Jenni Tischer
Jenni Tischer lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Tischer worked as an editor for the Berlin art magazine Texte zur Kunst. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and, since 2019, at the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the Institute for Art and Society.
She is co-editor of the edition of “Backyard Economy. Perspectives on Marginalization and Economy. FKW: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur (Vienna, 2023) and the anthology “Abstraction and Economy. Myths of Growth”, De Gruyter (Berlin / Bosten, 2024).
Tischer's conceptual works invite the viewer to rethink the (exhibition) space, the object and its context. The artist uses an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials and forms to address the spatial, architectural, social, political and contextual conditions of contemporary art. Tischer combines geometric forms, textiles, organic matter and serial processes to question familiar forms of representation. She is particularly interested in the infrastructures of reproductive labor and social reproduction, which, through gender, race, and class, significantly define the situatedness of the viewer in (social) space and their relationship to themselves and other objects.
Tischer's artistic works have been shown in a series of solo exhibitions at Galerie Krobath Vienna, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, mumok Museum für Moderne Kunst, Vienna, and Bielefelder Kunstverein, as well as in group exhibitions at MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst Vienna, MAK Center in Los Angeles, after the butcher Berlin, Kunsthalle Tübingen and Kunsthalle Wien, among others. Tischer was awarded the 15th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2013; the exhibition catalog “PIN” was published by Sternberg Press, London, as part of the solo exhibition at mumok in Vienna. In 2018, Tischer was Artist in Residence at the MAK Schindler Residency Program in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2010
University of Fine Arts Vienna, Fine Arts
Vienna, Austria
2006
HfBK Dresden university of Fine Arts
Dresden, Germany
JURY
Noit Banai
Hans Schabus
Hemma Schmutz
Much Untertrifaller
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
FINAL PROJECT
