September 16–October 14, 2023
Installation Views
Works
Steve Turner is pleased to present Judgment Day, a solo exhibition by Vienna-based Florine Imo that features five new paintings, each of which depicts a goddess that relates to a single element or attribute – Water, Sky, Growth, Light and Fire. The paintings are monumental in scale and will be installed so that viewers are surrounded by the goddesses and their distinct realms of environment and color. Whether demure or fierce, the goddesses are watching.
According to Imo, I have always painted female figures. The narrative, objective and concept has changed over time. I have been inspired by a range of sources, from American teenage films, music videos, mythology and wolf-dogs. Though the imagery has evolved, the themes were fairly constant. Whether women were depicted as wild animals in the forest or as radiant beings emanating from the sky or ocean, power, fear, control, vulnerability, autonomy and judgment were always central themes.
Florine Imo (born 1995, Vienna) earned a combined BA and MA from Vienna Academy of Art (2023). Her works have been included in group exhibitions at JPS Gallery, Tokyo; Shin Haus, New York; MISA, Mallorca; Weserhalle, Berlin and Gallery Zherro, Paris. This is her first exhibition at Steve Turner. Imo lives and works in Vienna.
Born 1995, Vienna
Lives and works in Vienna
Education
2023
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2019
Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavík
2014
HBORG of Music and Art Hegelgasse 12, Vienna
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Trenza, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
As Light as a Feather, lbf contemporary, London
2023
Judgment Day, Steve Turner, Los Angeles 7Sin5, Hew Hood Gallery, London
2022
Playing with Fire, AOUT Gallery, Beirut 2020 Caught in a loop, Einflussraum, Vienna
Group Exhibitions
2024
Substance, Künstlerhaus, Albertina Modern, Vienna
2023
Female Recollection, Alba, Vienna
Me, Myself & us, La causa Galeria, Madrid
Cacotopia 07, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
2022
December group show, Galerie Zberro, Paris
Open call – Auction, Weserhalle, Berlin
Hullabaloo, JPS Gallery, Tokyo
As it turns out, Plain Gallery, Milano
Misa x König Gallery at CCA Andraxt, Mallorca
Of the shape we inhabit, Shin Haus, New York
Gallery Weekend Berlin, MISA, Berlin
2021
Soft touch, sharp teeth, U-Bahn Volkstheater, Vienna