Publications / Texts
Publications
In Dialogue with Nature, Galerie Kovacek & Zetter, Vienna 2025, ISBN:978-3903434-27-1
“ACT III”, on the occasion of the exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava,,ed: Lower Austrian Documentation Center for Modern Art, 2024
Medusenküsse, together with the author Lydia Mischkulnig, Edition Thurnhof, 2020, ISBN 978-3-900678-51-7
Sound Check, Kunstverein Gallery Arcade 2020
Museum Angerlehner, 2013, ed.: Museum Angerlehner, Verlag Hirmer, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7774-2130
Wiener Zeitung EXTRA, “Anna Stangl”, Willy Puchner, Verlag Wiener Zeitung, Vienna 2018
“An unheard-of wish”, text: Sabine Gruber, graphics: Anna Stangl, Edition Thurnerhof, Horn, Austria. 2013
PARNASS, Anna Stangl “Idylle mit Giftpfeil”, Clarissa Mayer-Heinisch, issue 3/2012, Parnass Verlag, Vienna 2012
ORF, Regional Studio Upper Austria: “O.Ö. Heute”, 2011, Interview with Isabella Minniberger
WENN ANN TANZT, 2010, together with the author Ursula Brochard, Bucher Verlag, IISBN 978-3-99018-004-4
KHOJ BIHAR, Internationaler Künstler-Workshop, 2009, Hrsg.: Khoj International, Patna, Indien
“Aquarellhappening Tux”, ed. Christian Stock, Skarabäus Verlag Innsbruck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7082-3288-1
Radio Wienerwald, 1.8.2008, Interview with Gerhard Blaboll
ORF 1: “Treffpunkt Kultur”, October 2006, Interview with the artist
“Austrian Art, Expressive Tendencies in Austria since 1960”, ed.: Danubia Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava 2006
“Hunde ziehen vorbei ”, Comet Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN: 3-9502046-4-4
“Vision einer Sammlung”, 2004, ed.: Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
“ Desire”, 2001, EDITION OEHRLI, ed.: Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna and Ursula Blickle Foundation, Germany
“Schlafstörer und Damen”, 18 min., 16 mm film by Wilhelm Gaube, Vienna 2000
“Zeichnung: Linie”, ed.: Landesgalerie Oberösterreich and Bibliothek d. Provinz, Linz 1999, ISBN 3-85252-217-X
“Zeichnung I”, ed.: Museum Rupertinum, Salzburg, 1999
“Enthüllt, 1 Jahrhundert Akte Österreichischer Künstlerinnen”, published by NÖEArt 1999
“The Search Within”, 1998, ed.: Austrian-Indian Society, Vienna
“Anna Stangl”, ed.: Kunstverein Marburg and Galerie Lang, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85091-014-8
“Anna Stangl ”, ed.: Anna Stangl, Vienna 1996
“Anna Stangl – Galerie im Traklhaus”, ed.: Cultural Office of the City of Salzburg 1994
“Reise zu den Quellen”, ed.: Stella Rollig and the Austrian. Ministry of Culture, Austria 1994
“Malersymposion Werfen 1993”, ed.: Museumsverein Werfen and Cultural Office of the City of Salzburg
“Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner Telekommunizierbarkeit”, Documentation of the St. Veiter Fax Art-Event, Museum Albertina,
Transformator Verlag, Vienna 1992
“Innenland”, 1990, edited by Anna Stangl
Texts
Robert Pfaller /Zärtliche Auslagerung
One possible approach to Anna Stangl’s work is through a particular kind of philosophy. It existed in epochs in which philosophizing enjoyed a high social standing, for example in antiquity or in the 18th century, and had one goal above all: it was the attempt to strengthen an existing happiness or pleasure through its knowledge. In other words, a philosophy that attempts to make itself a part of the pleasure that it takes as its object. In this sense of philosophy, a small speculation could be sketched out, based on the pleasure that Anna Stangl’s works can evoke.
Sarah Jonas / The wilderness within us.
When you enter the light-flooded exhibition space at Museum Angerlehner, you are sucked into the narrative imagery of artist Anna Stangl: plant tendrils, predators and fish creatures find their way within the picture frames. In the middle: the human being. The delicate drawings provide insights into a world in which the boundaries between us and the nature that surrounds us are fluid. “Wilderness” is the title of the exhibition and you don’t have to look far to find it in the individual works. Deep waters, wild jungle landscapes and lush thickets surround the protagonists in Stangl’s works. It is almost always women whom the artist makes the main characters of her fantastic stories. If you immerse yourself in these stories, you realize that this wilderness not only describes the world around us, but also serves the artist as a metaphor to visualize human states of mind. It is about a wilderness that one finds within oneself; one that has an inherent beauty and at the same time a moment of menace. An ambivalence borne by feelings, fears, dreams and expectations, memories and hopes.
