Heide Hatry (born 1965) is a

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and

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based German neo-conceptual artist,

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, and

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. Her work, often either body-related or employing animal flesh and organs (cf: bio-art) or other discarded, disdained, or "taboo" materials, has aroused controversy and has been considered horrific, repulsive or sensationalist by some critics, while others have hailed her as an "imaginative provocateur", "a force of nature..., an artist and a humanist who is making a selfless contribution to life", and an artist whose works provoke a "reaction akin to having witnessed a murder".

Biography

Hatry grew up on a farm in the outskirts of

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. She left home at the age of 15 to enroll in a sports school. Later she studied painting, printing, typography, photography, and sculpture at various art schools including the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in

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and the Pädagogische Hochschule in

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, as well as art history at the

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. After many years teaching painting while co-founding and operating an antiquarian book shop in Heidelberg, she began her career as a visual artist in 2003 in New York.

Art career

''Skin''

Her first solo show took place a
Volume Gallery
in Chelsea in October, 2004 and consisted of a diverse group of paintings, objects and unique books, with an emphasis on new work that would eventually become part of her book project entitled ''SKIN''. In addition to being the documentation of several years of work with a highly eccentric art material, ''SKIN'' is a complex and thoroughly-conceived conceptual project in which Hatry plays on the fact that skin is the medium through which individual

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is most commonly received. The seven female artists all working with skin as a medium are in fact seven facets of Hatry herself. In the book, she fragments her own biography and accordingly distributes aspects of the work among seven distinct personae. Hatry prevailed upon nine art historians, critics, curators and thinkers ( Susanna Partsch, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Renée Vara, Michaël Amy, Elsbeth Sachs, Cornelia Koch, Christoph Zuschlag, Veronica Mundi and Hans Gercke) to participate in the project, maintaining the conceit and treating each of their subjects as unique, living, artists. Hatry created an artist portrait for each of her individual "selves" using prosthetics and make-up, in a manner akin to the work of

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. At least one of these portraits has itself become a recognizable contemporary feminist icon (cf: Betty Hirst). During several events relating to the exhibition, Hatry or an actress she engaged, would play the role of one or more of her fictional selves. The book is characterized by mis-direction and deception of many sorts and on various levels, including reference to non-existent artists, books, and passages in (real) books, misquotation, illusory footnotes, false attribution, and pseudonymy, including dissembling gender identities, while nevertheless forwarding legitimate critical theses. The art which ''SKIN'' documents is of a very diverse character, including sculptural objects, some of a realistic nature, some invoking comparison to African or Etruscan masks or statuary, two-dimensional abstract constructions, paintings in blood, and paintings treating art-historical subjects seen through a film of animal bladder or translucent animal skin, reminiscent of certain work by

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, and creating the impression of a heightened realism, a portrait actually "in the flesh". Hatry was the first artist to use untreated pigskin and other animal parts to create realistic depictions, chiefly sculptural, of the human visage, sometimes of a character suggestive of renaissance art. She has experimented with numerous preservation techniques, including the now-famous "

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" method of the prominent pathologist, and impresario

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, with whom she had been acquainted in Heidelberg. The exhibition for which ''SKIN'' served as the putative catalogue, significantly ''avant la lettre'', was mounted in numerous private and public venues in the United States and Europe, and Hatry’s “own” contribution, a performance in which she constructed a “skin room,” was documented by Cosmoto. Her second large-scale project, ''Heads and Tales'', was also documented in a book, published in English by Charta in 2009.

''Heads and Tales''

''Heads and Tales'' is a collaborative endeavor between Hatry and twenty-seven female authors whom she invited to create "lives" for a series of sculptural busts of women. The often eerie or haunting visages were produced using untreated pig skin, flesh and body parts, and the original objects decayed shortly after their creation. Hatry documented the busts in the photographs, which illustrate the published book. The literary evocations of these women's lives treat a wide range of female experience, but frequently address the violence, abuse, suffering and subordination that

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describes in her introduction to the volume as the common lot of women: "Finding a way to be a woman is finding a way to live with fatal knowledge." ''Heads and Tales'' was exhibited in museums and commercial galleries in New York,

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(US),

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, Heidelberg, and

. Hatry's collaborators in the project included Jennifer Belle,

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, Rebecca Brown,

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, Thalia Field, Diana George,

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, Lydia Millet, Micaela Morrissette,

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, Iris Smyles,

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''Not a Rose''

''Not a Rose'', also a collaboration and documented in a book, was introduced by MoMA PS1, Strand Books, Barnes & Noble, McNally Jackson, and others. It addresses the meaning of flowers and animals to human beings. Masked as a traditional coffee table book, it quotes from the genre while turning it inside out, "subtly undermining our notion of the meaning of beauty". The images it offers are not innocent pretty flowers but elegant, compelling, and yet grotesque sculptures that the artist has created from the offal, sex organs, and other parts of animals, “pushing us into a realm where we question our relationship with beauty, animals, and dinner", the foundations of aesthetic reception in general and our use and abuse of nature. 100 prominent intellectuals, writers, and artists (such as

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, Bazon Brock, Steven Connor,

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, Thyrza Goodeve,

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, Richard Milner,

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, Justin E. H. Smith,

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...) address “the question of the flower” from a multiplicity of perspectives, including anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, philology, botany, neuroscience, art history, gender studies, physics, and chemistry.

