Portable Paradises: ‍Katarina Spielmann

Where Are My Keys – WrMK is pleased to present, Portable Paradises, an ephemeral and site-specific art project that will take place at Ausgabe, in Porzellangasse 1, in Vienna’s 9th district.

Portable Paradises – I
‍Katarina Spielmann
‍Bon Bon
‍8 – 30 June 2024

We begin the series of interventions with the Vienna based painter Katarina Spielmann. The artist is most known for her large-scale narrational paintings that often invite the viewer to visit imaginary places. The painter, like a storyteller, offers us windows to look onto other worlds, lives, and realities. For the first chapter of Portable Paradises, Spielmann will share with the audience a sweet treat, showing some of her works from the ongoing series Bon Bon, small-scale works that often function as sketches for the artist, while at the same time also stand as independent art works. Playful yet bond to formal rules, each Bon Bon lays the groundwork for several ways of composition, colour rhythmic and arrangement that will define Spielmann’s future work.

“Dormant things awaken; motion is detected in the geological structures accrued in small relief works. Such autonomous studies are made with troweled plaster and thin washes of colour accrued into sedimentations of a subdued palette.” Max Henry, writer and artist. The Bon Bons let us see the path to somewhere new, they are ideas and thoughts that carry us to unseen places or specific outcomes envisioned but unconfirmed. They emphasise possibilities and show different horizons outside the window frame.