ALL IN ALL

Elisabeth Homar creates a world with her art in which the everyday becomes extraordinary. With a keen eye and refined instinct, she collects materials that “come to her”: wires, wood, old drawings, found objects, discarded or washed-up items. She carefully stores these things until it is their time to become part of a new object. Characteristic of her approach is an intuitive dialogue with the things she’s working on. While working, titles often come to her that are just as important as the works themselves. They create a subtle connection between language and object.

Homar’s art is both playful and profound. She combines fragmentary, seemingly insignificant elements into delicate objects suffused with poetic lightness and quiet humor. Through very specific interventions, she transforms her materials into new forms and meanings. In doing so, she always maintains a balance between the original familiarity of the objects and their new, abstract reality.

The magic of Homar’s works lies in her ability to draw attention to what’s intimate, fragile, and overlooked. Her works invite viewers to discover the beauty in everyday life, to hone their eyes, and delve into the details. With each of her compositions, Homar creates a quiet but powerful message: life is made up of small things, and in them lies an unexpected greatness.

Elisabeth Homar, born in 1950 in Altpölla, Lower Austria, studied from 1979 to 1982 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Grete Rader-Soulek's master class. In 1985 she was awarded the Recognition Prize of the Province of Lower Austria for her artistic work. Her works have been presented in numerous exhibitions, including at the Landesgalerie Niederösterreich (“I am everything at once”, 2020), Forum Frohner (“Das Abenteuer Wirklichkeit”, 2016) and Künstlerhaus Bregenz (“Different ways 2 sculpture”, 2009).