''Icons in Ash''

Hatry's ''Icons in Ash'' is a social, humanistic and aesthetic project that proposes a new way of seeing and honoring the dead. Hatry's ''Icons in Ash'' mosaics are completely hand-made realistic portraits created from human ashes inserted in beeswax. The project is accompanied by the book publication, ''Heide Hatry: Icons in Ash'', published by Station Hill Press in 2017 in which twenty-seven contributing authors have offered a multiplicity of perspectives on the human relationship to death. The contributors include Michaël Amy,

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, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Anthony Haden-Guest, Eleanor Heartney, Phoebe Hoban, Siri Hustvedt, Claudia Steinberg,

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, Lydia Millet, Rick Moody, Marc Pachter, Steven Pinker,

George Quasha George Quasha (born 1942) is an American artist and poet who works across media, exploring language, sculpture, drawing, video art, sound and music, installation, and performance. He lives and works in Barrytown, New York. Early life Quasha was ...

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, Luisa Valenzuela, Adele Tutter,

Peter Weibel Peter Weibel (Austrian German: �vaɪbl ; 5 March 1944 – 1 March 2023) was an Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator, and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet, then later moved from the page to the screen within th ...

, Linda Weintraub, and Naief Yehya. These cover a wide range of topics, from art history through anthropology, psychology, philosophy, semiotics, ecology, and beyond, as well as discussing death taboos, post-mortem practices, personal experience, the impact of the relic, and more. ''Icons in Ash'' was launched at different locations including the

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, at the Deutsche Haus (NYU), the

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(CAA) and exhibited at Ubu Gallery, the National Museum of Funeral History, and other venues. In 2021 Hatry received the

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for a new technique to create ''Icons in Ash'' memorial portraits more affordably, and she subsequently expanded the scope of the project to include portraits of deceased pets as well. Hatry contends and cites the experience of others who have commissioned the works as well, that the relationship to grieving, indeed to death, is altered by the “presence” that the portraits embody and that they exude a truth that is both “uncanny and consoling.”

Polar Bears

Hatry's most recent project consists of about 20

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s of

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s. in February 2021. Accompanied by “explanatory” signs, such as: ''Let us chill'', or, ''Mommy, what is a carbon footprint''?, the light-hearted public project became a locus for family discussion of Climate Crisis as well as a spontaneous outdoor art tutorial for kids that attracted daily crowds and significant notice in the press.

Other projects

''Oil Spill''

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 “inspired” Hatry to create artworks by collecting and preserving found roadkill, soaking them in oil and tar, and presenting them as sculptures and on canvas. Her solo exhibition at Pierre Menard Gallery in 2010 was followed by a benefit exhibition and auction which she organized with more than 80 participating artists to support the

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''Rusty Dog Project'' and ''Rust Room''

Hatry created 200 tiny rusty “balloon dogs” for use in Situationist-style performances, some of them “guerilla” stagings, that she enacted at several locations, including the Frieze Art Fair, NY and at public events during the

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Retrospective at the

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in 2014. The project was conceived to address the questions of value in art and the value of art and included sincere, if ostensibly provocative, discussion with random members of the art-viewing public at events whose purpose was otherwise merely social. She also mounted her meditation on time and ephemerality entitled ''Rust Room'', an installation that was constructed at Undercurrent Projects, NY, and consisted of an entire room in which everything, from floor to ceiling, was rusted, including table, chairs, shelves, books, bric-a-brac, and even the CD-player on which the Verdi Requiem was playing during the exhibition. Video Still Expectations

Performance

Since 2004, Hatry also created a significant body of performance works, many documented in videos, including "Skin Room", which was performed in the Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany; "Politics", which was performed on 9/11, 2007 in

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, New York, with a huge

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made out of pigskin and spattered with blood; and her best-known performance-work, "Expectations", which has been presented at several venues including the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art,

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, NY;

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, Providence, RI; Studio Soto,

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, MA; Kunstverein Nord, Berlin, Germany; and the 10th Barcelona Art Contemporari Festival,

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, and at Catinca Tabacura Gallery in NY in 2017.

