Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger: Hand It Over - Finissage

About

From 6.30 pm there will be a talk addressing perceptions of Motherhood, twinned with flowers in contemporary art between the artist, architect Alison Crawshaw and curator Ilaria Puri Purini. 

Prior to the evening event (from 2pm onwards) Guggenberger will be present in the gallery creating an assemblage of plants and flowers as a contemporary portraiture in response to individuals encountered during her visit to London. 

Visitors to the gallery will have the opportunity to interact with the artist throughout the afternoon. There will be refreshments. All welcome.

Speakers: 

Alison Crawshaw (b. 1979, UK) is a registered architect and set up her studio in 2014 after ten years in practice in London and New York. The studio pursues a design led and interdisciplinary approach to architecture through a portfolio that includes landscape, urban design, buildings and installations.
Alison has tutored at a number of architecture schools including Cambridge University, the Architectural Association, the Royal College of Art, London and the Bauhaus in Dessau.
She was Rome Scholar in Architecture, exhibitor in the international section of the Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for Harvard University’s Wheelwright Prize. She has exhibited and lectured internationally. Previously, she worked at muf architecture/ art where she was project architect of Barking Town Square, winner of the European Prize for Urban Space
Alison currently lives and works in London. 

Dr Ilaria Puri Purini  is currently Curator of Programmes at the Contemporary Art Society. She collaborated on the residency programme LaunchPad Lab, initiated the residency for Italian Artists at Gasworks and is currently setting up a residency space in Chiusure, Tuscany on behalf of Amant foundation. She previously worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Tate Modern, where she assisted on a number of exhibitions. She is the co-curator of the exhibition Pioneers: William Morris and the Bauhaus and is contributor to Frieze, Photography and Culture and Dance Research Journal. She holds a Ph.D. on modernism and dance in the early twentieth century. 
Ilaria currently lives and works in London.

Johanna Magdalena Guggenberger (b. 1985, Vienna, Austria) studied Social & Cultural Anthropology, Arabic and Islamic studies in Vienna and Pakistan as well as Fine Art at The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Pawel Althamer and Julian Goethe.
Past exhibitions include Estragon, Belmacz, London (2019), blue monday on the moon, Republica des Artes, Portugal (2016); Leisure as a Mechanism of Resistance, fAN Vienna at Parallel Vienna (2016) and und nun stehen also wir da (“and now it is us, a standing here”), solo show, Camera Matteotti, Vienna (2016).
Johanna currently lives and works in Vienna.