Loretta Stats

1979, born in Brasov, Romania
lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Looking at the pictures by Loretta Stats creates the feeling that she has been ardently working on advancing a certain concept and that she tries to get a grip on an increasingly complex thought system through the means of painting, but without compromising on her personal style. A style that was discovered, that clearly communicated that it was somehow good, but also that something had to and should still happen to it. Stats is strongly committed to a youth culture, both because of her age and her socialization; she conveys the medium of painting by the medium of photography, which reflects a current trend among young painters. Irrespective of whether her objects are figuratively or conceptually superimposed or she, as in rare cases, simply devotes herself to abstraction nearly always a photograph or another electronically created image layer plays a prominent role as information carrier. Just like the flood of images from everyday media, advertising and television stands between ourselves and reality, Stats puts camera images, photographs or computer images between everyday life as we experience it and her painting. It is one of the artists basic statements that to...

1989-1997 Art Lyceum in Braşov, Romania
1997-2002 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Field of study: Painting & Graphic Art, Public Art, Prof. Hubert
Schmalix
2002 University graduation with distinction (Magister)

2022 portals of wonder, RKI, Wien (solo)
Skriptorium, Symposium Stift Seitenstetten
...weiter lügen, Gastbeitrag, Museum am Bach, Ruden
2021 Winter Special - Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
Dauerausstellung, Museum am Bach, Ruden
2020 Adventausstellung, Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
Freiheit der Wahl, Museum am Bach, Ruden
2019 patet omnibus veritas, Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg (solo)
Realität ins Bild bringen. NÖArt, Wanderausstellung, NÖ
10th Anniversary _flat1, Wien
SuperParadiso, MAB, Ruden
Ein Raum ohne Bücher, Künstlerhaus, Wien
Meer und mehr, ipforum, Wien
2018 Im Fokus, Klinger Contemporary, Wien (solo)
Hier-dort, Nationalmuseum Cotroceni, Bucharest (RO)
Melancholie. Museum am Bach, Ruden
Geschichte gemeinsam verhandeln. Haus der Geschichte, Wien
Landkarten der Demokratie, Bleiburg
Art Affair I, Klinger Contemporary, Wien
ipforum, Wien
2017 Formen der Wirklichkeit, RKI, Wien
games and circles, Museum am Bach
Klinger Contemporary, Wien
2016 ich schau nur @ Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Wien (solo)
Ei oder Henne, flat1, Wien
designing beauty. Museum am Bach – Institut für Systemkunde, Ruden
featuring Kaisersteinbruch / shaping reality #1, Paintin...