Birgit Juergenssen

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Birgit Jürgenssen (born April 10, 1949 in Vienna ; † September 25, 2003 there ) was an Austrian photographer and illustrator .

Life and accomplishments

Jürgenssen was born into a family of doctors in Vienna as the second child. When she was eight, she began to draw pictures after Pablo Picasso in a school notebook . Her signature "BICASSO Jürgenssen" combines the name of the Spanish master with her own name. At the age of 14, she received her first semi-automatic camera and almost exclusively photographed small objects that she had previously made herself. During several months in France, she got to know French literature, as well as Antonin Artaud's theater and the “inspirational poetry” of surrealism . As a result, she dealt with psychoanalysis, the philosophy of structuralism , the ethnology of Claude Lévi-Strauss and the socially critical discourses of her generation. This spiritual horizon remained decisive for her art. In 1967 Birgit Jürgenssen was accepted into Herberth's master class for graphics at the University of Applied Arts , unusually without undergraduate studies . On June 30, 1971, Jürgenssen finished her studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna with the diploma thesis "zipfeln" (a folder with 42 drawings). For her diploma thesis she received the funding award of the Ministry of Education for Science and Research and the Wolfgang Hutter Award . Birgit Jürgenssen began on October 1, 1980 as the only lecturer in the Maria Lassnig master class at the University of Applied Arts. This ended on September 30, 1981. On March 1, 1982, Jürgenssen began teaching in Arnulf Rainer's master class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . She initiated and established photography classes and taught at the academy for 20 years.

In 2003, Jürgenssen died in Vienna. The gallery owner Hubert Winter manages the artist's estate.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • 1974: Untitled , self-photographs
  • 1974/1977: Even with Fellchen , color photo, 14.1 × 13.1 cm, Belvedere , Vienna
  • 1975: Housewife's kitchen apron , photograph
  • 1975/2006: Everyone has their own view , self-portrait, black and white photo, 40 × 30 cm, Belvedere, Vienna
  • 1976/2006: I want to get out of here! , Self-portrait, black and white photo, 40 × 30 cm, Belvedere, Vienna
  • 1976: Bootjack , pencil and colored pencil drawing

Exhibitions (selection)

