Portrait Jana Euler

Interview Verena Dengler

Verena Dengler’s solo show at the Kunsthalle Bern earlier this year showcased the enor­mous range of the Viennese artist’s practice in nearly all mediums. Although each of her works loudly asserts its own autonomy, the power of her art does not lie in individual objects but in the polyphonic and contradic­tory stories they invoke. Whether in her exhibitions or as a member of the Burschen­schaft Hysteria, a Vienna ­based all ­female fraternity that espouses the end of patriarchy, Dengler finds the weak spots in the dominant view of reality and authoritarian discourses. She puts them under strain in the hope of breaking authoritarian discourses once and for all, with wit and political con­viction.