Esther Eppstein

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Esther Eppstein (born August 14, 1967 in Zurich ) is a Swiss artist , art host and publisher . She has received several awards for her mediation work in the Offspace message salon .

Life

Esther Eppstein grew up in Zurich. When her father Paul (1917-2001), of Polish-Russian descent, was naturalized , the family name Epstein was changed to Eppstein due to an official error. Her mother Pierrette Eppstein (1936–1998) was a graphic artist . Her younger sister is the actress and theater educator Golda Eppstein. From 1988 to 1991 she attended the graphic arts class at the Lucerne School of Applied Arts (today Lucerne School of Art and Design ) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw .

Esther Eppstein was married to Meinrad Arnold from 1994 to 2011. The couple has a son (Moritz, born 1992) and a daughter (Maria, born 1994).

After her father's death, Esther Eppstein became increasingly interested in her Jewish roots. She is involved with Omanut, the association for the promotion of Jewish art in Switzerland, and shows works that thematize being Jewish, such as the DNA project by the artist Marina Belobrovaja .

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Based on her own understanding of the expanded concept of art, Eppstein developed a work that was shaped by the do-it-yourself idea of ​​the punk movement. With her main work, the message salon , she creates a place of which she herself is a necessary part, be it in her function as a hostess, exhibiting artist, mediator, saleswoman, barmaid, recorder or master of ceremonies. Right from the start, after it was founded in 1996, the message salon has become a meeting point and starting point for young art and the related subculture in Zurich. An open community forms around this art location, Eppstein's extended family, which has grown over the years and developed further together.

Documenting the exhibitions and their visitors with the analog camera is part of Esther Eppstein's artistic practice. She creates a photo album for each exhibition. This photo collection is one of the rare tangible art goods that Eppstein produces.

From 1995 to 1998 Esther Eppstein worked as a duo with the artist Selina Trepp as Treppstein in the fields of video, performance and music.

In 2009, Esther Eppstein was acquitted of the charge of pornography at the Zurich District Court after she had projected a sexually more or less explicit series of pictures on the outer facade of the message salon on Zurich's Langstrasse as part of an exhibition by the Czech-American artist Petr Motycka . Eppstein deals in her exhibition “Projections” - a résumé in detail with the court case.

Since 2011, Esther Eppstein has published individual issues by international artists under the title message salon Zines .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014 Collection On Display , Migros Museum for Contemporary Art , Zurich.
  • 2013 Art 13 (fair), ABB-Hallen Oerlikon, Zurich.
  • 2012 Art 12 (fair), ABB-Hallen Oerlikon, Zurich.
  • 2012 Art And The City , Perla-Mode, Zurich.
  • 2012 Art in Aussersihl , Helmhaus, Zurich.
  • 2011 Art 11 (fair), ABB-Hallen Oerlikon, Zurich.
  • 2010 Art 10 (fair), ABB-Hallen Oerlikon, Zurich.
  • 2009 Food , Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik , Zurich.
  • 2005 Unrest please! , Theaterhaus Gessnerallee , Zurich.
  • 2005 EIEI (Encuentro Internacional de Espacios de Arte Independientes). Valparaiso, CL.
  • 2005 Local brightenings , Helmhaus, Zurich.
  • 2004 Run Spaces , Gallery of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , Hamburg D.
  • 2003 Art 03 (trade fair), ABB-Hallen Oerlikon, Zurich.
  • 2001 The message salon Wohnwagen , Büro Friedrich, Berlin D.
  • 2001 The message salon caravan , Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
  • 2000 The Prize for Art. The commercial message salon art show , Kunsthalle Basel, Basel.
  • 2000 message salon Caravan , Fri Art - Center d'art contemporain , Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg.
  • 2000 Esther Eppstein presents message salon , Center Culturel Suisse, Paris F.
  • 1998 message salon Goes NYC , Swiss Institute, New York USA.
  • 1998 Unobstructed view of the Mediterranean (curator: Bice Curiger ), Kunsthaus Zürich , Zürich.

Awards

  • 2014 - Promotion Prize for Culture Canton Zurich (cultural mediation)
  • 2014 - Cultural scholarship, Department of Culture, Canton Zurich (5 months stay in Tel Aviv IL)
  • 2012 - Omanut Zwillenberg Award
  • 2011 - Scholarship City of Zurich (art education in the field of fine arts)
  • 2011 - Pro Helvetia (Research Residency in Warsaw PL)
  • 2009 - STEO Foundation Küsnacht recognition award
  • 2009 - Prize Swiss Art Association and Visarte (conveying visual art)
  • 2006 - Federal Prize for Free Art (link to German Wikipedia) (art education)
  • 2003 - Federal Prize for Free Art (link to German Wikipedia) (art education)
  • 1999 - Scholarship City of Zurich (visual arts)

Works in collections

  • Migros Museum for Contemporary Art
  • Kunsthaus Zurich

literature

  • Nadine Olonetzky (Ed.): Esther Eppstein - message salon. The album . Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2016.
  • Esther Eppstein: message salon . Zurich: Andreas Züst Verlag, 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nadine Olonetzky: "Sista Esta" and art or From the underground to visibility. From Nadine Olonetzky (ed.): Esther Eppstein - message salon. The album . Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2016.
  2. ^ Gabi Rosenberg: Esther Eppstein. Rebel with success . Tachles. March 28, 2003. Page 13.
  3. ↑ Sascha Renner: Playground for people who think . Day indicator. November 19, 2004.
  4. ↑ Julia Hofer: Madame scene art . Magazine No. 22, 2002. Page 33.
  5. ^ Esther Eppstein: message salon (page 4). Zurich: Andreas Züst Verlag, 1998.
  6. ^ Eva Dietrich: "I collect friendships" . The New Zurich Times. April 2, 2014. Page 20.
  7. ^ From the District Court of Zurich: Gallery owner acquitted . The New Zurich Times. June 29, 2009. page 25.
  8. ↑ Thomas Halser: Nocturnal art action should be pornography . Day indicator. May 27, 2009. page 15.
  9. ^ In the case of the Zurich city judge against Esther Eppstein . Blog entry from October 10, 2009, accessed March 5, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eppstein, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland