Biography
Monika Oechsler was born in Munich Germany and lives and works in London. She studied at Goldsmith College University of London and received a PhD from the University of Brighton in 2012.
Monika Oechsler’s works explore the dynamic relationships constituted through social and cultural forms. Many of her moving image works are based on psychoanalytic concepts and social theories that become the basis for choreographed interpersonal scenarios. In recent work she has focused on the changing ideological aspects of iconic architecture and the cultural production of the past as influenced by global and economic factors. Her large-scale multi-screen projection and sound installations tap into the experiential potential of interstitial spaces created by the conjunction of physical architecture and the virtual spaces of the moving image. In particular she is interested in the conjoining of disparate spaces and performative action and how they might facilitate a different experience of the world around us.
Oechsler has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally. Her national and international commissions are notable for complex multi-screen video installations and immersive sound environments, for example, from Film and Video Umbrella, London, Picture This, Bristol, Fact and Tate Liverpool, Edith Russ Haus fuer Media, Oldenburg, Site Gallery Sheffield and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz. Her works are held in private and public collections.
She is Senior Lecturer on the BA and MA Fine Art programmes at the University of the West of England, Bristol and also teaches at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
