The EIKON Award (+45) at Künstlerhaus 1050
On the occasion of the 100th issue of EIKON – International
Magazine for Photography and Media Art, the EIKON Award (45+) was launched
under the patronage of VALIE EXPORT for European women photographers and media
artists’ aged 45 and over.
The aim of the award is not only to survey the current conditions in women’s
art production, but to focus on the conditions for present day production of women's art, delays in artistic development and practice for late entrants or returning artists and to make a wider public aware of them.
Following the idea of a European exchange
in times of current splitting tendencies, the exhibition initiates an
interdisciplinary dialogue between the three award-winning artists, SusanMacWilliam, Katrín Elvarsdóttir and Gabriele Rothemann. Thus creating a tour at
whose stopping points we are constantly reminded of the unconscious, the
spiritual and the (non-) transparent, which are recurring themes in the worlds
of all three artists.
