Hyperallergic: "Maria Lassnig’s Triumphant 'Little Films' "

BERLIN — In a delightful scene in Anja Salomonowitz’s hybrid feature film, Sleeping with a Tiger (2024), about the life of Austrian artist Maria Lassnig, the artist, who’d left Austria for New York in 1968, strolls into an art gallery with her latest figurative paintings. It’s the infamous walk-in that many young artists dread. Except Lassnig is in her 40s. The perplexed gallerist tells her that he’s got no use for her — galleries are showing Minimalism and Pop art. Perhaps she could make “little films”? And so she did, some of which are playing, along with Salomonowitz’s biopic, at this year’s Berlinale Forum.

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