Irene Naef (artist)

Irene Naef (born January 29, 1961 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss painter , photographer , video and installation artist .

biography

Irene Naef attended the preliminary course at the School of Design in Lucerne from 1983/84. In 1984 she joined Anton Egloff's department for fine arts , Lucerne, and graduated as an artist in 1988. Since 1989 she has been working as a freelance artist with exhibitions at home and abroad. Her works are in private and public collections. She lives and works in Lucerne . In 2011 she illustrated the Swiss edition of allende - magazine for literature with her photos .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 1995: Lucerne Art Museum , Entracte
• 1996, 1998, 2000: Galerie Grosskinsky & Brümmer, Karlsruhe (catalog)
• 1998: Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine , Karlsruhe (catalog)
• 1999: Städtische Galerie Tuttlingen, The absence of those present
• 2000: Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie , Dessau, Irene Naef: Malkoerper - photo works and installations
• 2001: Nidwalden Museum , Stans
• 2001: Galerie Christa Burger, Munich
• 2003: Kunstverein Ravensburg, Ravensburg
• 2004: Kunstverein Leonberg, Leonberg (Stuttgart)
• 2007: Kunstverein Leonberg (Stuttgart), Transit (with Christina Katzenberg)
• 2011: AKKU Foundation, Emmenbrücke, Irene Naef

Participation in exhibitions

• 1995: Kunsthaus Glarus , winner of the Federal Competition for Fine Art
• 1998: Biennale di Vetro, San Stae , Venice (catalog)
• 1998: Galerie Christa Burger, Munich, Madonna & Co, Female Icons
• 2000: Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen; Fleurs: Flowers in Contemporary Art and Natural History , (Catalog)
• 2001: Pasinger factory , Munich, light brands , (catalog)
• 2001: Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy , Canton of Geneva, Prèsence / absence , (catalog)
• 2003: Städtische Galerie, Dornbirn, "factually" (new thinginess) , catalog
• 2003: Kunstraum München , Anderswelten / Transform , (Ariana Anderecken, Zilla Leutenegger, Irene Naef)
• 2005: Kunsthaus Langenthal , art and literature , with Marie José Burki, Markus Raetz, Dominik Stauch, Marcel van Eden, Langenthal, catalog
• 2006: MMKK Museum of Modern Art Carinthia , Klagenfurt, (catalog)
• 2013: Women's Museum, Bonn , Who was Mona Lisa? Pictures, photographic works, objects and installations by contemporary artists
• 2013: Belvedere Palace, Pfingstberg, Potsdam , weddings!
• 2014: Museum Brother Klaus Sachseln , Through the Flower

Awards

• 1988: Scholarship from the Kiefer-Hablitzel Foundation
• 1995: Federal Prize for Fine Art
• 1996: Canton of Aargau, Board of Trustees, funding for the visual arts
• 1997: Canton Aargau, Board of Trustees, year of work in fine arts
• 1997: Sponsorship award from the Neue Aargauer Bank, Kunsthaus Aarau
• 1999: Canton of Aargau, Board of Trustees, Cité internationale des Arts , Paris
• 2002: Prize, Esther Matossi Foundation, Zurich

literature

• Sigmar Gassert: Irene Naef. In: Basler Zeitung . 20th August 1988.
• Annelise Zwez: Dense layers of paint as painting fields and spaces of sensation. In: Badener Tagblatt . April 17, 1990.
• Martin Schwander: Irene Naef - painting. In: exhib. Cat. Gallery Carzaniga & Ueker. Basel 1993.
• Claudia Spinelli: Entracte. In: exhib. Lucerne Art Museum. Lucerne 1995.
• Johannes Brümmer: Irene Naef - video prints. In: exhib. Cat. Grosskinsky & Brümmer Gallery. Karlsruhe 1996.
• Manfred Grosskinsky: Irene Naef - Stucco. In: exhib. Cat. Grosskinsky & Brümmer Gallery. Karlsruhe 1996.
• Manfred Grosskinsky: Irene Naef - PARS PRO TOTO. In: exhib. Cat. Wolfgang Schweizer. Klagenfurt 1997.
• Johannes Brümmer: On the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous, genesis and image structure of the photographic works and installations by Irene Naef. In: exhib. Cat. Galerie Grosskinsky & Brümmer, Karlsruhe, Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine, Karlsruhe, Municipal Gallery Tuttlingen. Tuttlingen 1998.
• Anja Eichler: Irene Naef, in front of the easel. In: Exhibition catalog Galerie Grosskinsky & Brümmer, Karlsruhe, Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine, Karlsruhe, City Gallery Tuttlingen. Tuttlingen 1998.
• Barbara Könches: About appearance and being in virtual space. In: Baden's latest news . November 6, 1998.
• Annelise Zwez: Irene Naef in the Elisabeth Staffelbach gallery, Lenzburg. In: Art Bulletin. No. 1/2, January / February 1999.
• Stefanie Dathe: Irene Naef - floods. Raum für Kunst, Kunstverein Ravensburg, September 19, 2003.
• Stefanie Dathe: Appropriate. About the experience of (everyday) things in contemporary art. Art room, Dornbirn, ISBN 3-9501319-4-9 .
• Cornelia Gockel: Anderswelten / transform, Kunstraum Munich, September 11 - November 9, 2003. In: Kunstforum International. Vol. 167, November-December 2003.
• Anneliese Zwez: Inventing ... In: Art Bulletin. 12/2010.

Web links

Commons : Irene Naef  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website by Irene Naef
• Literature by and about Irene Naef in the catalog of the German National Library
• Naef, Irene. In: Sikart
• Artist portrait Irene Naef , report (SWR BW) for the exhibition The absence of those present in the gallery of the city of Tuttlingen
• Materials by and about Irene Naef (artist) in the documenta archive

Footnotes

1. ↑ View over the mountains: The literature of Switzerland (= allende - magazine for literature. No. 88). December 2011, ISBN 978-3-88190-665-4
2. ↑ Manfred Großkinsky: Vernissage speech for the exhibition The Absence of Those Present in the Gallery of the City of Tuttlingen, 1999. (pdf)
3. ^ Johannes Brümmer: Vernissage speech for the exhibition Irene Naef: Malkoerper - photo works and installations ; Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Orangery, Dessau, 2000. (pdf)
4. ↑ Brigit Kölgen: Irene Naef in Ravensburg - Am rauschenden Meer. In: Schwäbische Zeitung , September 30, 2003 (pdf)
5. ^ Kunstverein Leonberg, Stefanie Dathe: Vernissage speech on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunstverein Leonberg, 2004. (pdf)
6. ↑ What we think we are seeing , catalog for the exhibition at the AKKU Foundation, Emmenbrücke; February 26 to March 27, 2011; (pdf)