Isa Genzken

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Isa Genzken during the opening of her exhibition "Open Sesame!" In the Museum Ludwig on August 14, 2009
Rose in front of the new Leipzig exhibition center
X, 1994, Arnulfstrasse , Munich

Isa Genzken (born November 27, 1948 in Bad Oldesloe ) is a German artist with international renown; she lives and works in Berlin .

life and work

From 1969 to 1971 Genzken studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Almir Mavignier , 1972 art history and philosophy at the University of Cologne and until 1973 photography and graphics at the University of the Arts in Berlin and finally until 1977 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. In 1982 she married the painter Gerhard Richter , whose student she had been in his master class in Düsseldorf. The marriage ended in divorce in 1993.

Isa Genzken has created a diverse and complex oeuvre in over thirty years, which includes sculptures, installations, films, photographs, paintings, works on paper and artist books. The selection and combination of such diverse materials as wood, plaster of paris, epoxy resins , concrete, but also plastics and everyday objects and consumer goods is significant for her work .

Minimalism and conceptual art are considered early influences, but she never accepted a uniform concept and, for example, took up realism for her rose, for the first time in 1993 in Baden-Baden, and in 1997 in Leipzig, and enlarged the flower to gigantic proportions. Before the turn of the millennium, she reoriented herself and since then has often worked with Objets trouvés . “The story ensembles with their sometimes poetic ('Everyone needs at least one window'), then angry titles ('Fuck the Bauhaus') glisten deceptively. Isa Genzken scans her surroundings and shows us what she sees there. "

Genzken has been working with gallery owner Daniel Buchholz for over 25 years , who represents them as the main gallery owner worldwide.

Exhibitions

Isa Genzken was represented three times at the Kassel documenta , the first time in 1982 at documenta 7 , with ellipsoids and hyperbolo sculptures, in 1992 at documenta IX with concrete and epoxy resin sculptures and again in 2002 at documenta11 with her Works New Buildings for Berlin and Spiegel . In 1992 her work was exhibited at the Renaissance Society in Chicago in the exhibition Everyone Needs At least One Window . The exhibition moved on to Portikus in Frankfurt am Main (1992), Palais des Beaux Arts , Brussels (1993) and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich (1993). In 1976 Genzken had an exhibition at the Konrad Fischer gallery in Düsseldorf. Since 1986 she has been represented internationally mainly by the Buchholz Gallery . Her works have been shown in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Zürich 2003, at Hauser & Wirth in London (2004), David Zwirner New York 2005, at the Camden Arts Center in London (2006), at the Kunsthalle Kiel (2006), in the Vienna Secession (2006) and in the gallery in the Taxispalais in Innsbruck (2006).

In 2007 she represented Germany at the Venice Biennale with her work Oil , for which the pavilion was draped with scaffolding and red tarpaulins and inside an installation made of suitcases, hangman's knots and astronauts. Also in 2007 Genzken was represented at skulptur projekte münster 07 .

Under the title Sesame, open yourself! Genzken's first retrospective took place in 2009 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery London and the Museum Ludwig (Cologne) . The artist designed the exhibition largely herself. In 2011, as part of its Façade Sculpture Program, New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art showed an approximately 8.40 m high sculpture Rose II , which was made available to him on loan. The sculpture is a replica of the rose placed in front of the Leipzig Exhibition Center . In 2012 Isa Genzken showed new works under the title “Hallelujah” in the Schinkel Pavilion in Berlin. In November 2013 she opened the major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which in April 2014 moved to the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and then to the Dallas Museum of Art .

The Museum der Moderne Salzburg and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main presented Isa Genzken's latest group of works in 2014/2015 under the title Neue Werke / New Works , consisting of alienated self-portraits ("actors"). In 2015/16 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam organized under the title 'Make yourself pretty!' a comprehensive retrospective, which in 2016 - curated by Beatrix Ruf and Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen - was also shown in the Gropius Building in Berlin . From January 15 to April 17, 2016, the Bundeskunsthalle , Bonn, showed the exhibition Isa Genzken - Models for outdoor projects with 35 models of realized and unrealized outdoor projects, each supplemented with background information; some of these models were already on view in 2015 in the All the World's Futures exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

