Art and Humour, Humor in Art

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Portfolio: narrative art, insects in art, search for traces, narrative visual art

Claudia Antonius and Jörg Jozwiak work in the field of visual art, respectively Austrian contemporary art. They live in Vienna. In this place, they have founded the artist group Institute of Inter-witted Research. The institute’s artistic studies are dedicated to the interface between sense, nonsense, pensiveness, deeper meaning and senselessness. Its artistic strategies are post-conceptual and multi-media. The work of the two artists comprises:

• concept art and post-conceptual art
• conceptual painting
• conceptual photography
• art photography
• contemporary painting
• intervention art
• narrative visual art
• performance
• participatory art

Claudia Antonius and Jörg Jozwiak also realise works in the public space. Their work revolves around the following themes and topics:

• the serious within the humorous, and the humour to be found within the serious
• humor in art; art and humour
• narrative elements in contemporary art, storytelling in visual art
• search for traces
• fake biographies and invented characters
• insects in art
• art and conspiracy theories

The artworks of the Institute are presented at festivals and exhibitions nationally (in Austria) and internationally.

Education

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Claudia Antonius has studied art history at the university of Salzburg and graduated in 1998. Furthermore, she studied Visual Art (painting) at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (mentor: Adolf Frohner) and the Düsseldorf Art Academy (mentor: Siegrfied Anzinger). Claudia Antonius graduated there in 2003. Jörg Jozwiak studied Visual Art. He studied painting at Ottersberg College of Art (Germany), multi-media art at Liverpool Art School and sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (mentor: Klaus Rinke). Jörg Jozwiak graduated there in 2003. Furthermore, he received a PhD in Visual Art from Goldsmiths College, London, in 2014.

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