In the exhibition "Movement Shapes the Distance, Distance Shapes the Present", Knoll Galerie Wien is showing the latest series of abstract paintings by Slovak artist Ludmila Hrachovinová (born 1984).  
In her artworks, Hrachovinová questions the medium of painting and places it in various interactive and performative positions. The artist creates unusual positions for the artworks and questions the norms inscribed in the medium of painting and its tradition.
The viewer plays an active role in this process of deconstruction and challenge of familiar ideas inscribed in the medium of painting. With the interaction of the viewer, the performative installations become complete. Ludmila Hrachovinová can be regarded as a puppeteer who plays very wisely with the observers and the exhibition space. She puts  the paintings in positions that hinder the usual flow of the exhibition space and allow the viewer to interact with various body movements in order to see and understand the paintings in their entirety.
The abstract forms and elements depicted are often in the slight tension between movement and standstill. Hrachovinová's intention is to investigate the relationship between these elements, to create a tension between them and at the same time to promote the solution of this tension in the exhibition space in the physical relationship between observer and images.