all mine

The video "all mine" shows several shots of a white towel in a tropical landscape. Lena Schwingshandl and Lisa Großkopf play with the symbolism of space occupying towels on the holiday beach and humorously thematize the claims of public space on holidays. However, the scenery is not set on a holiday beach on the Mediterranean coast or in the Caribbean, but in the Tropical Islands Resort in the interior of Germany, far away from any open-air bathing resorts and natural sea access. In the summer of 2019, Lisa Großkopf and Lena Schwingshandl went on an artistic research trip to the Tropical Islands Resort together, asking themselves, among other things, how that which is regarded as authentic and artificially created merges into one another.

Director Biography - Lisa Großkopf, Lena Schwingshandl

Lisa Großkopf, a viennese artist (*1989), studied at the Art University Linz, the University for Applied Arts Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her works were shown in various exhibitions including at Organhaus (Chongqing, CN), at CCA (Tel Aviv, IL), at Krinzinger Projekte (Vienna, AT) and at the Museum for Applied Arts (Frankfurt/Main, DE). She was awarded the grant for emerging artists by the Federal Chancellery of Vienna, the Gabriele Heidecker Prize and the Fred-Adlmüller grant.

Lena Schwingshandl (*1994) is an Austrian artist, currently based in Vienna. She has finished her BA in Visual Communication at the University of Arts and Design in Linz during which she also spent one year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tallinn, Estonia. Since 2018 she studies Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She exhibited among others at Scaffold Gallery (Manchester, UK) EKA Galerii (Tallinn, EST) and at Prospekthof (Vienna, AT) and performed together with Laura Cemin at the Modern Art Museum, Kiasma (Helsinki, FI) in 2019.