Dorit Margreiter Choy
SEFO 2024 Triennial, Olomouc Museum of Art.
Czechia
27 June – 31 December 2024
The Triennial of Contemporary Central European Culture and Art was founded in 2021 by the Olomouc Museum of Art under the auspices of the Central European Forum (SEFO). For its second edition in 2024, the Triennial focusses on objects - buildings, monuments and such like - that have become powerful symbols within their specific society.
For the Triennial, Margreiter Choy was commissioned to produce a new film which explores the changing symbols of global capitalism, and the ways in which certain places and structures, which used to represent power, become forgotten. These include a former 15th century silver mine in Schwaz, Tyrol, and a melting glacier in southern Iceland.
Dorit Margreiter Choy (born 1967 in Vienna) works primarily with film and sculptural installation. A Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, she has a particular interest in the role of collective memory, often in relation to architectural and historical sites. Her solo and group exhibitions include mumok, Vienna; MoMA, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Austrian Pavilion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, among others.
This is the artist's first collaboration with Phileas.
