Höss, Dagmar
Text, the female body and clothing are recurring elements in my photographic work series and installations. In the series “It’s Complicated”, which began in New York in 2019, text fragments are the starting point for more than forty embroidered objects and the resulting photographs of fragmented foreign objects. In the series of works "body matrix" developed in 2022, I break up the photographic image surfaces with cross-stitch embroidery and also play with stereotypical attributions. Historically speaking, especially in the 19th century, the technique of embroidery was an activity reserved for noble, middle-class women and symbolized domesticity, diligence and decency.
Biography
Dagmar Höss, Mag., studied at the University of Art and Design Linz, course for curators at the Institute for Cultural Studies, 2002-2014 programmatic management of the exhibition space of the visual arts interest group in Vienna, 2005-2020 member of the board of the Upper Austrian Festival, member of the MAERZ artists' association, Künstlerhaus Vienna.
Exhibitions
2022
PARALELL VIENNA
Wenn Material zur Form wird, Artenne Nenzing
DE/RE Constructing Female Bodies, Kunstsammlung des Landes OÖ
Artist Residency des Landes OÖ, Bad Hall
WHAT THE FEM*- Feministische Kunst sein 1950, Stadtmuseum Nordico Linz
2021
PARALLEL VIENNA Kunstmesse
Critical Me, PUUUL SPACE Vienna
2020
Es ist Maerz, Künstler:innenvereinigung Maerz
2019
Artist Residency New York
2011
GREETINGS, Public Space London
2010
Retroslots, Frise Hamburg
2009
IN SITU Zeitgeschichte findet Stadt – Linz im Nationalsozialismus, Linz09
One night stand, OÖ Landesgalerie
REBELLINNEN, Spurensuche nach Geschichte und Gegenwart sozialer Kämpfe und feministischer Forderungen
2007
CODES, Galerie der Stadt Wels
2006
Atelierstipendium der Stadt Wien in Budapest
Can´t remember my own dreams, Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck
2005
unheim(at)lich, Kunstverein Baden
Wasteland, Palais Porcia, Wien
