Birgit Jensen

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Birgit Jensen (* 1957 in Würzburg ) is a contemporary German artist. She lives and works in Düsseldorf. For her painting she mainly uses the screen printing process. Her imagery moves between image and abstraction.

Education and career

Birgit Jensen studied at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1976 to 1982 with Wolfgang Petrick . After her appointment as a master class student in 1982, she received a DAAD scholarship for a one-year stay in Italy. The Milanese gallery Bruna Soletti showed between 1982 and 1985 her work from this time. Jensen has lived and worked in Düsseldorf since 1985, interrupted by a year and a half stay in London, where she worked in a space studio in Deborah House (1989–1990). In 1992 Birgit Jensen was awarded the Düsseldorf Prize for Fine Arts. In 2000 she received a work grant from the Kunstfonds eV, Bonn. In addition to her work in the field of painting, she realizes several "art-in-building" projects, such as 2014 Syesthetic spatial structure in the inner courtyard of the Fraunhofer Institute SIT, Darmstadt, in which the two artistic media visual art and music (composition: Wilhelm Geveler ) are combined with each other. Another work is in the plenary hall of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin (since 2002). In addition to her artistic work, Birgit Jensen is the initiator of artist projects as a curator. From 2003 to 2012, together with Markus Ambach , she organized the monthly series of events WG / 3ZI / K / BAR in the Jacobihaus of the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf. Her various areas of work flowed into her FLUGBLÄTTER / FLYING LETTERS project in 2017. To this end, Jensen asked more than 130 visual artists active around the world "how they position themselves as artists in a world with its current rapid changes in global social processes, with its tensions and conflicts." The answers from around 150 colleagues have since been presented in various countries and documented in a book in 2019.

Since 2018 Birgit Jensen has been represented by the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, USA. Jensen worked a. a. with the galleries Bruna Soletti Arte Contemporanea in Milan, Italy, Studio Cavalieri in Bologna, Italy, Sfeir-Semler in Kiel, Michael Cosar in Düsseldorf, teaching contemporary art in Cologne and Berlin. Birgit Jensen is a member of the German Association of Artists (from 2008 to 2012 also a board member). Birgit Jensen is married to the artist and co-founder of the Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation (NYC) Jochen Saueracker .

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Birgit Jensen's painting is based on the visual analysis of today's digitally shaped reception habits. She encounters these with the formal means of traditional artistic printing techniques. In her pictures, the stepless transition between depiction and abstraction functions both as a painterly abstraction element and as a "link" to the world of mass reproduced images. By superimposing different print screen shapes, angles and frequencies, desired patterns are generated and transferred into monochrome or multicolored shimmering compositions ( Moiré-Bilder , 1996–1999). Dealing with architectural structures led to occupation with cityscapes from 1998 (1998–2009). The lights of nocturnal megacities such as Los Angeles serve as the source material. The reduction of the points of light to geometric constellations of shapes that are reminiscent of pixels takes up the vertical and horizontal construction lines of the architecture. At the same time, the formal abstraction of the urban cluster points to the perceptibility of the urban, in which the individual building or the city itself is less an object, but rather questions of perception, the viewer situation, the congruence or divergence of structures or textures. Well-known views of tourist locations will be transferred to specially developed textures and grids from 2009 and reflect our awareness of reality, which has been shaped by the media (2009–2012). The starting material for the series of constellations (2013–2015) are space photographs. Virtual star constellations and interference fields are generated by analog actions. The image motifs oscillate between a scientific model of knowledge and an informal gesture. In her landscape paintings since 2015, Birgit Jensen investigates the meaning of ideal and transcendence. Based on the Japanese woodcut of the 19th century, abstract color spaces are created. In combination with landscape elements, some of which are rasterized and screen-printed onto the canvas, they address the shift away from the natural and physical towards the made and virtual. Birgit Jensen questions the paradigms of perception that are subject to continuous change. On the current MONDE series : The moon - often as a large, single-colored, round disc - and its reflection is a repetitive reference point. What at first glance looks like an idyllic view of nature is at the same time the result of constructed pictorial spaces and painterly manipulation. This reflects human intervention in nature as well as the staging of the sublime. The clear visibility of the grids, the colors obeying the logic of the picture and the assembly of - simplified, abstract - elements of different origins together create suggestive, but artificial atmospheres. They awaken memories in the viewer - of external or internal, natural or digital worlds.

