Christina Kubisch

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Christina Kubisch (born January 31, 1948 in Bremen ) is a German installation artist in the field of sound art .

biography

Kubisch studied painting, music, composition and electronic music in Stuttgart , Hamburg , Graz , Zurich and Milan from 1967 to 1976 . In 1973 she met the Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi , who is in the tradition of arte povera , but is increasingly opening up to the media of film and video. 1975–1979 the artist couple appeared together in performances. In Liquid Piece (1975), the first joint work, Two and Two (1976/77), Tempo Liquido (1978) and Water Face (1979, world premiere in Aachen, Galerie Ludwig Collection), the last joint work, they deal with the connection between music and video art and water, Plessi's main theme. From 1980 to 1981 she studied electronics in Milan. In 1980 she began to create sound installations and sound sculptures. 1983 Participation in Aktuell 83 . In 1987 she moved to Berlin and took part in documenta 8 .

Kubisch is the winner of the BDI Kulturkreis in 1988 and has received various scholarships. First the Barkenhoff grant, Worpswede 1988, then the work grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation , Bonn 1990. This was followed by the first installations with solar energy. In 1991 she received the Berlin Senate Working Fellowship for Cultural Affairs, and finally the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand Fellowship .

In 1989 she was visiting professor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. From 1990 to 1991 she was teaching at the Art Academy in Münster. From 1991 to 1994 she was visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin. From 1994 to 2013 she held the professorship for plastic / audiovisual art at the Saar College of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken.

In 1994 he received a studio grant from the Berlin Senate, then a visiting professorship at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and a DAAD residency grant in Paris. Since 1997 she has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 1999 she received the Heidelberg Artist Prize . Since March 11, 2005 the light and sound installation “Light Sky” by Kubisch has been shown in the Oberhausen Gasometer .

In 2008 Kubisch was awarded the honorary prize of the German Sound Art Prize of the Glaskasten Sculpture Museum in Marl , where she has presented her work since 2009. In 2013 she was the city sound artist for the city of Bonn as part of the Bonn hoeren project . In 2016 she received a scholarship from the Chretzeturm artist residency in Stein am Rhein / Switzerland.

Christina Kubisch has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 1999 . In 2003 she was part of the selection of forty of over a hundred artists who were elected DKB members between 1999 and 2003 and who took part in the anniversary exhibition (100 years of the Künstlerbund) in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.

Kubisch lives in Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten near Berlin.

Working method

In her mostly site-specific installations, Kubisch combines visual and acoustic perception into a complex spatial experience. Your work on site is based strongly on the concrete structures found in a place, but also goes into its atmosphere and history. Therefore, the artist seeks above all places that have many "possibilities of resonance" due to their density of cultural memory.

By abolishing, delimiting and redesigning the real spatial reference, the viewer's normal perceptual mechanism is also called into question. In order to be able to identify the space that is both known and unknown in its transformation, it has to search for new references and memories that have already been forgotten in its memory.

Kubisch's work is about the entanglement of imagination and reality. Despite the simple means and the technology reduced to the bare essentials, which are typical of her way of working, her installations open up ways of synaesthetic perception, which makes the "other" realities hidden behind the real appearance visible.

Exhibitions (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Christina Kubisch in: DKB exhibition catalog Herbarium of Views. New recordings in the Deutscher Künstlerbund , rheinsatz, Cologne 2003. p. 68. (Fig. P. 17: TWO & TWO , 1976, scores for the video performance of the same name, ink on paper, eight parts, each 34.7 × 50 cm).
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members (accessed on September 11, 2019)

literature

  • Claudia Tittel: SOUND / TIME / LICHTRaum. Sound as a plastic material in the field of tension between music and the visual arts. Investigations into the artistic work of Christina Kubisch . Edited by Anja Ohmer, Aspects of the Avantgarde, Volume 11, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-89693-519-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cubic, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German installation artist in the field of sound art
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen