ARTIST STATEMENT

Martina Stock, visual artist and harpist, based in Vienna and Berlin, working all over the world. A main topic of hers is the is the construction of a connection between visual art and music, creating an interface.

Based on their lyrical drawings “VENUS' HERZBLUT- a play of lines”
"PEOPLE MOVE PEOPLE" has been the first work resulting from these considerations, where her harp playing and drawings have been connected with IT in an interactive audiovisual installation. In her large-format serigraphs Martina Stock is experimenting with the contrast between soft systems and hard clarity. Urban geometries are combined with the colored contrasts of abstract art, out off which inter alia the "Blue EROS" has emerged / resulted. This is about the mise-en-scéne of an interaction of serigraphs, harp playing and light correlating with the respective given circumstances of the performance venue.

With her intuitive and at the same time wayward proceeding she creates works beyond their reproducibility, developing an openness which enables the audience's own imagination to dock at always new and different frames of references .

2010 together with the Hang player Christian Schratt she founded CIFERENCE-SYMPHONY | Harp & Hang.
In the work of Martina Stock the artistic forms influence and and inspire themselves mutually.

BIOGRAPHY

Martina Stock was born in 1981 in Schwarzach/Pongau in Austria. She is a visual artist and a harpist and lives in Vienna. She studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and at the UDK Berlin. Her works earned her recognition and enabled her to go on many scholarship-funded journeys and to present her works in numerous exhibitions. In 2010 she cofounded the musical formation “CIFERENCE-SYMPHONY | Harp & Hang”. Since 2015 she also combine her fine Art with the Harp. To the present day she carries on devotedly with both of these artistic forms, which mutually inspire and influence each other.