The artist Gunda Gruber (Salzburg AT 1971) has been working for many years on the
intersection between video photography graphic art and architecture. Many of her series
consist of layered elements and multimedia installations that challenge our perceptions of
space and time and make for a vivid experience of discontinuities and uncertainties as well as
the artist's creative process. Stages of reality overlap in Gruber's oeuvre as the space of
film becomes an extension of the physical universe structures borrowed from nature undergo
abstraction and social arrangements are subjected to scrutiny. Dialogue is central to her
practice: the artist's engagement with her materials the interactions between the forms and
strata within a work and finally the works' dialogue with the beholders. This book is
published on occasion of the artist's first museum exhibition for the award of the 2022 Grand
Prize for Visual Art of the State of Salzburg and included three new essays on Gunda Gruber's
artistic practice by Andrea Kopranovic Didi Neidhart and Tina Teufel.
