Anjali Goebel

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Anjali Göbel (born October 25, 1958 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German object and installation artist.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1977 an apprenticeship as a carpenter followed by a journeyman's examination (1980). As a result, extensive study trips through Mexico, the USA, Canada and Australia and longer stays in India, which strongly influenced her artistic conception. In between, activities and a. as a DJ, stage presenter and restorer. Freelance artist since 1999; since then regular exhibitions. Göbel lives and works in Dreieich near Frankfurt / Main. She is co-founder of the artist group "raumpflege" (together with Veronika Fass, Ulla Reiss and Sylvia Richter-Kundel). Cooperation with the photographer Roberto Kressner.

Work and effect

Göbel is known for her work with materials that she takes almost exclusively from nature. From seeds, thorns, leaves, woody branches and needles, snail shells or grains of rice - the material reservoir has no natural limits - she creates multidimensional (pictorial) objects and (spatial) installations: “My objects, material images and installations are metaphors of order and rhythm, sensuality and sensation - silent gifts to an overexcited world. "

The decisive feature of their work is not to change the material, but to follow it: After “harvesting and collecting”, the procurement of the natural material, there is a phase of sorting. In doing so, the objets trouvées are brought into a new order that opens up diverse contexts of meaning. “For me, the smallest element is the beauty of the whole. Sometimes hidden, but always crucial. Just as language cannot exist without the individual sound, and writing presupposes the individual letter. "

Göbel's interest is not in the conspicuous, the special, the unique, but in the - as an example, the grain of rice or the thorn of a rose - precisely in the multitude of existing ordinary things. The material is - this is also typical of their reduced working style - free of charge and usually not for sale. “Poppy capsule lids are collected with the same passion as the shells of hatched insects. 'Searching for things' was the preferred career choice among my friends when I was at kindergarten ”, says Sonja Rudorf about her. The value of the artistic work is therefore primarily determined by the time and effort invested by the artist and the appreciation on the part of the audience. By refraining from switching a process between material and installation - that is, between the starting point and the end point of her work - that would change the material that is repeatedly reproduced in nature, her objects and installations express a "natural" relationship that Even in the highly artificial design, it can always be suspected and expresses an aspect of sustainability.

When Göbel began to apply the material to chalked (wooden) panels, she has recently been experimenting with larger formats. In some work cycles, the isolated, rearranged natural details are therefore applied directly to the floor or walls (“direct wallpaper”, also as temporary works in exhibition rooms). Other installations - for example when using larch and other needles - focus on objects that can have an individual as well as serial expression ("pincushion" made of needles from various conifers on white chairs, "occident carpet" made of larch needles, both 2007). There is nothing hermetic or provocative about Göbel's work. According to the artist, it is a matter of triggering (also contemplative) states in the viewer: "calm, respect, mindfulness". She defends herself against over-interpreting her work; the cultural loading of thorns or grains of rice - especially in the context of religious interpretation - is never considered a priori in her work, even if, as in the example of a cross made from rose thorns, it may impose itself on the viewer. The natural material leads to unnatural, artistic results. However, in the new arrangement, the natural reference becomes clear again, where it brings nature back into the viewer's view via a natural fundus. The unnatural arrangement of the natural, the artistic rearrangement of the supposedly chaotic leads to an artistic position. Göbel's works “do not serve a rationality or an instrumental understanding of the world, for which understanding the world means being able to recreate it in its functional mechanisms. Instead, A. G. creates independent objects from the materials of nature, the function of which is to satisfy only oneself. A relationship to nature cannot be de-instrumentalized more respectfully. "

Prices

  • 2008 Culture Prize of the City of Dreieich

Scholarships

  • 2011/2012 Artist in Residence, International Forest Art Center (IWZ), Darmstadt

Exhibitions

  • 2011 Collectors and hunters, Vogelfrei, Jagdschloss Kranichstein, Darmstadt
  • 2011 Tellerrand, Kunstverein Worms
  • 2010 The art of nature is the nature of art, Fulling Mill, Wiesbaden
  • 2010 gARTen, art summer Wiesbaden
  • 2010 Air Show, Gallery at Peace Square, Hanau
  • 2010 room maintenance, art forum, Seligenstadt
  • 2009 All Souls, Bellevue Hall, Wiesbaden
  • 2009 case studies, BOK, Offenbach
  • 2008 Loopholes, Kunstraum 69, Hanau / Remise, Zwingenberg
  • 2008 human writes, vaishwik art environment, Pune, India
  • 2008 “I love to hear things singing…”, Kunstverein, Frankenthal
  • 2008 Landscape Extracts II, Landscape Museum, Seligenstadt
  • 2007 Intersections, Städtische Galerie, Dreieich
  • 2006 winter bedroom, municipal gallery, Darmstadt
  • 2005 Landscape Extracts, Municipal Gallery, Walldorf
  • 2004 keeping / preserve, waves art gallery, Pune (India)
  • 2003 Paradise was a desert full of white thorns, Vogelfrei, Darmstadt
  • 2002 Elements / Ornaments, open canvas, Pune (India)
  • 2001 Small Pictures of Indian Nature, Goethe-Institut Pune (India)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anjali Göbel, leaflet on the artist group “raumpflege”.
  2. ↑ a b Anjali Göbel: preserve. keeping. Catalog for the 2004 exhibition. Waves Art Gallery, Pune, India.
  3. ↑ Peter Lähn: NaturRaumKunstZeit. Exhibition catalog for the 17th Dreieich Art Days. Stadtische Galerie Dreieich, 2007.

literature

  • “From the wall into the room. Anjali Göbel: Art, Nature and Commitment. ”In: Dreieich-Zeitung of October 25, 2008.
  • “The art of harvesting. The artist Anjali Göbel works with natural materials - and really uses everything. A portrait. ”In: info 3 , Anthroposophie heute, No. 9, September 2005.
  • Intersections. Göbel, Görlich, Kressner. Edited by the Dreieich town houses, Städtische Galerie, 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Anjali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German object and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main