Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne , Indiana , USA ) is an American conceptual artist .
Life
Bruce Nauman studied mathematics, physics and art in Madison at the University of Wisconsin from 1960 on , where he graduated with a bachelor's degree. In 1964 he moved to the University of California at Davis and finished his art studies in 1966 with a master's degree. Nauman worked temporarily as an assistant to the painter Wayne Thiebaud and taught at the Art Institute in San Francisco from 1966 . At this time, Nauman turned away from painting and began working in the fields of film, sculpture, and performance . In addition to his lively artistic production, Nauman repeatedly taught at art schools, for example at the University of California in Irvine in the early 1970s .
In 1989 Nauman moved to Galisteo , New Mexico , where he lives and works.
Since 1997 he has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .
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Bruce Nauman's works with a wide variety of materials, from installations and sculptures to photographs and neon to video recordings , deal primarily with questions of human sensory perception. The viewer is often confronted with irritating to shocking experiences.
His video installation Anthro / Socio - Rinde Spinning , which was presented at documenta IX , shows the opera singer Rinde Eckert, who spins around his own axis on several screens and constantly and aggressively repeats a disturbing chant: "Feed me / Eat me / Anthropology" or "Help me / Hurt me / Sociology" in superimposed sound track.
Bruce Nauman received considerable feedback on his artistic work early on. The first solo exhibition in a gallery was held in Los Angeles in 1966. Two years later he had his first European gallery exhibition in Düsseldorf, at the same time Leo Castelli exhibited him in New York . In the same year he met the well-known American singer and choreographer Meredith Monk , the minimalist composer Steve Reich and dealt with the works of John Cage , Merce Cunningham and Karlheinz Stockhausen . In 1969 he cooperated with Meredith Monk and staged a performance with her as part of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art , MOMA, New York .
Nauman himself names the most influential personalities on him and his work: Samuel Beckett , Ludwig Wittgenstein , John Cage , Philip Glass , La Monte Young and Meredith Monk .
Exhibitions
Selection, mainly solo exhibitions:
- 1966: Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- 1968: 4th documenta , Kassel ; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA;
- 1969: Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
- 1970: Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1972: documenta 5 , Kassel; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1980: 39th Biennale di Venezia , Venice, Italy
- 1982: documenta 7 , Kassel; Baltimore Museum of Art , Baltimore, USA
- 1982: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich
- 1986: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , Houston , Texas , USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland; Municipal Art Museum, Bonn; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
- 1988: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , USA
- 1990: Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt
- 1991: Fundacio Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
- 1992: documenta IX , Kassel
- 1993: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid, Spain
- 1997: Musée National d'Art Moderne , Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- 1998: Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
- 2000: Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2003: Museum Ludwig , Cologne; Museum of Contemporary Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- 2003: Deutsche Guggenheim , Berlin
- 2005: Museum of Modern Art ( MUMOK ), Vienna
- 2006: Tate Liverpool , England
- 2006: NRW-Forum for Culture and Economy, Düsseldorf
- 2007: Sculpture.Projects , Münster ( Square Depression )
- 2007: kestnergesellschaft , Hanover
- 2008: Museu Serralves , Porto; Solo exhibition "Fonte de cem peixes, 2005"
- 2009/2010: Wolfsburg Art Museum , Wolfsburg; Group exhibition: I certainly do
- 2010: Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin: Bruce Nauman: Dream Passage
- 2012: Bruce Nauman: Days. , Institute of Contemporary Arts , London
- 2014: Ed Atkins , Bruce Nauman , Kunsthalle Mainz
- 2018: Disappearing Acts , Schaulager Basel and Museum of Modern Art , New York
Public collections
- Migros Museum for Contemporary Art
- Halls for New Art , Schaffhausen
- Collection Museum Brandhorst , Munich
- Kunsthaus Zurich
- New National Gallery , Berlin
Awards (selection)
- 1990: Max Beckmann Prize
- 1995: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1999: Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, Italy
- 2001: Admission to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2004: Praemium Imperiale , Tokyo
- 2006: Art Prize of the State Capital Düsseldorf (first award of the prize)
- 2009: Best Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale
- 2014: Friedrich Kiesler Prize
literature
- Christine Hoffmann (Ed.): Bruce Nauman. Interviews 1967–1988. Philo Verlagsgesellschaft, Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-86572-417-5 .
- Bruce Nauman - Spaces of Self-Experience . In: Markus Stegmann: Architectural Sculpture in the 20th Century. Historical aspects and work structures , Tübingen 1995, pp. 122–128.
- Friederike Wappler: Post-Minalism. About Bruce Nauman's “Concrete Tope Recorder Piece.” In: Canon Art History. Introduction to works, methods and epochs. Present IV. Edited by Kristin Marek and Martin Schulz. Paderborn 2015, pp. 92-105.
- Peter Plagens: Bruce Nauman. The True Artist. , Phaidon Press , London 2014, ISBN 978-0714849959 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bruce Nauman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bruce Nauman on kunstaspekte.de
- Hanno Rauterberg : »Art releases us from nothing« . Interview in DIE ZEIT No. 43 from October 14, 2004.
- Video: Dream Passage - Bruce Nauman in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin art-in-berlin.de
- Materials by and about Bruce Nauman in the documenta archive
- »In the center - the person« . Contribution to the GIACOMETTI NAUMAN exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in the title culture magazine on November 6, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry by Bruce Nauman at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, accessed on October 10, 2014.
- ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 212 .
- ↑ Sculpture Projects Archive : Bruce Nauman, Square Depression . (Accessed December 30, 2019)
- ↑ Page of the museum on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2014 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. , accessed June 6, 2014.
- ↑ Ed Atkins, Bruce Nauman ( August 10, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nauman, Bruce |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American concept artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1941 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Wayne , USA |