Asta Gröting

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Asta Gröting (2018)

Asta Gröting (born February 11, 1961 in Herford ) is a German artist. She lives in Berlin .

Life

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After graduating from school in 1981, Gröting studied sculpture at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf and graduated in 1986 as a master student of Klaus Rinke . In 1989 she received the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship and in 1992 the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . While still a student, Gröting was represented at numerous national and international exhibitions and received the Otto Dix Prize of the city of Gera in 1994 . From 1996 to 1997 she was visiting professor at the Valand Art Academy of the University of Gothenburg , at the Kassel University and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . From 1997 to 2003 she was a professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Since 2009 she has been teaching at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig .

Gröting initially dealt primarily with the medium of sculpture and “created large-scale works of impressive form and material aesthetics”; In 1993 she also began to turn to the artistic expression of film.

In the last few years, Gröting turned more to sculpture.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 “Berlin Facades” in the Kindl Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin-Neukölln
  • 2014 “The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena”, Cartagena de Indias, Bogotá, Colombia
  • 2014 “Asta Gröting”, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
  • 2010 “Asta Gröting”, Lentos , Linz; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin, traveling exhibition
  • 2009 “Asta Gröting - Sculptures”, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
  • 2008 “The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, and Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections”, Saint Louis Art Museum, USA
  • 2007 “Voice and Void”, The Alderich Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
  • 2006 "The Inner Voice", MARTa, Herford
  • 2005 "The Inner Voice / I AM BIG", Theater der Welt, Stuttgart
  • 2004 "With Hidden Noise", at City Varieties presented by the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
  • 2004 "EmotionReason" Biennale of Sydney , Sydney
  • 2003 “The Inner Voice / it seems too loud to come from so far”, Freud Museum, London
  • 2002 8th Triennial of International Art, Center of Attraction, Vilnius
  • 2001 “Arbeit Essen Angst”, Zollverein coking plant , Essen 2000
  • 2000 "Video as a Female Terrain", Steirischer Herbst , Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
  • 1999 "Leiblicher Logos", Osaka National Museum; Tochigi Prefecture Museum, Japan
  • 1998 “The Dreamcatchers”, La Biennale de Montréal '98, Center International d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
  • 1997 “Hommage à Lidice”, České muzeum výtvarných umění , Praha
  • 1996 “Homo Ecologicus”, KRTU, Departamento de Cultura, Barcelona
  • 1995 "Ars 95", Museum of Contemporary Art, Finnish National Gallery Helsinki
  • 1994 22nd São Paulo Biennial
  • 1993 "Passenger Works", ROOSEUM Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
  • 1992 “Périls et Colères”, capc Musée d'art contemporain Entrepôt, Bordeaux
  • 1991 "Transformations", Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
  • 1990 “The Readymade Boomerang”, 8th Sydney Biennale; “Aperto”, Venice Biennale , “Possible Worlds”, ICA and Serpentine Gallery , London

Prices

literature

  • Asta Gröting. König, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-786-7 . ( nbk exhibitions. Volume 6).
  • Asta Gröting Sculpture: 1987-2008. Henry Moore Sculpture Institute, Leeds 2009.
  • Asta Gröting: The inner voice. Edited by Jan Hoet and Christoph Keller. with contributions by Tim Etchells , Asta Gröting, Deborah Levy and Stella Rollig. Revolver, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-86588-003-7 , (English and German).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gera: Otto Dix Prize .
  2. ^ Asta Gröting. (No longer available online.) In: International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg . Archived from the original on October 11, 2007 ; accessed on April 18, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.summeracademy.at
  3. ^ HBK Braunschweig: people .
  4. ↑ Ellen Heider: Asta Gröting. (No longer available online.) In: ZKM . Archived from the original on November 14, 2017 ; accessed on April 18, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gröting, Asta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Herford