LINEA
May 22 - June 20 2026
Focus On: Crystin Moritz
Galerie Kandlhofer
Brucknerstrasse 4
1040 Vienna
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 21 | 6 - 8 pm
LINEA emerged during a period spent in Sicily, engaging with the island’s history, mythology, and sagas, particularly those centered on women. Combining AI-generated images and videos, the series moves between historical narratives and contemporary perspectives on identity, ritual, and gender. References to traditions such as the Minne di Sant’Agata—small Sicilian pastries referencing the cut-off breasts of Saint Agatha after her martyrdom—point to the ways violence and collective memory become embedded within everyday rituals. Natural forces and symbolic imagery appear throughout the work, connecting Sicily’s layered past with present realities. The series reflects on how inherited social structures and motifs continue to shape society today.
Crystin Moritz’s practice focuses on AI-generated and hybrid image-making, where analogue aesthetics collide with digital processes. Her exhibitions construct precise and unsettling image systems that operate on a disturbing meta-level, collapsing boundaries between reality and simulation. Her work addresses underlying fears and destabilizes fixed ideas of identity and gender.
In LINEA, Crystin Moritz presents works from her new series of the same title.
Moritz’s works enter into dialogue with Karl Karner’s the cow eat not the honey grows, the central installation of the Focus On Section. A growing, resonant sculpture within the FEED series, it unfolds from a monumental surface into a detailed landscape of organic and ghost-like forms. Casts of feet, honeycombs, branches, and plant structures emerge and invite viewers into a surreal terrain between nature and imagination.
Installation shots by Manuel Carreon Lopez