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Erika HOCK_Pouf (breasts), 2021, printed threads, wood, foam, velvet, ⌀ 100 cm, height 47 cm, Courtesy COSAR, Düsseldorf and the artist
Exhibition
Erika HOCK | SOFT CURVES
19 Oct 2023 – 27 Jan 2024
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 19:00
Free admission
Address
- Margaretenstraße 5
- Vienna
Vienna - 1040
- Austria
About
Erika Hock, born in Kyrgyzstan in 1981, lives and works in Cologne. She studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Münster and later free arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class of Irmin Kamp and Rita McBride.Inspired by Café Samt & Seide (1927) by Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe, Erika Hock stages wavelike floating colour surfaces consisting of hundreds of knitted acrylic threads that order and separate the room. Printed shapes can be seen on the curtains, for example a vase, which takes up the motif of curves and bends. The artist follows a colour palette consisting of blue, white, green, pink and brown tones, which gives her works a feeling of 1970s interiors.
As we cross the room of KOENIG2 by_robbygreif, we as viewers are enveloped by the semi-transparent threads - the weight, texture, colour and movement of the artwork become apparent and allow for a physical encounter with Erika Hock's work.
The pouf standing in the room also follows the same colour and form scheme and invites the viewer not only to limit himself to the visual level when experiencing the artwork - the viewer becomes an active participant in the exhibition by taking a seat and exploring the haptic aspects of the sculptural object.
In her first solo exhibition in Vienna, Erika Hock deals with textile traditions; at the same time, her curtains represent a crossover between an artisanal and an highly digital manufacturing process. (Lilli Kainberger, 2023)
