Christiane Peschek
b. 1984, Austria
Christiane Peschek is an artist broadly interested in questions of identity and aesthetics online. Since 1996, she has maintained an archive of selfies that are directly utilised in her work and can be understood as the backbone of her creative practice. Spanning painting, printmaking, sculpture, and multisensory installation, Peschek’s practice skewers the historical weight of the portrait genre, subjecting it to the ebbs and flows of digital production, optimisation, and curation of the self as the ultimate currency. Drawing on digital retouching and editing tools, as well as the intimacy of the interface, Peschek’s practice critiques the fantasy of these online representations while also speculating on a world where the commercialisation of online identity can be eluded through the glitch and blur.
Born in 1984, the artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has shown internationally at galleries and institutions such as ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, Kunstmuseum Celle, the NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Museum MARTA, U10 Belgrade, UNSEEN Amsterdam, Salzburger Kunstverein and Benaki Museum Athens.
Peschek was awarded with several international prices such as the UNSEEN Tesla Art Trail award, honor price of Emergentes DST and the state scholarship for photography by the Austrian Government.
Her works are found in collections such as ING DiBa Art Collection, the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg, the Artothek at Belvedere21 Vienna and the Kupferstichkabinett Vienna.