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.

These short animations are accessed via QR codes –
not dystopian endpoints,
but quiet, subtly absurd, almost poetic moments.
This deliberately exaggerated gentleness is a conceptual contrast
to the thematic weight of the work.
It unsettles – and precisely through that,
creates space for reflection.

At the same time,
they point to something deeply rooted within us all –
the childlike longing for a world we might still be able to heal.
Not as escapism,
but as a possibility.