For the opening of the exhibition „Ashley Hans Scheirl. Genital Economy Posing“ the artist will present a „live art“-performance in a space encompassing setting. For the performance Scheirl will appear as a „prince of painters “ and speak to the audience. For Scheirl, this work is about the “artist’s personality as a role model within ‘biocapitalism’: vitalism, creativity, and flexibility have become the prerequisites for the neoliberal society.”

Ashley Hans Scheirl (*1956 Salzburg, lives in Vienna) considered cult figure in an international scene of queer- and transgender artists studied restoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (diploma, 1980). Scheirl spent sixteen years in London, where she took part in the scene of queer and transgender artists. In 2003 completion postgraduate studies (MA) in the visual arts (painting/installation) at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. After returning to Vienna in 2005, receiving of the Austrian state scholarship for the visual arts in 2006. Since the autumn of 2006 Scheirl has been professor of “contextual painting” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Scheirl’s works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / KIT, the Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, the Kunsthaus Bregenz, MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek in Vienna, the Shedhalle in Zurich, the Nova Galerija Zagreb, MACBA Museu d/Art Contemporani de Barcelona, and the Museum of Modern Art Vienna as well as recently in Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens.