Artists

Alicia Viebrock

Press release

Alicia Viebrock (b. 1986, Munich, Germany) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Professor Herbert Brandl and lives and works in Vienna, Austria. 
 
Alicia Viebrock's paintings showcase simultaneous flickering and extinguishing, with movements and counter-movements in color streams that flow or get stuck. Her works juxtapose exuberance with reduction, luminous ink with smeared colors, and soft washes with angular precision. There is no single cause, only a hidden ‘big bang’ from which everything takes on specific forms retrospectively.
 
On watery backgrounds, pastose events unfold, reminiscent of crystalline ice or exploding flowers in space. Viebrock's process involves a ping pong between irrationality and planning, creating unique interactions between ink and acrylic that generate different tensions. 
 
Physical impressions in her work reveal vague intuitions and centuries of painterly particles condensed in brushstrokes and color formations, bridging impressionism and abstract expressionism. Free from anecdotal interpretation, her paintings are given playful titles with wordplay and associations, often ranked by symbols.
 
(Excerpt of a text by Galerie Bärbel Grässlin for Alicia Viebrock’s Exhibition Manienna)