Monika Baumgartl (born 1942) is a German photographer,
performance artist
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...
and representative of .
Life and work
Born in Prague,
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was a partially-annexation, annexed territory of Nazi Germany that was established on 16 March 1939 after the Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945), German occupation of the Czech lands. The protector ...
) Baumgartl trained as a photographer in
Hofheim am Taunus
Hofheim (; officially known as Hofheim am Taunus) is the administrative centre of Main-Taunus-Kreis district, in the south of the German state of Hesse. Its population in September 2020 was 39,946.
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from 1966 to 1968. She then moved to Düsseldorf, worked as an actress (among others a member of ) and was assistant to the German filmmaker and
video galerist Gerry Schum. Since 1970, she has been active as a photographic artist. From 1970 to 1976, she organised performances and joint exhibitions together with
Klaus Rinke.
Baumgartl had her first solo exhibition in 1974. Her photographs are almost exclusively night shots.
Monika Baumgartl
on
Michael Hoppen Gallery She participated in Documenta 5
documenta 5 was the fifth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 30 June and 8 October 1972 in Kassel, West Germany. The artistic director was Harald Szeemann. The title of the exhibition was: Befr ...
in Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...
in 1972 in the section ''n: Self-Representation - Performances - Activities - Changes'' and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977. Since the 1980s, she has worked as a trainer for tapdance and taiko
are a broad range of Traditional Japanese musical instruments, Japanese percussion instruments. In Japanese language, Japanese, the term refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, it is used specifically to refer to any of the various J ...
.
References
Further reading
* Exhibition catalogue: ''documenta 5. Befragung der Realität – Bildwelten heute''; Catalogue (as Aktenordner) vol. 1: (Material); vol. 2: (Exponatliste); Kassel 1972
* documenta Archiv (ed.); ''Wiedervorlage d5 – Eine Befragung des Archivs zur documenta 1972''; Kassel/Ostfildern 2001,
* Katalog zur documenta 6: Vol. 1: Malerei, Plastik/Environment, Performance; Vol. 2: Fotografie, Film, Video; Vol. 3: Handzeichnungen, Utopisches Design, Bücher; Kassel 1977
* Renate Buschmann, Stephan von Wiese (ed.): ''Fotos schreiben Kunstgeschichte'', DuMont, Köln 2007 (Ausstellungskatalog zur Ausstellung ''Fotos schreiben Kunstgeschichte'', 8 December 2007 until 2 March 2008, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf);
External links
Beispiele ihrer Werke
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Monika Baumgartl
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German performance artists
20th-century German women photographers
20th-century German photographers
21st-century German women photographers
21st-century German photographers
1942 births
Living people
Artists from Prague