Annette Merrild

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Annette Merrild (born February 21, 1972 in Herning ) is a Danish contemporary artist who lives and works in Barcelona .

life and work

Annette Merrild was born on February 21, 1972 in Herning, Denmark. After finishing school in Denmark, she decided to study painting . She enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1992 to 1993 . From 1995 Annette Merrild went to Mombasa , Kenya , for a year , and received instruction in the wood carving techniques of traditional tribal art at the Cooperation Akamba Handcrafts Industry. She then moved to Germany and matriculated from 1996 to 2002 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts . She learned under Werner Büttner and Bernhard Blume and completed her studies as a master class student . In 2004 she received the honorary diploma from Franz Erhard Walther . This was followed by study and work stays in Berlin , Hamburg , New York and Copenhagen before she settled in Barcelona.

Annette Merrild works very conceptually in her pictures . She makes use of various artistic techniques such as collage , action painting or photography and combines different materials with one another, including neon installations , pigments and glue . Since the beginning of her artistic career, she has dealt with the subject of people in society. A special focus is also on shedding light on the changing role of women.

She is friends with the Danish bestseller writer Jussi Adler-Olsen , who made her paintings part of a literary scene in his novel Verheißung - Der Grenzenlos .

Works by her are in museums, including the Art Museum of Estonia and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017: "Naked" in contemporary art , Tobias Schrade Gallery
  • 2016: Kumu hits. Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Art Museum of Estonia , Kumu Kunstimuuseum , Tallinn
  • 2016: Group Show , Mantua Politecnico, Milan
  • 2016: Summer 2016 , Ventana Contemporary, Ibiza
  • 2013: Group Show , ArsFundum, Madrid
  • 2013: Efterårsudstillingen , Kunsthal Charlottenborg
  • 2012: Xmas 12 , Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
  • 2012: You are a part of me , Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne
  • 2004: Index 04 , Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 2001: Happiness instead of plastic , Palais for contemporary art , Glückstadt

literature

  • Rosenhang Museum (ed.): Annette Merrild. Moments . San Francisco : Blurb Books , 2017.
  • Suárez, Juan: Annette Merrild: "Con el sexo se abre una puerta a la libertad" . Published in: Diario de Ibiza on March 30, 2016.
  • Unknown author: "The Room Project" by Annette Merrild . Published in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , on October 10, 2010.
  • Güncelleme, Son: 'The Room Project' on view at Istanbul Modern . Published in: Hürriyet , May 25, 2009.
  • Özendes, Engin: The room project. Photoseries by Annette Merrild / Oda projesi. Annette Merrild fotoserisi . Istanbul : Verlag İstanbul Modern, 2009.
  • Faculty of Architecture of the Graz University of Technology (ed.): GAM - Graz Architektur Magazin / GAM - Graz Architecture Magazine, New York / Vienna : Springer , pp. 62,120 and 164.
  • Hölz, Stina: Annette Merrild. The Room Project . Dortmund : Artwerk Verlag , 2006.
  • Beinhauer-Koehler, Bärbel; Leggewie, Claus : Mosques in Germany. Religious home and social challenge. Munich: CH Beck, 2009, p. 95.
  • Beinhauer-Koehler, Bärbel; Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria; Valentin, Joachim: Religious Views - Views of the Religious. Visuality and Religion , Zurich : Theologischer Verlag , p. 142 f.
  • Schielke, Mandy: Look into the parlor. Annette Merrild photographs living rooms. Published in: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , on August 27, 2007.
  • Burgmayer, Andreas: One room - many fates . Published in: Hamburger Abendblatt , May 18, 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Merrild, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish contemporary artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Herning