Franka Hörnschemeyer

Franka Hörnschemeyer (* 1958 in Osnabrück ) is a German installation artist , sculptor and university teacher.

Hörnschemeyer analyzes and changes the spaces found in her projects primarily with sculptural means. The focus of her work is on accessible installations ( room installations ), which are often reminiscent of labyrinths . One of her best-known works is “BFD - flush flush”, a construction made of lattice-like formwork elements in an inner courtyard of the Berlin Paul Löbe House , an office building of the German Bundestag .

Life

Hörnschemeyer studied from 1981 to 1987 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and then lived in New York until 1988 on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 1990 she received a grant from the Art Fund Foundation , the Karl Schmidt Rottluff grant in 1992 and the Friedrich Vordemberge grant from the City of Cologne in 1994 . From 2003 to 2004 she was a visiting professor at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe . In 2006 she was a Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. In the same year she was awarded the Nordhorn City Art Prize . In 2007 she held a visiting professorship at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, Los Angeles, and from 2009 a professorship at the University of the Arts in Bremen . Since 2015 she has been a professor of sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Hörnschemeyer lives and works in Berlin.

Works

For her work, the artist uses industrially manufactured building materials such as plasterboard, for example in her installation "GBK 205" in 2005 at the Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen, cladding elements such as in 2002 for "TSE 11022" in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin, or wooden slats and Heraklith panels as with the "office resolution" (together with the interior designer Birgit Hansen) in 2002 in the Kapinos gallery in Berlin. She feels connected to conceptual art and minimalism . Accordingly, her works have titles such as “PSE 900” (in the Kunsthalle Hamburg 2000) or “RSE 1296” (in the Stadtgalerie Kiel 1996). The designations are product codes of the original materials and the dates of origin.

Her works are often referred to as crossing the border between architecture and spatial art. Franka Hörnschemeyer herself speaks of “architectural constructions which, layer by layer, expose the structures of rooms optically and acoustically. In these spatial resolutions, the present, history and future are intertwined, time shifts through movement in space. ” In her graphic work - drawings and collages - she takes up elements of architectural drawings, but ironises them.

In 2009 she showed the walk-in installation Blindtext in the Hamburger Kunsthalle as part of the exhibition Man Son 1969. On the horror of the situation . In 2011, after long preparatory work, she was able to realize the Trichter plant in Dresden's city center , a concrete funnel shape that can be walked into the street underground with a staircase made of red sewer clinker, at the end of which you can see one of the oldest German sewage systems through a pane of glass. In 2011 she was awarded the mfi Art in Architecture Prize for this work .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1989: Through 100 × 3.3 , Lichtschacht Galerie Vorsetzen , Hamburg
• 1990: Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen
• 1993: Galerie Rolf Ricke , Cologne (also 1997)
• 1995: Municipal exhibition hall at Hawerkamp, ​​Münster
• 1996: Reinhard Hauff Gallery, Stuttgart; Art Foundation Sabine Schwenk (with Bethan Huws), Haigerloch Castle
• 2001: The West Room , Kapinos Gallery, Berlin
• 2002: Office solution , Kapinos Galerie, Berlin; Test facilities , Reinhard Hauff Gallery, Stuttgart; No. 109 (Werkraum. 12) , Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart , Berlin
• 2005: Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen; Research institutes , historical-technical information center , Peenemünde
• 2006: Probability of stay , Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Art Prize of the City of Nordhorn 2006 , City Gallery Nordhorn
• 2007: Franks International , Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
• 2008: Peenemünde , The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens
• 2010: In the Presence of Noise , Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
• 2011: Galerie Baer, ​​Dresden; Franks International , Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
• 2013: Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (with Alice Aycock); Lifting , ADN gatehouse, driver standby, Berlin
• 2016: In the series Room in Room 03 , Grüntuch Ernst Lab, former Jewish girls' school , Berlin
• 2017: Imaginary State , Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 1989: Stücki 1 , former piece dye works , Basel
• 1992: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens , Deurle
• 1993: 11 , Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne
• 1994: Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz; The state of affairs , Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
• 1996: Cologne at the moment , Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel
• 1997: Franka Hörnschemeyer, Lawrence Weiner, Tim Zulauf , Galerie Friedrich, Bern
• 1998: Minimum maximum , Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Kunsthalle Baden-Baden , 1999 / Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanéa, Santiago de Compostela 1999 / City Museum of Art, Chiba 2001 / National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 2001 / Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka 2001 / National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul 2002
• 2000: City Index. Research in urban space , Margonhaus u. a. Places in Dresden; Real [work]. 4th Werkleitz Biennale , Werkleitz and Tornitz; Grant. Working in the museum , Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
• 2004: Mobile museums , Potsdamer Platz, Berlin / Museumsquartier, Vienna / Forum 2004, Center Cultural Can Fabra, Barcelona
• 2006: Ideal City - Invisible Cities , curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter, Zamość and Potsdam
• 2008: Megastructure Reloaded , curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter, former State Mint, Berlin
• 2009: Man Son 1969. On the horror of the situation , Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
• 2010: S quatting. Remember, forget, occupy , Temporary Kunsthalle , Berlin
• 2011: We are all astronauts , Marta Herford , Herford / Zeppelin Museum , Friedrichshafen
• 2012: Surf + Anarchy + Alchemy , curated by Frank Barth, Amtsrichterhaus, Schwarzenbek
• 2014: Emergency exit on the horizon , curated by Ludwig Seyfarth, Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof, Bremen
• 2015: The memory of future material , TU Bergakademie Freiberg , Freiberg
• 2017: Academy [working title] , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
• 2018: Standard International # 5. Spatial Manifestation , curated by Rüdiger Lange, Glint, Berlin
• 2019: Post_Minimal Conceptual_Now , underground museum, Bochum

