EMMA KLING
Painting fits perfectly in my mouth
Emma Kling has been awarded the Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize
by the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the City of Vienna for her diploma thesis
Malerei passt perfekt in meinen Mund
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The prize was presented at the graduation ceremony on February 2, 2024 by
City Councillor Veronica Kaup-Hasler.
In its decision, the jury stated that Kling's work shows images that are materially and metaphorically multi-layered and subtly address latent relationships of violence as the presence of (painting) history: "Images about metamorphoses of images and their pictorial spaces, about the possibility and impossibility of transitions between image and reality. Canvas becomes painted fabric, layers of paint become featherbed, become skin, become bark, become scab. Daphne was not transformed, she transforms herself. Pictures that break free from their torpor and prefer to run off on small legs instead of surrendering to their circumstances. (And of course they can't really do that, but they can talk about it)."
Since January 2021, the Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize has been awarded at the end of the winter semester for a final thesis in the field of Fine Arts. The University of Applied Arts Vienna and the City of Vienna endow this award in memory of its namesake, who was murdered in the terrorist attack in Vienna's city center on November 2, 2020. Vanessa Preger-McGillivray had started studying at the Angewandte in October 2020. The prize is intended to commemorate Vanessa and underline the potential of studying art, to provide inspiration and to illustrate the hopes and prospects of an artistically fulfilling life.
"The prize commemorates Vanessa Preger-McGillivray and at the same time creates visibility for a current artistic position that is currently unfolding," says Petra Schaper Rinkel, Rector of the Angewandte, and warmly congratulates this year's prizewinner.
"Vanessa Preger-McGillivray was robbed of prospects and future opportunities when she was torn from life by the 2020 terrorist attack. The prize named after her combines painful memories with the potential of the future - a hopeful sign - because with Emma Kling, the work of a young graduate on the verge of a promising artistic career is being honored," congratulates Vienna's City Councillor for Culture Veronica Kaup-Hasler.
Congratulations to Emma Kling!
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