In this episode of WAS MIT KUNST, Johann König meets Bijanka Bacic, whose work explores the mark as a living, moving element rather than a fixed form, and is currently on show at KÖNIG GALERIE. Bacic talks about her early figurative beginnings, her fascination with the grid—sparked by Rosalind Krauss’s essay “The Grid“—and how abstraction allows her to question painting through painting itself.

She reflects on a pivotal realization early in her career: faced with the difficulty of the world, she chose to devote herself fully to what she loves—art—with “nothing to lose.” Bacic describes the development of her visual language, her process of translating analog photographs into gouache sketches and layered oil paintings, and the importance of making her own paints.

They also discuss why she left Australia to pursue a global artistic dialogue and how titles open ambivalent readings within her work. A conversation about persistence, movement, and the freedom of letting a mark wander.

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