Svenja Deininger is an artist who currently lives and works in Vienna and Milan. She was born in Vienna and was educated at the Kunsteakademie Dusseldorf and the Kunstakademie Munster.

Svenja has had solo exhibitions at the Secession in Vienna, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. She has also had solo exhibitions internationally, including Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome and Galerie Martin Janda in Vienna among others. She’s participated in group exhibitions at Bob van Orsouw Gallery in Zurich, Josh Lilley Gallery in London, Patricia Law Contemporary in Gstaad, the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art in Brussels and the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, to name a few.

Brian met up with Svenja at her current show titled ‘Crescendo’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery and they spoke about her well travelled life, painting between cities, music, texture, composition and more. Here’s our conversation…

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