Group Exhibition
Michael Fliri, Judith Neunhäuserer, Oliver Laric
Transfigurations: Matter, Identity, Mutation
Opening 23.05.
h 18 – 20
23.05.
21.06.25
Ortisei
Transfigurations: Matter, Identity, Mutation brings together the practices of Michael Fliri, Judith Neunhäuserer, and Oliver Laric to reflect on transformation as a material, perceptual, and conceptual condition. Through photography, sculpture, video, and digital media, the exhibition explores metamorphosis as a critical lens on contemporaneity — a time shaped by instability, hybridity, and continuous redefinition across biological, cultural, and technological domains.
Rather than illustrating change, the selected works engage it as process and proposition. The exhibition unfolds as a spatial continuum, encouraging transversal readings that highlight shared concerns across the artists’ practices.
Michael Fliri (*1978, Tubre, Italy) addresses the body as a site of ambiguity and transition. Works such as My Private Fog and The Skin of an Image activate porous boundaries between human and non-human, presence and disappearance. His sculptural and video works question identity through sensory dislocation and material transformation.
Judith Neunhäuserer (*1990, Brunico, Italy) adopts a research-based, transdisciplinary approach that bridges art, science, and ecology. Her works — including Formation of a Quantum Henge and All heat is the same, developed during a residency in the Arctic Circle — challenge static conceptions of matter. Drawing on megalithic forms, ice scans, and energy dynamics, she evokes temporal and systemic entanglements.
Oliver Laric’s (*1981, Innsbruck, Austria) work examines transformation within digital culture, where reproduction, scanning, and remixing collapse the boundaries between original and copy, subject and object. Betweenness (2018) and Krötentisch articulate intermediate states, while Pair of Dogs highlights the circulation and mutation of forms through art history and contemporary media.
The exhibition has been made possible due to the collaboration of Galleria Raffaella Cortese and GALERIE BRUGGER.
