Elvira Rajek
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→ Habarta, "Lexikon der Fantastischen Künstlern"
→ Habarta "Lexikon der Fantastischen Künstlerinnen
→ Habarta "KunstHerz"
→ Several articles in international art and fashion magazines e.g.
"Art Leaders of Tomorrow: Defining the Future of Art", Issue 3→"Spotlight"Contemporary Art Magazine 12 and 15
→ "Circle quarterlyartreview" Fall 2019
→ Mentionings of my art on Austrian and Spanish TV e.g. Boommarbellatv.es
→ Several Musa Art catalogues and "Phantastische Venus, PhanART", etc.
→ Articles about my art in the Austria newspapers Kurier and Wiener Zeitung.
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→ LA Art Show + LA Art Association Gallery 825, Los Angeles 2020
→ Art Expo Dallas 2022
→ Red Dot Miami 2021
→ Affordable Art Fair NYC 2022, USA
→ Musa Pavillion (during 60th Biennale di Venezia)
→ Rome Art Expo 2023
→ Sicily Summer Art Expo 2023
→ ARTEXPO 2015, Italy
→ Woman`s Essence Show 2025
→ StART Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery London 2021, UK
→ Woman`s Essence Show 2024, Barcelona
→ "Vienna in Marbella" the Steiner Gallery in collaboration with Arte 8 Gallery, 2023,
→ "Modern & Contemporary Art Show Marbella 2019, Spain
→ "High Heels Die hohe Kunst der Schuhe, Chemnitz, "Wiener Blut" Berlin 2016, Germany
→ "Jan Jansen Shoe Treasures in Arnhem and Amsterdam, Netherlands
→ "We Contemporary Art Show" Prague 2019, the Czech Republic
→ "Art of Imagination" Ottawa and TORONTO ART FOR PEACE, 2014, Canada
→ Exhibition participations at PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
→ Several exhibitions in Vienna, a permanent exhibition and various other exhibitions at the former Museum of Fantastic Art and at the Gallery Steiner Gallery Vienna;
→ Art Salzburg Contemporary 2018,
→ "SHOEting Stars - 5 Sinne& Mehr at Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, 2015,
→ "Ansitz und Seele der Dinge" im KUNST.WERK, St.Pölten 2015/16
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→ Woman's Essence Award 2024 and 2025
→ Twice chosen at Saatchi 100 Curators 100 Days
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→Saatchi art. com - Elvira Rajek
→https://virtualshoemuseum.com
→Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea Sept. 3 -8, 2025
Elvira Rajek, MA, Visual Artist
Born in 1965, lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
A level in Vienna; Studies at the Vienna University, Study Stay at Lagos, Nigeria, Diploma at the College of Education of Vienna, Master's degree at the CCNY of the City University of New York.
International Summeracademy of Fine Arts Venice - Masterclass: Professor Peju Alatise. Photography, assemblage, sculptures, video and objectart.
The intended mise-en-scène has been an important component of her art work. Having started with photographical art, for the last years she has focused on shoe sculptures and assemblages, and turned to a surrealistic way of working.
"I just need to assemble the pictures and thoughts of my consciousness and subconsciousness to create a new vision and a new way to see.", the artist says. As Georg Christoph Lichtenberg said, "He, who has eyes to see, sees everything in everything."
Research as well as the study of particular topics play important roles in theartistic realization: to deal with a topic - to eviscerate, to mangle, and to transform - to achieve a new insight. Veiled criticism with a touch of irony is intended.
I've been creative since childhood, created my own costume jewellery in my youth, designed and produced lingerie in my younger years, and started with photography, videos and a short film with my lately deceased former partner. Then I started creating shoe sculptures and sculptures made of expanding foam, and have been working on assemblages and collages the last years as well.
Over the last few years I learned to see my surrounding and the world with new eyes and as Georg Christoph Lichtenberg said, "He, who has eyes to see, sees everything in everything", I started seeing more than the usual in everything. And as is the case with many other artists, my artwork also always contains my emotions.