Sculptures in public space

• Kiosk and doppelganger , Landesversicherungsanstalt, Münster, realization 1996–1998
• BFD - flush flush , German Bundestag, Paul-Löbe-Haus, Berlin, realization 1998–2001
• Trichter , Seestrasse at the corner of Dr.-Külz-Ring, Dresden, 1st prize in the “Seetor” competition in 2003, realized in 2011
• Coordinates , station as part of “ Art Paths ” next to the war grave memorial in Neugnadenfeld, realization 2011

literature

• Franka Hörnschemeyer. No. 109. Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-88375-661-X .
• Franka Hörnschemeyer. Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-935420-07-2 .
• Hubertus Butin: Franka Hörnschemeyer. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86560-060-3 .
• Franka Hörnschemeyer. LaSound 1206. Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, 2007, ISBN 978-3-922303-62-6 .
• Franka Hörnschemeyer. Peenemünde , The Jewish Museum of Greece, Athens 2008
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , Skulpturensammlung (Ed.): Franka Hörnschemeyer in the Dresden Albertinum. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-017-8 .
• Nina Schallenberg (Ed.): Franka Hörnschemeyer. PSE 900.Strzelecki Books, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-942680-51-6 .
• Stephanie Buhmann: " Franka Hörnschemeyer ". Interview in: Berlin Studio Conversations. Twenty Women Talk About Art. Green Box, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-941644-93-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Franka Hörnschemeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franka Hörnschemeyer on kunstaspekte.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hörnschemeyer - Art Prize of the City of Nordhorn 2006 (Städtische Galerie Nordhorn)
2. ^ Art portal Baden-Württemberg. June 9, 2004, accessed November 18, 2019 . 
3. ^ Exhibition MAN SON 1969 ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Hamburger Kunsthalle) 
4. ^ Susanne Altmann: Franka Hörnschemeyer. Funnel . Leaflet, City of Dresden, Office for Culture and Monument Protection, Dresden 2013.
5. ↑ The 2011 award winner: Franka Hörnschemeyer ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - mfi management for real estate AG, Essen  
6. ↑ Franka Hörnschemeyer - "Room Labyrinth" in the Paul-Löbe-Haus (German Bundestag)