Curriculum Vitae
My work mixes elements from high culture and pop culture to build a stage where different visual languages meet. I often draw from classical art, cinema, and traditional portraiture, and combine them with references from fan culture, reality TV and kitsch. This mix creates playful and sometimes strange combinations that open up new ways of seeing. I often use my own body in my work—as both subject and tool. Through costumes, gestures, and staging, I explore themes like body politics, identity, beauty norms, cultural stereotypes, and the systems of power behind them. My artistic language blends humor, drama, costume, and pathos. I’m especially drawn to moments that are absurd, awkward, overly emotional, or strangely funny—where humor and discomfort exist at the same time. I like to create work that is bold but also vulnerable, playful but serious. Through exaggeration and theatricality, I try to reveal the emotional layers and social codes hidden beneath the surface. Until 2016, I studied Visual Communication, Graphic Design, and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2020, I have formed the artist duo SÜSSHOLZ together with artist Sophia Süßmilch. Since 2018, I have been a member of the international women photographers’ collective Femxphotographers.org. Since 2016, I have been collaborating with artist Lilly Urbat under the name HOLZINGERurbat.
