Birgit Berg-Block

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"Snow White" 1996
OT 1998

Birgit Berg-Block (* 1942 in Wiesbaden ) is a German artist whose work follows the tradition of Dada , Surrealism and Arte Povera .

life and work

From 1961 to 1964 Berg-Block studied at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden , graphics department, then from 1962 to 1964 lithography and painting with Edgar Ehses . Her preoccupation with Far Eastern art also fell into these years. Influenced by Edgar Ehse's miniatures, small-format informal pictures, gouaches and collages were created . From 1964 to 1966 he studied painting at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main .

Her first objects and object boxes were created in the 1980s and 1990s. Working with a wide variety of materials and objects placed in other contexts includes controlled coincidences and objet trouvé in the design process. Irritation and atmospheric condensation of feelings lead to fairytale and mythical stories. Dealing with life, illness and death, questioning social norms and laws, and diving into surrealistic and absurd worlds are her playing field to this day. Influenced by the death of her grandmother, the installation "Transitions" was created in 2003 in the Christ Church in Mainz - an examination of death, transience and new life. Birgit Berg-Block lives and works in Wiesbaden.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1974: Galerie B. Voigt, Nuremberg
  • 1975: Pictures and gouaches, Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Nikolausberg am Fassberg
  • 1979: Villa Clementine , Wiesbaden
  • 1986: Werkkunstschule, Wiesbaden
  • 1988: IFAGE Filmhaus, Wiesbaden
  • 1994: Gallery in Draier-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1996: Zeche Zollverein , Essen
  • 1999: One Woman Show-Förderkoje der Kunst Zürich 99
  • 2002: Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
  • 2003: Installation "Transitions" in the Christ Church in Mainz
  • 2006: Kunsthaus Potsdam
  • 2008: Rother Collection, Berlin, framework program "Art Forum" Berlin
"Dream couple" 2010 object box
Installation "Transitions" Christ Church Mainz 2003

Group exhibitions

  • 1974: Hessischer Rundfunk Frankfurt / Main, Marielies Hess Foundation
  • 1974/75: House of Art , Munich
  • 1979: Darmstadt Secession, Darmstadt
  • 1980: Wiesbaden artists from 3 generations, Klagenfurt, initiative of the BKK
  • 1982: Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden
  • 1986: "Illness and Death", former Nerotalklinik, Wiesbaden
  • 1988: Municipal Gallery San Sebastian, initiative of the BKK
  • 2009: Rosteck art collection, Hochheim
  • 2009: "Art-Book-Room", Potsdam
  • 2009: Rosteck art collection , Hochheim
  • 2011: "Area-Space" Galerie Kunstraum Frankfurt / Main
  • 2011: "Area-Space" Gallery Trinkkur, Bad Nauheim
  • 2011: "Money" gallery drinking cure, Bad Nauheim
  • 2011: 25 years of the Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal , Wiesbaden

literature

Catalogs

  • Catalog: Illness and Death - Artists work in the sick rooms of the former Nerotal Clinic, May 24th - June 15th 1986, BBK
  • Catalog: Birgit Berg-Block Objects July 25th - August 18th 1994, Galerie Berndt Kunsthandel

Media reports

  • "Spatial Regulations" Wiesbadener Kurier June 22, 1979
  • "Elementary space and metaphysical" Wiesbadener Tagblatt June 27, 1979
  • Work-process position in the Nassauischer Kunstverein 15. – 29. August 1982
  • "People and mummies between annihilation and decay - workshop" Illness and death in the former Nerotal clinic "Wiesbadener Kurier May 28/29, 1986
  • "Visions of Dasein im Grenzbereich" feature section of the Wiesbadener Tagblatt May 31 / June 1, 1986
  • "Shock and Fantasy" Wiesbadener Kurier October 10, 1986
  • "Dead heads-head births" Birgit Berg-Block / Eberhard Riedel, Wiesbadener Kurier March 30, 1988
  • "Symbolism with Variations" exhibition at Ifage, Wiesbadener Tagblatt March 19-20, 1988
  • "Art in the Ifage" Wiesbaden International 4/88
  • "Dignity formulas and children's codes" Cologne summer exhibition in the galleries, Handelsblatt Düsseldorf No. 150, August 5th / 6th, 1994
  • "Rubber and Plush" Kölnische Rundschau August 3, 1994
  • Kölner Stadtanzeiger August 5, 1994
  • Der Tagesspiegel, Stadtspiegel 7, page 142 9/94
  • "In the attic of memory" Rhein-Main-Presse, Wiesbadener Tagblatt June 30, 1999
  • "Zurich is currently an art mecca", Sunday view November 21, 1999, interview with Birgit Berg-Block background lies in the subconscious
  • "Zürich im Kunstrausch" Special Kunstmark Handelszeitung No. 47, page 73, 24 November 1999
  • "Laughter, horror, questions" Birgit Berg-Block's bizarre objects in the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbadener Kurier, September 21, 2002
  • "Pictures of Coming and Going" - Evangelical Church Newspaper No. 45, November 9, 2003, page 19
  • Report by Stefanie Adam on the occasion of the installation "Transitions" in the Christ Church, MRZ, November 13, 2003
  • "From found pieces" Potsdam's Latest News (PNN) of August 2, 2006
  • "It all started in the clinic" Frankfurter Rundschau August 5th, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog "Illness and Death" Artists work in the sickrooms of the former Nerotal Clinic
  2. ↑ Catalog: Birgit Berg-Block "Objects"
  3. ^ Opening speech by Juliane von Fircks on the occasion of the exhibition at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden in 2002
personal data
SURNAME Berg-Block, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden