Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel (born September 6, 1965 in Escondido ( California )) is an American sculptor and installation artist .
life and work
Zittel graduated from San Diego State University (1988 BFA). She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Master of Fine Arts in 1990 . In 1995 she took part in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
Zittel transforms her works, which consist of sculptures and installations, furnishings and pieces of clothing, into a habitable, artificial world in which the boundaries between art and life are blurred and a social environment of its own emerges.
Inspired by modern design and architecture and the work of Bauhaus artists such as Anni and Josef Albers , the Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , the Americans Richard Buckminster Fuller and the furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames , she creates these handcrafted objects with playful humor and installations of living models (“Living Units”) as autonomous biotopes.
In 1994 she moved into a three-story building in Brooklyn , New York , which she named "AZ East" and which she used as a workshop and project space for experimental research for six years. In it she researched the eating, sleeping, clothing and washing habits of the temporary residents. In 1999 she moved with her project "AZ West" to a 10 hectare site in the California Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree , where she further developed her "Experiments in Living".
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1993: 45th Venice Biennale
- 1997: documenta X , Kassel; Sculpture.Projects , Münster
- 2003: Andrea Zittel , Goetz Collection , Munich
- 2005–2007: Andrea Zittel: Critical Space , Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in Houston , Texas ; New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles and Vancouver Art Gallery , British Columbia.
- 2006: Andrea Zittel retrospective , New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York City.
- 2006: Andrea Zittel: Small Liberties , Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria , New York City.
- 2009: Interior / Exterior: Living in Art , Wolfsburg Art Museum
Awards
- 2005: Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- 2007: AICA Award Best Architecture or Design Show
- 2012: Friedrich Kiesler Prize
literature
- Theodora Vischer: Andrea Zittel, gouaches and illustrations , Steidl, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-722-6 .
- Paola Morsiani, Trevor Smith, Cornelia H. Butler: Andrea Zittel: critical space , Prestel, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-7913-3397-7 .
- Ingvild Goetz, Rainald Schumacher: Andrea Zittel , Kunstverlag Goetz, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-9808063-2-4 .
Web links
- Materials by and about Andrea Zittel in the documenta archive
- Andrea Zittel on kunstaspekte.de
- Website of the artist
- Grace Glueck: Rethinking the World by Cutting it Down to Size , in: The New York Times, February 3, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grace Glueck: Rethinking the World by Cutting it Down to Size , in: New York Times, February 3, 2006
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↑ Andrea Zittel: Critical Space ( Memento from March 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, October 6, 2005 to January 1, 2006
Andrea Zittel , Geffen Contemporary at MOCA LA, March 4 to May 14, 2007.
Andrea Zittel: Critical Space , Vancouver Art Gallery, June 9 to September 16, 2007.
Catalog for the exhibition was published by Prestel, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7913-3397-6 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zittel, Andrea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American installation artist and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Escondido , California |