  • XX Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 1975.
  • MAGNA. Feminism: Art and Creativity, Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna, 1975.
  • LINEATURES. Graphic Collection, Albertina, Vienna, 1978.
  • Birgit Jürgenssen, 10 days - 100 photos, Hubert Winter Gallery, 1981. (solo)
  • Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, 1984. (solo)
  • Birgit Jürgenssen, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, 1988. (solo)
  • THE AGE OF WOMEN, Judy Fox, Anne Tardos , Birgit Jürgenssen, Vicky Faust. Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, 1989.
  • Birgit Jürgenssen, Mario Flecha Gallery, London, 1991. (solo)
  • NEW ACQUISITIONS, An Exhibition of Artists Books and Multiples Art Metropole, Toronto, 1995.
  • ELEMENTS, Austrian Paintings since 1980, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, 4 Rooms, Dublin, 1996.
  • Birgit Jürgenssen, I met a stranger, Secession, Ver Sacrum Raum, Vienna, 1996. (solo)
  • Birgit Jürgenssen, Sooner or Later, TZ - Art Gallery, New York, 1997. (solo)
  • Birgit Jürgenssen, Sooner or Later, State Gallery, Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz, 1998.
  • Footwear. Subversive Aspects of Feminism, MAK , Vienna, 2004. (solo)
  • ROLE PLAY, Feminist Art Revisited 1960–1980, Lelong Gallery, New York, 2007.
  • Female trouble. The camera as a mirror and stage for female productions, Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich, 2008.
  • We are mask, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna, 2009.
  • elles @ centrepompidou. Artistes femmes dans les collections du Musée national d'art moderne, Center Pompidou , Paris, 2010.
  • Birgit Juergenssen. McCAFFREY FINE ART, New York, 2013. (solo)
  • SELF, MODEL, AND SELF AS OTHER. MFAH - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2013.
  • BODY I AM: Birgit Jürgenssen, Ana Mendieta & Hannah Wilke. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, 2013.
  • XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography. MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013.
  • Birgit Juergenssen. Alison Jacques Gallery, London, 2013. (solo)
  • Birgit Juergenssen. Birgit Jürgenssen's alphabet. Works from 1970–72. Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, 2014. (solo)
  • Gwangju Biennale 2014. Burning Down The House. Gwangju, South Korea, 2014.
  • Birgit Juergenssen. Rankings. Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, 2015. (solo)
  • Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s. Verbund collection. Kunsthalle Hamburg , 2015.
  • Jürgenssenweg. Birgit Jürgenssen, Astrid Nylander & Stine Ølgod. Gallery Hubert Winter, Vienna, 2016.
  • Birgit Juergenssen. Fergus McCaffrey, St. Barth, 2016.
  • Identity Revisited. The Warehouse, Dallas, 2016.
  • Prière de Toucher. The sense of touch in art. Museum Tinguely, 2016.
  • I. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2016.
  • The imaginary museum. Works from the Center Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK. Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, 2016.
  • That seems to be me. Photographs from the 1970s by Birgit Jürgenssen, Katherina Sieverding, Cindy Sherman and Francesca Woodman. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, 2016.
  • Unseen. Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, 2017.
  • Meret Oppenheim and Her Artist Friends. MASILugano , 2017.
  • Pro (s) thesis. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2017.
  • 2017/2018 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection , Vienna , Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe; 2018/2019 Dům umění , Brno, Czech Republic
  • I AM !, Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2018/19, curators: Natascha Burger and Nicole Fritz, ISBN 978-3-7913-5832-1

literature

  • Upper Austria State Gallery: Birgit Jürgenssen - sooner or later . On the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Upper Austrian State Gallery, Linz, February 12 - March 15, 1998. Library of the Province, Weitra 1998 ISBN 3-85474-022-0 .
  • Peter Noever (Ed.): Birgit Jürgenssen. Footwear - Subversive Aspects of "Feminism" . [Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the MAK Vienna, March 17 - June 6, 2004] MAK, Vienna 2004 ISBN 3-900688-59-1 .
  • Gabriele Schor (Ed.): Birgit Jürgenssen . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009 ISBN 978-3-7757-2460-9 .
  • Gabriele Schor, Heike Eipeldauer (Eds.): Birgit Jürgenssen . Exhib. Cat. Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna. Munich u. a., Prestel, 2010 ISBN 978-3-7913-5103-2
  • Gabriele Schor (Ed.): WOMAN. The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna. Exhib. Cat.BOZAR, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, 2014 ISBN 978-90-74816-43-4
  • Rita E. Täuber (Ed.): Merciless. Artists and the comic. Exhib. Cat. Kunsthalle Vogelmann / City Museums Heilbronn. Wienand Verlag, Cologne, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86832-136-4
  • Brigitte Huck (et al.): The ladies. Exhib. Kat. Zeitkunst Niederösterreich, St. Pölten. Nuremberg: Verlag für modern art, 2013. ISBN 978-3-86984-446-6
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Ed.): Photography at MOMA. 1960 - Now. Exhib. Cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2015. ISBN 978-0-87070-969-2
  • Massimo Gioni, Roberta Tenconi (eds.): The Great Mother. Exhib. Cat. Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan. Milan, Skira Editore, 2015. ISBN 978-88-572-2860-0
  • Patricia Allmer (Ed.): Intersections. Women artists / surrealism / modernism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-7190-9648-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZKM website
  2. ↑ Verbund art collection
  3. ↑ Dum umeni website
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Vienna, CastYourArt video portrait
personal data
SURNAME Jürgenssen, Birgit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian photographer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2003
Place of death Vienna