{"id":28092,"date":"2025-10-08T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=28092"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:03:03","slug":"claudia-ungersback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2025\/10\/08\/claudia-ungersback\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Ungersb\u00e4ck"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"28092\" class=\"elementor elementor-28092\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f079fb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7f079fb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b6af64 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b6af64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\tYear of birth: 1980<br>\nWhere do you live: Vienna<br>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claudiaungersbaeck.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/claudia.ungersbaeck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43fe8c6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"43fe8c6\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b43d35 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b43d35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28094 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Profilbildclaudiaungersbaeck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Profilbildclaudiaungersbaeck.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Profilbildclaudiaungersbaeck-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Profilbildclaudiaungersbaeck-792x1024.jpg 792w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Profilbildclaudiaungersbaeck-768x993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Profilbildclaudiaungersbaeck-600x775.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/h4><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could you tell us more about how your studies in fashion design, philosophy, and printmaking have influenced your artistic language today?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I liked studying fashion design \u2013 the scholl, the classmates, full of creativity and embition in drawing, pattern making, and how to sew my own designs. I experimented a lot, and most of my designs were studies in technique. In printmaking I learned how to place figures in space and how tot hink in reverse for printing. I painted and drew from magazines first and also used them as material in my copy art.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Philosophy was hard form me \u2013 being patient in reading and writing, taking exams \u2013 and I stopped studying several times. At one point I finished my BA, and looking vack, I encountered so many philosophers and schools of thought, found many answers and new ideas. In Philosophy there is a lot of critique, assertion, and refutation. It made me calmer to know most oft he questions have been discussed somewhere before. I often stood out with my questions \u2013 and those I now persue in art. I am not particulary good at academic writing, but my questions continue in a different form.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28095 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-1.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-1-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-1-768x526.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-1-600x411.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Claudia Ungersb\u00e4ck | Sculptiturity | 2020<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What first inspired you to work with paper as a sculptural and poetic material?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my exhibition \u201eout of the blue\u201c, a paper sculpture emerged accidentially\u00a0 &#8211; I wanted to cover the floor with paper. At that time, I was working with plexiglass as a contuniation of a printmaking plate. I also see my copy art and digital works as developed forms of printmaking surfaces. I always wanted too make sculptures out of language, and that\u00b4s how Sculptituritys emerged \u2013 at first as scetches. Each sheed became like a sentence, a fragment of language that grew into something spartial.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you decide when a work is finished, especially when you work with improvisation and automatism?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At one stage I simply get fed up with working \u2013 that either another step follows , or the work is finished.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28096 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-2.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-2-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-2-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-2-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-2-600x412.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Claudia Ungersb\u00e4ck | Sculptiturity | 2020<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your series Sculptiturity merges sculpture, architecture, music and poetry. How do these different disciplines interact in a single piece?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I work in series, in cyckes. One work leads to the next. I wanted to create something that merges all surroundings \u2013 fragments and elements of everything \u2013 into one form. Each discipline informs the other, and together they shape a space that is material and poetic at the same time.<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You mention \u201cmachine poems\u201d based on console sounds. How do you capture and translate sound into visual form?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know how to play keyboard. While typing templates for Textk\u00f6rper I became aware of the sounds \u2013 even when I play music, I compose poems. On the console I had shorter rows, and a kind of Fluxus feeling emerged \u2013 tapping the keys rhytmically. One thing flowed into another.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28097 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-3.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-3-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-3-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-3-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-3-600x420.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Claudia Ungersb\u00e4ck | Sculptiturity | 2020<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do you hope viewers will feel when they encounter your artworks\u2014should they read them, listen to them, or simply experience them physically?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I work, I think with the material and develop a concept while experimenting. Then I think about the concept and continue. I hope viewers perseive my work with all senses \u2013 openly, without prejudice, and freely.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28098 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-4.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-4-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-4-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-4-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Claudia-Ungersback-Sculptiturity-2020-4-600x415.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/> Claudia Ungersb\u00e4ck | Sculptiturity | 2020<\/p><h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could you share a moment when someone\u2019s interpretation of your work surprised or inspired you?<\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I presented Moments at Textk\u00f6rper und Musikbilder, someone told me that my work shows how deeply humans are \u201ethrown into language\u201c. 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