A Creator of Epic Pictures
Janine Weger
Curatorial support by: Bettina Siegele
For her solo exhibition A Creator of Epic Pictures, Janine Weger looks at various examples of chronopolitical phases in which art and culture become a tool of populism and propaganda. By appropriating the tools of the techniques of manipulation, the artist draws parallels in the exhibition between today’s post-truth era and the Cold War propaganda machinery. A Creator of Epic Pictures is part of the annual programme Chronopolitical Explorations curated by Bettina Siegele.
Curatorial text as audio (08:22 min)
In her interdisciplinary artistic practice, Janine Weger sees painting as a performative act and space for reflection in which analogue and digital visual worlds meet. Her works reflect personal memory as well as today‘s social politics of images, in which truths become post-facts.
Weger uses video and photographic elements as well as painted fragments and installations, in which the digital realm overlaps with painted image sequences and subsequently interacts with each other. This creates spaces that oscillate between documentary precision and poetic traces: The exhibition field itself becomes a theme in which power relations and institutional attribution become visible.
Weger studied painting at the University of Creative Arts in Canterbury, England (2014-2017) and at the TransArts class (Transdisciplinary Arts) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2020-2024).
Group exhibitions in Vienna (Kunsthalle Wien, Masc Foundation, flat1), Innsbruck (Kunstpavillon, Plattform 6020), Linz (Turm 9), Margate (Turner Contemporary, CRATE Project Space), Folkestone (Triennial 2017), London (Copeland Gallery), Tokyo (3331 Arts Chiyoda), and China.
Solo exhibitions at the Klocker Museum (Hall in Tirol), Plattform 6020 (Innsbruck), Tokyo (AIR3331 Chiyoda), CRATE Project Space (Margate), Organhaus Chongqing (China).
Prizes awarded include the Josef-Franz-Würlinger Prize and Turner Contemporary Platform Graduate Award.
The artist lives and works in Vienna.
