Kiki Kogelnik. Hangings is a focused monographic publication dedicated to the artist’s series of life-sized vinyl cut-outs known as

“Hangings,” produced primarily from the mid-1960s onward. These works, suspended freely in space, mark a decisive moment in Kogelnik’s practice, in which painting expands into sculptural and spatial form.

The catalogue situates the Hangings within the context of postwar American and European art, addressing their relationship to Pop Art, abstraction, and emerging feminist perspectives. By transforming the human figure into flattened silhouettes rendered in industrial materials, Kogelnik engages with themes of identity, technology, embodiment, and the increasing mechanization of life during the Cold War era. The suspended figures oscillate between presence and absence, animation and objectification.

Essays and visual documentation examine the Hangings as both formal experiments and critical commentaries on gender, consumer culture, and the body as a site of projection. The publication emphasizes Kogelnik’s transatlantic position between Vienna and New York and contributes to a reassessment of her role within the histories of postwar sculpture, installation, and feminist art practices.