Frenzi Rigling is an attentive explorer, draws strength and impulses for her work from nature, from her garden. She works with found objects and everyday objects, which she rearranges, assigning them new meaning in alienated constellations.

In her artistically feminist exploration, she is not only interested in socio-political issues, but also in the connection between coincidence and myth and the dimension of temporality. The processual is just as important as the final product. For a long time Frenzi Rigling has been concerned with the - femininely connoted - textile and with texts, or rather with the spaces in between texts. "The fact that I can work effortlessly with textiles today has to do with the fact that my mother was a seamstress and I spent my youth next to sewing machines, looms and bobbin lace pillows." Frenzi Rigling cuts out the space between letters from felt and other fabrics. Moving between the lines, in a form of decipherment that transforms the hidden into the object-like, making it visible.

In a current series of glass boxes called Monica's Tree House, Hedi's Garden, Brigitte's Glass House - named after friends - Frenzi Rigling builds small worlds, breaks down the universe to the absolute minimum. She copied this system of order from the homeless in New York. "Everyday life has a lot to do with structure and order. It is structured in such a way that it runs as smoothly as possible. These systems of coping with everyday life say a lot about a society, and that's what interests me." At the same time, she uses these objects to counteract the throwaway and disappearance with an aesthetic of transformation and preservation.

Frenzi Rigling studied at the School of Design in Zurich. Her works are represented in all important public collections in Austria.

Photocredit: Alois Moosbacher

ON VIEW: Landesgalerie Niederösterreich - Frenzi Rigling, ABOUT US - exhibition from May 13, 2023 - Nov. 12, 2023