Martina Tscherni

born in Hall in Tyrol.
lives and works in Vienna and Tyrol.
Martina Tscherni’s drawings unfold around her impressive, 20 meters-long “scetchbooks” – paper rolls covered with drawings. The paper rolls are the starting point for her artistic work, they reveal the themes and subjects of Martina Tscherni’s art, illuminate the detailed, meticulous way of her drawings and are the source and initial points for her drawings on paper, the visual storyboards and animation films and even stretched further, her drawings with yarn and thread.
Martina Tscherni has dedicated herself to a graphic account of natural organisms and organic microstructures. Stating in person she is a passionate drawer and her paper rolls – with a length up to 20 meters permanently filled with drawings – a kind of sketchbook. Thereby she sets off quite laid-back. And doesn’t know the modernistic fear and panic facing a blank sheet, on which the ultimate masterpiece has to be placed. She starts drawing like going on a long journey, full of relish, step by step, feeling to face a lot of time and space.
Martina Tscherni finds her motifs for all her drawings in nature: they weave together anatomically correct illustrations of brain convolutions, the ever-recurring sta...

Studies at the University for applied art, Vienna (masterclass for textile arts, Prof. M Rader-Soulek and masterclass for graphic artwork, Prof. Ernst Caramelle); degree;