Ricarda Denzer addresses complex themes in a subtle fashion by using elements of her research process as recurring set pieces, as material that can be put together into changeable, ephemeral arrangements. The artist thus works with the means of analogy and assemblage as well as with the idea of relationships and correlations, and their laws. This open narrative unfolds imagination and agency by the sound and body of the voice, by orality and from time to time, by ambiguity when telling a story.
Ricarda Denzer studied architecture in Innsbruck and fine arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna where she has been was member of the TransArts directorial team (2013- 2018) and is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Art and Communication Practices. Denzer was visiting artist at the Šaloun Studio Program, Academy of fine arts, Prague, 2016. She is a member of the board of the Vienna Secession since 2019. Most recently, she edited the eJournal #13 of the ZHDK Zürich (with Jo Schmeiser, 2017), curated the art project About the House and edited the books Perplexities (Revolver 2013) and Silence Turned Into Objects - W.H. Auden in Kirchstetten (edition NÖ, 2014). Her most recent solo exhibitions were at Neue Galerie Innsbruck (2018) and Kunstraum Lakeside (2019).
She participated in exhibition venues such as John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, UK, 2019, Quartier 21, Museumsquartier, Vienna (2017), Steirischer Herbst Graz (2015), Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg- Platz, Berlin /D 8 (2015). Her work is i.a. in the collections of mumok, museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, KONTAKT. at the Art Collection of the Erste Group, Vienna, LENTOS Landesmuseum Oberösterreich, Linz and the Collection of the City of Vienna. Denzer had residencies in New York, Istanbul, London and Ústí nad Labem and is currently involved in the artistic research project Collecting as Performative Practice (2020). Ricarda Denzer lives and works in Vienna.