Svenja Deininger

Born 1974 in Vienna, Austria
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria, Berlin, Germany, and Milan, Italy

In her paintings, Svenja Deininiger works in layers and coatings of colours and materials, repaints and uncovers. Her painting is experimental in its process — with errors and shifts in direction considered as an integral element – yet precise and calibrated in its formal results. “My paintings are very concrete. I am not trying to find new ways of expressing but looking for my own language, using all the languages we know. My work is neither abstract nor evidently figurative. For me, painting is a kind of language. The goal is that all those who find themselves in front of a painting have a very concrete feeling and must invent a word to express it.” (Svenja Deininiger)