Isi Kunath

Isolde "Isi" Kunath (* 1963 in Mainsche , Lower Saxony ) is a German artist and photographer .

Life

Pin in Erlangen

Isi Kunath studied Fine Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1991 to 1997 . In 1995 she went on a six-month study trip to Japan and then spent a year as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she mainly devoted herself to studying sculpture. In 1998 she returned to the AdbK Nürnberg for a year to complete a postgraduate course on art in public spaces.

Her oversized pin sculptures, which were installed in Erlangen for the 1000th anniversary in 2002 and have become a symbol of the city, are particularly well known . Due to aging, they had to be dismantled in 2015.

Isi Kunath lives in Munich .

Awards

• Annual scholarship for young academics and artists from the Ministry of Science, Research and Art of the State of Bavaria
• First prize in the academy competition of the Dannerstiftung
• 2012 Culture Prize of the City of Erlangen

Individual exhibitions (incomplete)

• 2001: Isi Kunath - nothing personal - Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen
• 2009: Shooting Through My Thoughtlessness - De Meerse, Hoofddorp

Group exhibitions (incomplete)

• 2001: Description and image "Isi Kunath" / "Verena Manz" - debut exhibition - Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nürnberg
• 2006: To be a sham - Leipzig cotton spinning mill, Leipzig
• 2007: GOING STRANGER - Isi Kunath - Wang Taocheng - Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
• 2007: to another commonplace - Mart House Gallery, Amsterdam
• 2008: Isi Kunath and Martina Ziegenthaler - De Meerse, Hoofddorp
• 2009: Belief Unlimited - Platform3 - Spaces for Contemporary Art, Munich

Web links

Commons : Isi Kunath  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Isi Kunath

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Schreiter: Erlanger pin needles battered and disposed of. In: Nordbayern.de . August 29, 2015, accessed October 3, 2015 .