Karo Szmit

Claudia Czimek’s work deals, both practically and intellectually, with Claude Levi-Strauss’s concept of ‘bricolage’.

She draws on available ‘worlds’ and materials, plays with images, stories and associations. The result is the creation of micro-universes which strike us as fantastic and strange. The loving and skilled working of the materials, as befits a ‘bricoleur’ is important in creating an object that the artist is personally involved with. The fetishism of objects widens into a ‘fetishism of worlds’.
Claudia Czimek often appears herself as an ‘inhabitant’ of these modern ‘cabinets of curiosities’. For example, as Madame Bricolage, as a traveller swallowed by a whale or as a museum guide.

Claudia Czimek was born in Graz in 1975 and graduated from the Art University in Upper Austria in Linz, where she is living and working as an independent artist.

Expo Roulante – Trans Art

The journey to the exhibition
is an exhibition on the journey
Is the journey with the work of art
Is the journey of a box
Is the journey of a woman
Is the representation of a journey, of a box,
of work of art, of a woman.

The box becomes an art object and a miniature gallery which, at the end of rapid flights, is brought to the exhibition by the artist herself. The protective cover becomes a home and shelter for a personal ‘miniworld’ which is introduced to the macro-model. On the journey there are spontaneous performances in public squares and in front of interested spectators. The exhibition space stretches from Linz to Liverpool. The area ‘between’ becomes a part of the work.