FREI.LAND is a temporary intervention that consists of 50 small sculptures – concrete chickens ready to be fried – on the Old Innbrücke, opposite the bronze “Gockel Walter”. As a reaction to and an extension of an existing work, the installation creates an exciting contrast between the heroic individual and the anonymous crowd, reduced to its mere meat value. “FREI.LAND” addresses power and powerlessness, prosperity and poverty, inflated masculinity and invisible female labor. The sculptures deal with questions of social values and their unequal distribution, addressing patriarchal structures, heteronormativity, and queer perspectives. A silent revolution made of concrete, between dream and reality.
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Hanna Kirmann was born in 1976 in Braunau am Inn where she now lives.
She studied at the Mozarteum University of Art in Salzburg. Since 2008, Hanna has been working as an art and crafts teacher in Braunau. 2013 – 2020 lectureships at various art universities. Since 2010, she has been intensively involved in art: painting, graphics, and objects. Member of the Innviertler Künstlergilde (Deputy Chairwoman). Actions in public spaces as well as several art-in-architecture projects in the Innviertel region. Solo exhibitions and participation in numerous group exhibitions as well as participation in symposia in Austria and abroad.