The Carinthia-born artist has been living in Vienna since 1989. She deals with a variety of motifs and has mastered a number of painting techniques. She is currently focussing on oil paintings and mixed-media technique.

She will gladly accept commissions to paint portraits, pictures of your favourite tunes, etc.
 
In addition to selling her works, the artist also offers them for rental for limited periods of time (art leasing).

Mixed-media technique (36 kB),

Oil paintings (40 kB),

Portraits (91 kB),

Prints (98 kB),

Earth colour paintings (34 kB).

• E-mail: atelier@kurnig.com.
• Tel: +43-676-4 123 578.

• TU Graz, 1981:
  Group exhibition, photos;
  visitor-elected Winner of All Classes.
• Galerie Lang, Graz 1982:
  Solo exhibition, photos;
  Visitors chose the photo "Lofot Bridge" Art Work of the Year.
• Summer Academy Salzburg 1983:
  Group exhibition.
• United Artists Gallery, Carbondale, USA, 1985-1988:
  Solo and group exhibitions, gouache, pastels, photos,
  etchings (member of the gallery).
• Stift Geras 1998:
  Group exhibition, prints.
• Bergerhaus, Gumpoldskirchen 1998:
  Oil paintings, lithographies, etchings.
• Since autumn 2000 represented by:
  Galerie PRISMA, Vienna.
• UNO City Art Club, Vienna 2000:
  mixed-media technique, lithographies, oil paintings (report Austria Today).
• RLB Kardinal Rauscher Platz, Vienna 2000:
  mixed-media technique, print art.
• Galerie Prisma, Vienna, January-March 2001:
  Group exhibition "Music", mixed-media technique, lithographies.
• Managementclub, Vienna, May-June 2001:
  Solo exhibition "Zeitfrei", mixed-media technique.

The mixed-media technique "Siesta unter'm Zitronenbaum" has been sold by auction in a charity event organized by the Rotary Club and Sotheby's on October 16, 2001, in Mödling. The initial price was ATS 3,500.- / € 254.35, the final, accepted bid was ATS 10,000.- / € 726.73.

• Wienerwald, Vienna, April-June 2003:
  Solo exhibition "Wasser zu Wein", oil paintings,
  opening address by Dr. Susanne Riess-Passer.
  (photographs from the opening).
• Weingut Karl Alphart, Traiskirchen, July 2003:
  Solo exhibition "Der Hang zum Wein", oil paintings.
• Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea",
  Florence, Italy, December 2003: oil paintings.
• Galerie am Weiherplatz, Mariapfarr, July-September 2004:
  Group exhibition by a selected number of Biennale participants, mixed-media technique.
• Solo exhibition "License To Print (Criminal Collagraphies)" during the Annual Crime Writers Congress in the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam, October 2004 (photographs from the opening).
• Solo exhibition "Bis hierher ... und dann weiter", Gauermannmuseum, Miesenbach, September 2005: mixed-media technique, oil paintings (report NÖN).

• Summer Academy "Schule des Sehens", Salzburg 1983:
  Figure drawing and painting with earth colours in the class
  of Prof. Giselbert Hoke.
• Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA, 1984-1988:
  Oil, water colour, etching etc. with Prof. Herb Fink.
• Künstlerische Volkshochschule, Vienna, 1992-1993:
  Portrait, oil with Mag. Mario Schleinzer and lithography
  with Prof. Wojtek Krzywoblocki (Cracow, Vienna).
• Academy Geras, 1998:
  Prof. Kunito Nagaoka (Kyoto, Berlin).

The artist will gladly accept commissions for works with motifs of your choice, whether traditional themes such as

• portraits,
• landscapes,
• your own house, your pet, etc.

or tailored to your very personal predilections, e.g.

• paintings after your favourite tunes,
• paintings about "Energize yourself / To find energy" or "Centre yourself",
• design of unusual business cards.

Upon request, she will execute the commissioned works using your favourite colours or preferred technique (oil, reddle & bistre).

The Secret Life of IJK:

• 1983: Diplom-Ingenieur graduation at the Technische Universität Graz.
• 1984-88: Fulbright scholarship, academic work in the United States.
• 1988: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL (USA).
• Since 1988: Work in the IT and telecommunications industries in Vienna.

 

Informations required by Austrian law (Offenlegung gem. §25 MedienG).

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