Artist Talk⎥Hours without worries⎥Zöller and Reisinger

ARTIST TALK

"HOURS WITHOUT WORRIES"
JANKA ZÖLLER AND JOVANA REISINGER
FRIDAY, APRIL 25 AT 7 PM
PRESENTATION: DIETLINDE BEHNCKE

Jovana Reisinger's new book "PLEASURE" ((presented at Kammerspiele, 12.12.2024) is a breathtakingly eloquent tour de force through the luxury triad of sleep (meter-long hotel bed sheets!), food (gourmet mouse!) and clothing (Dior, but fake!). Using revealing anecdotes from the art world, Jovana Reisinger exposes the hidden norms of a supposedly liberal milieu and takes up the cudgels for kitsch, gluttony and lounging around. The commitment to PLEASURE is not only a political signal, but also a path to individual freedom. For each and every one of us. Jovana Reisinger (born 1989) is a German writer, filmmaker, actress and visual artist.

Janka Zöller's painting touches a nerve in our contemporary society and is reminiscent of recent social satires such as the TV series "White Lotus" by Mike White or Spitzenreiterinnen" by Jovana Reisinger. With allusions to the French thriller "Swimming Pool" (2002) or other films, Janka Zöller's paintings are images of desire, in which the figures radiate ambivalent feelings. Like these films, with their spectacular aesthetic effect on the one hand and their psychologically puzzling quality on the other, her paintings translate this ambiguity into, for example, a melancholy facial expression, or a bright, opaque blue sky that is not cheerful. Janka Zöller (born 1989) studied painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig (Neo Rauch era) from 2009 to 2014 and continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with her graduation in 2020 as a master student of Prof. Karin Kneffel.

Based on the title of the painting "Hours without worries" Dietlinde Behncke talks with both artists about the ambiguity of luxury and about their artistic practice of exploring society's approach to everything that brings pleasure. Both artists deal with current social phenomena in a highly amusing and intelligent way and describe in painting, book formats or drama the feminist attitude to life of a new generation that reserves the right to contradictions.