Ashley Hans Scheirl

This publication accompanies the exhibition Ashley Hans Scheirl. Ob_Scenery (06.10.-25.11.2018) and is published together with Künstlerhaus Graz.

Ashley Hans Scheirl overcomes the limitations of media as easily as she deals with gender and cultural norms. Born Angela Scheirl, the artist achieved international fame in the late 1980s for her experimental films and videos. She is now considered a trailblazer and a cult figure of the international queer and transgender artists scene. Scheirl’s work examines questions about her own identity by surmounting predefined genres and classifications. Her three-dimensional installations unite paintings, spatial designs, videos, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and performance props. The artist is interested in questioning the economy and power of social conditions and the libidinal structures active in them.

The publication introduces the artistic work of Ashley Hans Scheirl in eight essays and presents elaborate projects, among others for Documenta 14, the Biennale de Lyon 2019, the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien and the Salzburger Kunstverein.

With texts by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Daria de Beauvais, Sandro Droschl, Silvia Eiblmayr, Séamus Kealy, Guilherme Pires Mata, Monica Titton, Thomas Trummer.

Editor: Sandro Droschl, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Graphic design: FONDAZIONE Europa, Alexander Nussbaumer
Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin.

ISBN: 978-3-7757-4688-5
Euro: 40,-