Angelika Loderer
5th New Museum Triennial, New York
27 October, 2021 – 23 January 2022
The 5th New Museum Triennial was curated by Margot Norton, Curator at the New Museum, and Jamillah James, Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Entitled Soft Water Hard Stone, the Triennial was inspired by a Brazilian proverb, Água mole em pedra dura, tanto bate até que fura (soft water on hard stone continues to pound until it bores a hole) in reference to physical and metaphorical ideas of resilience and perseverance. During periods of profound social change, where structures once thought stable are revealed as fragile, the New Museum Triennial presented those artists who question and reimagine traditional materials, techniques and models of representation.
It was within this context that Angelika Loderer (born 1984 in Feldbach, Austria) was invited to produce a new site-specific work, co-produced by Phileas. Loderer’s work explores materiality, ephemerality and balance in playful and intricately installed compositions. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, in 2011 before studying at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA. Her works have been collected by several Austrian institutions including the Belvedere, Vienna; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; and Kunsthaus Bregenz.
Established in 2009, the New Museum Triennial is a recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to emerging artists from around the world. The exhibition marked the first major US museum exhibition for many of the artists who participated last year, and in many cases the accompanying catalogue represented the first published scholarly treatment of their work. This also marked the first collaboration between Phileas, the New Museum Triennial and the artist Angelika Loderer.
