Alice Creischer

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Alice Creischer (* 1960 in Gerolstein ) is a German conceptual artist whose work primarily deals with issues of power and the economy .

Life

Creischer studied philosophy and literature at the University of Düsseldorf as well as fine arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . She was in 1987/88 master student of Fritz Schwegler .

In her work, Creischer mainly deals with topics such as economy and money, power and powerlessness, as well as poverty and wealth. She also dealt theoretically with art by publishing in the magazines springerin , texts on art and ANYP . In 2002, together with Andreas Siekmann , she curated the exhibition Violence on the Margin of All Things at the Generali Foundation in Vienna. In 2006 she received the Norwegian Edward Munch Prize for Contemporary Art. Member of the jury was Roger Buergel , who invited Creischer to documenta 12 the following year .

In 2010 Creischer curated the exhibition The Potosí Principle - How can we sing the song of the Lord in an alien land? Together with Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer . for the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid. The controversially discussed exhibition showed for the first time pictures from the painting school in Potosi in a museum context and confronted the works from colonial Latin America of the 17th and 18th centuries with positions of current artists such as Stephan Dillemuth or Chto Delat . The exhibition shown afterwards in the Berlin House of World Cultures as well as in the Museo Nacional de Arte and in the MUSEF in La Paz developed its own exhibition grammar : in order to escape the museum's decontextualization, the aestheticization through the " white cube ", no picture was in traditionally hung on the wall - instead the curators developed their own system of installation. The "Potosi Principle" asserts that modernity and globalization were born in Latin America - and were already inextricably linked with colonial oppression and exploitation in the Potosí silver mines .

Creischer lives and works in Berlin and Buenos Aires .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2010: Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz
  • 2009: MACBA , Barcelona
  • 2009: Reina Sofia Madrid
  • 2009: House of World Cultures, Berlin
  • 2008: The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory Defining Seven Years of My Artistic Life and apparatus for osmotic pressure equalization of wealth when looking at poverty , MACBA , Barcelona.
  • 2005: Apparatus for osmotic pressure equalization of wealth when looking at poverty , Society for Current Art (GAK), Bremen.
  • 2001: The Greatest Happiness Principle Party , Secession, Vienna.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013: To update the atlas by Arntz and Neurath , with Andreas Siekmann, K 'Center for Current Art, Bremen.
  • 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel.
  • 2005: Be what you want but stay where you are , Witte de With, Rotterdam.
  • 2004: Ex Argentina - Steps to Escape from Work to Doing, Museum Ludwig , Cologne.
  • 2003: The government , art space at the University of Lüneburg .
  • 2000: Things we don't understand , Generali Foundation, Vienna.
  • 2000: Governmentality , Alte Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover.
  • 2000: Sidewalks , Künstlerhaus Bremen.
  • 1998: Do the lobby today , Kunstbüro Wien.
  • 1994: Friendly game , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In another place there are sites of birth of Santa Fe, Argentina and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  2. ↑ Norwegian Embassy in Canada: Second Edward Munch Award for Contemporary Art goes to Alice Creischer , press release accessed on April 3, 2008, online at http://www.emb-norway.ca/culture/news/Edward+Munch+Award. htm ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The Potosi Principle - website of the project, online at http://potosiprincipleprocess.wordpress.com/about/
  4. ^ Goethe-Institut Barcelona: Installation by Alice Creischer . Information about the exhibition that will be shown from January 31st to May 31st, 2008 at MACBA. Online at http://www.goethe.de/ins/es/bar/acv/bku/2008/de2941344v.htm
  5. ↑ Elke Bippus: To the text productions by Alice Creischer . Lecture at the Society for Current Art, Bremen, on the occasion of the exhibition of “Alice Creischer. Apparatus for the osmotic pressure equalization of wealth when considering poverty ”, August 18, 2005. Online under Alice Creischer Apparat for the osmotic pressure equalization of wealth when considering poverty
  6. ^ Matthias Poledna: Alice Creischer . In: Springerin 1/1999, pp. 73-74.
personal data
SURNAME Creischer, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolstein