Kata Oelschlägel works with performance, video, photography, and sculptural form. Her resin sculptures are created from impressions of skeletal structures and form transparent bodily architectures in which movement, gravity, and material tension become visible. Working with thread, fabric, and blood adds a body-related dimension to this formal process: the cut becomes a line, the intervention an act of drawing. Textile techniques and performative gestures intertwine to form a field of inquiry into the body, vulnerability, and transformation.
Kata Oelschlägel studied European ethnology and art history at the University of Vienna and was part of the TransArts class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has had solo exhibitions such as "3%" at the Hollerei Gallery and "A Gentle Cut" at the Barvinskyi Art Gallery. In the exhibition "Nitsch. A Homage by... From Pain Comes Pain, Then Laughter" at the Nitsch Foundation Vienna, she performed a performative washing action with black paint together with Joseph Sakoilsky. She realized interventions such as "Hangman" on the roof of the Albertina, in which a resin skeleton hung down and attracted media attention. Other exhibition participations include Parallel Vienna, "Night in the Museum" at the Bank Austria Kunstforum, "Hier und Heute" at the WUK, and "Ephemeral Permanence" at the Vienna Collectors Club.
Kata Oelschlägel studied European ethnology and art history at the University of Vienna and was part of the TransArts class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has had solo exhibitions such as "3%" at the Hollerei Gallery and "A Gentle Cut" at the Barvinskyi Art Gallery. In the exhibition "Nitsch. A Homage by... From Pain Comes Pain, Then Laughter" at the Nitsch Foundation Vienna, she performed a performative washing action with black paint together with Joseph Sakoilsky. She realized interventions such as "Hangman" on the roof of the Albertina, in which a resin skeleton hung down and attracted media attention. Other exhibition participations include Parallel Vienna, "Night in the Museum" at the Bank Austria Kunstforum, "Hier und Heute" at the WUK, and "Ephemeral Permanence" at the Vienna Collectors Club.