Tatjana Danneberg’s preoccupation with the nature of images and the possibilities that unfold through their manipulation and deconstruction commences with photography – low-fi images taken with simple automatic cameras that depict her immediate surroundings, friends, and acquaintances in a familiar, often intimate manner. After developing the images, she prints them on specific foils using an inkjet printer, then paints on them with gesso in broad strokes. Finally she glues the works – each one a symbiosis of printed image and primer – to canvas. Loosely cropped, showing bodily details or contortions, the images have an eventful feeling, depicting moments of action – or a lack of it. Their presence is almost brutal, and yet they are dominated by an atmosphere of intimacy.

A solo exhibition of Danneberg's work, Wait a Minute, took place at the Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg) in 2021.

Tatjana Danneberg was born in Vienna, Austria in 1991. She now lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Education

Danneberg studied at the Technical University (Vienna), The Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna) and the Städelschule – Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Frankfurt am Main).

Exhibitions

Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Super Super Markt (Berlin), LambdaLambdaLambda (Prishtina), Galeria Dawid Radziszewski (Warsaw), Louis Reed (New York), CFA (Milan), Kunstverein Salzburg, Austrian Cultural Pavilion (Plovdiv), LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS (Brussels), Austrian Cultural Forum (Warsaw), SORT (Vienna), RODEO (Piraeus), EVN Collection Garage (Maria Enzersdorf), Galeria Madragoa (Lisboa), Biennale Zielona Góra, Fondation D’entreprise Ricard (Paris), Palacio Lancia (Turin) and Carl Kostyal (Stockholm).