Cornelia König
Austria
born 1963
Apart from political and socio-critical topics Cornelia König's artwork reflects mostly autobiographical themes. Repeatedly they show love and happiness, separation, relationships on a personal level, communication and social interactions.
König's imagery allows us to share her personal souvenirs which can touch us with their narrative power, even if we do not necessarily consciously decode them.
Holidays ‘en famille’ or individual trips to remote countries add special impulses to her art - a work which is mostly developed in series. Without falling into a creatively blurred retrospection, König succeeds in generalising matters which are inspired by her private life to a higher level of universal validity. In this sense the artist's sceptical query for the self as well as her emotionality becomes figuratively a window to the world providing a plethora of possible interpretations.