• I See, I Site, I Sight. NY Arts Magazine, November-December 2006. (online, local copy).
• Interview by Ella Mudie in Nothingmagazine, Issue 12, 2006 (local copy)
• Art & Australia Magazine 44(1) 2006 (local copy)
• Profile: Dr Elisabeth Weissensteiner (SBS Radio, broadcasted on 28 October 2006)
  Dr Elisabeth Weissensteiner has been living in Melbourne for three years. She has a PhD in German literature and is a member of the Künstlerhaus in Vienna. Her latest exhibition, Intro Spectatio - Sculpture and Photography, can be seen at Über Gallery in St Kilda, at 52 Fitzroy Street. What motivates her work? What is the difference between art and decoration? How much do her sculptures, prints and figures cost? These are just three of many questions Christian Froelicher put to her...
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• "Elisabeth Weissensteiner: Intro-Spectatio", absolutearts.com
• On the front page of Port Phillip Leader, 14.11.2006
• Khadija Carroll (2005): Within Without. Sculpture Magazine 24(3), web supplement.
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  online from sculpture.org
• Coming up rose: The Herald Sun reports on the Pink Pouches set up in Gasworks Arts Park: "This must be what they mean by Pink Power" (30 November 2005, page 64).
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• INTERNATIONALE AUSSTELLUNG PALAIS PORCIA: GLOBAL FUSION – CLOSE UP 2006, Wiener Zeitung, 14. September 2006
• Interview, Metropolis, Beijing, China, August 2006, page 16
• DE NATURA, Künstlerhaus Wien 2006
• SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, Bondi 2005, catalogue
• SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, Bondi 2004, catalogue
• Dagmar Travner, PLATONS MYTHOS, morgen, Kulturzeitschrift aus Niederösterreich, 05/2004
• KUNST IN DER LANDSCHAFT 1998, Vienna 1998, catalogue
• KNOT AS THEY SEAM: PUNS AND PERMUTATIONS IN THE FIBER ARTS, Baltimore 1998, catalogue
• PAPIER, TEXTIL UND ANDERE MATERIALIEN, Saarbrücken 1997, catalogue
• SCHALEN•WEISE, Vienna 1996, catalogue
• FIBERART INTERNATIONAL ´95, ´97, Pittsburgh 1995, 1997, catalogues
• LEBENS•KUNST, Vienna 1995, catalogue
• ZEITGENÖSSISCHE TEXTILKUNST IM WIRKUNGSBEREICH DEUTSCHLAND – ÖSTERREICH - SCHWEIZ, Verlag Hollinek, Wien 1995
• FIBERARTS DESIGN BOOK 3, Larkbooks 1987

1958	Born in Vienna, Austria
1983	Germanic Languages and Art History, University of Vienna, Austria (PhD)
1988	Work study grant of the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, USA
1995	Graphic Design College, WiFi Designzentrum Pöchlarn (TAFE), Austria
2006	Artist in Residence of Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China

She is member of the Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, and urbanart, Melbourne.

Invited Shows (selected)

2006	GLOBAL FUSION CLOSE UP, Palais Porcia, Vienna, Austria
2006	MELBOURNE ART FAIR, Über Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004	LICHT UND SCHATTEN, Blaugelbe Galerie Zwettl, Austria
2002	SEHSESSION #1, Projekttheater Studio, Jazzfest Wien, Vienna
2001	WORK WITH PAPER, NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für moderne Kunst, St. Pölten, Austria
1998	7 VITRINEN, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
1998	KUNST IN DER LANDSCHAFT, Gut Gasteil, Austria
1998	14th Symposium INTERNATIONAL FIBER ART, Graz, Austria
1998	KNOT AS THEY SEAM: PUNS AND PERMUTAIONS IN THE FIBER ARTS, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, USA
1997	PAPIER, TEXTIL, UND ANDERE MATERIALIEN, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken, Germany
1995	LEBENS•KUNST Barcelona, Spain
1994	FAHNENFESTIVAL KREMS, Austria
1991	INEINANDER, Musee du Feutre, France

Juried Shows (selected)

2006	DE NATURA, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
2005	International sculpture exhibition SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, Sydney, Australia
2004	International sculpture exhibition SCULPTURE BY THE SEA, Sydney, Australia
1997	International Biennale FIBERART INTERNATIONAL 97, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, USA
1995	International Biennale FIBERART INTERNATIONAL 95, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, USA
1990	INTERNATIONAL FELT SYMPOSIUM, Aarhus, Denmark
1990	TEXTILE ARTS FESTIVAL '90, Bradford, UK

Solo Shows, Two and Three Person Shows (selected)

2006	INTRO SPECTATIO, Über Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2006	I SEE – I SITE – I SIGHT, Two Lines Gallery, Beijing, China
2005	PINK POUCHES, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia
2005	WITHIN WITHOUT, Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
2004	NEW WORK, Gallery Chapman&Bailey, Melbourne, Australia
2004	Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna (with Georg Lebzelter)
2001	HERZ-SCHMERZ, Galerie kunstraumarcade, Mödling, Austria (with Flora Zimmeter,  Kerstin Cmelka)
2000	DINGFEST, Kunstwerkstatt Tulln, Austria
1999	Gallery Cachet, Vienna (with Helga Cmelka)
1998	Museum der Stadt Lienz, Austria (with Christine de Pauli)
1997	Galerie Tiller, Vienna (with Helga Cmelka)
1996	SCHALEN•WEISE, Blaugelbe Galerie, Vienna, Austria
1995	Galerie Inge Freund, Klagenfurt, Austria
1994	Galerie kunstraumarcade, Mödling,Austria
1994	Galerie Unart, Villach, Austria
1992	MEINE AUGEN DURCHWANDERN ..., ATP Architekten & Ingenieure, Vienna, Austria (with Brigitte Lang)

Curated Shows

2005	WANDERING BETWEEN THE WORLDS, 10 artists between Austria and Australia, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
2004	EGREMONT – A SHOW IN A SUITCASE, group show of Australian artists, Galerie kunstraumarcade, Mödling, Austria

Public Commissions (selection)

Republic of Austria; Museum of Lower Austria; City of Vienna; City of Lienz; City of Mödling; Bank Austria; Austrian Broadcasting Corporation; Monastery of Klosterneuburg; Parish of Purbach; Parish of Wimpassing; Parish of St. Pölten; Parish of Krems.

Artist's Statement

I am looking for signs of life in our everyday world. I find my forms and materials where we get our necessary supplies. Surprisingly traces of plant and animal life can be discovered in a technical and goal oriented environment. To construct my sculptures I employ techniques which are readily available in our (urban) culture, techniques which we take for granted without hesitating.

My objects are both artificial and natural. They consist of natural materials with their spontaneously palpable aesthetics and of those materials, which make up our daily lives. The results are hybrids, both grown and manufactured. The borderline between natural forms and shaped nature fascinates me. Beyond this borderline space opens up for interpretation and critical identification.

According to that ambiguity many objects offer an inside and an outside. Often there is tension between the two. They will not necessarily complement each other. Not always has the outside to protect, not always will the inside be vulnerable. The surface itself provides the metaphor for vulnerability - the skin. Skin may be called a building’s walls (at least in German language) as well as the membrane of an insect wing.

Maybe my topic is the quest itself: where am I in this world not made by man and still not conceivable without him? How can I become clear about myself being both coined by my surroundings and an independently thinking individual?

Elisabeth Weissensteiner, Melbourne 2004

Elisabeth Weissensteiner is represented by:

kunstraumarcade
Hauptstrasse 79
2340 Mödling
Austria
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