Teaching

From 1994 to 1996 Birgit Jensen taught at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the subject of integration of art and architecture in the class of Prof. Christian Megert . From 2004 to 2005 she was in charge of the painting class at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel as part of a substitute professorship . From 2007 a research project on "Digital media in connection with classic printing techniques" at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart followed . Since 2006 she has been teaching at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in the field of communication design. In 2015, she supervised a project called Painted Dreams and Abstract Greens at the University of Cologne together with Prof. Silke Leverkühne .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020: MONDE , Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich eV
  • 2019: having been cheated out of some marvelous experience , Atelier Schloss Jägerhof, Düsseldorf (with Edmée Laurin).
  • 2018: What a Perfect Combination , Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, US.
  • 2017: Time Lag , Raum eV, Düsseldorf.
  • 2017: Andy Warhol and I , Galerie Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin.
  • 2016: De Eindeloosheid van het universum. De mogelijkheden van het alfabet , Pictura, Dordrecht (with Hannes Norberg), the Netherlands.
  • 2015: Broadcasting - sample stone age, image and sound . Birgit Jensen and Jörg Steinmann, Ratingen Museum , Ratingen.
  • 2015: Light Light , Galerie Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin.
  • 2015: Gravity , Maxhaus , Düsseldorf (with Piot Brehmer).
  • 2014: Rearrangement , Galerie Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Cologne.
  • 2013: The things I see see me as well as I see them , Kunstverein Villa Wessel , Iserlohn.
  • 2012: Slow Motion Insect Vision , Galerie Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Cologne.
  • 2012: Birgit Jensen , Kunstverein Linz am Rhein.
  • 2011: Rites de Passage , Kunstverein Duisburg.
  • 2011: Scenic , St. Petri, Lübeck (with Kai Rheineck)
  • 2010: Paramountains , Galerie Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Cologne.
  • 2009: Birgit Jensen , Bruna Soletti Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
  • 2007: dot-communities , Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum in the Alte Post, Mülheim an der Ruhr.
  • 2003: Affittasi , Kunstraum Wilfried von Gunten, Thun, Switzerland.
  • 2002: Birgit Jensen , Overbeck Society , Lübeck.
  • 1998: Abstract , Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel (with Pia Fries and René Goffin)
  • 1997: Birgit Jensen , Michael Cosar Gallery, Düsseldorf. (also 2000, 2002, 2006)
  • 1997: Pia Fries / Birgit Jensen , Art Association Arnsberg, Arnsberg.
  • 1988: Birgit Jensen , Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel. (also 1997, 1998)
  • 1985: Birgit Jensen , Studio Cavalieri, Bologna, Italy.
  • 1983: Birgit Jensen , Galleria Bruna Soletti, Milan, Italy. (also 1984)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019: ENT , Mischpoke eV, Mönchengladbach.
  • 2019: di-lago , Villa Nigra, Contemporary Art / AsiloBianco, Miasino, Italy.
  • 2019: Geierwally and the mountain in contemporary art , Kunstmuseum Solingen .
  • 2018: Labyrinth Specifically ... with side paths , museum in the Kulturspeicher , Würzburg.
  • 2017: Anderland , Kunstverein Duisburg.
  • 2017: Mirror Mirror , Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA.
  • 2016: House of Art # 1 , Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo, Italy.
  • 2016: Orbital Explorer , Spartnic / Kulturforum Alte Post , Neuss.
  • 2014: One Million Traces , Kunstverein Duisburg.
  • 2010: Influence - 8 from Düsseldorf , part 1, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, US.
  • 2010: Influence - 8 from Düsseldorf , part 2, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, US.
  • 2006: Landscape Paraphrase , Museum Baden , Solingen.
  • 2005: Heimspiel , Museum im Kulturspeicher , Würzburg.
  • 2005: Landscape paraphrase , Münsterland Gallery , Emsdetten.
  • 2005: Light art from artificial light , Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe
  • 2004: Landscape paraphrases , Städtische Galerie Gladbeck
  • 2003: Torn between two lovers , Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City, US.
  • 2002: Interferences, Rethinkung: Space - Time - Architecture , Marstall , Berlin.
  • 1999: FarbLicht , Städtische Galerie Würzburg / Kunstmuseum Heidenheim.
  • 1997: Picture spaces , Landeskulturzentrum Salzau
  • 1996: Made known , 15th Baltic Sea Biennale, Kunsthalle Rostock .
  • 1996: Near and Far , Municipal Art Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • 1994: Painting the palm leaves , Kunsthalle zu Kiel .
  • 1985: Procedimenti Milano , Fondazione Sacco, Fossano, Italy.

