Friederike Pezold

Friederike Pezold , also Frederike Pezold (born August 14, 1945 in Vienna ) is an Austrian video artist , filmmaker and photographer .

Life

Friederike Pezold studied at the Munich Art Academy and initially worked as a draftswoman. In 1968 she worked on Werner Herzog's film Signs of Life .

In 1971 she created her first video graphics. In photo series and video films she repeatedly made her own body, painted in black and white, the object of her art. It was her concern to be both subject and object at the same time. To this end, on April 4, 1977, she founded her “Radio Free Utopia”, which mainly consisted of a recording device with a monitor on her own body, which enabled her to look at her recordings of herself at the same time as in a mirror. In this way she saw herself as a painter and model in one person.

In this manner , which she calls “physical sign language”, she created video films such as The Temple of the Black and White Goddess (1977) and Madame Cucumaz or the experimental films Toilet (1979), which shows her dressed with deliberately excessive detail and Canale Grande (1983) , who, with Elfi Mikesch as camerawoman, reflects the reactions of her environment to her and her video device, and Irrsee (1984). In 1995 Friederike Pezold founded her own First Vienna Museum for Video Art and Body Art .

Exhibitions (selection)

1969: House of Art / Munich
1972: Galleria Numero / Venice Rome
1975: 9th Paris International Biennale / Museé d'Art
1976: Museum of Modern Art / New York (Line Up)
1977: Documenta 6 / Kassel / "The Temple of the Black and White Goddess"
1983: Participation in Aktuell 83
1984: Venice Biennale / c / o International Pavilion ("ROSA NIRWANA" "NIRWANA ROSA")
1985: Museum of Modern Art / New York / c / o New Directors / New Films with "Canale Grande"
1988: Center Georges Pompidou / Paris / "The Arts for TV"
1988: Tate Gallery / London / "The Arts for TV"
1989: Berlin Film Festival / Berlin (with "Alone Against the Sausages")
1989: Cannes (with "Alone against the sausages")
1991: Museum of the 21st Century / Vienna ("The newest electronic sculptures")
1995: Friederike Pezold founded her own First Vienna Museum for Video Art and Body Art .
2011: Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin
2013: Hamburger Bahnhof / Berlin ("The new physical sign language according to the laws of anatomy, geometry and kinetics")
2015 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s. Works from the Verbund collection, Vienna , Hamburger Kunsthalle .
2017 WOMAN. Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection , MUMOK , Vienna.
2017–2018 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection, Vienna . Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe, DE.
2018–2019 Feminist Avant-garde / Art of the 1970s SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna , The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Pezold, Friederike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pezold, Frederike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna

[1] Website of the Hamburger Kunsthalle

[2] MUMOK Vienna website

[3] Website of the Verbund Collection, Vienna

[4] Website of the ZKM Karlsruhe

[5] Website of the Brno House of Arts, Brno