Gabriele Seifert
Gabriele Seifert (born April 23, 1959 in Bad Rothenfelde ) is a German artist .
life and work
Gabriele Seifert began in Muenster, first in EMU studying philosophy, from 1979, she studied art at Wolfgang Kliege and the painter Ulrich Erben , a master student in 1984. After graduation, she moved in 1986 to Cologne and 1990 was a guest in the video class of June Nam Paik at of the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Since 1982 her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. She is the mother of two children.
She works with the media of painting , collage , photography and video . She often stages individual works into complex room installations . In terms of content, she takes up cultural stereotypes in her work. These are aesthetically transformed and reinterpreted in such a way that aspects of the numinous can be felt behind the superficial phenomena.
The artist lives in Cologne.
Works
- Those waiting, slide painting installation
- Needles in chains, performance evenings
- up-horse-down, videotape and paintings
- in-body-out, slide video installation
- Tre anziane signore a passegio, video painting
- Stand-fall-houses series, painting, video, installations
Awards and grants
- 1985 Award from the Friends of the Art Academy Münster
- 1991 Prix Club Monte Veritá et Ars, 12 Locarno Video Festival
- 1992 Prix Lago Maggiore, 13th Locarno Video Festival
- 2002 3rd Marler Video Installation Prize
- 2003 Working grant, Künstlerhaus Lukas , Ahrenshoop
Works in public collections
- Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca
- Collection of the WGZ Bank , Düsseldorf
- Collection of the Warsteiner Brewery , Warstein
literature
- Mário Caeiro, Arte na Cidade-História Contemporânea, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-644-282-8
- Gabriele Seifert Video-Baby, in: Nam June Paik There is no rewind button for life, Kunsthalle Bremen 2006/07, ISBN 978-3-8321-7780-5
- German Video Art 2000–2002, exhibition catalog, publisher: Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl, Uwe Rüth, Marl 2002
- Dagmar Streckel On the installation “in-body-out” by Gabriele Seifert, spatial experience staged in Topos, exhibition catalog Grassimuseum Leipzig, publisher: Kulturamt der Stadt Leipzig, Leipzig 1993
- Bernd Growe in Tiefgang- Bildraum im Schloßbunker, Ed .: Roland Scotti, Jan Winkelmann, Mannheim 1992, ISBN 3-927595-20-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabriele Seifert at the ZKM Karlsruhe. Retrieved May 14, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seifert, Gabriele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Rothenfelde |