WORKING CLASS DAUGHTER
Miriam Bajtala
WORKING CLASS DAUGHTER
Miriam Bajtala
curatorial support by: Bettina Siegele
Classism and the representation of chronological developments are subjects that the artist Miriam Bajtala has been working on intensively for several years. For her solo EXHIBITION WORKING CLASS DAUGHTER the artist links her personal history and collective memory, depicting the relationship between social structures and individual experience and thereby addresses the reproduction of inequalities, power relations and strategies of self-empowerment in a poetic way using different forms of speech and media. WORKING CLASS DAUGHTER is part of the annual programme Chronopolitical Explorations curated by Bettina Siegele.
Miriam Bajtala (born in Bratislava) lives, sleeps, and works mostly in Vienna. The themes of her artistic exploration revolve around perception, space, memory, (self–) empowerment, witnessing, representation and the power of poetry. Bajtala’s works can be seen in exhibitions and at film festivals.
1998 – 2002: Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
2011 – 18: University assistant and lecturer at the Experimental, Kunstuniversität Linz
Scholarships and prizes: Gabriele Heidecker Prize (2021), Outstanding Artist Award for Fine Arts (2012), artist-in residencies in Rome, Krumlov, Paris and Los Angeles (Schindler Scholarship).
Solo (S)- and group exhibitions, Screenings (selection): 2024: 18 Räume, Kunstraum Goethestrasse, Linz (S); 2023: In den Körpern, Bildraum 01, Vienna (S); 2022: Oikos: ‘the house’, Wienwoche, Vienna; 2021: Kairos, Recall of Earth, MIET, Thessaloniki, Greece; 2020: dichtegeschichte, Kunstraum Weikendorf (S), Art in public space NÖ; 2019: Displacement, Musrara Festival, Jerusalem (ISR); 2017: PERFORM, Videonale 16, Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE); 2016: Welt des Sprechens, Trans-Positionen-Festival Werkleitz, Halle (DE); 62. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE); Duisburger Filmwochen No.40 (DE); 2015: Das Als-ob-Prinzip, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz; 2013: In meinem Namen, Secession, Vienna (EA); 2011: terms of decision, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (GBR); 2010: Nichts als Gespenster, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (S);
www.miriambajtala.org
OPENING
Thursday 27.02.2025, 19.00
Introduction: Bettina Siegele (artistic and managing directress)
Welcome: Milena Meller (board member Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol)
EXHIBITION DATES
28.02. – 03.05.2025
Additional outreach programme:
12.03.2025 at 17.30 curator’s tour with Cornelia Reinisch-Hofmann
16.04.2025 at 19.00 Artist Talk with Miriam Bajtala
03.05.2025 at 11.30 exhibition tour Art & Coffee
