980 born in Schwenningen, southwest Germany.

Lives and works in Vienna since 2007, since 2011 as a freelance artist.

Work

Ramona Schnekenburger is able to direct our gaze to the beauty of the present both personally and through her pictures. Small details, everyday situations and supposedly nothingness gain presence through the artist’s brush and pen. In doing so, she does not transfigure any realities, but encounters inconspicuous figures, ambivalent situations, or even bizarre-looking animals with a devotion to individuality. The artist’s gaze directs attention, creates meaning and relevance.
If at the beginning of the observation there is a tendency to give priority to technical processes and manual skills, the second level of observation is one that is detached from the concrete. Here the gaze of the beholder can remove several layers and subtract assignable from abstract subtleties. What is obviously recognizable takes a back seat, the sensual appearance of the picture becomes noticeable.
Oil paint, pencil and colored pencil are the preferred painting media that are applied to canvas, various types of paper, and sometimes wood.
For some time now, Ramona Schnekenburger has been working intensively on the design of the background. She experiments with different materials and surfaces. Reduced detail in favor of free space. Shadows and light, ups and downs are gaining in importance. Cracks and cracks – the structure and the character of the painting surface develop a dimension of their own in the artist’s visual language. Accidental and deliberate execution collide.
They are protracted processes in which the naturalistically carefully worked out forms and the subtly suggested backgrounds merge with one another.
In the works of the last few years, figures and details dissolved from the background, in the current phase they dissolve more and more. From dissolving to dissolving. Structures, influences, and the unconscious have been gaining more and more importance in the artist’s visual language since 2017.
This development also requires a differentiated, sensitive approach, and challenges us to delicacy to perceive change potential and change. Thus, Ramona Schnekenburger stands out as a subtle artist personality with powerful stylistics from the shrill, loud artistic desire of the time. Art as an instrument of world and self-knowledge, which throws us back on our own perception and willingness to reflect, is the strength of the gentle and at the same time challenging paintings by Ramona Schnekenburger
Julia Haimburger

Exhibitions

2020 Female Gaze, Julia Faber I Ramona Schnekenburger I Adele Razkövy I Debora Sengl I Elena Steiner, Galerie Lehner, Vienna
2019 5, LENA GÖBEL – HARUKO MAEDA – ANDREA PESENDORFER – RAMONA SCHNEKENBURGER – VERONIKA SUSCHNIG, Galerie Margund Lössl, Gmunden (At)
2019 Linzer Kunstsalon 2019, Galerie Margund Lössl, Linz (At)
2019 Schichten – Ramona Schnekenburger (solo), Hollerei Galerie, Vienna (At)
2019 ART AUSTRIA VIENNA 2019, Galerie 422 Margund Lössl, Vienna (At)
2019 DRAWING NOW PARIS 2019, Galerie Heike Curtze, Paris (F)
2018/9 Von Menschen und Tieren, Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna (At)
2018 Fair For Art Vienna, Aula der Wissenschaften (Galerie AMART), Vienna (At)
2018 CREATURA, Galerie Heike Curtze Salzburg, Salzburg (At)
2018 DRAWING NOW PARIS 2018, Galerie Heike Curtze, (F)
2018 WIKAM- Wien 2018, Palais Niederösterreich (Galerie AMART)(At)
2018 ‘SCHWARZ / WEISS’, Galerie Kolhammer & Mahringer, Vienna (At)
2017 ‘Zeichnung Wien V’, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna (At)
2017 ‘Eine Retrospektive in neuem Licht-Irmentrud List-Gersheim und Ramona Schnekenburger’ Grünspan-Plattform für Kunst und Kultur, Feffernitz bei Villach (At)
2017 ‘Ahead of the Game’, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt (At)
2017 Art Austria 2017, Palais Liechtenstein Vienna (Galerie AMART) (At)
2017 ART Vienna 2017, Leopold Museum Wien (Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky-Vienna) (At)
2016 ‘ Wir blicken zurück’, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna (At)
2016 Natur-Landschaft, Galerie AMART, Vienna (At)
2016 ‘ZEICHNUNG WIEN IV’, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna (At)
2016 ‘Fressen und gefressen werden’, Vulcano Ursprung, Auersbach, Oststeiermark (At)
2016 Eröffnungsausstellung Galerie AMART, Vienna (At)
2015 RAMONA SCHNEKENBURGER- A New Perspective’, Artist’s Space des Le Meridien, Vienna (solo) (At)