Charly-Ann Cobdak

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Charly-Ann Cobdak (* 1964 in Munich ) is an American artist and representative of kinetic art . She is a member of the BBK München und Oberbayern eV and the artists' association Kineticus. In November 2016, Charly-Ann Cobdak was involved as a kinetic artist in the exhibition Hommage à Tinguely in the MAG - Montreux Art Gallery as part of the 12th Contemporary Art Fair 2016 in the Montreux Music & Convention Center (2m2c). This special exhibition with 16 contemporary kinetic artists from four countries (CH, D, I, PL) was organized in honor of Jean Tinguely 25 years after his death.

Career

Cobdak's father, James F. (called Jim) Carter (Mount Airy, North Carolina), an American political scientist, came to Germany in the late 1950s as a GI, where he worked as a presenter at AFN Munich for several years . During this time he met the computer scientist Zsuzsanne Hejjas, a native of Budapest who fled to Germany on October 23, 1956 after the Hungarian uprising .

Their daughter Charly-Ann Cobdak has lived and worked in Munich since then, as a freelance artist since 2009.

  • 1988–1991 Technical College for Design, Munich
  • 1992–2008 work as a graphic designer
  • since 2009 freelance artist
  • since 2012 member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Munich and Upper Bavaria eV, a sub-organization of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK)
  • since 2012 member of the international artist association Kineticus

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Special exhibition Hommage à Jean Tinguely - Kinetic Art Today in the Montreux Art Gallery - MAG, Switzerland (9-20 November 2016)
  • Temporary LowTech Instruments Museum - solo exhibitions in the Grabsdorf Gallery, Munich
  • Participation in the technology and art festival ARS TECHNICA 2015 and 2017, Unterhaching
  • Joint exhibition Elective Affinities in the Künstlerhaus Göttingen, 2012
  • Participation in the 2nd Ruhr Biennale, Homo Ludens: Spiel, Traum & Trauma , Dortmund, 2012
  • Group exhibitions in the Art Pavilion in the Old Botanical Garden , Munich, 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Big art exhibition 'beastly' in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, 2011

Award

  • 1. Audience award at the Trudinger Art Days 2014, Trudering Cultural Center

Works (selection)

  • The time machine
  • Tchaikovsky machine
  • Agatha Christie anticipating a new work
  • Quotational considerations taking into account the space-time continuum
  • Speed ​​dating in the Orient
  • The metamorphosis of the past future in the present
  • The morning exercise machine with an integrated caffeine app
  • Humo Ludens Mechanicus
  • Running Edward

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Expositions thématiques: Hommage à Jean Tinguely - art cinetique . Retrieved August 9, 2017
  2. ↑ Chronology of the US soldier channel AFN Munich . Retrieved October 6, 2017
  3. ^ Galerie Grabsdorf, Munich, LowTech Instruments Museum, a temporary museum with kinetic art machines by Charly-Ann Cobdak . Retrieved August 9, 2017
  4. ↑ ARS Technica, Art Science Festival, Hachinga hall, Unterhaching . Retrieved August 9, 2017
  5. ↑ Elective Affinities, Crazy Machines . Retrieved August 11, 2017
  6. ↑ 2nd Ruhr Biennale, Homo Ludens: Spiel, Traum & Trauma , Dortmund 2012 . Retrieved August 11, 2017
  7. ↑ Group exhibitions: Annual exhibition 2012 and 2014 as well as 2013 Reason gives birth to monsters .
  8. ↑ 'tierisch', 139 artists from Germany, Austria, France and Italy , Munich 2011 . Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. 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. Retrieved October 6, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.muenchenersecession.de
  9. ^ Trudinger Art Days 2014, Visual Arts in Dialog . Retrieved August 9, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Cobdak, Charly-Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich