In her lecture Johanna Bruckner will give an insight into her artistic practice, which responds to technological, biotechnical and social developments that govern global dynamics today. Her multimedia practice questions the transformative potential of AI systems and algorithmically-determined technologies, citing their influence over individual and societal development. The human body is central to Bruckner's works, illustrating the conflict between affirmation and resistance, between becoming a machine and the posthuman existence. Bruckner questions existing ideas of the body, intimacy and emotion, and expands our understanding thereof to include affecting multiplicities, allowing for nuanced, queer, speculative and science-fiction-led perspectives on interactions with more-than-human entities. Pushing the limitations of the human sensorium, the artist invents prostheses of quantum aesthetics that might inform queer and hybrid futures, better equipped to deal with technological, political, and ecological instability.
Johanna Bruckner (*born in Vienna in 1984) is an internationally exhibited artist based in Zurich. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, HEK, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Mediterranea Biennial, MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, ICA, Institute for Contemporary Art, Milano, LUMA Westbau Zürich, ZKM Karlsruhe, the transmediale 2020, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the 58th Venice Biennial, Arebyte Gallery, London, Galerie EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin, MAMCO, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Genève, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Sammlung Falckenberg, the Kunsthaus Hamburg. She was a Visual Arts Fellow at the Istituto Svizzero in Rom, the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Banff Center for Visual Arts in Canada, and the Jan Van Eyck Academie. She received the Pax Art Award for Swiss Media Art, the Erste Bank Kunstpreis and the Medienkunstpreis der Stadt Wien.
Artist talk, 19.3.2025 / 14 Uhr