Curatorial projects

FLUGBLÄTTER / FLYING LETTERS - a project by Birgit Jensen, since 2017.

  • Haus des Wandels / landkunstleben eV, Heinersdorf, Brandenburg (co-curated by Christine Hoffmann), 2019
  • Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, US (co-curated by Mark Patsfall), 2019
  • Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (co-curated by Udo Rathke and Miro Zahra in collaboration with artist Gut Loitz eV), 2019
  • Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, Cumbria, UK (co-curated by Rebecca Scott and Mark Woods), 2019
  • Maebashi Bunka Keikaku LLC, Art and Culture Brig Warehouse, Maebashi-City, Japan (co-curated by Kenzo Onoda in collaboration with Art & Culture, Maebashi), 2018
  • Pictura, Dordrecht, NL (co-curated by Teresiña Talarico), 2018
  • Artist Gut Loitz, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (co-curated by Barbara Camilla Tucholski), 2017

WG / 3ZI / K / BAR - A house for artists, guests, friends, 2003–2012.
Organizer and curator (with Markus Ambach ) of the monthly series of events WG / 3ZI / K / BAR in the Jacobihaus of the artist association Malkasten, Düsseldorf.

LADEN-GEDAN, 2007-2010.
Organizer and curator of the exhibition project LADEN-GEDAN at the Malkasten Artists' Association, Düsseldorf (with Joung-en Huh)

architectural art

Bibliography (selection)

  • Birgit Jensen. Monde , Ed. Birgit Jensen, Düsseldorf, 2020. Authors: Susanne Wedewer-Pampus (curator of the exhibition of the same name at the Kunstverein Leverkusen) and Marcus Lütkemeyer. ISBN 978-3-00-064997-4 .
  • Birgit Jensen: Leaflets , Birgit Jensen, artist Gut Loitz eV (Ed.) With texts by Birgit Jensen, Thomas W. Rieger, Barbara C. Tucholski. 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062047-8 .
  • Labyrinth Konkret ... with side ways , catalog of the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, 2018. With texts by Marlene Lauter: Labyrinth Konkret ... with side ways . Claudia Lichte: Thoughts on the meaning of the labyrinth in western art. ISBN 978-3-928155-65-6 .
  • Radiance - sample stone age, image and sound. Birgit Jensen, Jörg Steinmann , Catalog Museum Ratingen 2015. With a text by Alexandra König: Radiation - Sample Stone Age, Image and Sound. ISBN 978-3-926538-34-5 .
  • Markus Ambach, Birgit Jensen: WG / 3ZI / K / BAR , Künstlerverein Malkasten, Markus Ambach, Birgit Jensen (ed.), 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-045900-9 .
  • City scene. In: Cat. Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr in the Alte Post, 2013. With texts by Beate Reese: City scene: An introduction . Anja Bauer: Birgit Jensen. ISBN 978-3-928135-56-6 .
  • Birgit Jensen , Monograph, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038989-4 .
  • Beate Reese: Between figuration and abstraction , in: The municipal collection in the museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg. Artists, themes and stories. Spurbuchverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-88778-336-5 .
  • Birgit Jensen. dot-communities (ed.): Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / Leipzig 2007. With texts by Beate Ermacora: Paths to dot-communities and Andreas Beitin: Earthly Milky Ways and stratigraphs of the third and fourth dimensions. ISBN 978-3-86678-066-8 .
  • Landscape paraphrases , Municipal Gallery in Gladbeck City Hall Park / Gallery Münsterland, Emsdetten / Museum Baden, Solingen, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2006. With texts by Dirk Steimann: Landscape Paraphrases - Rowena Dring, Sven Drühl, Eberhard Havekost, Birgit Jensen . Beate Ermacora: Landscape as a surrogate . Gisela Elbracht-Iglhaut: poetry of the megacity . Marcus Lütkemeyer: No frills. ISBN 3-89770-254-1 .
  • Birgit Jensen: artist for artist. In: Performance in medial change (ed.): Petra Maria Meyer , Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7705-4315-7 .
  • Thomas W. Rieger: Welcome to Nonsite - An attack on the finality of seeing and a guide to disorientation. In: Catalog Heimspiel (Ed.): Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg , 2005, ISBN 3-928155-50-4 .
  • Christian Krausch: The complex process of the ritual. In: Kunstforum International 164, 2/2003.
  • Christian Krausch: BI and BII. In: Catalog of the 56th Bergische Art Exhibition, Museum Baden, Solingen, 2002.
  • Birgit Jensen , catalog, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck 2002. With a text by Thorsten Scheer: So oder anders. Ambivalence and coherence in Birgit Jensen's pictures .
  • Birgit Jensen , catalog, Kunstverein Region Heinsberg, Art & Co, Flensburg 2001. With texts by Jens Peter Koerver: Terrain vague . Christian Krausch: Matters of opinion .
  • Birgit Jensen , catalog, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf 2000. With a text by Jens Peter Koerver: Pictures for the disappointment of seeing .
  • FarbLicht , catalog, Städtische Galerie Würzburg / Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, 1999, ISBN 3-89322-713-X . With a text by Beate Reese: Filtered light and light boxes - Birgit Jensen and Anna Tretter .
  • Sabine B. Vogel: Birgit Jensen Baltic Sea Biennale. In: Catalog known (-) making the Baltic Sea Biennale. Kunsthalle Rostock, 1996, ISBN 3-929214-02-5 .
  • Peter Weibel, Gregor Jansen (ed.): Light art from artificial light: light as a medium of art in the 20th and 21st centuries. In: Catalog ZKM - Museum for New Art Karlsruhe, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1774-9 .
  • Justus Jonas-Edel: Birgit Jensen. In: Catalog near and far. Municipal Art Hall, Sofia, 1996.
  • Birgit Jensen. Looking for order. Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg 1994.
  • Hans-Werner Schmidt: Painting the palm leaves. In: Catalog Kunsthalle zu Kiel / Kunststiftung der Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein, 1994, ISBN 3-923701-68-3 .

