Birgit Brenner

Birgit Brenner (* 1964 in Ulm ) is a German visual artist.

Life

Brenner studied communication design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences from 1985 to 1990 and at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1990 to 1995 and was a master student of Rebecca Horn in 1996 . Brenner creates installations, videos, drawings and sculptures and deals with interpersonal relationships and the problems between men and women in her work. She takes this to extremes in her work. In 2004 she celebrated her birthday in a Berlin table dance bar and confronted her female and male birthday guests with her own embarrassment by letting them stick bills into women's underwear. She has also worked on a project with the porcelain manufacturer Meißener Porzellan .

Brenner's work is represented in numerous collections, such as the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art in Bonn, the Falckenberg Collection in Hamburg and the Goetz Collection in Munich, Museum Junge Kunst in Frankfurt (Oder) , collection in the Willy Brandt House in Berlin, the About Change, Collection , the Arario Collection , The Zabludowicz Collection and the Südhausbau Collection .

Since 2007 she has been a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart for photography / drawing / new media in the art department . In 2012 she was appointed to mentor the Everything for Art initiative by ARTE Creative . For 2019/2020 she was awarded a scholarship in the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2020 Birgit Brenner received the Art Prize of the City of Wolfsburg, awarded by the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg and endowed with 10,000 euros . Brenner is represented by the Eigen + Art gallery .

Birgit Brenner has a son and lives in Berlin.

Web links

• Literature by and about Birgit Brenner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Birgit Brenner on kunstaspekte.de
• Birgit Brenner. Forever and ever. Exhibition in the Kunsthalle Tübingen
• Biography at Eigen + Art
• Brenner in the Dortmund Art Association
• Article in the Tagesspiegel
• Exhibition in the Jena art collection

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christina Bylow: Studio visit: "Kiss me until it hurts" . In: The time . No. 10/2008 ( online ).
2. ↑ http://www.meissen.com/de/artcampus/meissen-artcampus/kuenstler-und-werke/birgit-brenner  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Database of the Federal Art Collection . Retrieved May 10, 2014.
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
5. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
6. ↑ Villa Massimo | Future scholarships. Retrieved August 20, 2019 . 
7. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Art Prize of the City of Wolfsburg goes to Birgit Brenner. Retrieved October 17, 2019 .