Elisabeth Brockmann

Elisabeth Brockmann (born August 11, 1955 , in Unna ) is a German artist and author .

Life

Brockmann studied painting from 1974 to 1981 with Gerhard Richter at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1998 she had a teaching position at the Karlsruhe University of Design . She mainly exhibits in Germany, but also in Warsaw , Paris and Linz . Your work will be presented in private and public spaces and used for stage productions. Brockmann lives and works in Düsseldorf .

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After early painting, photo collages and his own texts, Brockmann increasingly concentrated on photography . A recurring theme in her photographic work is the play with light and transparency . In this sense, it is logical to work with light boxes, a means also used in advertising that works on the principle of the light table . The artist used it to create various smaller works as well as art-in-building projects, which she realized in the Olympic swimming pool in Munich, at the Dresden Albertinum and in the city of Friedberg . The bright colors make your light box pictures look conspicuous and at the same time take away all materiality. In her works in public space, staging, penetration and illusion are in the foreground, for example when all the windows on the front of a multi-storey exhibition building are condensed into an intensely looking eye area. Furthermore, she addresses exaggeration and artificiality in the representation of human faces by using dolls' heads or painted iconic faces of the Christian religion as motifs. Later photographs were taken under the title GOLD, which are printed on cloth or stainless steel. The glow that the artist used to create with a light source on the other side of the picture is thus shifted into the picture. In formal terms, translucent, reflective or refractive layers are shown: water, sky, clouds and prisms . The prisms appearing within natural formations suggest a specific light metaphor.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2018: Freedom, Space and Light , Museum for Applied Arts Cologne ; parallel Collumina - International Light Art Project Cologne with Elisabeth Brockmann, Rafram Chaddad, Cuppetelli and Mendoza, Hartung | Trenz, Sonia Kallel, Diane Landry, Ken Matzubara, Anna Rosa Rupp, Christine Sciulli, Tilen Sepic, Kurt Laurenz Theinert and Lukas Pearse. Locations u. a. Museum of Applied Arts Cologne and Imhoff Chocolate Museum (artistic director Bettina Pelz ).
• 2014: GLÜCK, 12-part light staging in the center of the city of Friedberg (Augsburg)
• 2010: Kunstverein Duisburg
• 2007: LUX, permanent installation on the facade of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Mannheim
• 2002: KEEP IN VIEW, permanent installation in the facade of the Albertinum Dresden
• 2001: ok centrum ( Open House of Culture Upper Austria ) Linz
• 2000 THE DIGITAL VIEW, installation in the facade, Bavarian State Theater Munich
• 1999, 2001, 2006, 2009 Horst Schuler Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 1998 Center National de la Photography Paris; Warsaw Palace of Culture ; Mirror cage for Hanna Schygulla, Théâtre des Amandiers Paris
• 1997, 2001, 2005, 2017 Galerie Wittenbrink Munich
• 1992 Lenbachhaus Art Forum, Munich
• 1990, 1992, 1999 Galerie Rolf Ricke Cologne
• 1989 Galerie Aedes Berlin
• 1988 Galerie Johnen and Schöttle Cologne
• 1983 Gallery Schöttle Munich

Publications

• You can cry when I'm dead. New edition, Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-548-24195-1 .
• A man is not a man is my man. Bollmann Verlag, Bensheim 1996, ISBN 978-3-927901-73-5 .
• The New Museum - Private View. Bollmann Verlag, Bensheim 1992, ISBN 978-3-927901-14-8 .

Literature (selection)

• Alice Arnold-Becker, Hans-Jürgen Buderer: happiness. City of Friedberg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047978-6 .
• Hans-Jürgen Buderer: Elisabeth Brockmann - on the eroticism of seeing and the knowledge of being seen. In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter, 13-14 / 2006-07, pp. 54–63, ISBN 978-3-89735-529-3 .
• Stefan Trescher, the house has a thousand eyes . Exhibition catalog ok centrum Linz, 2001, ISBN 3-85307-028-0 .
• Stefan Trescher: Light boxes = light box art. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-933096-23-4 .
• Andreas Steffens, Elisabeth Brockmann or the exchange of icons. Goethe-Institut Paris, 1998.
• Peter Funken, Elisabeth Brockmann. Kunstforum Vol. 102, 1989.
• Renate Puvogel , Elisabeth Brockmann . Kunstforum Vol. 094, 1988.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: DW, "The digital view simulates reality for us". In: Die Welt , February 14, 2000
2. ↑ ARTE Metropolis, portrait of Elisabeth Brockmann: "What I see is not what I think it is". Posted January 10, 2004
3. ↑ See: Anne Maier, "The star as an actress". In: Der Standard , 13./14. July 1996
4. ↑ See: Dieter Bartetzko, "Art instead of cannons". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 24, 2007
5. ↑ See: Birgit Sonna, "Momentary Confusion". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 5./6. February 2000, p. 20
6. ↑ See: Heike Endter, In: Gold , exhibition catalog, Ed .: Galerie Wittenbrink, 2017
7. ↑ collumina.de: program. URL http://collumina.de/kalender/ March 11, 2018

Web links

• Website of Elisabeth Brockmann
• Elisabeth Brockmann in the Public Art Wiki