Hannah Wilke

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Hannah Wilke (born March 1, 1940 in New York , NY , † January 28, 1993 in Texas ) was an American artist and feminist.

biography

Hannah Wilke was born as Arlene Hannah Butter. From 1956 to 1961 she was at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University Philadelphia. In 1960 she married the designer Barry Wilke and from 1969 began a love and work group with Claes Oldenburg. From 1972 to 1991 she taught sculpture at the School of Visual Arts in New York and founded the Department of Ceramic Design. In 1992 she married Donald Goddard for the second time. She died of lymphatic cancer in Texas in 1993 and was diagnosed in 1987.

Artistic work

Since the 1960s, Wilke made, among other things, plastic transformations of the female gender in materials such as chewing gum, erasers, clay, latex, terracotta. She tried to establish a counterpart to the male phallic symbolism. From the 1970s onwards, she mainly used her own body as subject and object in photographic works, videos, and performances. Not least because of this, she was confronted with the accusation from the ranks of feminists that she made narcissism and exhibitionism her real topic. Later she dealt more intensively with the body and its changes. In the end, she consistently continued this through the course of her cancer until her untimely death. Hannah Wilke has dealt with photography, video, painting, installation and sculpture, so overall she has worked very versatile. Politics and literature, like the subject of her own life story and development, were part of her field of work. In addition, she used an extensive range of materials with chocolate, latex or even hair. In one of her works, the series SOS Starification 1974, Hannah Wilke shows a series of a total of 10 self-portraits in different cliché poses (cowgirl, model, with curlers, etc.). Your body is covered with small objects made of chewing gum, which are unique in their vaginal shape. She later used individual motifs from the series for other works. One of them, the poster - Marxism and Art: Beware of Fascist Feminism from 1977 - shows Wilke's examination of the allegations of dogmatic feminists, or she responds to them in a direct and provocative way.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018–2019 Feminist Avant-garde / Art of the 1970s SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna , The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • 2017–2018 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection, Vienna . ZKM , Karlsruhe, DE.

Public collections

  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, NY
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum , Oberlin, OH
  • Cincinnati Art Museum , Cincinnati, OH
  • The Jewish Museum , New York, NY
  • Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
  • List Museum of Art, Brown University, Providence, RI
  • Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Pushkin Museum, Moscow
  • Radford University Galleries, Radford, VA
  • Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
  • The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita
  • The Wadsworth Altheneum, Hartford, CT

Awards

  • 1976 National Endowment for Arts, sculptures
  • 1980 National Endowment for Arts, Performance
  • 1982 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
  • 1987 and 1996 - posthumously - for her exhibitions in the gallery Ronald Feldman Fine Arts the first prize of the International Association of Arts Critics (United States Section) for the best exhibition in a gallery

literature

  • Interrupted Careers - Hannah Wilke 1940-1993. Exhibition catalog, New Society for Fine Arts eV (NGBK) (ed.), Berlin 2000.
  • Kochheiser, Thomas (ed.): Hannah Wilke. A retrospective . Columbia, 1989.
  • Princenthal, Nancy: Hannah Wilke . Prestel, Munich a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7913-3972-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wagner, Frank: Intra Venus - the power of the last images or the correction of the male gaze. In: Interrupted Careers - Hannah Wilke 1940-1993. Exhibition catalog, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst eV (NGBK) (ed.), Berlin, 2000.
  2. ^ The House of Arts. Retrieved June 5, 2020 (Czech).
  3. ↑ More about SAMMLUNG VERBUND on Facebook. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE of the 1970s | 11/18/2017 to 04/08/2018 | ZKM. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Interrupted Careers - Hannah Wilke 1940-1993. Exhibition catalog, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst eV (NGBK) (ed.), Berlin 2000, p. 152
personal data
SURNAME Wilke, Hannah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1993
Place of death Texas