INGE DICK

Inge Dick (born 1941 in Vienna) lives and works in Innerschwand am Mondsee, Upper Austria. Her artistic practice is rooted in painting and extends to photography and film, positioning her as a distinctive voice in contemporary experimental art.

Since 1975, Dick has developed her white paintings: seemingly monochrome works structured by precise systems in which subtle color shifts emerge through light and perception. This investigation led her, from 1979 onward, to work with Polaroid photography, exploring how natural light and its changing color temperature unfold over the course of a day. In the 1990s, she realized major works using large-format Polaroid cameras, culminating in 1999 with a project using the world’s largest Polaroid camera in Boston.

From 2007 onward, film became a central medium in her work. In cycles such as zinnober (2007), blau, unendlich (2010), and jahres licht weiss (2012–15), Dick records light and color changes over extended periods. Across all media, light remains her lifelong artistic subject—captured with near-scientific precision and transformed into a sensorial experience of time and perception.