Veni Vidi Venus

Berlin
Mar 30 — Apr 24, 2025

VENI VIDI VENUS
OPENING: 29 March 2025 | 4–7 PM
EXHIBITION: 30 March – 24 April 2025
AOA;87 BERLIN

PROGRAM:

PERFORMANCE: “Veni Vidi Voice” with guitar and vocals: 29 March | during the opening

The AOA;87 gallery presents Veni Vidi Venus by Ida-Marie Corell, an interdisciplinary art project centered on the Venus of Willendorf. The exhibition showcases a compendium of 108 works, published in the eponymous graphic novel—a humorous yet investigative approach to the famous prehistoric artifact.
The opening will feature Veni Vidi Voice, an audiovisual live performance that translates Corell’s engagement with the Venus into an acoustic dimension. As a synesthete, music plays a central role in her work, intertwining visual and auditory perception.
In Corell’s artistic exploration, the Venus of Willendorf tells her own story. She describes this encounter as an initiation—a dialogue between past and present, art and observer. Engaging with the Venus becomes an invitation to expand one’s consciousness.
Corell’s work intertwines historical and mythological contexts with a critical reflection on the role of women and marginalized identities throughout history. Themes such as witch persecution and herstory—a female-centered perspective on historiography—are woven together with performative, musical, and painterly elements.
What began as visual research through collages, drawings, and texts evolved into a Gesamtkunstwerk—a social sculpture in the spirit of Joseph Beuys. Corell views art as a medium of knowledge transfer that unfolds in social contexts, as seen in her network project Technologies of HER—an interdisciplinary art, research, and knowledge initiative exploring cyclical, rhythmic, and matriarchal intelligences, as well as ancient linguistic perceptions like synesthesia.
Corell studied Fine and Media Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she earned her doctorate in Art and Knowledge Transfer in 2010. During her Erasmus studies at the Kunsthøgskolen in Oslo, she further developed her interdisciplinary approach. Her artistic practice is also reflected in publications such as Alltagsobjekt Plastiktüte (Springer Wien New York) and The Artist is Resident (The Torri Verlag).
With her concept of Synaisthesia—a term she coined to describe the interconnected perception of different sensory modalities—Corell creates artworks that dissolve disciplines and open new spaces for interaction and reflection.