source: thenewcontemporary

Kerstin von Gabain is a Vienna based artist, born 1979 in Palo Alto, US. She is working in a variety of media including video, installation, sculpture, and photography. Her work has been the subject of a recent solo exhibition at MAK, Vienna (2013) and Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (2012). She has exhibited at various other venues such as Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Kunstraum Innsbruck and Neue Galerie, Graz. In past years she has received stipends for residencies in China, Japan and Korea and in 2010 she received the Austrian state grant for fine art photography. From 2006 – 2010 she co-directed together with Johann Neumeister the independent artist-run space Sezession Wichtelgasse in Vienna.