on Mahony
The artist group Mahony was founded in 2002 by Stephan Kobatsch, Jenny Wolka, Andreas Duscha and Clemens Leuschner. All four currently live and work in Vienna.
Andreas Duscha quit in 2010 to concentrate on his solo projects.
Much of Mahony´s artistic production derives from wellknown and unknown historical facts. This kind of appropriation in Mahony-terms always means questioning, transforming, translating, re-associating and reactivating the chosen topic. With this process they form new rhizomatic nets making connections from past to present, paths that go across geographical and historical zones, social and political contexts. They alienate the viewer by translating found material from ancient times into ours or from one culture into another. At the beginning of a project oftentimes stands a journey to places like Yucatan (2011), Ushuaia (2009) and Brasil (by cargoship, 2009). Therefore works that emerge in public space or in the countryside are later continued in the studio and vice versa. The media and material that Mahony use are diverse, the group works with video, photo, print, collage, sculpture, performance, urban intervention and installation.
Victoria Dejaco, 2011
Florian Zinke and Constantin Demner were also part of Mahony.
Florian produced next to other projects with Mahony the movie 51 Grad, 16V sticht and Novemberrain. He lives in Bejing and is the owner of the filmproduction tree-house.
Constantin Demner took part in the projects 51 Grad, 16V sticht, Happy End Maschine
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gallery representation Galerie Emanuel Layr