Works in public collections

  • Ratingen Museum
  • Mülheim ad Ruhr art museum
  • Bonner Kunstverein
  • Rostock art gallery
  • Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
  • Abattoirs - FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse
  • Museum in the Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
  • Museum of the City of Flensburg
  • Aquarius Water Museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • Shetland Arts Trust, UK
  • Franklin Furnace, New York

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Jensen - Video-Portrait on PPPortrait, 2013
  2. ↑ Christian Krausch: The complex process of the ritual. Comments on the work of Birgit Jensen , Kunstforum International, Das Magische II, Volume 164, 2003
  3. ^ Space Studio, Deborah House, London
  4. ↑ Sponsorship awards for fine arts from the city of Düsseldorf
  5. ^ Art Fund eV, Bonn, work grants
  6. ↑ series of events WG / 3Zi / K / BAR in the artist Malkasten in Dusseldorf
  7. ↑ FLUGBLÄTTER / FLYING LETTERS project
  8. ↑ Birgit Jensen at the Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
  9. ↑ Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Kiel
  10. ^ Michael Cosar Gallery, Düsseldorf
  11. ^ Gallery Lehr, Cologne
  12. ↑ Birgit Jensen, biography
  13. ↑ Birgit Jensen at the German Association of Artists
  14. ↑ Jochen Saueracker's website
  15. ^ Text by Jens Peter Koerver on the moiré pictures by Birgit Jensen in: Catalog Birgit Jensen , Kunstverein Region Heinsberg, Kunst & Co, Flensburg 2001.
  16. ^ Text by Thomas W. Rieger on the city pictures by Birgit Jensen in: Catalog "Heimspiel" (Hrsg.): Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg , 2005, ISBN 3-928155-50-4 .
  17. ↑ Text by Dirk Steimann on the pictures from 2009-2013 by Birgit Jensen
  18. ↑ Birgit Jensen's star pictures can be seen in several places on her website
  19. ↑ Marlene Lauter: Labyrinth Konkret ... with byways and Claudia Lichte: Thoughts on the meaning of the labyrinth in western art. In: Labyrinth Concrete ... with side roads. Catalog, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-928155-65-6 .
  20. ↑ Alexandra König: broadcasting - sample stone age, image and sound. In: Radiation - Sample Stone Age, Image and Sound. Birgit Jensen, Jörg Steinmann. Catalog Museum Ratingen, 2015, ISBN 978-3-926538-34-5 .
  21. ↑ See text by Susanne Wedewer-Pampus in the Birgit Jensen - MONDE catalog , published for the exhibition of the same name at Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, 2020, ISBN 978-3-00-064997-4
  22. ↑ Birgit Jensen at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences
  23. ^ Project 'Painted Dreams and Abstract Greens', University of Cologne
  24. ^ Art Association Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich eV
  25. ↑ Leverkusen.com, press: Birgit Jensen, MONDE , June 20 - July 19, 2020
  26. ↑ 'having been cheated out of some marvelous experience', Atelier Schloss Jägerhof, Düsseldorf, 2019
  27. ↑ Pictura, Dordrecht, NL
