Viktorie Langer

Viktorie Langer’s work revolves around several tangible yet unfinished figures that persistently return, soak into absorbent fabrics, and mischievously observe the viewer from within. To classify these works solely as painting would be an oversimplification, as painting is just one element of her hybrid „two-dimensional assemblages“ and mixed techniques. Alongside the dominant painting, an equally striking drawing emerges—one that often does not serve as a reliable skeleton for an external shape but rather mediates the material fabric of the textile base. However, this holds only until carefully crosshatched, aggressively thrown, or furiously sweeping lines, painted objects, and blurred stains collide with the artist’s leitmotif: the graffiti tag, which inscribes authorship onto the fabrics with significantly greater authority than a mere name could.
Tomáš Jirsa (extract)