"Giving someone the brush-off" - we are all familiar with this expression, yet few of us ask what this brush-off is all about, when it means rejecting or rejecting someone. In her work untangled wounds, which the artist presents in the Art Box of the Klocker Museum, Veronika Abigail Beringer gets to the bottom of the question of the origin of this expression and, as a result, deals with the emotional injuries that result from such a rejection.
VERONIKA ABIGAIL BERINGER
Veronika Abigail was born in Götzens in 1990 and lives and works in Vienna.
She studied at the College of Business, Communication and Media Design in Innsbruck from 2009 to 2011, then completed a Bachelor's degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna between 2011 and 2015. Most recently, she studied painting and animation with Prof. Judith Eisler at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 2013 to 2020 and completed an Erasmus year at the Faculdade de Belas-Artes in Lisbon. Veronika Abigail Beringer has won a number of awards for her work, including a performance scholarship from the University of Applied Arts in 2014 and 2016, and the Radar Award for Best Film in Animation and New Media in 2016. In 2019 she landed on the shortlist at the Strabag Art Award and in 2020 on the shortlist at the Kunsthalle Award. Her work has been presented in various solo and group exhibitions and can be found in diverse collections, such as the collection of the Province of Tyrol and the City of Innsbruck.
