Barbara Ellmerer

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Barbara Ellmerer

Barbara Ellmerer (born July 27, 1956 in Meiringen ) is a contemporary Swiss-Austrian painter and draftsman . She lives and works in Zurich. Her media are oil painting , analog and digital drawing, watercolor , printmaking and painting installation .

biography

Barbara Ellmerer grew up in Meiringen, she attended elementary schools there and in Interlaken. During her subsequent training at the Thun teacher training college, she also attended the Bern School of Applied Arts . This was followed by four years of teaching. She then trained as a visual artist at the F + F School for Experimental Design (today F + F School for Art and Design Zurich). At the same time Ellmerer was politically involved in the youth movement and was active in feminist groups to which she still feels connected to this day.

In 1985 Ellmerer moved into her first studio in the industrial area in Zurich, but avoided appearing in the art public until the end of the 1980s. For example, she draws directly in the snow with ink and brush and allows these works, which refuse to be accessed by the art market, to be seen as ephemeral images of the moment. 1988–1989 she enrolled at the Berlin University of the Arts (today UdK). This was followed by longer periods of work in Italy, Austria and Spain, and from 1992–1994 she lived in New York City.

Works

Barbara Ellmerer: Organell II 2019, Oil on canvas, 220 × 150 cm
Barbara Ellmerer: Organell II 2019, Oil on canvas, 220 × 150 cm

Her dominant theme to this day are invisible forces that appear in the pictures in the form of human faces and figures, representational objects that are always on the verge of painterly dissolution. Later she moved organic forms, plants, mushrooms or even landscapes into the center of her investigations. She finds the context in contemporary natural science, cosmology and biology. Barbara Ellmerer has been focusing her work on physical processes since 2011. She explores invisible forces with painterly and graphic-digital means. Based on scientific diagrams, she has been transposing atoms into painting since 2016, expanding the medium of painting into space.

The artist's working method is always dedicated to the question: What can and what is painting? She breaks down her own pictures into tiny individual parts and paints them again - greatly enlarged - and thus enters the field of conceptual painting.

In 2004 Ellmerer was awarded the UBS Work Year , in 2008 she traveled to New Delhi on a Pro Helvetia scholarship . Ellmerer's works are represented in numerous public and private collections. She is (co-) founder and co-author of the blog Journal for Art, Sex and Mathematics, which has been online since 2006.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • Gallery Urs Meile, Lucerne, CH (1991)
  • Gallery Freund, Klagenfurt, A (1992, 1994)
  • Lawrence Rubin Gallery, Zurich, CH (1997)
  • Musée d'art et d'histoire MAHN (with Francine Simonin), Neuchâtel, CH (1997)
  • Municipal gallery in the official sky, Baden , CH (2000)
  • Kunsthaus Langenthal (with Oberholzer Collection), Langenthal, CH (2003)
  • Trinitatiskirche Cologne , Cologne, D (2004)
  • Casa Museo Mariàtegui, Lima , Peru (2005)
  • Gluri-Suter-Huus , Wettingen, CH (2007)
  • Galerie Numaga, Colombier, CH (2006, 2009, 2014, 2018)
  • Galerie Haldemann, Bern , CH (1998, 2002, 2005, 2010)
  • Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, CH (1997, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2017)

Group exhibitions

literature

  • Recent Work - Atomjumps. Text by Alice Henkes, Ed .: Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-9524755-3-9 .
  • Kosmics, text by Gerhard Mack, Ed .: Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-9524285-3-5 .
  • About forces, Nils Röller, Barbara Ellmerer, Yves Netzhammer . Verlag Merve, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-88396-354-9 .
  • Bio fiction. Text by Alice Henkes. Ed .: Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523863-1-6 .
  • Blue Spanish Sky. Text by Ulli Seegers. Verlag Niggli, Sulgen / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-7212-0552-9 .
  • Oberholzer Collection in Dialog: Barbara Ellmerer. Text by Marianne Burki, Ed .: Kunsthaus Langenthal, 2003, ISBN 3-9070-1262-3 .
  • Blue girl. Text by Gabriele Lutz. Ed .: Galerie Lutz and Thalmann, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-9521558-3-7 .
  • Une confrontation. Simonin-Ellmerer. Texts by Paolo Bianchi, Andreas Fiedler, Nicolas Raboud, Walter Tschopp. Ed .: MAHN, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Neuchâtel 1997, ISBN 2-88427-037-X .
  • Barbara Ellmerer. Text by Eva Kramis, Ed .: Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne 1991.
  • Andreas Fiedler: Ellmerer, Barbara . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 33, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22773-6 , p. 342.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Ellmerer: Photo Protocol No. 6
personal data
SURNAME Ellmerer, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Austrian visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiringen