Silvia Sun

Those Trees. I'm fascinated with trees. How could I not? Even my name Silvia refers to a person who comes from the trees.

My artwork takes a critical view of social, cultural and nature issues. In my work, I explore men’s boundary points with nature as well as his position in society. The dichotomies singularity and mass, wilderness and civilization, proximity and distance permeate the works. Questions about the space one needs for a prosperous being are essential. As in the history of the Icarus and in the constellation of the planets around the sun, it is only the right distance that makes a prosperous being and terrestrial life possible at all.

My art is a mixture of figurative compositions with spontaneous or planned sceneries. The nature in the works, however, is always twisted with contrasting elements of urban civilisation.
The works feature a combination of various techniques such as photography, printing, painting, scratching, and the use of differing materials, like oil, markers, chalk, ink, preserving jars, popcorn, jumble sale findings and even mould.
My main intention is to go beyond horizons and to search for what’s below the surface, digging for the unconscious and the wilderness in oneself. However, the...

Graduate from Vienna University, Studies of History.
Graduate of College of Fashion & Design, Linz.

Exhibitions in Linz, Vienna, New York, Hamburg, Basel.
2020 Schlossmuseum, Linz: Kultur brauch Kunst
2020 Galerie Sturm und Drang, Linz: "Homophilia"
2020 Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK: "International Postcard Show"
2020 Ateliertheater, Wien: Wunderwerke II
2020 DIE KUNSTSCHAFFENDEN, Linz: "happybirthday75" Jubiläumsausstellung
2019 Galerie der Kunstschaffenden, Linz: "Lost & Found"
2019 Galerie KRAS, Wien
2019 LINZ AG Kunstforum,2019 LINZ AG Kunstforum, Linz: "Wandlungen"
2019 Galerie der Kunstschaffenden, Linz: "Reisen" (next-comic-Festival)
2018 WIFI Kunstforum, Linz: "Thermoking"
2018 Galerie der Kunstschaffenden bvoö, Linz: "Drive safely, darling"
2018 consim, Wels: "Paradise. Lost"
2018 Galerie Kunstverein Paradigma, Linz: "kezz & pezz VI"
2018 Galerie der Kunstschaffenden OÖ, Linz: "Das Atelier"
2018 Galerie Hofkabinett, Linz: "zusammen"
2017 Galerie der Kunstschaffenden OÖ, Linz: "Jagen und Sammeln"
2017 Van der Plas Gallery, New York, USA: "All Art"
2017 Artbox Project, Basel, Switzerland: "Basel 1.0", Screening at Basel artweeks
2017 bvö Vereinigung Kunstschaffender OÖ, "We are the robots" (next-comic-festival)
2017 bvö Vereinigung Kunstschaffender OÖ, "Die Neuen - Jäger und Sammler"
2017 Barmherzi...