Kai Philip Trausenegger

Kai Philip Trausenegger was born 1990 in Vienna, Austria.

Trausenegger’s interest in ethnology, spirituality, rituals and technology have great influence on his work. Social practices and art theory premises are mingled and interwoven with fiction, history and reality.

His objects and installations take up current media theories while simultaneously making use of contemporary advertising aesthetics. Manipulation, exaggeration and generalisation are understood as phenomena and tools that one can use in order to expand one’s sphere of influence. The balancing act to kitsch and the invisible borders of art that go with it, play a central role here.

Through the use of modern production techniques such as 3D printing or precision laser processing, historic forms receive novel interpretations and are turned into contemporary objects. Gothic arches are replaced by baroque bombast and glossed over with a pinch of meta-modernism. An amalgamation takes place that pays no heed to historical truth but nonetheless allows for a glimpse of a view of the future.

Kai Trausenegger studied Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

 
Photos (c) Kaja Clara Joo and Manuel Carreon Lopez