Emma Kling
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Artist Statement
In Emma Kling's paintings, the veiling is just as essential as what lies beneath. She is concerned with the process and the act of unveiling, with putting on and taking off different layers. The layers of paint in her painting have a skin-like function. Materially, they form a boundary to the outside, while in terms of content, a protective shell is formed against power structures creeping under the skin.
Through mimicry and fusion of skin-like, organic and industrially manufactured surfaces, Emma Kling's work seeks an optical structure that can also be understood as camouflage and anticipation of changing realities of life.
Biography
born in 1996 in Hungary, lives and works in Vienna
2018 - 2024 University of Applied Arts, Vienna, studied painting and animation film, class of Judith Eisler, graduated in January 2024
2017 - 2018 Vienna School of Art
2015 - 2016 Pesti Magyar Theater Acting Academy, BudapestAwarded the Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize 2024
Emma Kling was 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
. >>>Portfolio Emma Kling 2024 >>>
Past exhibitions
Apoll gripped by a guilty conscience >>>
Parallel Vienna 2023 >>>The work "Große Echse" was shown in the exhibition: Thank you for the comment.
Lorenz Kunath with a commentary by Emma Kling >>> -
Large lizard, 180 x 100 cm, oil on linen, 2023
Aftersun & Afterwit - Emma Kling & Lorenz Kunath at Parallel Vienna 2023
An exhibition by Emma Kling
with inserts by Lorenz Kunath and a text by Simon Nagy
Emma Kling's paintings are layered. Sometimes they show fragments of bodies whose skin has been reddened by the sun, sometimes they are large-format portraits of tree bark. The artist always places another structural layer over, under, or in the motifs, inscribing them with folds, internal boundaries, and approximately geometric forms. In a geological understanding of layers, one layer covers the other. In Kling's layerings, on the other hand, motif and pattern merge, merge
into one another, with the effect of creating visibilities for one another.
Simon Nagy
Sycamore tree
60 x 40cm, oil on linen, 2022
Exhibition views/ Apollo gripped by a guilty conscience/ with works by Eva Eichinger, Emma Kling, Lorenz Kunath, Matthias Ramsey and Paul Robas, 2023
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Emma Kling, The Oldest Tree in Istanbul
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Emma Kling, Bathtime
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Emma Kling, hand on cell phone
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Emma Kling, Phantom Limbs 6.
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