Andrea Fraser

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Andrea Fraser at MACBA , Barcelona

Andrea Fraser (*  1965 in Billings , Montana ) is an American artist who primarily deals critically with institutions . In her artistic practice she works in the areas of performance and installation .

Life

Andrea Fraser studied at New York University and the School of Visual Arts , New York until 1986 . In addition to her artistic work, she has always taught at various universities and art colleges, for example at the University of California, Los Angeles . Fraser lives and works in New York.
Fraser became known in the early 1990s with her gallery talks , performances in the form of guided tours through art institutions, in which she critically examined the forms of presentation, hierarchies and exclusion mechanisms in the art world. In subsequent works she also analyzed the structures of museums, galleries and other exhibition venues - sometimes in a humorous way. Topics such as cultural transfer, sponsoring and the importance of the media in reporting on art events come into the artistic-critical game. From 1987 to 1996 she was a member of The V-Girls (Martha Baer, ​​Jessica Chalmers, Erin Cramer, Andrea Fraser, Marianne Weems), a feminist- motivated performance group.

Artistic work

The performance Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk (1989) consists of a museum tour through the Philadelphia Museum of Art , performed by the artist in the role of lecturer "Jane Castleton". There is a shift compared to the usual tours. “Castleton” is increasingly addressing the museum's apparently secondary issues - the cloakroom, toilets, museum shop and the like are shown alongside the actual collections. At the same time, in her lecture she clarifies the context in which the museum is embedded - its creation, its social tasks. It reveals the invisible power structures and definition patterns that are given power through the arrangement and selection of the works of art presented and the architecture of the museum.

In May I Help You? (1991), also a performance, Andrea Fraser wrote a script based on quotes from, for example, Pierre Bourdieu or the Artnews magazine . In a commercial gallery exhibition with monochrome, black pictures by the artist Allan McCollum, the audience is confronted with a 15-minute lecture - based on Fraser's script - by the gallery employees. Fraser breaks through the usual behavior in galleries, according to which visitors and gallery employees do not enter into conversation with one another unless they know each other personally. Six different characters appear in the lecture, starting with the experienced art seller up to a person who has little knowledge of contemporary art. These characters are set in relation to one another.

Inaugural Speech (1997) is a 27-minute performance staged by Fraser at the opening of the event inSITE97 in San Diego, USA and Tijuana, Mexico. Following the official speakers, Fraser takes on the roles of various keynote speakers - as a curator, a board member, a public sponsor and a corporate sponsor. Fraser's concern is to show the complex structural relationships of the actors in global art events. Again she works on the basis of quotations from the exhibition catalog or the self-portrayals (interviews) of the respective actors.

In Art Must Hang (2001), Fraser staged an impromptu speech by the artist Martin Kippenberger , which he gave on the occasion of an exhibition opening by his friend and colleague Michael Würthle in 1995. Fraser had memorized this speech - in the German language unknown to her - based on a video recording. It is an appropriation of artist clichés with male connotations, but also a personal approach to Kippenberger, who died in 1997 and whom Fraser met in 1989.

Untitled (2003) is a one-hour video performance showing a sexual encounter between Andrea Fraser and an anonymous art collector based on mutual consent. The private collector paid the artist $ 20,000 for his participation. The resulting video is shown in exhibitions and can be acquired by collectors through Fraser's gallery. Part of the artistic concept is that the acquired video work is subject to numerous restrictions: it may only be shown publicly in consultation with the artist, screenshots may not be made and published, any kind of public statement by the owner about the video must be included to be voted on by the artist.

Exhibitions

  • Damaged Goods: Desire and Economy of the Object, New York, 1986
  • The Desire of the Museum, New York, 1990
  • 45th Venice Biennale , Austrian Pavilion, Venice, 1993
  • What happened to institutional critique ?, New York, 1993
  • The Places of Art, Hanover, 1994
  • Services, with Helmut Draxler, Kunstraum of the University of Lüneburg , 1994
  • Make Believe, London, 1995
  • White Cube / Black Box, Vienna, 1996
  • 24th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, 1998
  • Museum as Muse, New York, 1999
  • Economies of Time, Cologne, Berlin, Zurich, 2002
  • Andrea Fraser - Works, Hamburg, 2003
  • Andrea Fraser Projection from 2008, MUMOK in Vienna 2012
  • Andrea Fraser. Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2013, Museum Ludwig , Cologne 2013 with awarding of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize
  • Playtime, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich, March 15 to June 29, 2014
  • Andrea Fraser. Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London, 28 October 2013 to 31 August 2014
  • Andrea Fraser, Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Salzburg, March 21 to July 5, 2015
  • Andrea Fraser. L'1%, C'est Moi, MACBA , Barcelona, ​​April 22nd to September 4th, 2016

Awards

literature

  • Bismarck, Beatrice: On the compost heap of verbal garbage. In: Texts on Art, No. 30, June 1998
  • Draxler, Helmut / Fraser, Andrea: A society of taste. In: Kunstforum, Jan / Feb 1994, pp. 225–226
  • Dziewior, Yilmaz (ed.): Andrea Fraser - Works: 1984 to 2003. Dumont Verlag, Cologne, 2003
  • Graw, Isabelle: I love Kippenberger: About the current exhibition by Andrea Fraser in the Galerie Nagel, Cologne. In: Texts on Art, Sept. 2001
  • Kravagna, Christian: From institutional criticism to the aesthetics of administration. In: Texts on Art, Aug. 1995
  • Möntmann, Nina: Art as a social space: Andrea Fraser, Martha Rosler, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Renée Green. Walther König Publishing House, Cologne, 2002
  • Schöllhammer, Georg / Fraser, Andrea: EA-Generali Foundation. In: Springer, No. 2-3, June 1995, pp. 159-160.
  • Williams, Gregory: Andrea Fraser. In: Artforum, Vol XL, No 9, May 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dziewior, Yilmaz (eds.): Andrea Fraser - Works: 1984 to 2003. Dumont Verlag, Cologne, 2003
  2. ↑ Andrea Fraser in conversation with Praxis, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2004, Andrea Fraser in conversation with Praxis ( Memento from February 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Andrea Fraser on prostitution ( Memento from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2013: Andrea Fraser. (No longer available online.) Cologne Museums, archived from the original on August 6, 2013 ; Retrieved March 9, 2013 .
  5. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 6, 2014
  6. ^ Exhibition information , Museum der Moderne Salzburg
  7. ↑ Andrea Fraser. L'1%, c'est moi. In: macba.es. Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ orf.at - Oskar Kokoschka Prize goes to US artist Andrea Fraser . Article dated December 4, 2015, accessed December 4, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Fraser, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castleton, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Billings , Montana, USA