Bettina Gruber (artist)

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Alice Bettina Constanze Gruber (* 1947 in Minden ) is a German photo and video artist. Her work is represented in numerous collections in Germany and internationally, including the Museum Ludwig and the Tate Gallery .

life and work

Gruber was born in 1947 as the daughter of Ilka Maria Roggendorf and her second husband, who later became Photokina co-founder Leo Fritz Gruber . After studying at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin from 1967 to 1969, she also trained in photography in London from 1969 to 1972 (according to other sources, she studied art at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences ).

Since 1978 she has been experimenting with the video medium together with Maria Vedder - a novelty for both of them at the time. Four tapes produced together in the 1980s form a self-contained work corpus. The resulting tape, Der Herzschlag des Anubis , was awarded the 3rd Marler Video Art Prize from the Marler Glaskasten Sculpture Museum in 1989. The work is considered the culmination of her collaboration with Vedder. The two artists are considered to be "second generation" video artists and in the early 1980s they jointly published a handbook of video practice and the title Art and Video , in which they worked out "a first fundamental summary of current video art".

In 1990 Gruber dealt with Gerhard Richter's “great men of our culture” exhibited there in a video installation that was perceived as demanding in the Ludwig Museum in Cologne . She was nominated for the 1997 International Video Art Prize for her work Dog-Ma96 - The Canis Minor Mission .

At the museum-wide initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation 40jahrevideokunst.de: Digital Heritage, was selected for a jury from 2005 related media art since 1963, to save them from losing and digitize Gruber alongside artists such as was Joseph Beuys , Rosemarie Trockel and others involved with The Heartbeat of Anubis .

Bettina Gruber's works often show a “fairytale enchanted dream and children's world” and draw viewers to the limit of illusion and reality. Again and again she uses animals (wolf, lamb, dog ...) as protagonists, and communicates "the importance of fantasy for our lives" through humor and bizarre.

Gruber lives and works in Cologne.

Work (selection)

With Maria Vedder

  • Mama's Little Pleasure (Video, 1984, 5'18)
  • Big Brother Blues (Video, 1986, 5'52)
  • Catfish Tango (Video, 1986, 7 ′)
  • The heartbeat of Anubis (video, 1988, 5 ′)

Solo work

  • Passe pas seul (video, 1989)
  • Entre chien et loup , (video, 1989)
  • Dog-Ma96 - The Canis Minor Mission, (Internet installation , 1996/97)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • The conditioned look. Video installation; Museum Ludwig , Cologne, October 13 to November 8, 1990
  • DayDuskNight, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , 1998
  • Ephemeries, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1998
  • Project light. Light, space, concepts, art; Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne, October 1992 to April 1993
  • From the Zephyrian fund. Retrospective. Art spaces of the Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne; March 10 to April 24, 2019

Group exhibitions

Works in public collections (selection)

Publications

Fonts

  • with Maria Vedder : DuMont's manual of video practice: technology, theory and tips . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7701-1381-0 .
  • with Maria Vedder: Art and Video: International Development and Artists . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-7701-1497-3 .

Translations

  • Caroline Rennolds Milbank: Couture: glamor and history of the great fashion designers and their creations . Special edition edition. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4069-9 .
  • Jocasta Innes: DuMont's book of ideas: The new magic with colors . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7701-3295-5 .

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Peter Nestler, Jeanne Freifrau von Oppenheim, Candida Höfer , Tata Ronkholz : 22 female photographers - a cross-section of contemporary photography . Liselotte Strelow, Ellen Auerbach, Monika Baumgartl, Bettina Gruber, Candida Höfer, Lotte Jacobi, Elke Nord, Tata Ronkholz etc. Ed .: Gedok. 1983.
  • Karin Schuller-Procopovici and Gerard A. Goodrow: Belief, Knowledge & Doubt: dedicated to Jean-Henri Fabre . (Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name Watertoren HK, Vlissingen, Holland, May 18, 1997 - July 6, 1997). Salon-Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-932189-88-4 .
  • Frank Günter Zehnder, Rheinisches Landesmuseum (ed.): Day twilight night . (Exhibition catalog / Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , 28.05.1998-26.07.1998, Bonn). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7927-1722-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personal. In: fritz-gruber.de. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gruber, Bettina. In: kunstforum.de. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Bettina Gruber. In: Encyclopedia New Media. Center Pompidou, Museum Ludwig (et al.), 1998, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Bettina Gruber, Cologne, texts about and by. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Bettina Gruber / Mama's Little Pleasure. In: Encyclopedia New Media. Center Pompidou, Museum Ludwig (et al.), 1998, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
  6. ^ A b Friedemann Malsch: Gruber & Vedder . In: KUNSTFORUM international . 107: Artist couples II. Cologne 1990, p. 186 ( online via kunstforum.de (after login) ).
  7. ↑ Christine Häuber: The Heartbeat of Anubis - to video tapes by Bettina Gruber and Maria Vedder . In: Cologne Museum Bulletin . No. 4/1988 . Cologne 1988, p. 4-14 .
  8. ^ Dieter Daniels: 3rd Marler Video Art Prize . In: KUNSTFORUM international . 98, video special. Cologne 1989, p. 149 .
  9. ↑ a b Jürgen Kisters: Bettina Gruber "The conditional gaze" video installation. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, October 13th. - November 8, 1990 . In: KUNSTFORUM International . 111: The museum as a cultural time machine. Cologne 1991, p. 356 ( online via kunstforum.de (after login) ).
  10. ↑ 40jahrevideokunst.de - Part 1. Retrieved on February 2, 2020 .
  11. ↑ 40jahrevideokunst.de - Part 1. Retrieved on February 2, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Prize winners and nominees | ZKM. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Bettina Gruber. In: Vorgebirgsparkskulptur. IG Kunst im Park, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Jürgen Kisters: Project Light . In: KUNSTFORUM international . 121: Art and Humor II. Cologne 1993 ( online via kunstforum.de (after login) ).
  15. ↑ From the Zephyrian Fund. In: photography-now.com. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Annelie Pohlen: Get in big and walk thin. About the dangers of "Western art" and the harmony of art . In: KUNSTFORUM international . 44/45: realism. Cologne 1981, p. 128 .
  17. ↑ Press Release: VIDEO ART, 1976–1990: THE GERMAN CONTRIBUTION. (PDF) In: moma.org. Museum of Modern Art, February 1993, accessed February 2, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Media Art Action Interaction | 03/10/2000 to 04/15/2000 | ZKM. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  19. ^ Exhibition Man Ray to Sigmar Polke. A special history of photography - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gruber, Bettina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gruber, Alice Bettina Constanze (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Minden