Jac Leirner

Jac Leirner (2019)

Jacqueline Leirner (born July 4, 1961 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian artist.

life and work

Jac Leirner was born as the daughter of the art collectors Fulvia and Adolpho Leirner. From 1979–84 she studied at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo , where she taught herself from 1987–89. From the 1990s she was a scholarship holder at numerous institutions in Europe and the USA, including the Walker Art Center in 1991 and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 1998. Jac Leirner exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and 1997 , 1992 the documenta IX and 2000 the 7th Havana Biennale .

In her work she uses collected everyday objects and materials such as canceled banknotes, plastic bags or stickers, which she systematically sorts and presents in installations . The objects collected often relate to their own life experience; For example, for the Corpus Delicti series, she stole ashtrays or spit bags from airplanes while traveling or organized them through the flight crew. Exhibited together with the boarding cards of the respective trips, works were created that on the one hand receive an abstract aesthetic due to the formal uniformity of the objects , but at the same time refer to the artist's biography in the sense of a travel diary.

Jac Leirner was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize Cologne by the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne on April 9, 2019 .

Web links

• Jac Leirner. In: Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (Biobibliography with picture series, Portuguese)
• Jac Leirner on kunstaspekte.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kelly Klaasmeyer: "Flying Objects: Jac Leirner at Gallery Sonja Roesch" , in: Houston Press , February 5, 2008 (English, accessed January 12, 2009)
2. ↑ A special award. Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig Cologne, accessed on October 26, 2018 .