SUPPAN

Her conceptual work is based on the idea of a symbiosis between body and space, and focuses on the various concepts of the skin as a shell or cover, as well as the body as an architectural structure. She critically examines society, legal aspects of art and the economic market, as well as feminism. Her so called skins made out of fabric capture the imprint of walls in old buildings and the appearance of female garment, erecting a structure with an ambivalent form. „The artist stretches bikinis and swim trunks across stretcher frames, sometimes combining them into ultra-crisp „pairs.“ Provided with mischievous titles, she transforms bare walls into pieces of clothing, thus humorously referencing the last piece of cloth that covers our most private parts. The focus of her interest are transformation processes, appropriations and conditions that lead to a change in optics. In her latest group of works (“Juicy Series”), the material’s narrative potential and the network of relationships between space and body fill parts of organza fabric with skin-colored curves. Striped wall surfaces are stretched in between to show the fragmented body from behind. Sensual “soft sculptures” burst the frame in voluminous bulges, arching into the room and revealing a playful approach to the genre of wall reliefs. The Tinder Boy series contradicts the screens of our smartphones. These works show individual profiles of the dating app „Tinder“ made of cotton, organza, leather, acrylic paint and filler. Machine-sewn representations, “fragile egos” of ripped upper bodies and erect penises in colorful boxer shorts, together with painted symbols and texts, reveal information about their potent wearers. The screen is also a new piece of skin that we carry in front of us.“ (Barbara Horvath)

KARO KUCHAR geboren (1986) in Wien 2005-2013 Universität Wien 2016-2018 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Figurative Malerei (Kirsi Mikkola) 2018-2021 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Expanded pictorial space (Daniel Richter) EXHIBITIONS 2023 Solo Booth w/ SUPPAN, Future Fair, New York (US) Undercover (solo), Galerie Sophia Vonier, Salzburg, (AT) Tutti Frutti, SUPPAN, Wien (AT) Six Solos, SUPPAN, Wien (AT) Cape Town Art Fair, Septieme Galerie, Kapstadt (SA) Modern Alchemy kuratiert von Bill Thanner & Alexandra Feusi, district4art, Wien (AT) Akademie Benefizauktion 2023 in Kooperation mit Dorotheum, Semperdepot, Wien (AT) 2022 A Juicy December Show (solo), Hotel Altstadt, Wien (AT) Feminisms, Galerie Septieme, Paris (FR) Duoausstellung mit Poppy Jones, Contrappunto project room, VIN VIN Galerie, Wien (AT) Paperworks+ III, NBB Galerie, Berlin (DE) Gruppenausstellung der Ausstellungs- und Produktionsresidenz von Art Explora und Artagon, Hangar Y, Meudon (FR) Dear Diary,… Gruppenausstellung kuratiert von Julie Legouez, Culterim Galerie, Berlin (DE) Sehnsucht, kuratiert von Melissa Joseph, Field Projects Galerie, New York City (US) Taking Back the Looking-Glass, Gruppenausstellung mit Shagha Ariannia & Rebecca Brodskis, Septieme Galerie Paris (FR) Raumanzug/Space Suit, Installation in öffentlichem Raum, Performance Fiction Festival, Toihaus Theater, Salzburg (AT) 37. Österreichischer Grafikwettbewerb, Haus der Kultur, Waltherhaus, Bozen (IT) Turbo, Red Carpet Showroom Volkstheater, Wien (AT) Akademie Benefizauktion 2022 in Kooperation mit Dorotheum, Semperdepot Wien (AT) 2021 Artist Statement (solo) , Parallel Vienna Art Fair, Wien (AT) I’ve heard there is an after hour? solo, Galerie Gundula Gruber, Wien (AT)

SUPPAN is a Vienna-based contemporary art gallery representing a selection of international emerging and established contemporary artists and artist estates. In addition to solo exhibitions and major retrospectives, the gallery occasionally organizes curated thematic group shows, aiming to establish a dialogue between contemporary positions and selected 20th century masters. After a long history of organizing art historically relevant exhibitions, publishing books and being represented at national and international art fairs, such as Art Cologne, Spark Art Fair, Vienna Contemporary, Future Fair and more, the gallery managed to build trust and a strong network with curators, collectors, museums and artists to help realize important museum exhibitions as well as to take a curatorial and advisory function for corporate and private art collections.