Ingeborg Strobl

Ingeborg Strobl’s oeuvre is moored in the tradition of conceptual and intermedia art. Natural and animal subjects acting as mirror images of society take up a central role in her objects, installations, collages, paintings, photographs, films, and publications. Also evident in her work is a predilection for the marginal, the hidden, that which is all-too easy to overlook or repress as well as a concomitant aversion to obsessive production and consumption. Her earliest works are color crayon drawings and the ceramics she made while a student in London. Both of these groups of works are characterized by a surreal illusionism with animal motifs, in which the artist’s sense of the hidden beauty of the ephemereal, or the transitory nature of all splendor, is already apparent. Am Beginn ihres Oeuvres stehen Buntstiftzeichnungen und in der Studienzeit in London geschaffene keramische Arbeiten. Beide Werkgruppen sind von einem surrealen Illusionismus mit Tiermotiven geprägt, worin sich bereits der Sinn der Künstlerin für die im Vergänglichen verborgene Schönheit bzw. für die Hinfälligkeit aller Pracht manifestiert.