Hausberger Hausberger

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studio@hausberger-hausberger.com

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We are identical twin sisters, originally from a mountain resort in the Tyrolean Alps, Austria, and studied Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts (BFA 2016). We work collaboratively on all our work, something we have done since early age on. Painting and drawing is a way to organize the content of our experience into some form, brush strokes and lines are a means to express our feelings rather than illustrate them, they are a visual translation of our thoughts. We talk about our inspirations and ideas beforehand but then trust ourselves and each other in the work process. We paint on the same canvas or “complete” each other’s drawings. Our more abstract works show marks and forms that imply figures. This deconstruction of the female figure serves as a way to represent the pressures of women to align with current body images and trends. It also underlines the different ways of seeing and perceiving oneself and to which extent society shapes this view—something we as identical twins are intrinsically interested in.

The figures in our works don’t have an identity, implying that searching for an identity never really ends and is fluid and also especially challenging when you are identical twins. We are mainly influenced by Austrian and German expressionism, New York School artists as well as by artists such as Cecily Brown, Maria Lassnig, Tracey Emin among others. Aesthetically, we try to establish a link between complexity and simplicity as well as new and old. At the end, what we strive for, is to create an emotional and transformative experience for the viewer. Currently our work is exhibited at The Salon at the Wing as well as at the Art Space at the Bank Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. Besides our work as Fine Artists we also work as performance artists, f.e. For Damien Hirst at the Art Basel in Switzerland in 2014.

Education

2010–11 Art History studies,
University of Arts, Vienna

2016 BFA Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York

Exhibitions

The Salon at The Wing
(Group exhibition), New York (SoHo & Flatiron)
curated by Lolita Cros (from Jan 2019)

“No Commision”, The Dean Collection (Group exhibition), (Miami Art Basel Dec 2018) curated by Nicola Vassell and Swizz Beatz

EDITION 1.0 at AXS Art (Group Exhibition), Berlin
(Art Weekend June 2019)

Art Space at BANK Hotel and CF Hill Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
(from March 2019)

Solo Exhibition at the Tyrol Buero in Bruessels, Belgium (representation of Austrian cultural and public interests), from December 2019 onwards

Artist residencies

Numeroventi, Florence, Italy
(Jan–Feb 2018)

Performance artist work

Winter 2018 performer for paintings by Chrissy Anglikers for the exhibition “A history of yearning”

Stalla Madulain, Engadin, Switzerland (Dec 2018 until Feb 2019)

Spring 2014 “14 Rooms” for Damien Hirst, Art Basel Switzerland, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Spring 2012 video project directed by Aida Ruilova for Salon 94, New York and Venice Biennale, Italy

Spring 2012 video project directed by Aida Ruilova with Abel Ferrara, N.Y.C

Fall 2012 performance at Karole Armitage’s Armitage Gone! Dance Company, New York

Curatorial work

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Q&A for new viennese magazine
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Lockdown Diary
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Melanie and Stephanie, 1992
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Household gloss on wall, chairs and twins
Spot Paintings, Installations
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Nov 11 ’19:

TT: Duplications in nature and the female form are subjects that you return to in your works. What are you both drawn to?
MSH: Recently we were going though our works we created when we were really young and its striking how figures and the female form always have been the major subject. Being identical twins we always were very much of aware of people judging our differences and compare us. In our work its about the way these figures embody the world, the way they relate to one another. And then of course there is body image, which is another big theme we are interested in since we have a history of struggling with it.

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From Tuscany
for The Tourist No. 42

WUNDER Magazine

Us photographed by
MARCUS PAARMANN

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Pleasures of Black
Issue 9
LULA MAGAZINE

For twin artists Melanie & Stephanie Hausberger, paintings are artistic dialogue completed with interaction. Their special art works describe the rhythmic contrast of black and white born from a sorrow at night.

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Identical twin sisters whose practise is collaborative. The drawings exhibited in THE SALON are from a series inspired by their own emotional states during a time of change and transition in the Summer of 2018. The characters in the work appear to be in a state of contemplation and confusion. www.lolitacros.com

Portrait
©Nicolas Kern

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