Prizes and awards

In 1977 Isa Genken was awarded a travel grant from the Düsseldorf Art Academy to the United States. For the years 1978-1980 she received the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff grant . In 1980 she was awarded the Berlin Art Prize. In 2002 she was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Museum Ludwig. In 2004 she received the International Art Prize Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse München, endowed with 50,000 EUR . In 2007 Isa Genzken was named the most important living artist in the annual "Artist Ranking" of the art magazine Monopol . In 2009 she received the Yanghyun Prize from the Yanghyun Foundation, Seoul. In 2013, in view of the exhibition of her works in the New York Museum of Modern Art, Der Spiegel wrote that Genzken was one of the most important artists of the past thirty years. In 2017 Genzken was awarded the Goslarer Kaiserring . In 2019 she received the Nasher Prize from the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Isa Genzken: sculptures, drawings, photographs . Horst Schuler: Pictures , text by Birgit Pelzer, exhibition catalog Haus Lange Krefeld, November 11th - December 30th 1979, Krefeld 1979
  • Isa Genzken, Gerhard Richter , text by Rudi H. Fuchs , exhibition catalog Galleria Pieroni, Rome 1983
  • Isa Genzken , texts by Klaus Honnef , Dieter Schwarz and Jan van Adrichem, exhibition catalog Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, October 20 - November 27, 1988; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, January 22 - March 19, 1989; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, April 30 - June 18, 1989, Munich: Silke Schreiber 1988
  • Isa Genzken. Everyone needs at least one window , texts by Paul Groot and Benjamin HD Buchloh , exhibition catalog The Renaissance Society Gallery at the University of Chicago, May – June 1992; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, November – December 1992; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, February – April 1993; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, May – June 1993, Cologne: Walther König 1992
  • Isa Genzken. Sketches for a feature film , texts by Isa Genzken and Katerina Vatsella , exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 1993
  • Isa Genzken. MetLife , texts by Sabine Breitwieser , Isabelle Graw and Birgit Pelzer, ed .: Sabine Breitwieser, exhibition catalog EA-Generali Foundation, Vienna 1996
  • Isa Genzken. Urlaub , text by Vanessa Joan Müller , exhibition catalog Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main, May 27 - August 6, 2000, New York: Lukas & Sternberg 2000
  • Isa Genzken. You are my luck , texts by Karola Grässlin , Diedrich Diederichsen and Rita Kersting , exhibition catalog Kunstverein Braunschweig , June 11 - August 27, 2000, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2000
  • AC: Isa Genzken / Wolfgang Tillmans , texts by Kasper König and Michael Krajewski, exhibition catalog "Science Fiction / Being satisfied here and now", AC room, Museum Ludwig , Cologne, November 1, 2001 - February 17, 2002, Cologne: Walther King 2001
  • Isa Genzken. Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2002 , texts by Paul Erik Tojner and Michael Krajewski, exhibition catalog Museum Ludwig, Cologne, October 31, 2002 - January 26, 2003, published by: Society for Modern Art at Museum Ludwig eV, Cologne 2002
  • Isa Genzken , texts by Beatrix Ruf , Diedrich Diederichsen, Josef Strau, Veit Loers, Vanessa Joan Müller, conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans, exhibition catalog Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2002; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich 2003, Cologne: Walther König 2003
  • Isa Genzken , texts by Alex Farquharson, Sabine Breitwieser, interview by Diedrich Diederichsen, London: Phaidon Press 2006
  • Isa Genzken , texts by Benjamin Buchloh, Manfred Hermes, exhibition catalog Secession, Vienna; Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Cologne: Walther König 2006
  • Isa Genzken: I Love New York, Crazy City , artist book, Zurich: JRP Ringier 2006
  • Isa Genzken. Oil, German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2007 , conversation with Nicolaus Schafhausen and texts by Liam Gillick , Juliane Rebentisch , Vanessa Joan Müller, Willem de Rooij , Cologne: DuMont 2007
  • Isa Genzken. Ground Zero , text by David Bussel, exhibition catalog Hauser & Wirth , London 2008
  • Isa Genzken. Open Sesame! , Texts by Yve-Alain Bois , Ulrich Loock, Dieter Schwarz, Nina Gülicher, Christiane M. Schneider, Lilian Haberer, Penelope Curtis, Kasper König (conversation), Ian White, Gregor Stemmrich, Charlotte Cotton, Donna De Salvo , David Bussel, Tom McDonough, Sabine Maria Schmidt, Julia Friedrich, Iwona Blazwick, Barbara Engelbach, Carina Plath , Andrea Tarsia, Helmut Draxler , artist contributions by Dan Graham , Wolfgang Tillmans, Lawrence Weiner , exhibition catalog Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Cologne: Walther König 2009
  • Isa Genzken , text by Letizia Ragaglia, artist contributions by Monica Bonvicini , Simon Denny , Liam Gillick , Jutta Koether , Mark Leckey , Nick Mauss, Elizabeth Peyton , Lawrence Weiner, Cerith Wyn Evans , exhibition catalog Museion, Bozen 2010
  • Isa Genzken: Berlin, 1973 , artist book, Cologne / Berlin: Galerie Buchholz 2013
  • Isa Genzken. Retrospective , texts by Sabine Breitwieser, Laura Hoptman, Lisa Lee, Michael Darling, Jeffrey Grove, exhibition catalog The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013–2014), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2014), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2014–2015), New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013
  • Isa Genzken. Early Works , text by Benjamin HD Buchloh, exhibition catalog, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2013
  • Lisa Lee, Isa Genzken. Sculpture as World Receiver , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017

