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Artist
statement
Galina Hartinger explores the fragile boundary between artificial and human perception.
Her practice bridges AI-generated imagery and traditional painting, investigating how beauty, identity, and emotion are reconstructed in both digital and material forms.
In the series Dreaming Beauties / Nature Morte, AI becomes a mirror that idealizes and distorts the female image — reflecting collective fantasies shaped by social media and algorithms.
In Face is the Key, Hartinger returns to watercolor and gesture, capturing vulnerability and imperfection as acts of resistance against digital uniformity.
Together, these projects form a dialogue between two visions of humanity: one sculpted by machines, the other revealed through the physical touch of the hand.
Her work seeks to expose the psychology of beauty — the space where algorithmic desire and human presence meet and dissolve.
Biography (Short)
Galina Hartinger is a multidisciplinary artist based in Austria. Born in Ukraine and educated in St. Petersburg, she explores the intersection of AI-generated imagery, painting, and identity, focusing on the female image in contemporary visual culture.
Exhibited internationally, her work merges philosophical inquiry with refined aesthetics.
Biography
(extended)
Galina Hartinger (b. Ukraine; currently based in Austria) is a multidisciplinary artist working across AI-generated art, conceptual portraiture, and painting.
Educated in philosophy, history of religion at St. Petersburg State University, and art history In The St. Petersburg Academy of Arts Hartinger investigates how beauty and authenticity are redefined through technology.
Her series Dreaming Beauties / Nature Morte examines algorithmic femininity and the loss of individuality in AI aesthetics, while Face is the Key reflects on emotional truth through traditional watercolor.
Her works have been presented in exhibitions in New York, LA, Athens, Ljubljana, and Frankfurt, with upcoming participation in Art Expo Ljubljana (2025) and Discovery Frankfurt (2025).
Balancing precision and fragility, Hartinger’s artistic language becomes a visual meditation on what remains human in the age of artificial vision.
Exhibitions
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2024
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The Wrong Biennale — Low CFG Pavilion / AI Series (pending confirmation)
Art Expo Ljubljana — Dreaming Beauties / Nature Morte (AI Series)
15th Ljubljana Forum — Face is the Key / Watercolour Portraits
Discovery Frankfurt Art Fair (Group Exhibition) — Dreaming Beauties Selection
LA Art Show — Perseus Gallery / Group Exhibition “Face is the Key”
“What about Eve?” — Platforms Project — Public Tobacco Factory, Hellenic Parliament Library + NEON
"Unlocked Identities", Perseus & HMVC Gallery, New York, USA
Contact
representation
📧 galinahartinger@gmail.com
🌍 Austria
🔗 www.galinahartinger.com
📸 Instagram: @faceisthekey