Ulrike Lienbacher (born 1963 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg) is an Austrian artist. [1] She works in various media [2] and lives in Salzburg and Vienna. [3]
Ulrike Lienbacher (born 1963 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg) is an Austrian artist. [1] She works in various media [2] and lives in Salzburg and Vienna. [3]
Lienbacher studied sculpture at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg from 1981 to 1987 [4] and has been active as an artist since the late 1980s. She was appointed president of the Salzburger Kunstverein for a term of office in 2001. [5] [6] She led the sculpture class at the Mozarteum University from 2017 until 2022. [7]
She works in the media of drawing, sculpture and photography and adopts a specific, discrete approach for each: generally speaking, it is the difference between the media that Lienbacher is interested in. [8] In her art she deals with the human body, [9] especially under the aspects of optimization, standardisation, supervision and performance. [10] She explores the dependency system of social norms and regulations as well as notions of discipline and control: it depicts the human body within ‘a culture of hygiene and health’, [11] as a "bearer of socio-cultural history into which the social value system is inscribed". [12] [13]
