Imogen Stidworthy

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Imogen Stidworthy (* 1963 in London , Great Britain ) is a British video and film artist and lives in Amsterdam and Liverpool .

Life

Stidworthy studied from 1992 to 1994 at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht , Netherlands and from 1984 to 1987 at the West Surrey College of Art and Design in England. Acoustics and language and their physical implementation and relationship to the human body play a central role in the work of Imogen Stidworthy.

In 1996 the artist received the Prix de Rome for film and video in the Netherlands. From 2001 to 2002 she was a scholarship holder at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart . Since 2002 there has been a permanent video installation of her as art in public space ("on the building") - project in Murau in Austria . Imogen Stidworthy was appointed as a participating artist for documenta 12 in 2007 in Kassel . In 2019 her first major solo exhibition will take place in Germany at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart.

Solo exhibitions

(Selection)

Group exhibitions

(Selection)

  • 1994 Room Current Art, Vienna. 'Achteinhalb' / Steirischer Herbst Graz / Witte de With Rotterdam. 'Monolith, Lettered Rock'
  • 1995 Reina Sophia, Madrid , Spain . Video festival / Center Georges Pompidou , Paris. 'Points de Vue, Images d'Europe'
  • 1996 Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, USA. 'Up Close and Personal' / Lincoln Center, New York, New York Video Festival / Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel , Switzerland . 'Foreign Bodies'
  • 1997 Stedelijk Bureau, Amsterdam. World Wide Video Festival / Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. 'Fenêtre sur cour'.
  • 1998 Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona . 'Adventurers,' Cartographers, Storytellers' / Ars Electronica, Linz , Austria . 'Nexus'
  • 1999 CCAC, San Francisco , USA . 'Searchlight; Consciousness at the Millennium '/ Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels. Connections / Jonctions / Kote Canal, Brussels. 'Fantasy Jacoba IV' / Het Consortium, Amsterdam . 'and ... and ... and ..'
  • 2000 Festival aan de Werf, Utrecht , Netherlands . 'Desperate Optimists' / Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool , Great Britain . Video Positive festival
  • 2001 St Gervais, Geneva . Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement / The Central House of Artists, Moscow . 'Power and the Subject' / Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam , Netherlands . 'Exploding Cinema'
  • 2002 Las Palmas, Rotterdam . 'Commitment'
  • 2007 documenta 12 in Kassel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Imogen Stidworthy in the Württembergischer Kunstverein: When the language is lost. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .