Ingrid Wildi Merino
Ingrid Wildi Merino (born September 19, 1963 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Swiss video artist.
Life
Wildi Merino was born in Santiago de Chile in 1963 as the daughter of a Swiss and a Chilean. The mother left the family early. In 1981 Wildi Merino emigrated with his father and two siblings to Niederlenz in the canton of Aargau . Between 1985 and 1987 she studied at the Zurich Higher School of Design and then worked as a painter and object artist until 1995. Between 1994 and 1997 she attended the high school for design again and studied with Berndt Höppner . From 1998 to 2000 she completed a postgraduate degree at the École Supérieure d'Arts Visuels Génf at the Atelier Média Mixtes with Silvie Defraoui , Ursula Biemann and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster .
In 2004 she had her first major solo exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Center d'Art Contemporain in Geneva. In 2005 she was allowed to play in the Swiss Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale together with Gianni Motti , Shahryar Nashat and Marco Poloni .
Wildi has been a lecturer at the Haute École d'Art et de Design in Geneva since 2005. She lives in Geneva and Biel .
plant
The exchange with the artist Thomas Hirschhorn plays a major role in the development of Wildi Merino's work. She uses the media of video and photography to point out social developments and conditions. The documentary video essays are based strongly on the artist's own biographical experiences.
Awards
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1992: Geografías , Altes Schützenhaus, Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland
- 2004: De palabra en palabra , Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau
- 2004: Center d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
- 2005: Swiss Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale (together with Gianni Motti, Shahryar Nashat, Marco Poloni)
- 2006: Kunsthaus Glarus (with Mauricio Gajardo)
- 2007: Historias breves , Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile
- 2009 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (for Chile)
- 2011: Dislocación: Cultural Localization in Times of Globalization , Kunstmuseum Bern and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile
- 2012: Arquitectura de las Transferencias; Arica y Norte de Chile, no lugar y lugar de todos , Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
literature
- Adriana Valdés: Historias breves. Ingrid Wildi . Museo de Arte contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile 2007
- Angela Dimitrakaki [et al.]: Prix Meret Oppenheim 2009. Ursula Biemann, Roger Diener, Christian Marclay, Muda Mathis + Sus Zwick , Ingrid Wildi Merino. Interviews . Federal Office for Culture, Bern 2010
- Ursula Biemann: Dislocación: Cultural Location in Times of Globalization . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2816-4
- Wildi, Ingrid . In: General Artist Lexicon. International artist database - Online (accessed via De Gruyter Online)
Web links
- Stephan Kunz: Wildi Merino, Ingrid. In: Sikart
- Website
- Wildi Merino at HEAD in Geneva
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography in the database of Chilean sculptors, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
- ↑ Ingrid wildi Merino at the traversee gallery
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wildi Merino, Ingrid |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wildi, Ingrid |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |