Annette Messager

Annette Messager, 2017

Annette Messager (born November 30, 1943 in Berck , Département Pas-de-Calais ) is a French painter , photographer and installation artist .

life and work

Messager was born in Berck, a spa town in northern France, in 1943. For a short time she studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris . She is married to Christian Boltanski and lives in Paris and Malakoff , France .

Messager uses soft toys, scraps of cloth, preparations for animals, woolen thread, fishing nets, photographs and a number of other materials to create assemblages . Traditionally feminine handicraft like knitting becomes an artistic medium for her.

“For several years there have been several Annette Messagers: Annette Messager, the collector, Annette Messager, the practical woman, Annette Messager, the trickster, Annette Messager, the artist. Since I didn't have a title, I gave myself one and became an important, well-defined personality. "

- Annette Messager

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2007: Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
2008: "The Messengers", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2010: Galeria Zachęta , Warsaw
2011: Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
2012: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Group exhibitions (selection)

1977: Documenta 6 , Kassel
1979: Photography as Art. Institute of Contemporary Arts , London
1980: 39th Biennale di Venezia , Venice
1982: "Today's Art and Erotism" Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn
2000: "I am something else" Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia
2002: Documenta11 in Kassel
2003: 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2005: 51st Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Awards

1964: Kodak Prize for Photography
2005: Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale
2016: Praemium Imperiale

Web links

Literature by and about Annette Messager in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Annette Messager on kunstaspekte.de

Individual evidence

^ Annette Messager: Biography at art-in. Retrieved on March 17, 2013.
↑ Julien Grunberg: December 16, 2011 arte-tv ( memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on March 17, 2013.
^ Marianne Goodman Gallery: Annette Messager 2012. Retrieved on March 17, 2013 (English).
↑ Karin Klein: I am something different - art at the end of the 20th century.Retrieved on March 17, 2013.
↑ Johanna Maria Huck-Schade - July-2002 Annette Messager - collector, artist, trickster, peddler, practical woman.Retrieved on March 17, 2013.
^ Adrian Searle: These childish things. Annette Messager puts sparrows in bonnets, and sabotages soft toys. How magical, says Adrian Searle. In: The Guardian March 5, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Messager, Annette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French painter, photographer and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berck , France

[1] Annette Messager: Biography at art-in. Retrieved on March 17, 2013.

[2] Julien Grunberg: December 16, 2011 arte-tv ( memento from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on March 17, 2013.

[3] Marianne Goodman Gallery: Annette Messager 2012. Retrieved on March 17, 2013 (English).

[4] Karin Klein: I am something different - art at the end of the 20th century.Retrieved on March 17, 2013.

[5] Johanna Maria Huck-Schade - July-2002 Annette Messager - collector, artist, trickster, peddler, practical woman.Retrieved on March 17, 2013.

[6] Adrian Searle: These childish things. Annette Messager puts sparrows in bonnets, and sabotages soft toys. How magical, says Adrian Searle. In: The Guardian March 5, 2009. Retrieved March 17, 2013.