Esther Stocker

Selected artworks

Exhibitions

Esther Stocker

Galarie Scheffe – Ferdinandstraße
6 September 2024 – early November 2024

Blickachsen 13

Organizer: Blickachsen Foundation
14 May – 1 October 2023

Biography

Esther Stocker

Esther Stocker, born in Silandro, Italy, in 1974, studied painting from 1994 to 2000, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. While still a student, Stocker was able to take part in her first exhibitions with her paintings. Since then, she has received numerous art awards for her work, which she has meanwhile expanded from murals to huge façade designs, extensive room installations and large sculptures in the public space. Her works are represented internationally in public as well as private art collections. The Vienna-based artist regularly exhibits her works worldwide in solo and group exhibitions, particularly throughout Europe, in the USA and in Asia.

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In her paintings, sculptures and installations, Esther Stocker visualizes the supposed precision of systems as a fleeting phenomenon. From lines, surfaces and simple formal elements, she develops ever new variations of geometric patterns, rhythmic orders and grid structures in black and white, whose systematics she simultaneously disrupts through deliberate interventions – through deviations, superimpositions, shifts or gaps. “I am interested in transformation and how simple signs create confusion,” says Stocker. “I want the forms to detach themselves from our expectations and use the precision of a system to question the system itself.”

The visual disruptions and irritations in Stocker's works play with our habits of perception and our understanding of order. The simultaneity of the expected and the unexpected, of order and disorder, clarity and ambivalence activates our imagination and opens up a mental space. The artist thus invites us to reflect on social relationships and structures, to pursue existential questions and to think in terms of complex interrelationships.