Maria Temnitschka (born 1961 in Lower Austria) is an Austrian artist. At the beginning of her artistic career Maria Temnitschka designed and created jewellery and objects made of metal. Later she reoriented to painting - at first abstract, since 2000 figurative representation. Her preferred techniques are oil painting, drawing, experimental photography, object art.
She is a member of the Künstlerhaus, Association of Austrian Artists, and IG Bildende Kunst.
The theme of decay is a recurring motif in Maria Temnitschka's work. Her preference for industrial, outdated architecture is well known and manifests itself in many images on this subject.
Schrott, 2022, oil on canvasLost in time, 2010, oil on canvasAltes Eisen, 2019, oil on canvas
Exhibitions (selection)
2004 FEMINA, Columned Hall of Parliament Vienna
2005 The essence, MAK Vienna
2005 REAL, Kunsthalle Krems, Lower Austria
2005 New Century Artists, Soho, New York
2006 Up and Down, Galerie Hrobsky, Vienna
2007 Erweiterte Stadtlandschaften, Gallery Pendel, Waidhoven/Ybbs, Lower Austria
2008 3 Positionen, NÖ Dokumentationsarchiv, St.Pölten, Lower Austria
2009 Unter der Brücke, Gallery Schlesinger, Zurich
2009 Ortung, Uni Campus, Danube University Krems
2009 Pure Painting, Gallery ArtAffair, Regensburg Germany
2010 Unter der Brücke, Gallery Hrobsky, Vienna
2010 Contemporary Art Interchange Exhibition, Kurashiki City Art Museum/Japan
2011 Lost in time, Artothek Lower Austria Kunstmeile Krems
2011 the best works of the biennial of drawing pilsen, Gallery of Slovak Union of Visual Arts, Bratislava
2011 k/haus 18, Positionen der Malerei Artemons, Upper Austria
2012 Ortung, ÖBV, Vienna
2012 Celle - Sarajevo transit, Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo/BIH
2013 KulturpreisträgerInnen 2013, Lower Austria Documentation Archive, St.Pölten
2013 Zeichnung, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2013 Transalpin Vis Arte, Zurich
2013 lost in time, Gallery Schlesinger, Zurich
2014 CELLE: DIE WELT, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2014 Die Würde des Künstlers, Celle-Performance, MUSA Vienna
2014 WARWAS Celle-Performance, HGM Vienna
2015 TierFREUDen, Exhibition and performance (with K. Seidner and F. Mendelssohn), Sigmund Freud Uni, Berlin
2016 on the way, Galerie Nothburga, Innsbruck (together with Silvia Gröbner)
2017 lost in thought, Galerie Schafschetzy, Graz
2017 der Schein trügt, Budapest Galéria und MAMU Gallery, Budapest
2019 IBIDEM Bilder von Büchern, Galerie in der Schmiede, Linz, Pasching (together with Judith Baum)
2020 Altes Eisen, Hrobsky Gallery, Vienna
2020 Alles war klar, Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2022 Schrott, Hrobsky Gallery, Vienna
2022 Altes Eisen, blaugelbe Viertelsgalerie, Zwettl, Lower Austria
Trade fair participations: Int. Art Fair Kyiv, "Art Bratislava", "Art Karlsruhe" 2007-2010, Roter Salon (D), "Liste Köln", "Kunst Zürich", Art Austria 2012-2018, Art Vienna.
Prizes and awards
1994 Project funding from the BMUK and the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs
2006 Appreciation Award from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
2007 Scholarship of the Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Foundation
2008 Project funding Art'ist (graduate funding of the University of Applied Arts)
2010 State Scholarship for Fine Arts
2011 Design of the new Medal of Honour for the Künstlerhaus
2013 Project funding for the Cultural Office of the City of Vienna
2013 Recognition Award of Lower Austria
2022 Schiele Art Award 2nd place
Collections
Federal Ministry for Education and Art- BM f. Unterricht und Kunst
Lower Austria State Government
Austrian Association for Psychotherapy
Würth Collection
City Museum Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria
Lower Austria State Museum
Collection of the University of Applied Arts
Danube University Krems, Lower Austria
City of Vienna
National Bank of Austria - Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Cocca Collection
Österreichische Beamtenversicherung
Federal Chancellery Austria - Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
