ON THE MOVE
with Maria Walcher

What about these sculptures, washed up on our shores, are they more welcome than any human being? Through text such as this, audio and visual extracts of a selection of her often situation-specific works, the artist Maria Walcher explores aspects of collaboration, cultural translation, public space and associated artistic strategies. A dialogue between Maria Walcher and curator Simone Mair at ar/ge kunst.

Maria Walcher, (born 1984 in Brixen, Italy, lives in Innsbruck) is an artist whose work is concerned with situation-specific and socio-political issues. She studied MFA: Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Selection of exhibitions: Charlama Depot, Sarajevo (2011), SOMA, Mexico City (2013), CITY LAB Mostar (2013), Kunstfest Weimar (2014), Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, Den Haag (2014), Cselley-Mühle, Oslip (2016) and Domplatz, Innsbruck (2017).