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Ars Viva
ars viva is an annual art prize awarded by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft to emerging artists under the age of 35 who are living and working in Germany, regardless of nationality. Established in 1953, the prize was initiated to support artists in the aftermath of World War II, aiming to contribute to the development of contemporary art. Recipients are nominated and selected by a jury of professionals in the visual arts. The award includes prize money and a series of exhibitions showcasing the winners' works at prominent German and international venues, accompanied by the publication of a bilingual exhibition catalog. Over the decades, ''ars viva'' has recognized more than 350 artists, many of whom have achieved international acclaim, positioning the award as one of the most important art prizes in the Federal Republic of Germany. Notable recipients include Georg Baselitz, Anna Oppermann, Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, Candida Höfer, Marina Abramović, Thomas Ruff, Wol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Vom Bruch
Klaus vom Bruch (born 1952 in Cologne) is a German media artist who is considered a pioneer of German video art. Biography Vom Bruch studied conceptual art at the California Institute of the Arts with John Baldessari from 1975 to 1976, and philosophy at the University of Cologne from 1976 to 1980. With Ulrike Rosenbach and Marcel Odenbach he formed the art group ATV. An early video by vom Bruch, "Schleyerband," contains television clips from 1977 and 1978, with footage of the Red Army Faction. From 1992 to 1998, he taught media art at the University of Arts in KarlsruheHochschule für Gestaltung. Since 1999, he is a professor for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In 2000, he was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York. Awards * 1986: Dorothea von Stetten Art Award Important exhibitions *Biennale di Venezia, 1984 *Düsseldorf, Von hier aus, 1984 *New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986 *"Coventry War Requiem" (video installation); Kassel, doc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tris Vonna-Michell
Tris Vonna-Michell (born 1982) is a British artist who performs narratives and constructs installations through the layering of these narratives, photographs and mementos, presented using antiquated technologies and slide projection. Vonna-Michell lives in Southend in the United Kingdom and Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2005 and then continued his studies at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main On 7 May 2014, it was announced that he was one of the four nominees for the Turner Prize. Notable solo exhibitions *2010 No more racing in circles — just pacing within lines of a rectangle, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea *2009 Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg *2009 Finding Chopin: Endnotes, Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris *2009 Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm *2009 Auto-Tracking: Ongoing Configurations, Jan Mot, Brussels *2009 Tris Vonna-Michell, X-initiative, New York *2009 Auto-Tracking-Auto-Tracking, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich *2009 Studio A: Monument ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Dybbroe Møller
Simon Dybbroe Møller (born 1976 Aarhus, Denmark) is a visual artist. In 1999–2001, he attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Magdalena Jetelowa. In 2001–2005, he studied with Tobias Rehberger at Städelschule Academy of Fine Art in Frankfurt. He lives and works in Berlin. Since 2019 he is a Professor and head of the School of Sculpture at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts () has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark. History The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Cope .... Work Dybbroe Møller's work has been described as dealing with "the relationship between the most fundamental sensate experiences and the increasing remove and autonomy of representational media". In his shows carefully chosen and often only slightly altered objects are exhibited alongside video and photography. Speaking of these fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keren Cytter
Keren Cytter (; born 22 August 1977) is an Israeli visual artist and writer. Biography Cytter, born 22 August 1977, spent her childhood in Israel and went on to study visual arts at the Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv. After finding success in various galleries in her home country, she moved to Amsterdam on a scholarship from De Ateliers where she studied with Willem de Rooij and Marlene Dumas. Her scope of work includes film, video installations, performance, drawings and photography. She is also a writer of novels, theatre plays and poetry. She is professor at University of Fine Arts Munster. Work Video Art After graduating from De ateliers in Amsterdam, Cytter made several video works that went on to be shown internationally including ''The Date Series'' (2004, a series of short narratives written, filmed and produced in the period of one year), ''The Victim'' (2006), ''Repulsion'' (2005, based on Polanski's Repulsion), and ''The Milk Man'' (2003). Among her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beate Gütschow
Beate Gütschow (born 1970 in Mainz, West Germany) is a contemporary German artist. She lives and works in Cologne and Berlin. Life and work Gütschow studied art at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg from 1993 to 2000, and at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 1997. She served as guest professor from 2009 to 2010 at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Since 2011 she is a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Gütschow's work explores the relationship between photographic representation and reality. It also investigates how our visual perception is informed and influenced by prior knowledge of other images. LS Series In her first series, "LS" (an abbreviation of ''Landschaft'', or landscape) Gütschow uses photographic means to reconstruct depictions of landscape in 17th- and 18th-century paintings. With the aid of computer software, she montages scores of image fragments to create photographs that adhere to the compositional principles of the ideal lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Faciu
