Biography

Barbara Reisinger - Born 1955 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

1973-1978 Studies of Ceramics, Universität für Gestaltung, Linz

1978-1980 Studies of Ceramics and Glass, Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam

1981 Assistent lecturer at Universität für Gestaltung, Linz

1999  Visiting Professor at Universität für Gestaltung, Linz

Since 1985 lecturer at Universität Mozarteum, Salzburg

Lives in Salzburg.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2009 „übersetzt“, Romanischer Keller, Salzburg

2003 „zuhause“, Galerie Eboran, Salzburg

2002 „Kommunizierende Gefäße“, Kammerhofgalerie, Gmunden

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2009/10 „Temporäre Bewohner“, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg

2008 „Kunstpreis des Landes Salzburg“, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg

2008 „Tür an Tür“, Museum Nordico, Linz

2007 „Opulenz“, Salzburg Museum

2007 „Kunstankäufe des Landes Salzburg“, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg 

Project: Culinary Construction - Plan for a Non-hierarchical Cooking Site

Food is part of our daily routine, it satisfies one of our most basic needs and at the same time it is one of the greatest pleasures of our lives. Eating together makes you feel as if you belong to a group and in a community we experience security and acceptance. When undertaking something together in a relaxed atmosphere, it is much easier to strike up a conversation with a stranger. 

In an improvised situation e.g. at a sausage stand, we can naturally come into conversation with the people around us than for example when we are standing on a bus. 

Just a few, simple means are needed to make it possible to cook. The Culinary Construction is reduced to the essentials: a hotplate, work surface, pantry shelf. It stays as an outline of a cooking element: the chipboard used mediates something cheap and tenuous and on the shelves only the most important ingredients for boiled rice and recipes and cardboard crockery can be found. With simple means it is possible to construct a small cooking site at any time and any place. The Culinary Construction is an alternative to the highly technical, multifunctional designer kitchens in which not much cooking goes on at all.