Oktavia Schreiner
Oktavia Schreiner is a visual artist working in ceramic and wood to produce large-scale, painted sculptural objects. Using the abilities and strength of materials, the artist engages a mainly process based, improvised approach to making art. The images she paints and scratches onto and into the clay or wooden surface are made as part of a concern for the material form and relates to both the mental and physical perspectives we have to objects and space.
Oktavia Schreiner was born in 1991 in Salzburg and grew up in Berlin, Rome and Linz. She has a Master’s in Fine Art from the University of Art and Design, Linz and a Master of Letters in Fine Art Practice from the Glasgow School of Art. Oktavia has been on numerous residencies and study trips including in Rochester, USA; Tokio, JPN; Cesky Krumlov, CZ; and Glasgow UK. In 2020 she received the ´Arno Lehmann Prize for ceramics` and in 2021/22 she has been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Arts and Design Linz. Oktavia is exhibiting internationally with upcoming shows at `Mana Contemporary` in Jersey City, USA; at `Generator Projects` in Dundee and at `Die Kunstschaffenden - Galerie im OÖ Kulturquartier` in Linz, Austria. Since 2017 she lives in Glasgow where she is a studio member at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
Image List
1.`Die Erfindung der Religion und die Ordnung der Planetoiden`(`The Invention of Religion and the Order of the Planetoids`). Ceramic and wood, 100 x 100 x 175 cm, 2021. Photo by Bart Urbanski. First shown at an exhibition at 16 Nicholson Street Gallery and Arts Collective, Glasgow, UK
2. Detail: `Die Erfindung der Religion und die Ordnung der Planetoiden`(`The Invention of Religion and the Order of the Planetoids`). Ceramic and wood, 100 x 100 x 175 cm, 2021. Photo by Bart Urbanski. First shown at an exhibition at 16 Nicholson Street Gallery and Arts Collective, Glasgow, UK.
3. `Beichte` (`Confession`). Ceramic and wood, 180 x 70 x 60 cm, 2021. Photo by Bart Urbanski. First shown at the 16 Nicholson Street Gallery and Arts Collective, Glasgow, UK.
4. `Der Einfall der Dinge`, exhibition view, Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, 2019. Foreground: Sie Waren Unter Sich (They Were By Themselves). Ceramic and wood, 220 x 175 x 100 cm, 2018.
5. `Der Einfall der Dinge`, exhibition view, Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz, 2019, Foreground: Unter Anderen Dingen (Among Other Things). Ceramic and wood, 240 x 240 x 35 cm, 2018.
6: Detail: `Entsprechung`. Ceramic and wood, two each 40x40x40cm, 2018.
7. `Hausberg´. Ceramic, 180x40x40cm, 2017.
8. Detail: `Hausberg´. Ceramic, 180x40x40cm, 2017.
9. Detail: DÜNUNGEN 1-8. Granite, wood, woodstain, approx: each 40x40x65 cm, 2016.
10. Insel-Syndrom (Island Syndrome). Wood and woodstain, 170 x 70 x 200 cm, 2016.