Milena Wojhan
Munich based artist.
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he work „Chibaku Tensei“, a collaboration between Milena Wojhan and Anna Schübel, was exhibited at the annual exhibition of the academy of fine arts in Munich in 2019.
The trompe l’oeil leads to the illusion of an additional wing in the academy. A geometric, sphere-like object containing this space as a three dimensional rendering is suspended mid air. The work can be read as a statement for more room for art and artists - both within the academy and the city of Munich.
Photographs of Milena Wojhans series “Body Dyst-/Utopia”. Fascinated by science fiction literature and influenced by her work as a photographer, where she was constantly working with the optimizations of bodies, Milena Wojhan got invested in thoughts about the possibilities of human bodies and the idea of constructing her own bodies-images. She was interested in the topic of trans-humanism, the borders between human and machine, the possibilities of modifications on a technological as well as on a biological level.
“Biss“ (’bite’). This work came out of Milena Wojhans interest in and thoughts on body- and bio-horror, as well as phobias.
Milena created images of hybrids out of human, animalistic and machine features in her photography. These images don’t have clear cut outlines in order to enable the viewers to fill in the uncertainties with their own imagination.
I’m starting to work in a different way than before”, Milena Wojhan says about her recent turn towards performance art, “I’m thinking about the presence of objects and people now, not their presentation.”
“I’m interested in becoming part of the artwork myself, instead of ‘only’ producing works.” .
In Milena Wojhans performance „Discharge“ the viewers are limited to seeing the performance through the windows from the outside of the gallery space. The artist holds an arrow, ready to shoot it, until she has to let go of it because of exhaustion. The arrow flies into a net.
Four cameras capture the action and transfer the live-footage to four monitors. Several microphones transfer the sound to the outside of the gallery space, towards the viewers. Afterwards the sound is played in a loop.