Eva Grubinger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eva Grubinger (* 1970 in Salzburg ) is an internationally renowned sculptor and installation artist .

Life and work

Between 1989 and 1995 studied Grubinger at the University of Arts in Berlin . While her first works reflected and commented on the development of the early Internet in a pioneering way, Grubinger has mainly worked sculptural and spatial since the mid-1990s. However, these phases are related: Your focus on materiality and space - not least the social space, and how this subconsciously affects us - could be seen as a reaction to the immateriality of the online world.

Grubinger's method focuses and disturbs primarily by means of recognizable objects. In doing so, she uses a wide range of strategies: she draws inspiration and iconography from diverse areas, such as B. the seafaring, history, architecture, the staging of politics, as well as recent art history itself, especially minimalism and conceptual art. As a sculptor, she works accordingly in a range of formats and materials. Their method, however, is typical of taking familiar topics, which we may no longer be able to 'see' because of their familiarity, and changing them by changing the scale, the context, the material, often with a special focus on surfaces - on surfaces and theirs Deceptions - to be changed in such a way that they come into our eyes again. Through her work, the familiar not only reveals itself, it also reveals its subtle, often politicized mechanisms of action on body and mind.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Grubinger had various residences and work stays in Cologne, Stockholm, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. She was professor for sculpture-transmedia space at the Art University Linz, Austria and is currently visiting professor at the Art University Düsseldorf. She lives in Berlin.

Exhibitions

Over the past twenty years, Eva Grubinger's work has been shown in numerous international institutions, with solo exhibitions and the like. a. at the Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, the Berlinische Galerie , the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum Belvedere in Vienna. She was also involved in numerous group exhibitions at home and abroad, e. B. in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg , in the Taipei Fine Art Museum , in the Krannert Art Museum , Illinois, in the Marrakech Biennale and in the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.

literature

  • Sculpture Unlimited II / Materiality in Times of Immateriality, Eva Grubinger and Jörg Heiser (eds.), With Nathalie Heinich, Mark Leckey, Christiane Sauer, Jussi Parikka and Timotheus Vermeulen, (Sternberg Press, Berlin 2015)
  • Café Nihilismus, Kerstin Engholm Galerie Vienna, with a text by Martin Herbert (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2014)
  • Decoy, Landesgalerie Linz and Kerstin Engholm Galerie Vienna, with texts by Martin Hochleitner and Carson Chan (Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2012)
  • Sculpture Unlimited, Eva Grubinger, Jörg Heiser (eds.), With texts by Jennifer Allen, Manuela Ammer, Nikolaus Hirsch, Aleksandra Mir, Vivian Sky Rehberg and Jan Verwort (Sternberg Press, Berlin 2011)
  • Trespassing, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, with texts by Toni Stooss and Margit Zuckrigl, and an interview with Eva Grubinger (Museum der Moderne, 2009)
  • Spartacus, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, with texts by Hans Hollein and Matthias Ulrich (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne, 2008),
  • Dark Matter, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, with texts by Sune Nordgren / Sarah Martin and Jan Verwoert, (Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester 2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Eva Grubinger. Trespassing Opens at Museum der Moderne Rupertinum" . Artdaily.org. February 7, 2009. Retrieved August 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Ursula Prinz (October 20, 2004). "Semiotics of Conspiracy" . Berliner Zeitung (in German). Retrieved August 27, 2014.
  3. ^ Carson Chan, in: Decoy, Landesgalerie Linz and Kerstin Engholm Galerie Vienna, Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2012
  4. ↑ CV Eva Grubinger available at www.evagrubinger.com
personal data
SURNAME Grubinger, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg