by Artistic Research PhD Candidates of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Supervisor: Brigitte Felderer
My Artistic Research PhD project at the University of Applied Arts Vienna analyses Abrahamic religious traditions and their archetypal symbolism in light of their afterlife mythologies. These mythologies may have been transmitted orally, visually or through ancient scripture. Western secular society and its limited answers to metaphysical questions enable a unique framework to inspect the powerful nature of cultural and religious aesthetic symbolisms. The academic findings and inter-religious classifications of my research will be combined with an artistic project, primarily by studying the media of painting and garment design and the visual means of organising the empirical world. The findings will be publicly presented and discussed through personal initiatives, and artistic and intellectual property will be treated as a semi-public domain, omnipresent and open to discussion.
Konstanze Stoiber (*1999) was born and is based in Vienna. Stoiber completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design and Painting at the Parsons School of Design, New York City and Paris. Moving to Oxford at age 15 and pursuing her studies in Paris and New York City allowed Stoiber to examine her personal and collective history at a distance. She is currently participating in the Artistic Research PhD Programme at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Her most recent exhibitions include: Buried in Thought, SPARK Art Fair (solo) (2024); There Have to be Bells, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna (solo) (2024); September. Reminiscence of a Journey to the Holy Land, Department for Biblical Studies, Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna, Vienna (solo) (2023); She Only Likes Violence, Galerie D., Romainville, France (solo) (2022); and the Parsons Paris Graduate Show: YMCA, Paris (group) (2021).