Florine Imo lives and works in Austria where she is currently studying in her final year at the Academy of fine Arts, Vienna.
"The mood of a place is always very important. Everything happens in spaces, and our energy stays there for a while after. I want to engage with a painting when I can feel the mood. Shadows, wind, and electricity in the air all need to transcend over the edge of the artwork and into the room. My figures are the bodies of my ideas. Today they become the representatives of the mood and attitude, while still being completely independent from my intentions. I’ve been asked why I only paint females, and to be honest - for a long time this question never even crossed my mind. I am a woman painting women, because the most honest way to express a certain feeling, is to show how a woman moves through space. “The grin“ in my paintings came to mind through fast sketches. It gives my figures power and danger, but also a certain kind of sensitivity and ugliness. It adds another layer of character, while giving them too much individuality to fit the concept of the “pretty one.” They turn more and more into their own beings, winding themselves away from my control. Often, it’s as if the figure in the painting has its own idea about what the painting needs. It’s not just about painting shapes to build a figure, instead the women represented become so real and heavy that I automatically turn into one of them.I can’t withhold the energy they emit, and my goal is that no one else can.”
Education
- Higher School Certificate, BORG of Music and Art, Hegelgasse 12, 1010 Vienna, Austria
June 2014
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
start of studies in the figuratve painting class in October 2016
Exchange
Erasmus semester at the Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
Jan-Jun 2019
Exhibitions
2017 Tschau Ragazzi, Academy of fine Arts, Vienna
2017 Junge Kunst VOL.03, Damani, Vienna
2017 The Figurative Painting Class, Otto Bauer, Vienna,
2018 Young Vienna Surreal, Kolja Kramer Galerie,
Art Area Brotfabrik, Vienna
2018 Art for Peace, Kolja Kramer Galerie, Semperdepot, Vienna
2019 Keeping Warmth, Instillation, Icelandic University of the
Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 Book Presentation and reading of “cold stones warm
hearts”, Safnarhúsið - Culture House of Reykjavík, Iceland
2019 solo show “cold stones warm hearts”, junge Kunst,
Vienna
2020 the artist appointment, solo show and artist interview
with Mariella Pertschy, Süßwasser, Vienna
2020 group show with Art Attach, Loft, Vienna
2020 alone. not lonely, Einflussraum, Vienna
2020 Caught in a Loop, solo show, Einflussraum, Vienna
2020 Johnny's Vienna's finest, Jonathan Seiffert Galerie, Vienna
2020 Bull in a China Shop, Tchotchke Gallery, New York, USA
2020 protest and protect, Feminist Art Museum, online show
2021 nudes / no nudes, Jonathan Seiffert Galerie, Vienna
2021 Wir Sperren Einfach Auf, mit Ona B. und Bergur Nordal,
On Space, Vienna
2021 Fireball, Installation, On Space, Vienna
2021 MOVING INLAND, group show, 100 State, Madison WI, USA
☆ upcoming exhibitions ☆
soft touch sharp teeth
on display with RED CARPED ART AWARD
Showroom Volkstheater Metro Station, July 2021
≈ Fireball ≈
opening 02.06.2021
@on Space, Volkertstraße 12, 1020 Vienna
see you <3
Wir Sperren Einfach Auf!
open Studio - 26. & 27.03.2021
with Bergur Nordal and Ona B.
Volkertstraße 17, 1020 Vienna
come by say hi <3