It is a field of tension between inner and outer states in which Stangl’s current works move and invite us to participate in them.
Margit Zuckriegl
The woman, the representation of the feminine, her own identity and her fragility in interaction with the erotic and hurtful, the uplifting and humiliating forces of an outside world perceived as different, are the themes of Anna Stangl. Her women and girlish creatures isolate themselves from the surrounding ambience in their dreams and imaginations, in their entanglement in sleep, in their loving embrace, in their concentration on their bodies. They are beings in the making, enclosed in their own spheres, as if in egg bubbles, which become their aura, in which they can move and develop freely, in which they can simply be, as it were, unseen.
Peter Weiermeier
Anna Stangl’s standing, reclining and seated figures – mostly women – are written on the white sheet with confident, delicate outlines. Sometimes they are accompanied by shadow figures (Dream), other times they are surrounded by animal silhouettes. (Lying with the hare). On other sheets, she intertwines the contours of several people and also lays them on top of each other.
Clarissa Mayer-Heinisch / Idylle mit Giftpfeil
Drawings and silhouettes by Anna Stangl
Anna Stangl’s drawings and silhouettes appear delicate, enchanting and aesthetic. Only on closer inspection does the viewer realize what the artist is really trying to say.
A girl surrounded by strange plants whose arms seem to be reaching for her, the dangerous life among wolves, a young woman lying on the mountain of her fertile eggs, or a delicately translucent face in the midst of overpowering houses. Anna Stangl draws her inspiration from very personal experiences and relationships, but also from daydreams and meditations. The small-format drawings and huge silhouettes, populated by people, plants and animals, are like fairy tales. Often inspired by medieval art and traditional stories, they tell the impressions of travels and study trips to foreign countries and cultures.
Anna Stangl
The human body is at the center of my work. It is a medium for me to express something else through it: because it is easiest for me to get close to something else, something less tangible, through something that I know and feel very well.
Gustav Schörghofer / Dogs pass by
Women, men, animals and plants are spread across the surface of the paper.
Anna Stangl uses chalk, charcoal, colored pencil, pencil, watercolor, oil paint, poppy seed oil – she carves and collages. The result is not a reproduction of objects. Anna Stangl’s works show something that cannot be seen in real life in this way. They are therefore not nude drawings, not landscapes, not even animal or plant drawings. They are a world of their own. This world is open to the viewer. It is accessible. It will be familiar to some, like a friendly place. Others will find it frightening, like something they don’t like to be reminded of.
Mark Gilbert / The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
On the work of Anna Stangl (short version)
In my text, I would like to focus on my very personal reception of Anna Stangl’s drawings and silhouettes.
A few years ago, the movie “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” was shown in the cinemas. This film is known here under the very watered-down German title “Vergiss mich nicht”,
. The screenplay for this film was written by cult author Charlie Kaufmann and is about a pair of lovers – played by Jim Carey and Kate Winslet – whose relationship falls apart. The plot twist is that the two of them independently visit a doctor – in a rather shabby surgery in Long Island near New York – who can remove their memories of their broken love, like deleting a damaged file from a hard disk.
But now emotions come into play, which complicate the treatment considerably.
The film transports us into the mind of Jim Carey as he remembers his girlfriend and realizes that he still loves her. The problem is that the treatment has already begun. He is anesthetized and can no longer interrupt the process. Meanwhile, the doctor’s technician is chasing Jim Carey’s memories of Kate Winslet, mercilessly erasing them.
Podcasts
wissensART
Anna Stangl: The illustrator of delicate figures
RTS Regionalfernsehen GmbH:
Galerie Schloss Wiespach invites you to the vernissage
“Zeich(n)en” by Anna Stangl & Lionel Favre
Salzburg
‘Hidden’ by Anna Stangl
@ ‘New Visions: contemporary painting in uncertain worlds’
CMR Art Gallery & Project Space, Redruth Cornwall
11-26 Aug 2012
» Watch video [in English, 4 min]
Radio Wienerwald @
Anna Stangl, painter
Broadcast on 01 Aug 2008
Gerhard Blaboll in conversation with the painter and draughtswoman Anna Stangl
» Listen to the program [25 min, mp3-file, 23 MB]
Anna Stangl, 2000
Portrait of the artist Anna Stangl
by Austrian filmmaker Wilhelm Gaube
16 mm film W. Gaube © 2000