September 7–10, 2023
Booth D6
Steve Turner is pleased to participate at Vienna Contemporary 2023 with a two-person booth featuring new works by Vienna-based Yuma Radne and Brittany Tucker. Both artists grew up elsewhere, Radne in the Siberian city of Ulaan Ude and Tucker in Brooklyn, New York, but both have lived in Vienna for the last three years where their international careers have blossomed. While both have been recognized in the United States and elsewhere in Europe, until now, both are relatively unknown in Vienna.
The artists share more than their adopted city. Both create idiosyncratic and personal works that are inspired by their identities. Radne is of Mongolian descent and she incorporates folklore, native legend, local color, imagination and fantasy into her lively canvases. Tucker is African American and she typically juxtaposes her likeness with that of a cartoon-like white figure to comment on issues of race and gender. Humor is something that both artists use to address serious subjects.
Yuma Radne (born 2001, Ulaan Ude, Buryatia) gained early notoriety and was honored with a solo exhibition at the National Museum of the Republic of Buryatia when she was only seventeen years old. Soon after, she moved to St. Petersburg where she studied for one year at the Shtiglitz Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Austria, where studied in Linz for one year, and then transferred to the Art Academy, Vienna where she is still enrolled. In the fall, she will continue her studies in London at Central Saint Martins. Radne has had two solo exhibitions with Steve Turner (I Am Mad, May 2023 and The Weight of Water, August 2023).
Brittany Tucker (b. 1996, Brooklyn) received a BA at Bard College (2018) and is currently studying at the Art Academy, Vienna. She has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2019, 2020 & 2022) and DWDS, Bregenz, Austria (2021). Tucker has also presented works at September Gallery, Hudson, New York (2021) and at The Armory Show, New York (2021, with Steve Turner). Her next solo exhibition at Steve Turner will open in April 2024. She lives and works in Vienna.
