Frauke Wilken

Frauke Wilken (born November 7, 1965 in Göttingen ) is a contemporary German artist .

Life

Frauke Wilken studied fine arts with Hans-Peter Zimmer at the Braunschweig University of Art from 1986 to 1992 and graduated as a master class student with a diploma. She has lived and worked in Cologne since 1992 as a freelance artist in the genres of sculpture , photography and drawing . Her art has been and is presented in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

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Many of Wilken's textile sculptures appear organic, reminiscent of abstract bodies and body fragments. They appear puzzling and mostly uncomfortable, at the same time hard and soft, lifeless and lively, secure and trapped, powerful and fragile. Some of her installation works also seem playful and ironic. The artist works with a wide variety of fabrics, sews and collages.

Awards

• 1999: Scholarship Sympo-Fibers International, Saint-Hyacinthe, Montreal, Canada
• 2001: Scholarship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
• 2008: Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, catalog funding

Teaching

• From 1992–1997 Frauke Wilken taught two- and three-dimensional design at an adult education center (KUM & LUK) in Cologne.
• Since 1997 she has offered private workshops and courses for adults and young people.
• From 2008–2011 she taught sculptural design at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences .
• Since 2012 she has been a lecturer at the Melanchthon Academy of the Evangelical Church Association Cologne and Region.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2015: undercover , Kunstmuseum Bochum together with Bettina van Haaren
• 2012: confidential , Volksbank Kaiserslautern in cooperation with the Museum Pfalzgalerie
• 2012: within reach , Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
• 2011: Galerie elten & elten, Zurich
• 2008: Back view , Saarbrücken City Gallery
• 2008: Sleeper , State Museum Bonn
• 2006: seamless , Leverkusen Art Association, Morsbroich Castle
• 2000: Wire rope act , Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne, with Rita Rohlfing
• 1993: Galerie Bassler, Freiburg

In addition, various group exhibitions since 1989.

literature

• Frauke Wilken - undercover . Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Bochum, 2015 DruckVerlag Kettler GmbH Bönen, ISBN 978-3-8093-0303-9 .
• Frauke Wilken - seamless . Exhibition cat., Landesmuseum Bonn, 2008 The Green Box, ISBN 978-3-908175-33-9 .
• Frauke Wilken - back view . Exhibition cat., Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, 2008, ISBN 978-3-932036-35-4 .
• Frauke Wilken - Opaque . Salon Verlag 2001, ISBN 3-89770-128-6 .

Web links

• Homepage of Frauke Wilken
• Bettina van Haaren and Frauke Wilken. Painting. Sculpture. Drawing: Joint exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bochum from September 25 to November 15, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Hiekisch-Picard, In: Frauke Wilken - undercover. Exhibition cat., Kunstmuseum Bochum, Kettler 2015, pp. 5–7.
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 22, 2015 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. 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
4. ↑ http://www.kunstmuseumbochum.de/ausstellung-veranstaltung/details/frauke-wilken-bettina-van-haaren/
5. ↑ See Frauke Wilken - undercover. Exhibition cat., Kunstmuseum Bochum, Kettler 2015, p. 79.