Angie Hiesl

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Angie Hiesl (* 1954 in Riedenburg ) is a German performance and installation artist , choreographer and director .

Life

Hiesl grew up in Venezuela, Peru and Bonn. She studied various theater and dance techniques and learned to play in Poland and the USA using Strasberg and Grotowski's methods . From 1978 to 1981 she studied elementary dance and movement theater at the Cologne Sports University . Angie Hiesl has lived in Cologne since 1975. She has been working together for many years with Roland Kaiser , with whom she implements most of her projects under the name “Angie Hiesl Produktion”.

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Installation at the Aarhus Festival Week

Angie Hiesl has been working as a director, choreographer and performance artist since the early 1980s. In her interdisciplinary actions of theater, performance, dance, installation and action art, she transforms art-free private and public spaces into ephemeral works of art. By working on house facades, subway stations or tiled swimming pools, for example, she changes the observer's familiar everyday perceptions. One of her best-known works is the street art performance X-mal Mensch Stuhl, which premiered in 1995 and was shown in 28 cities in Europe and South America with over 80 performances. Here she attaches white steel chairs to house facades at a height of between three and seven meters, on which people who are older than sixty sit and perform everyday activities from their everyday lives, such as reading the newspaper or folding laundry. For X-Mal Mensch Stuhl she received the 1998 International Street Theater Prize in Holzminden.

In addition, Hiesl also performs theater and dance productions on the stage, and has shown visual works of art in solo and group exhibitions. She worked with the Goethe Institute on several foreign productions .

Awards

  • 1989: Chargesheimer scholarship from the city of Cologne
  • 1991: Carl scholarship from Essen's Carl colliery
  • 1993: Children's and youth theater award from the city of Cologne for the choreography Kinderjahre
  • 1996: Sponsorship award from the secretariat for joint cultural work in NRW
  • 1998: “Theaterzwang” award from the FAVORITEN theater festival for Chicken Fodder & other fine stories
  • 1998: International street theater award for X-mal Mensch chair, Holzminden
  • 2001: Cologne Honorary Theater Prize from the SK Foundation for Culture
  • 2005: Innovation Prize of the VI. Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de Valladolid
  • 2012: 17th female artist award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the field of the independent scene of the performing arts

Individual evidence

  • “A new look at what is believed to be familiar - The action artist Angie Hiesl”, radio column profile in Deutschlandradio Kultur , online , accessed on August 27, 2010
  • Vita on the artist's website, accessed on August 27, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nrw.de/landesregierung/17-kuenstlerinnenpreis-im-bereich-der-frei-szene-der-darstellenden-kuenste-2012-wird-verliehen-an-angie-hiesl-und-yoshie-shibahara -13458 / The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, September 25, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hiesl, Angie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German performance and installation artist, choreographer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Riedenburg