  28. ↑ 'Broadcasting - Sample Stone Age, Image and Sound. Birgit Jensen and Jörg Steinmann ', Museum Ratingen, 2015
  29. ↑ Birgit Jensen im Maxhaus, Düsseldorf , 2015 (Maxhaus program booklet, 3 2015, PDF)
  30. ↑ Kunstverein Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, exhibition review
  31. ↑ 2012
  32. ^ Art Association Duisburg
  33. ↑ Youtube video: Birgit Jensen on her exhibition at the Kunstverein Duisburg, 2011
  34. ↑ St. Petri Lübeck
  35. ^ Scenic, St. Petri, Lübeck, 2011
  36. ^ Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr, exhibition review
  37. ^ Art Association Arnsberg, exhibition archive
  38. ↑ Mischpoke eV
  39. ↑ 'di-lago': Mostra internazionale d'arte contemporanea a Villa Nigra, Miasino, 2019
  40. ^ Art Museum Solingen, exhibition review
  41. ↑ Labyrinth Concrete ... with byways, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, 2018
  42. ^ Kunstverein Duisburg, exhibition archive, program for the anniversary year 2017
  43. ^ House of Art # 1, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo
  44. ↑ Video on Youtube: Birgit Jensen about her work in the exhibition 'One Million Traces' at the Kunstverein Duisburg, 2014
  45. ^ Landscape Paraphrase, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten, 2005
  46. ↑ Birgit Jensen at the ZKM Karlsruhe
  47. ↑ Gladbeck Gallery
  48. ^ Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City
  49. ↑ Heidenheim Art Museum
  50. ↑ Karin Wendt: Deleted. A chapter in German exhibition history . Article about the two Baltic Sea Biennials in the Kunsthalle Rostock after the fall of the Wall. In it the sentence: "Birgit Jensen enabled a new look at the artificial stone slabs of the facade of the art gallery."
  51. ^ Photos from the 1996 Baltic Sea Biennale, below with Birgit Jensen.
  52. ↑ country art life - Kunstverein in eastern Brandenburg
  53. ^ Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati
  54. ↑ Drifting and Digging: Birgit Jensen's Leaflets at Clay Street Press Gallery , AEQAI, November 24, 2019
  55. ^ Leaflets, Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, 2019
  56. ↑ Flying Letters, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, UK, 2019
  57. ↑ Leaflets at Cross Lane Projects, Kendal , review by Sara Jaspan, the Fourdrinier, 2019
  58. ^ Artist Gut Loitz
  59. ↑ 9 years WG / 3ZI / K / BAR in the artists' association Malkasten, Düsseldorf
  60. ↑ Joung-en Huh
  61. ^ Compilation Laden-Gedan 2007–2008, exhibition in the rotunda in the Hentrichhaus of the Malkasten artists' association, December 3, 2008 to January 8, 2009
  62. ↑ Light installation by Birgit Jensen, Fraunhofer Institute SIT, Darmstadt, since 2014
  63. ^ Peter O. Mahler Store, Berlin
  64. ↑ Glass mosaic by Birgit Jensen in the foyer of the Meschede employment office
  65. ^ Light installation by Birgit Jensen at the Fridtjof Nansen School, Flensburg
  66. ↑ Aquarius Water Museum, Mülheim an der Ruhr
  67. ↑ WG / 3ZI / K / BAR, book release in the artist association Malkasten, Düsseldorf, 23 Sep. 2014
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg