Renate Bertlmann
58th Biennale di Venezia, Italy
11 May – 24 November 2019
In May 2019, La Biennale di Venezia opened the 58th International Art Exhibition. The curator of the Austrian Pavilion, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, invited artist Renate Bertlmann to represent Austria. Bertlmann is the first woman in the history of the Venice Biennale to have a solo exhibition at the Austrian Pavilion. Phileas supported and co-produced the artist’s new works for the exhibition.
Renate Bertlmann (born 1943 in Vienna) lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Arts in Oxford and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Bertlmann is part of the feminist avant-garde movement, which originated in the 1970s, revolting against a male-dominated art world and redefining the aesthetics of representation of the female body. Her work, characterised by a provocative and ironic approach, questions gender relationships by discussing subjects such as pornography, sexuality, violence, Eros and hierarchy.