Curatorial

Hatry has frequently served as a curator. Her numerous solo and group exhibitions have included work by

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Zhang Huan Zhang Huan (; born 1965) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York City. He began his career as a painter and then transitioned to performance art before making a comeback to painting. He is primarily known for his performance work, but ...

, Theresa Byrnes, Regina Jose Galindo,

Minnette Vári Minnette Vári (born 1968) is a South African artist known primarily for her video installations. Born in Pretoria, Vári studied fine arts at the University of Pretoria where she obtained her master's degree. She lives and works in Johannesburg ...

, Larry Miller,

Pat Steir Pat Steir (born 1938) is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she sta ...

Richard Humann Richard Humann (born 1961) is a New York City-based American neo-conceptual artist. His art delves deep into concept and ideas, and he uses a multitude of materials to create his installations, sculptures, videos, and sound projects. Richard Huma ...

Dove Bradshaw Dove Bradshaw (born September 24, 1949) is an American artist whose work integrates natural processes and environmental factors. She is known for chemical paintings, erosion sculptures, and the use of crystals to capture radio transmissions. Her ...

, Chrissy Conant, Peter Downsbrough, Max Gimblett, Chie Hasegawa,

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Annette Lemieux Annette Lemieux (born 1957 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American artist who emerged in the early 1980s along with the "picture theory" artists (David Salle, Jack Goldstein, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Richard Prince). Lemieux brought to th ...

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, and many others...

Unique Artist’s Books

She has also edited many books and catalogues, and her own unique

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s "treating texts by

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; born Paul Antschel; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translation, literary translator. He adopted his pen name (an anagram of the Romanian spelling Ancel ...

Frederic Tuten Frederic Tuten (born December 2, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He has written five novels – ''The Adventures of Mao on the Long March'' (1971), ''Tallien: A Brief Romance'' (1988), ''Tintin in the New World: A ...

Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (, ; ; 20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a Germans, German poet and philosopher. Described by Norbert von Hellingrath as "the most German of Germans", Hölderlin was a key figure of German Romanticis ...

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John Keats John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tub ...

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

Walter Abish Walter Abish (December 24, 1931 – May 28, 2022) was an Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories. He was conferred the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1981 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship six years later. ...

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo ( ; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish literature, Spanish-language and international literatur ...

, Robert Kelly, and

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among others, are held in many private and public collections.

Selection of Books and Catalogues

*HATRY, Heide: ''Icons in Ash''. New York: Station Hill Press in association with Ubu Gallery, 2017. *HATRY, Heide: ''Not a Rose''. Milan/New York: Charta, 2012/13. *HATRY, Heide (Ed.): ''One of a Kind, Unique Artist's Books'', Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2011; Dalhousie Gallery, Halifax, Canada;

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, Mount Allison University, Sackville, Canada; AC–Institute, New York, NY, 2nd ed., 2013. *HATRY, Heide: ''Heads and Tales''. New York/Milan: Charta, 2009. *HATRY, Heide (Ed.): ''Meat After Meat Joy''. New York/Cambridge, MA: Daneyal Mahmood Gallery/Pierre Menard Gallery, 2008. *HATRY, Heide (Ed.): ''Carolee Schneemann''. Cambridge, MA: Pierre Menard Gallery, 2007. *HATRY, Heide: ''Skin''. Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2005.

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External links

Website of artist Heide Hatry

Allison Meier. "Memorial Portraits Made with the Subjects’ Ashes" in ''Hyperallergic''

Interview with Heide Hatry (Thyrza Goodeve and Laila Pedro) in ''Brooklyn Rail''

Heide Hatry, ''Icons in Ash'' Memorial Project website

Interview with Carolee Schneemann and Heide Hatry with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve in ''Brooklyn Rail''

Claudia Steinberg. “Perverse Poesie” in ''ARTInvestor'' (in German)

Ute Thon. “Blumen des Bösen” in ''Art Magazin'' (in German)

Pia Cordero. “Potentia formae est” in ''Arteallimite'' (in English and Spanish)

Interview with Heide Hatry and Ron Broglio in ''Antennae Magazine''

Evan J. Garza. "Slideshow: Heide Hatry at Pierre Menard Gallery" ''The Phoenix''

Cosmoto. "SKIN", video documentation of ''Skin Room''
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Biography

Art career

''Skin''

''Heads and Tales''

''Not a Rose''

''Icons in Ash''

Polar Bears

Other projects

''Oil Spill''

''Rusty Dog Project'' and ''Rust Room''

Performance

Curatorial

Unique Artist’s Books

Selection of Books and Catalogues

See also

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