Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein
Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein are a Swiss artist couple with visual productions in various techniques, which mainly use the collage in pictures and sculptures . Her artistic forms of expression also include installations ( including photo , video and book). Their joint artistic activity began in 1998.
Hendrikje Kühne
Hendrikje Kühne was born on February 19, 1962 in Darmstadt . Since her father found a job in the Basel chemical industry, the family moved to Switzerland near Basel in 1965. From 1982 to 1984 Hendrikje Kühne took courses at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel (today the University of Design and Art HGK), and in 1985 she attended lectures on fine arts at the University of Essen . From 1986 to 1988 she worked in the painting class at the Basel School of Design, and graduated in 1992 with a diploma as a drawing teacher at the Didaktikum Aarau . In 1996 she received a studio grant at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . A postgraduate course in Design / Art and Innovation at the University of Art and Design in Basel followed from 2004 to 2006.
Beat Klein
Beat Klein was born on June 26, 1956 in Sorengo (Switzerland). He began his artistic training at the schools for design in Basel (today HGKB) and Zurich (today HGKZ ), initially with preliminary courses, which he then continued in the specialist class for works and design. From 1989 to 1992 he took the sculpture class at the School of Design (today HGK) in Basel. In 1991 he received a studio grant at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.
Joint artistic creation
Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein have been working closely together since 1998 and always exhibit their pictures, sculptures and installations as joint works, always under their names. The three-dimensional collage property was the first joint project as part of the Artists' Work program at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. In 1999 they presented their first solo exhibition in the Kunst Raum Riehen . A central theme - after the properties in property - is now: Cars , implemented primarily in the floor sculpture of the same name, for which thousands (counting once: 58,800!) Car images, cut out from brochures and magazines, were connected by means of a right-angled connector system. Such floor sculptures have to be rebuilt again and again. The number and arrangement of the car images can be varied; Such installations become dynamic with the help of friends and viewers both in setting up the installation and in collecting image material. Material for these installations is provided by product catalogs, magazines or brochures. Landscape pictures emerge from picture postcards and art postcards in which the individual set pieces cannot be recognized at first glance.
In Typical Switzerland (2002) or Grüezi Switzerland (2004) they ironically dealt with tourism in Switzerland.
"Common memory" is a compilation of 3000 small-format slides, a summation of personal memories of different people.
Kühne / Klein reflect on works by old masters in picture collages , such as B. with The Venus' Shells (2010) on Botticelli's birth of Venus or with The Girl's View (2010) on Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring .
Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein live and work in Basel (BL) and Pleigne (JU).
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1999 Kunst Raum Riehen, Basel-Stadt (CH); Hendrikje Kühne / Beat Klein (catalog)
- 2000 Schwäbisch Hall Art Association; Life is a journey into the blue
- 2000 Kunstraum Aarau (CH); On the mountain / in the forest / in the city
- 2001 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (IRL); "A World of Difference"
- 2002 The Gallery, St Peter Port, Guernsey (UK); Map of Paradise (catalog)
- 2003 Art Association Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen; Focus 1 (catalog and sticker book)
- 2007 M'ARS Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (RUS); Car crush
- 2008 Sølyst Artist in Residence Center Jyderup (DK); The Garden , Birds and a Hedge
- 2009 Kunstmuseum Olten (CH): Wherever it comes from, the birds sing beautiful songs (catalog)
- 2010 GIST Gallery, Amsterdam: Painting Views
- 2011 Art Brussels (B): Positions (Installation)
- 2012 GIST Gallery, Amsterdam (NL): Entrez!
- 2013 Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City (USA): Somewhere only we know
- 2014 Galerie Graf & Schelble, Basel (Switzerland): We know it from sight
In addition, Kühne / Klein took part in collective exhibitions in many European countries as well as in New Zealand and the USA.
Scholarships / artist in residence stays
Kühne / Klein received awards in the form of artist in residence stays in several European countries and in the USA
- 1998 Artists' Work Program, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IRL)
- 2002 International Artists in Residence Program, Guernsey College of Art and Design, St.Peter Port, Guernsey (UK)
- 2003 Art Association Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen / Lüneburg Heath; Project stay
- 2004 Sirius Arts Center, International Residence Program, Cobh / Cork (IRL)
- 2006 Atelier Berlin of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (CH); Studio grant
- 2007 M'ARS Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (RUS); Visiting artists
- 2008 Sølyst Artist in Residence Center, Jyderup (DK)
- 2010 Headlands Center for the Arts , Sausalito / CA (USA)
- 2012 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha / NE (USA)
Working in collections
- Basel, Christoph Merian Foundation
- Bern, Museum for Communication
- Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art
- Constance Art Association
- Liestal, Collection of the Canton, Museum BL
- Milton / USA, International Collage Center,
- Moscow, M'ARS Center for Contemporary Art
- Moutier, collection of the Musée Jurassien des Arts
- Olten, art museum
- Warth, Thurgau Art Museum , Ittingen Charterhouse
- Zurich, art collection of the city of Zurich
Literature (selection)
- Property (Letters to the Editor), publ .: Hendrikje Kühne / Beat Klein, IMMA, Artists' Work Program, Dublin, 1998
- Hendrikje Kühne / Beat Klein, publ .: Art Space Riehen, Riehen / Basel, 1999, catalog
- Hendrikje Kühne / Beat Klein, publ .: The Gallery, Guernsey College of Art and Design, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, 2002
- The longing of the cartographer . Published by Kunstverein, Hanover, 2003
- See god. The supernatural as a theme of contemporary art . Thurgau Art Museum , Ittingen Charterhouse, 2005
- Wherever she comes from, the birds sing beautiful songs . With contributions from various authors, Kunstmuseum Olten, Christoph Merian Verlag Basel, 2009
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Biographies: SIK IKEA (Swiss Institute for Art Research): http://www.sikart.ch/Kuenstlerinnen.aspx?id=10519118&lng=de
Catalog raisonné: Wherever it comes from, the birds sing beautiful songs , with contributions from various authors, Kunstmuseum Olten, Christoph Merian Verlag Basel, 2009
Web links
- Literature by and about Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein in the catalog of the German National Library (Hendrikje Kühne)
- Literature by and about Hendrikje Kühne and Beat Klein in the catalog of the German National Library (Beat Klein)
- Homepage Hendrikje Kühne / Beat Klein