Victoria Coeln’s gesture of creating space is a generous invitation to initiate this communicative process. Accordingly, the work stands in an exciting dialectic – although the coloured slides are painted and positioned by the artist she cannot control the interplay itself. The images emerge from interaction and are the result of the communicative process.

Color Space 203, Nora with Simon, Vienna, 2003

In last year’s pre-Christmas season Victoria Coeln exhibited her immaterial art space in and around the Valie EXPORT cube in Vienna. This glass cube is called “Der Transparente Raum” and is located at the Guertel, a major traffic lane in Vienna.

The challenge was that real architectural space and immaterial colour space influenced each another interactively, thereby altering their urban surroundings – the cityscape. “Every passerby who enters my colour space intervenes directly in the urban structure as a polychrome, mobile light object and casts polychrome shadows into real space”, says Victoria Coeln.

This year, the artist created such a colour space for the Kuenstlerhaus Klagenfurt, in Austria’s southernmost province – in the “Farbraumquadrat 2” Victoria Coeln uses a highly transparent foil that reflects the light and at the same time divides the colour space into two parts.

Victoria Coeln: Farbraumquadrat 2
Open: November 7th – December 6th, 2003
Place: Kuenstlerhaus Klagenfurt
Address: 1 Goethpark, A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
Tel: +43 463 55383
https://www.kunstvereinkaernten.at