Artist

1 life – 7  identities

Childhood: Monika Stahl, who is now non-denominational, was born in Vienna and grew up as a strict Catholic in a small town in Lower Austria.

Family life: 22 years of marriage and two children shaped this period of her life.

Professional life: She started a technically oriented career as a programmer and was IT manager in a pharmaceutical production company for 25 years.

Life of adventure: She acquired her pilot’s license 29 years ago, got a seaplane rating in Canada and trained as a bush pilot in Africa; her passion was flying. She also rode her Harley Davidson across Europe and the USA. That’s when her

life as an artist began: During her months-long stays in NYC to study art, she became aware of her hedonistic orientation and began to counteract it with artistic means. She is now an internationally awarded professional artist. Influenced by Erich Fromm’s “To Have or to Be” she denounces greed and excessive consumption. Since 2017 she has been deepening her world view as

Philosopher: Four years of studying at the University of Vienna at the Institute of Philosophy gave her insights into the exclusion of women from business, science and politics.

Feminist artist life: Every year at the time of the global campaign 16 Days against Violence against Women, she organized events in her hometown of Klosterneuburg. Her art installations at the town hall, such as the “Flower against Violence” and “The Women’s Backpack” serve to make this important topic visible.

Using MONEYART, where real money is part of the artwork, the monetary value is transformed into a material value and power and greed are exposed to criticism.

Women Award Klosterneuburg  2024

 Exhibitions alone or in groups (extract)

2025 Schloß Ort Gmunden Kunstspazierer
2025 Art Session Sankt Pölten
2025 AAF Afordable Art Fair Vienna
2025 Kunst zu Recht Justizzentrum Wien
2024 Best of 1st Vienna ArtPark
2024 1st Vienna ArtPark
2024 1st Vienna ArtPark
2024 Schloß Ort Gmunden Kunstspazierer
2024 Galerie am Gmundnerberg „Zeitkritische Spiegelbilder des Patriarchats“
2023 Schloß Ort Gmunden Kunstspazierer
2023 K-Hof Kammerhofmuseen Gmunden
2023 Schwanthaler Galerie Gmunden
2022 Schloß Ort Gmunden
2022  Justizzentrum Wien
2021  „Ein-Bild-Galerie“ Kritzendorf
2020 Kulturmuseum, Kierling
2019 Alpha Galerie, Wien
2019  Bezirksgericht, Wien
2019  Air Nova ,Graz2018  Alte Schieberkammer , Vienna
2018  Days of open studios, Lower Austria
2018  Invitation for Kissing, Klosterneuburg
2018  Salon Golden Garden, Cannes (France)
2018  Adriana Art Gallery, Vienna
2018  Wittnerhof, Gramatneusiedl (Charity)
2017  Days of open studios, Lower Austria
2017  Strohhaus, Gramatneusiedl (Charity)
2017  Wasserturm, Vienna
2017  Volkskundemuseum , Vienna
2017  London Art Biennale
2017  City museum Klosterneuburg
2017  Centre of Justice Vienna
2016  Winter Salon Straßburg, Frankreich
2016  Centre of Justice, Vienna
2015   Brisbane Life Art World Wide, Australia
2015  Tokyo Life Exhibition ISSO Art Gallery, Japan
2015  Volkskundemuseum Vienna
2015  London Art Biennale
2014  MOYA Vienna
2014  Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2011-2014  diverse exhibitions in her studio in Vienna

Nationale und internationale Awards

2017 London Art Biennale 2017 für den Zyklus „WeepingWomen“

2015 London Art Biennale 2015 für den Zyklus „MoneyEaters“

2014 „Spirit of Art“, Moya Wien für „The Star“

¹ Erich Fromm (*March 23, 1900 in Frankfurt / Main – Germany; † March 18, 1980 in Muralto, Tessin) was a german- us-american psycho-analyst, philosopher and social psychologic. In his exposition the existence of having is the reason for the bad of the present civilisation. The Being is however the opportunity of a fulfilled – and not estranged live. The society of nowadays is established by the modus of having or the willing to have: Its behaviour is dedicated by the character of the private possessions… Contrary to it the conditions for the modus of being are above all the independence, freedom and critical ratio. The human being, who is not dedicated anymore of having, finds to its roots, creates inner activity, which is not to be confused with business activity or bustle. It can use its human capabilities really in a productive way. For this human being, the possession is nothing, love is however about all.