Wedenig Elizabeth – Becoming an Island I

About the author:She was born in 1980 in St. Veit, Austria. After one year of studies at the Latvian Academy of Arts in Riga, she returned to Austria and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, pedagogical program, graduating in 2005, and in 2001 attended painting studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts. From 2004 she studied painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2008. Her artistic work is focused on painting. So far, she has held about twenty solo exhibitions and participated in around 50 group exhibitions in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, and the USA. She has received several awards for her work, participates in mentoring programs and artist residencies in Austria and Slovenia. She also participates in art projects and exhibition organizations such as the interdisciplinary art project “Das Graue Bb” with three other colleagues. She works in Carinthia and Vienna.