Expositur Zukunft exhibition

My thanks to all who joined us at the special event at the Galerie Hollerei within the Expositur Zukunft exhibition - the reading from  my book Ohne Haut, Schwebend, published by Loecker Wien:

Special thanks to actress Monica Anna Commerlanderfor her excellent reading from my book Ohne Haut, Schwebend, and to the organizer Vienna City Art Gallery Walks, who organized the event and made it possible.

I would also like to take this opportunity to express my special thanks to the editor of the Loecker Wien publishing house, Alex Lellek, for publishing my book Ohne Haut, Swebend, and to Prof. Reinhart Posch for his careful review and  adaptation of the translation and the exceptional text in the form of a Nachwort.

My thanks also to Clemens Kneringer.

Eva Petrič: OHNE HAUT – SCHWEBEND

 (WITHOUT SKIN –FLOATING)

Novel, translated from English by Ulrike Zimmermann, adapted by Reinhart Hosch

Löcker Vienna, 2024

13.5 x 21.5 cm | Hardcover with SU

208 pages

ISBN 978-3-99098-164-1

How do you float without skin? Reducing the book's title to this question would mean dragging the stroke of genius of a 24-year-old Slovenian into the one-dimensional grid of reality that this book so captivatingly departs from. In an easily readable plot, Eva Petrič succeeds in interweaving the stories of three generations and two countries – Slovenia and Argentina – so empathetically that a multi-voiced reality is experienced with thrilling intensity as a network of perception, memory, collective history, night and waking dreams, intuitions of art and transcendence, even object animism.

In her search for life-saving stem cells for her family scattered across three continents, the young photojournalist Laura, suffering from leukemia, runs, flies, and floats through her existential possibilities in conflicts between love and healing, the microcosm and the macrocosm, the symbolic world and everyday life, even between disembodiment and the necessary spiritual habitation. In her novel, Eva Petrič conveys similar borderline experiences as today – a good 15 years later – as an internationally recognized multimedia artist with her installations in public spaces that metaphorically combine science and existential thought-feeling.

Without Skin – Floating was written in Slovenian and English, also appeared in Spanish translation, and is now available for the first time in German.

Copyright © Eva Petrič, 2026