “Fool”

Martina Steckholzer
Born 1974 in Sterzing, IT. Studies in painting, architecture, art theory and philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, University of Vienna, Mozarteum, Salzburg, D.A.M.S. Bologna, IT, FKS Stuttgart, DE. Paul Flora Preis. Lives and works currently in Vienna.
Selected shows 2020—2023
2023: Yes!, Messnerhaus Himmelberg, AT (group), Das Haus vom Nikolaus, Galleria Ghetta, IT (group), Figuren, 2022: Austrian Parliament, Vienna, AT (permanent), 2021: Talking Studios, Engländerbau Vaduz, Liechtenstein (group), Studio Quartz, Torino, IT (solo), Dry Run, Galleria Ghetta, IT (solo), 2020: MMKK Klagenfurt, AT (group), Unlearning Categories, Museion Bolzano, IT (group), Painting Corridors, Stadtgalerie Brixen, IT (solo)

https://martinasteckholzer.com/
https://www.vfmk.org/books/martina-steckholzer

Opening: September 22, 7 pm
On view: September 23—Oktober 8, 2023
Opening hours: Fr. Fr 3—6 pm, Sa 12—4 pm and by appointment