19.09.2025 – 18.01.2026
Ashley Hans Scheirl’s major exhibition spans an arc from the 1970s to the present day with new works produced especially for the exhibition. Since the late 1970s, Ashley Hans Scheirl has developed a remarkably diverse oeuvre. With her films, most of which were shot on Super8, the now internationally renowned artist is one of the pioneers of a queer-feminist and transgender counterculture. Scheirl’s twenty years of film, performance and sound practice culminated in the two experimental feature films Rote Ohren fetzen durch Asche aka Flaming Ears (1992) and Dandy Dust (1998).
In the 1990s, painting took centre stage. By analysing art history and incorporating different genres, the question of identity is now explored through painting. Abstract expressionism meets photorealism, dark romanticism meets pop art, bad painting meets surrealism. Important references include splatter film, Viennese Actionism, Donna Haraway and the literary pornography of Georges Bataille. For Scheirl, her work is a satire on the now seemingly surreal neoliberal economic system, which also deals with the social construction of gender, sexuality and power with biting humour.
ASHLEY HANS SCHEIRL
19.09.2025 – 18.01.2026
Belvedere 21
Arsensalstraße 1
1030 Vienna
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