Finissage & Discussion: Friday, 13 November – 17:00 to 20:00 With Sophie Dvořák (artist), Nikolaus Schobesberger (Director of the Map and Globe Collection of the ÖNB) & Andreas Spiegl (cultural scholar, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna).
As part of Vienna Art Week, GALERIE3 presents cartographic collages by Sophie Dvořák, including from the series Landscape of Events. The starting point is historical atlases from different periods and countries, in which history is conveyed through geographic representations, signs and legends.
The artist transforms each atlas into two collages: one assembles the signs and legends used in chronological order, thereby exposing the respective systems of coding. The second reassembles map fragments and shifts their original spatial and historical relationships.
Dvořák's working method is shaped by her engagement with historical and cartographic material, which she dismantles, reorders and transfers into altered contexts.