Katharina Höglinger: More Hours than One Day

Opening
13 October 2022, 6—9 pm

We are pleased to invite you to Thursday’s opening of Katharina Höglinger’s second solo show at WONNERTH DEJACO.

In More Hours than One Day, Katharina Höglinger’s works report on the hectic and banality of everyday life, the mental load, but also of the expectation of working to the point of exhaustion. Yet time seems to consist of nothing, as the poet Anne Carson writes. “It is pure abstraction. Only a meaning that we impose on the movement [of everyday life].” And yet it slips through our fingers in the form of numbers.

Almost caringly, Höglinger relates to her affective figures, catches them, “caring” like a parent that does not correct imperfection, disorder, or fragility, but accepts, discusses, and negotiates them until the characters undergo the metamorphosis into independent personalities.

(Excerpt from the exhibition text by Florentine Rungrama Muhry, translated into English)

Katharina Höglinger (born 1983 in Rohrbach, Austria, lives and works in Vienna) received her diploma in Painting at the ­University of Arts and Design in Linz in 2011 ­after having been granted a scholar­ship in Art ­Theory at Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin the same year. She had several solo and duo shows in Europe and North ­America, among others at ­Cassandra Cassandra in Toronto (2019) and Galeria Quadrado Azul in Lisbon (2019). Her work has been ­presented in group shows in ­Basel, Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Vienna, Toronto, and Los Angeles. Earlier in 2022, KH has presented a solo show with Stanley’s Gallery in Los Angeles and participated in a group show at Harkawik (formerly Real Pain) in New York.