Addie Wagenknecht
Selected Works Overview

Addie Wagenknecht's artistic practice blends conceptual art with forms of hacking and gestural abstraction. 

Wagenknecht is known for pioneering the use of drones in painting and other mechanized forms of art in the early 2000s while based in New York. 

Her works are often recognized for their experimental co-creative aspects, exploring the relationship between technology and the vulnerabilities of being alive. Previous exhibitions and works held in permanent collections include the Centre Pompidou, Istanbul Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New Museum in New York, among others. She has collaborated with CERN, Chanel, Coinbase, and Google's Art Machine Intelligence (AMI) Group. Her work has been featured in publications such as TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Art in America, and The New York Times. Wagenknecht has held fellowships at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City, Culture Lab UK, Institute HyperWerk for Postindustrial Design in Basel (CH), and The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
Asymmetric Love, 2013

Asymmetric Love explores the duality of function within our contemporary landscape, where the capacity to monitor others shapes the dynamics of power. Designed to resemble an iconic baroque chandelier, the piece evokes a sense of familiarity, subtly encouraging the audience to overlook the presence of CCTV cameras embedded within its structure. This clever design means that surveillance is not seen as an immediate threat, ultimately becoming the most insidious danger of all.

Commissioned by Museumsquartier Vienna for the FACELESS exhibition, the work invites viewers to reflect on the complexities of observation and control in the modern age.