Anuschka Prossliner, Sabine Steinmair

Lines, Points, and Textures form the shared language in which Anuschka Prossliner and Sabine Steinmair engage in dialogue. The point functions as an elemental unit connecting their works. In both Prossliner’s drawings and collages and Steinmair’s delicate objects made from threads and paper, the point expresses the highest level of concentration. At the same time, in its entirety, it expands as a means of dispersion and boundary dissolution.

Prossliner’s series, executed with fineliner, ballpoint pen, and colored pencils, are marked by a poetic irony that often only reveals itself upon close inspection. A play between soft and hard lines runs through her works. While Prossliner repeatedly introduces incisions, hard edges, and planes in her works, Steinmair playfully and freely weaves threads into sculptural forms. Steinmair’s objects unfold their effect through restraint. Textiles, gold, and paper intertwine to create ethereal narratives, which, with flowing movements and a touch of transcendence, give expression to their subtle power.

Both approaches are highly labor-intensive and reflect a deep awareness of time and its rhythm: obsessively persistent, with a tendency toward reduction and the small, they produce works that explore the spirit of the time between delicacy and precision, gently asserting and breaking through fixed textures. The starting point for each work cycle lies in sensations prompted by external impressions, which grow into thought formations and eventually become tangible through handcraft. Line.point.texture.a dialogue marks the first major joint exhibition of the two artists. Through the selected series, they emphasize the consensus that exists despite their formally distinct approaches. The connecting element and smallest common denominator is the reference in the title to Wassily Kandinsky’s work Point and Line to Plane.

Anuschka Prossliner’s artistic focus revolves around two central themes: time and contradiction. In a paradoxical tension between timelessness and temporal reference, between cause and space, strict, geometric surfaces emerge. The seemingly flawless clarity is disrupted by tiny cracks that offer glimpses into the inner core. Prossliner creates “instructions for play” to make the effect of contrasting surfaces and what lies beneath them perceptible. Work titles such as Silent People, Loud Minds, Grey Life, Colourful Dreams, or Die gute Fee, das war a Hex emphasize these polarizing formal arrangements on paper and invite viewers to explore the potential for development in opposites.

In Sabine Steinmair’s works, a quiet alchemy of transformation unfolds, where materials find new forms and reveal changed perspectives. Her three-dimensional works and drawings are less marked by contrasts than by an open dialogue that leaves room for nuance. Textiles, texts, threads of various materials, and packaging are combined, intertwined, and related to one another. From their interplay emerges an unexpected cosmos, in which the essence of materials is expanded and objects are newly formed.

Lisa Trockner

The exhibition is curated by Lisa Trockner.

Photo: Oliver Jaist