Web links

Commons : Isa Genzken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Isa Genzken - Rose , Art, Design and the City. Roppongi Hill Public Art Project 1, Tokyo: Mori Art Museum, 2004, pp. 30–35
  2. ^ Schlaegel, Andreas, Isa Genzken, Fuck The Bauhaus , Flash Art, May / June 2007, pp. 122–124
  3. ↑ Swantje Karich: Persistently unadjusted: Isa Genzken zum Sechzigsten , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 27, 2008, p. 38
  4. ^ Bock, Hans Georg / Krotz, Ralph, Isa Genzken , documenta 7, vol. 1, Kassel 1982, pp. 330f.
  5. ^ Haase, Amine, Critical Consideration of the documenta IX , Kunstforum international, Vol. 119, Autumn 1992, pp. 206-218
  6. ^ Hoet, Jan, Documenta as a motor. Tour through documenta IX , Kunstforum International, vol. 119, autumn 1992, p. 494f
  7. ↑ Katerina Vatsella : Everyone needs at least one window , "Leiblicher Logos. 14 women artists from Germany", catalog for the exhibition of the same name by the Institute for Foreign Relations, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart u. a. Orte, 1995, pp. 58-59, fig. Pp. 60-62
  8. ^ Museum of Modern Art Isa Genzken: Retrospective , New York, 2013, p. 8
  9. ↑ Oliver Koerner von Gustorf: Isa Genzken: Universal artist designed the artist edition of the world . In: THE WORLD . November 23, 2016 ( welt.de [accessed on August 23, 2018]).
  10. ↑ Isa Genzken: Open Sesame! , Goethe-Institut London Online, April 1, 2009
  11. ↑ Isa Genzken - Open Sesame! , Stadtzauber, July / August 2009, p. 18
  12. ↑ Pohlen, Annelie, Isa Genzken-Open Sesame , Kunstforum international, Vol. 199, October - December 2009, pp. 316-318
  13. ↑ Announcement on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 30, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.mcachicago.org
  14. ^ Isa Genzken: Retrospective , exhibition catalog The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013/2014), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2014), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2014/2015), texts by Sabine Breitwieser, Laura Hoptman , Lisa Lee, Michael Darling, Jeffrey Grove, publ. by The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2013
  15. ^ Information text about the exhibition on the website of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Retrieved January 16, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Information text about the exhibition on the website of the MMK Museum for Modern Art. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2015 ; accessed on January 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mmk-frankfurt.de
  17. ↑ Martin-Gropius-Bau - Isa Genzken: Make yourself pretty! Retrieved April 6, 2015 .
  18. ↑ ISA GENZKEN - Models for outdoor projects , Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, January 15 to April 17, 2016
  19. ↑ Glamor and Hysteria . In: Der Spiegel . October 28, 2013 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 29, 2015]).
  20. ↑ Goslar: Isa Genzken receives Kaiserring (dpa, mbn) , Zeit online January 6, 2017, accessed on January 7, 2017
  21. ↑ Isa Genzken receives Nasher Prize , monopol-magazin.de, September 27, 2018, accessed on September 27, 2018
  22. ↑ Martin, Alberto, MODERNOLOGIES - MACBA Barcelona, ​​Camera Austria International 108/2009, p. 68
personal data
SURNAME Genzken, Isa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oldesloe