Katja Uccusic-Indra

Swarming in the ink sky
In Katja Uccusic-Indra’s works viruses, vulcans, skulls and feministic symbols swarm. Mickey Mouse and Keith Harings barking dog say good night to each other under the black ink sky. A passionate bite in well-formed fruits and vegetables ranging from purple eggplants and green apples to red melons. A small girl is sitting on a dorian column with a Roman Venus mirror in her hands. It is reminiscent of Pop Art, childish graffiti and modern caveman painting.

Stop the war
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion artists all over the world like Katja request Putin to leave Ukraine with his bombs and tanks. The dictator violates human rights daily. In Katja’s pictures you can see children attacked by arrows and Russian symbols. The war infects Europe like a plague. The white ears of Mickey Mouse stand for peace and prosperity so that children can have a future without violence, murder and death. “I have children on my own. I don’t want them to fight in World War III”, says Katja, “Peace has to be restored. I am addressing Wolodymyr Selenskyj to negotiate.”
Another war is going on in Israel: It has to be stopped, too! Wars are for museums, not for people. We need a future like in Star Trek, not like Star Wars.

In summer 1990 I took part at "21 days of drawing" at Fondazione Ratti in Como (teachers: Antonio Saura and Antonio Lopez Garcia)
1990 I started to study painting at the Academy of fine Arts Vienna (teacher: Friedensreich Hundertwasser)
1992 I took part at a cast bronze course at Summer Academy Salzburg (teacher: Josef Zenzmair)
1996 I finished my studies at the Academy of fine Arts with distinction (Master of Art)

1990 Winner at graphic seminar in Como, Italy, at Fondazione Ratti
(teachers: Antonio Saura, Antonio Lopez Garcia)
1991 Winner at Austrian graphic competition, Tyrol
takes part at exhibition “die kunst” at Messepalast, Vienna (curated by Oswald Oberhuber)
1992 Exhibithion at Summer Academy, Salzburg
1993 Solo exhibition at Otto Wagner Pavillon, Vienna
1995 Exhibition at Cselley Mühle, Oslip, Burgenland
1996 Exhibition at the Academy of fine Arts Vienna
Solo exhibition Gallery Celeste, Vienna
Exhibition Tabakmuseum, Vienna
Exhibition with master class Hundertwasser in Moscow
1997 Solo exhibition at Wien-Haus, Brussels
Exhibition at Radisson-Hotel, Düsseldorf
Exhibition at the House of Parliament, Vienna
1998 Solo exhibition at Gaedkes, Graz
1999 Solo exhibition Gallery Lichtenfels, Vienna
2000 Participation at art project “Flags without borders”, boiler house Simmering, Vienna
2003 Solo exhibition at charity gala “Knospe”, Odeon, Vienna
2004 Solo exhibition at Klimt-Villa, Vienna
2010 Exhibition with coop.incontro at Kabelwerk, Vienna
takes part at the sketchbook project, Brooklyn Art Library, New York
2013 Solo exhibition Art address Landstrasse, Vienna
2014 Exhibition “Works on paper”, Kleine Galerie, Vienna
2015 Exhibition “Cheer...