Artist Renate Bertlmann new member of Art Senate

Vienna (APA) – The artist Renate Bertlmann has been accepted as a new member of the Senate of Austrian Art. She follows the writer Peter Waterhouse, who resigned in the spring to protest the government's Senate program. The artist received the Austrian State Grand Prize last year.

According to its own definition, one of the Senate's tasks of art is to "represent the concerns of the arts in public and advise the public authorities on important issues of art" . The competence of the Kunstsenat also includes the right to propose the Austrian State Grand Prize. Its 21 members must hold the Austrian State Grand Prize and are appointed by the Minister of Culture.

"Renate Bertlmann is one of the most important contemporary Austrian artists, and her work not only occupies an important place in the history of female performance in Austria, but is also highly regarded by the international avant-garde," said the minister. of Culture, Gernot Blümel (ÖVP) in a press release. The president of Art Senate, Josef Winkler, also congratulated the artist: "Renate Bertlmann undertakes in her art a radical badysis of the impossibility of the principle of pleasure.Since the seventies, she it's not only inscribed in an essential position in the history of female performance in Austria, but also in the newly recognized international feminist vanguard. "

Renate Bertlmann was born in Vienna in 1943 and studied from 1964 to 1970 at the Academy of Fine Arts, where she was a lecturer for more than a decade. In her work, Bertlmann deals with role and body images and questions bad by addressing topics such as badgraphy, baduality, violence, eros and hierarchy. In 2007, she received the award of the city of Vienna, followed in 2017 by the Austrian State Grand Prix. In 2019, she will play the pavilion of Austria at the Biennale of Art of Venice with a face-to-face presentation.

The current members of Artsense are (in alphabetical order): Siegfried Anzinger, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Renate Bertlmann, Günter Brus, Friedrich Cerha, HK Gruber, Elke Delugan-Meissl, Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Peter Handke, Wilhelm Holzbauer and Brigitte Kowanz. Friederike Mayröcker, Gustav Peichl, Wolf D. Award, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Rühm, Kurt Schwertsik, Heinz Tesar, Josef Winkler and Erwin Wurm.

(S E R V I C E – www.kunstsenat.at)

(B I L D A V IO S – Renate Bertlmann's photos were distributed on May 8, 2018 via AOM and are available.)