2022Kiki Kogelnik – Dark Beauty, 1973 - Set

Born and raised in Bleiburg in Carinthia, the artist Kiki Kogelnik is one of Austria’s preeminentartists of the 21st century. She started studying at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1955 and became part of theavantgarde circle of Monsignore Otto Mauer and his St. Stephan’s gallery. In 1962, Kiki Kogelnikmoved to the US, where she met pop-art artists such as Roy Liechtenstein and Andy Warhol who were to greatly influence her artistic work. However, she went on to develop her own style and created “Space Art” with vinyl cut-out“Hangings”. In the 1970s, she critically explored the reigning image of women in her “Women”series. In her later works, she depicted human bodies in an increasingly abstract and fragmented form.Her famous works include the “Venetian Heads” made of Murano glass which she designed in the1990s. In 1997, Kiki Kogelnik passed away at the age of 62 in Vienna.