Andrea Robbins

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Andrea Robbins (* 1963 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American photographer .

She studied until 1986 at the Cooper Union School of Art , New York , NY / BFA and then to 1986 at the Hunter College School of Art , New York, NY. She has been working with her husband, Max Becher, since 1986 .

Robbins and Becher photograph and film in Europe , North America , the Caribbean and Africa . Her work deals with “relocated” places and identities . They document the culture of emigrants or displaced persons who settle in distant countries and try to preserve something of their old homeland and their cultural roots.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions by the artist couple Robbins & Becher
  • Museo ICO, Madrid (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen (2016);
  • School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba (2014);
  • The Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore College, Baltimore (2008);
  • Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2005);
  • Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (2005);
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2003);
  • Kunstverein Hamburg (1994); de Vleeshal, Middelburg (1994);
  • Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk (1994).

Books

  • Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: Black Cowboys . Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen 2016.
  • Portraits . With essays by Maurice Berger, and Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, 2008, Publisher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County , MA. ISBN 978-1-890761-11-0
  • The Transportation of Place . With essays by Lucy Lippard and Maurice Berger, 2006. Publisher: Aperture Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-59711-010-5
  • Brooklyn Abroad . With essays by Nora Alter and Rupert Pfab , May 2006. Publisher Sonnabend Gallery and Museum Kunstpalast .
  • Contact sheet 98: Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: German Indians and Bavarian by Law . With essays by Gary Hesse and Jolene Rickard, 1998. Publisher: Light Work, Syracuse, NY. ISSN 1064-640X
  • Andrea Robbins and Max Becher . With essays by Benjamin Buchloh , Catherine de Zegher , Everlyn Nicodemus, and Luc Lang , 1994. Publisher: Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk and de Vleeshal, Middleburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Maryland Baltimore County, "Portraits" Accessed July 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Aperture Press, "The Transportation of Place"
  3. ↑ Light Work, "Contact sheet 98: Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: German Indians and Bavarian by Law"
  4. ↑ Kanaal Art Foundation and de Vleeshal, "Andrea Robbins and Max Becher"
personal data
SURNAME Robbins, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts , USA