Ida Jesenberger

In her artistic work, Ida Jesenberger deals with questions of perception, identity and the psychological inner world. She is particularly interested in the tension between what is visible on the outside and what is experienced on the inside
- between self-image and external perception, between inner chaos and external form.

Her pictures arise from the need to capture feelings and thoughts that are often fleeting, contradictory and difficult to grasp. Her aim is to make something visible that does not actually have a fixed form. The motifs are figurative, but are abstracted through superimpositions and transparencies - similar to thoughts that overlap, distort or mix.

In her portraits, which show either herself or people from her immediate surroundings, Jesenberger understands identity not as something fixed, but as something changeable that is constantly being composed and reshaped from personal experiences and emotional states. Body perception, interpersonal closeness and distance, the desire for retreat and simultaneous departure as well as the question of how one is seen - these are all themes that recur in her work. Her aim is to make her own inner movements and tensions visible.

Ida Jesenberger was born in Vienna in 2004. She lives, studies and works in Linz, Austria.