ARTIST

“The main focus of my work is on the production of paintings, which are based on photographs that are printed on special films, primed with gesso, and then transferred onto canvas. I am interested in photography as a snapshot, a temporal "cut-out" that is contradicted by the use of a subjective painterly gesture. In my work, I am concerned with questions of photography regarding the integrity of images, their authenticity, and their relationship to reality.

One question that I keep returning to is how we deal with the image overload that surrounds us: what strategies can we develop in response, what constitutes a ‘real’, authentic image, and where does painting fit in this spectrum? The prevalence of AI-generated images and Instagram filters has made this question more pressing than ever.

In this sense, I am trying to explore what painterly possibilities can arise from this. Photography as a medium is defined by its documentary nature; it shows things as they are: an unfiltered, raw reality, so to speak. Painting works differently, revealing the invisible details, characteristics, and sensations of things and bringing forth the possibility of transformation. I believe that painting and performance share similar sensitivities: both require coordination and movement, but in painting, there is no audience to activate the work.

I think a lot about methods of storing and collecting - which reminds me of an essay by David Joselit, in which he considers painting as a living medium, a "time battery" that marks, stores, and accumulates time simultaneously. Joselit relates this idea to museum visitors who take pictures of paintings and simultaneously store these images in their cameras, thus preserving these paintings for a possible future moment. In this sense, I do not see my works in connection with a nostalgic feeling of fleeting time, but rather in relation to the aforementioned idea of acquiring time: storing, marking, etc.” — Tatjana Danneberg.

Danneberg was born in 1991 in Vienna, Austria and lives and works in Vienna. Previously she used to live and work between Vienna and Warsaw. Danneberg graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Recent solo exhibitions include: Louis Reed, New York, USA; LambdaLambdaLambda @ CFALIVE, Milan, Italy; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; and La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, Belgium. Group exhibitions include Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva, Switzerland; RODEO, Piraeus, Greece; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal; Biennale Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland; Fondation D'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France.

CHARITY

Future for Ukraine (FFU) is a charitable foundation created by Ukrainians for Ukrainians. It was founded in March 2022 in Warsaw by a group of Ukrainian women who had escaped the war. These women were previously in the corporate world and they teamed up for a common goal-to help Ukrainians overcome the consequences of the war. FFU has 4 main functions:

1. Access to prosthetic limbs for those injured in the war.

2. Specialized psychological support for women that experienced sexual violence from Russian militants.

3. Helping displaced kids on the autism spectrum to adapt to new life.

4. Humanitarian aid.