Ingrid Hermentin

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Ingrid Hermentin (born September 26, 1951 in Löwenstein ) is a German artist and pioneer of serial computer graphics .

Life

From 1969 to 1979 Hermentin completed training in the medical field and worked at various clinics in the Stuttgart area . In 1980 she spent several months in Canada and the USA . Hermentin has lived and worked in Marburg since 1981 . From 1983 she worked as an artist with several study visits to Italy. From 1990 her focus has been on computer graphics. Since then she has had numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.

Artistic concept

Hermentin sees her works as “aesthetic reflexes on the 'reality' of a world based on media in the link between people, computers and art. The experience lived through in the media becomes the (epistemological and practical) engine. The '(being) being' or a moment of the 'reality' experienced is expressed as a synthetic image and is expressed in a distant way ”. To show the ambivalence of the mechanized present and to give shape to sign phenomena that are converted into information and saved, demands, according to Hermentin, the use of a distance instrument: the computer. “The extension of the thought via the electronic distance can be read as a spontaneous and reflected design. What is decisive, however, is the portrayal of the transformation and endlessness that the series makes imaginable. ... The desire for measurable, but not measurable space becomes a sign. The resistance of the material is not broken by force and destruction, but by calculation ”.

"The overlapping of thought patterns in art, philosophy and science allow different manifestations to arise in response to memory, knowledge and experience". Since 1994, Hermentin has devoted her artistic projects primarily to scientific topics and developed a dedicated scientific aesthetic from this - with work on the human genome project and stem cell research and - in cooperation with geneticists and biologists - on human identity and synthetic biology .

Technical development

While Hermentin laid the foundation for her graphic work with her “Digital Collages” (1991–1994) in inkjet print format up to Din A3, from 1993–1994 she developed a serial inkjet printing process for the production of large picture formats on the basis of Din A3 printing. At the same time, she used the established digital large format printing for serial work in the format Din-A1 (from 1992) or Din-A0 (from 1994) and developed a glazing printing process for brilliant coloring for her “Synthetic Pictures” - from 1998 using a large format Inkjet printer with lightfast colors.

Prizes and awards

  • 1992 Art Prize of the Frankfurter Neue Presse
  • 1992 Award at the Prisma Prize competition of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
  • 1996 Prize of the 11th German International Graphic Triennial Frechen
  • 2000 Award at the Gabriele Münter Prize Competition, Women's Museum (Bonn)
  • 2001 “digital new art award”: 1st prize in the international art competition “the human machine project” Dominikaner Kloster / DigitalART, Frankfurt

Projects (selection)

  • Digital collages - memory without memory (1991–1994)
  • Media anatomy (1993–1994)
  • Synthetic Images - Information at a Distance (1994–1998)
  • Digital women [re-converted] (1997-2000)
  • Transcriptions - Silicon-Gene 2 (human body) (2001-2006)
  • Transkriptionen_dechiffriert (2006–2008) - in cooperation with geneticists from Eurofins Medigenomix GmbH, Martinsried and the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig
  • Transkriptionen_Malus domestica (2010–2011) - in cooperation with biologists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Transkriptionen_TATA-Box (2012–2013) - in cooperation with biologists from the LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) at the Philipps University of Marburg
  • Transkriptionen_BioBricks (2014) - in cooperation with biologists from the LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) at the Philipps University of Marburg

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1994 Information at a distance - Forum Leverkusen
  • 1995 Digital collages - HP, Barcelona
  • 1996 Information at a distance - Marburger Kunstverein
  • 1998 Synthetic Images - Information at a Distance - Kunstforum Gummersbach
  • 2000 digital women [re-converted] - Hanauer Kulturverein
  • 2002 transcriptions - DigitalART, Frankfurt
  • 2003 Codes - Gallery LOG, Marburg
  • 2004/2005 codes and transcriptions - Kunstverein Rüsselsheim / TIGZ - Galerie bij de Boeken, Ulft / NL - Wetzlarer Kunstverein
  • 2007 Transkriptionen_dechiffriert - Temporary Gallery, Braunschweig
  • 2011 Transkriptionen_Malus domestica - Gallery in the town hall, Mainz
  • 2012 Transcriptions_deciphered - GEDOK Stuttgart
  • 2013 Transkriptionen_TATA-Box - Lutheran Parish Church Marburg
  • 2015 Transcriptions - Synthetic Pictures - Alte Brüderkirche Kassel

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1993 Art & Fair, Mediale, Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
  • 1993 cultural exchange between Hamburg and Prague, ULUV Gallery, Prague
  • 1993 Five from Marburg (Marielies Hess Foundation), Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
  • 1994 Contribution to the first CD-ROM of World Media Interactive
  • 1995 Art competition "Mainzer Kunstpreis Eisenturm", Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz
  • Imaginary Gallery - Contemporary Women Artists in Central Hesse 1996, ISBN 3-929425-15-7
  • 1996/1999 German International Graphic Triennial, Frechen
  • 1997 Encounter room Schloss - contemporary artists see old rooms new, Schlitz (Hesse)
  • 1998/2002 Computer Art, Gladbeck / Bergkamen City Museum
  • 1999–2001 large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf, exhibition halls
  • 2000 Cynetart , Kunsthaus, Dresden
  • 2000/01 Gabriele Münter Prize, Women's Museum, Bonn and Exhibition Hall, Leipzig
  • 2001/02 The human machine project, Dominikaner Kloster / DigitalART, Frankfurt
  • 2003 Lucas Cranach Foundation / Cranach-Höfe , Wittenberg
  • 2005/06 Kunstforum Gummersbach, Gummersbach
  • 2006/07, 2011 Large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast , Ehrenhof
  • 2010 Computerkunst / Computer Art, Gladbeck (as part of RUHR. 2010), Bergkamen City Museum
  • 2012 Art in Marburg 2012, Marburger Kunstverein
  • 2013 EUREGIO creative 2013, Schönecken / Eifel, art cabinet
  • 2014 art @ science - Three positions in scientific aesthetics , Marburger Kunstverein , with catalog (edited by Harald Kimpel , curator of the exhibition)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Online ..." in catalog: Computerkunst '98, Gladbeck, ISBN 3-923815-34-4
  2. ^ "Online ..." in catalog: 3rd Gabriele Münter Prize 2000, ISBN 3-928239-47-3
  3. ^ "Online ..." in catalog: Computerkunst '98, Gladbeck, ISBN 3-923815-34-4
  4. ^ "Online ..." in catalog: 3rd Gabriele Münter Prize 2000, ISBN 3-928239-47-3
  5. ↑ Catalog for the exhibition: Ingrid Hermentin: "Information on distance (digital collages)", Forum Leverkusen 1994 (catalog series "Young digital image art" 16, 1994; City of Leverkusen, Kulturamt (ed.))
  6. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Nature Related Computerkunst. In: Anna Ursyn (Ed.): Biologically-Inspired Computing for the Arts - Scientific Data through Graphics. University of Northern Colorado, USA, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4666-0942-6 , pp. 138ff. doi: 10.4018 / 978-1-4666-0942-6
  7. ↑ Harald Kimpel (Ed.): Art @ science - Three positions of the aesthetics of science. Ulysses Belz , Ingrid Hermentin, Norbert Pümpel . Jonas Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89445-501-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Hermentin, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Lion's Arch