Christine Biehler

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Christine Biehler (* 1964 in Landau / Pfalz) is a German artist and art educator.

Life

After studying art education and German literature, Christine Biehler studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts and sculpture with Ansgar Nierhoff at the Mainz University of Art . In 1995 she completed her studies at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig in the classes of Birgit Hein (film) and Dörte Eißfeldt (photography) as a master class student .

Christine Biehler has been producing room installations, interventions in public space, objects and videos in an art context since 1991.

She is also active as an art teacher and curator. Christine Biehler has been working as a professor since 1999, initially for plastic and interdisciplinary work at the University of Dortmund, then from 2002 to 2004 at the Kassel Art College . From 2004 to 2010 Christine Biehler was with a focus on installation and performance at the University of Hildesheim at the Institute of Fine Arts and Science. She has lectureships and visiting professorships at many universities in Germany and abroad. B. to the SMFA Boston or the Glasgow School of Arts GSA .

As a curator, she organizes and designs exhibitions, projects in public spaces, artist talks, performance and video presentations.

Selection:

  • 2014 light art project for the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
  • 2013 curator of the Kunstverein Cuxhaven. Concept and implementation of the annual program
  • 2007 Landarbeit 07 - art project for one place; Heinde municipality in Lower Saxony

Christine Biehler lives and works in Hanau near Frankfurt am Main . She is married to the performance artist Jürgen Fritz.

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The focus of her artistic practice is the transformation of spaces in the broadest sense through installation, intervention and action. Christine Biehler uses a wide range of materials and techniques for her work with and on space. She works interdisciplinary and in situ. An installation is created on site and is based on its specifications. From the outset, the works are intended as “temporary pieces” and, by means of calculated interventions, condense into poetic spatial images that influence or question the perception of the places where they happen. Differences in temperature and smell, interventions in the architecture such as drillings and openings, model installations or traces of a fictitious event such as the destruction of a gallery room, awaken an associative court of personal stories and memories. So the exhibition space or presentation site for the viewer sometimes becomes a construction site (installations "shining void", "heile, heile, Gosschen"), a landscape (installation "so high up there") or a prayer room.

The sculptures and room installations often preserve aspects of the processual and mobile-temporary. With Christine Biehler, sculpture takes on a temporal dimension, which is particularly evident in the use of the volatile and liquid as materials such as ice, reflections, foam and steam or performative elements in connection with newer media. At a certain point, the work takes on a life of its own and becomes an event that demands one with several senses.

The sculptural interventions allow the viewer to experience the large-scale works and their spatial overview by taking their own place.

Since 1991 she has been exhibiting in museums, art associations, galleries and off-places, both at home and abroad, and has received numerous prizes and grants.

Works (selection)

  • 2015: Shining void
  • 2014: A +++
  • 2013: Arbor ventosa
  • 2011: The storm
  • 2003: whole, whole goslings
  • 2003: deep freeze
  • 2002: play the ape
  • 2002: mountain kit (build your own mountain)
  • 2001: so high up there
  • 2000: 102 m above +/- 0 - ground floor
  • 2000: Down under
  • 1999: uphill
  • 1999: Tours
  • 1999: a-round-a-bout
  • 1998: FLEXOR
  • 1998: air base 30 °, 60 °, 95
  • 1997: Home camp (serve cool)
  • 1996: Venus World
  • 1996: ESCAPE - Aphrodite 1
  • 1993: ONE
  • 1992: Melon field - mantis-religiosa
  • 1991: nothing is lost
  • 1991: Correction tape reading

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

Awards, scholarships (selection)

Fonts (selection)

Literature by and about Christine Biehler:

  • Christine Biehler, Jürgen Fritz (Hgg): Landarbeit07. Art project for one place - art –community - communication (312 pages, German and English) Leipzig: Seemann Henschel 2010. ISBN 978-3-86502-246-2
  • Christine Biehler, Hans-H. Bass, Ly Huy Tuan (ed.): On the way to sustainable urban transport systems, Munich / Mering: Hampp 2011. ISBN 978-3866186392
  • Marcel Finke: »Aphrodite or the art of foam birth. Soap foam as gender-critical material «, in: FKW - Journal for Gender Research and Visual Culture, special issue ed. von Futscher, Löffler and Cekic, No. 57, Oct. 2014, pp. 12-27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professor of Theory and Practice of the Artistic Design of Space
  2. ↑ House light
  3. ↑ 34 Nodes - Art Projects for Cuxhaven ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cuxhavener-kunstverein.de
  4. ↑ agricultural work 07
  5. ↑ http://www.christinebiehler.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Kontakt/Download/Curriculum_vitae_2013_CBiehler.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Biehler, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and art educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate