Alexandra Toth, Vienna
Miriam Stoney & Georg Thanner & Andrea Zabric & David Takeshi Yoshida & Yasuaki Hamada
For Art-o-rama 2025, gallery Alexandra Toth develops a group presentation, that highlights the gallery’s focus; text and image. Five artists of the gallery’s roaster have been selected to produce work, that transform textual components in visual and sculptural form for the fair. Through text and research, the participating artists raise questions about contemporary art production and the classification of the works within an art-historical canon.
Miriam Stoney’s practice includes writing, performance, audio and installation. Aspects of knowledge, experience and identification appear as poetic narrative in many of her works, although a clear categorization is defied.
Georg Thanner’s figurative paintings are minimally inspired by “Neue Sachlichkeit” (New Objectivity) of the 1920s movement, Germany. In his paintings and textual work, the artist and writer deals with the fragility of bourgeois class identity and its construction through culture.
The language of artist and writer Andrea Zabric, mutually forms from the processes of image creation and image encounter, which she applies across various media including compressing pigment powder, designing work garments, scripting radio broadcasts, and creating painterly installations.
David Takeshi Yoshida formed an artistic practice, that navigates through questions of human desensitization, intertwined with personal and artificial narratives, as well as histories of consumption.
Yasukai Hamada is primarily concerned with a daily interaction with architecture, everyday social life and the ordinary. His work is his narrative, which evokes a sense of belonging, as well as a longing for discomfort and alienation.
