Hybrid Realism

A NEW ARTISTIC FORM OF EXPRESSION

With her concept of Hybrid Realism, Steinacher has developed a new artistic form of expression that engages with the urgent questions of our time – an evolution of her abstract realism, extended into the digital realm.

Her monumental portraits, painted onto AI-generated, often paradoxical and dystopian landscapes, create a unique visual language that challenges and unsettles. Yet her works do not remain static: they are subsequently animated by Steinacher using AI – not as a visual effect, but as an expansion of her artistic vocabulary.

ART AS A WAKE-UP CALL

Hybrid Realism opens up new artistic possibilities for Steinacher – beyond traditional formats, towards expanded thinking and new conceptual horizons.

Her works are not dystopian endpoints, but invitations to reflect – and to move forward.

Each shortanimation also carries a symbol of hope – quietly embedded, yet deliberately placed.
It serves as a poetic counterbalance to the weight of the imagery, a subtle impulse of reassurance – a sign that transformation is possible.

To recognize confidence as strength.
To understand hope – not as illusion, but as a conscious stance.