Andrea Faciu (born 1977 in Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...) is a Romanian artist who has lived in Germany since 1991. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where she studied with Olaf Metzel. She lives in Munich, Germany and Berlin. Awards *2007 Villa Romana prize Exhibitions *2010 Renaissance Society of Chicago *2009 La Biennale di Venezia, the Romanian Pavilion *2009 OPEN e v+ a, Limerick References External links"Andrea Faciu in Dialogue" vlad morariu visual and textual archive"The Seductiveness of the Interval" (Romanian Pavilion – 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia) 18 June 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Faciu, Andrea German artists 1977 births Artists from Bucharest Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Rhode
Robin Rhode (born 1976) is a South African artist based in Berlin, Germany. He has made wall drawings, photographs and sculptures. Early life and education Rhode was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied fine art at Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (now the University of Johannesburg), followed by postgraduate work in 2000 at the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance. Work Rhode is represented by Lehmann Maupin. In November 2009, he provided stop-frame video animations for a performance by Leif Ove Andsnes of Mussorgsky's ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' at the Lincoln Center in New York. In 2014, Rhode directed a music video for the U2 single "Every Breaking Wave"; it includes stop-frame animation stencil drawings, and figures that interact with them. Exhibitions and performances * ''Fresh'', South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2000, performance) * ''The Score'', Artists Space, New York (2004, performance) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zink Yi
David Zink Yi is a contemporary artist working primarily in video, photography, and sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc .... He has said: "body is the space and the medium in which the process of questioning of identity takes place".A Different Drum ''Frieze''. Archived 5 January 2009. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Zink Yi, David Living people Year of birth missing (livin ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Wohnseifer
Johannes Wohnseifer (born 1967) is a German artist based in Cologne. Early life and education Wohnseifer was born in Cologne, Germany. Work Wohnseifer often draws reference to the German history of his youth, such as the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Red Army Faction. He creates smooth, glossy, billboard-like paintings. Exhibitions Wohnseifer has exhibited in shows including ''Irresistible Impulse'' at Galerie Gisela Capitain in Cologne, ''Intervention'' at Sprengel Museum in Hanover, ''Hein, Schellberg, Wohnseifer'' at Schnittraum in Cologne. He has shown at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Union Gallery in London and Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris. Art market Wohnseifer is represented by Casey Kaplan Casey Kaplan is a contemporary art gallery in New York City, in the United States. History The gallery was founded in 1995 in a , one-room space located on the upper floor of a cast iron loft building on Broadway, before moving to Greene Street i ... in Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist known for assuming multiple identities. Her official press releases and gallery biographies conflict on country of origin, date of birth, and place of residence. Her work is primarily concerned with investigating the structural underpinnings and relationships of complicity between the respective complexes of politics, commerce and industry, and in turn, their roles in dictating the shape and structure of mundane life. Haghighian creates solo and collaborative works in the fields of installation, performance, text, and sound. Haghighian's “Pssst Leopard 2A7+”, an ongoing investigation into the German-made Leopard 2A7+ battle tank (designed for urban use, to “pacify” rioters or protesters) has been widely exhibited since it was first conceived in 2013. The audio sculpture covered with a blue, green and grey camouflage pattern of Lego baseplates was described as a sardonic travestying of the Leopard Tank. Her collaborations are often of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lothar Hempel
Lothar Hempel (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German artist based in Berlin. He attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1987 to 1992. Artistic practice Hempel transforms the exhibition space into a stage on which the visitor becomes an actor in a story full of cross-references and contradictions. The works are at once the synopsis, the set, the characters and the props of a play. They represent the different parts of a narrative created out of references to German history, psychology, Greek tragedy, cinema, music, political and social history, neurology, and modern dance, for instance.. Hempel borrows a number of different styles and strategies, whether invented by Dada, Constructivism, the Bauhaus or Joseph Beuys. He uses visual metaphors by incorporating images or found objects. Exhibition history In 2007 Hempel's work was the subject of the retrospective exhibition 'Alphabet City' curated by Florence Derieux at Le Magasin, Grenoble. Museum exhibitions include Casanova, The Doug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
