Jenny Brockmann

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Jenny Brockmann (* 1976 in Berlin ) is a German visual artist . In her works she prefers cross-media means such as installations , sculptures , drawings , film and photography as well as more unusual materials. In the public space of the city of Berlin there are some works of art she made.

Life sketch

Jenny Brockmann learned a trade after graduating from high school and then studied literature , philosophy and architecture . From 2002 to 2007 she studied fine arts at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) and at Hunter College in New York City . Jenny Brockmann was a master class student with Professor Rebecca Horn at the UdK. She had previously studied abroad in Saint Petersburg in Russia, London in England and New York City. Her artistic talent was promoted between 2005 and 2008 by a special scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation as well as the foreign scholarship from the Hunter College. She has a studio in the Berlin studio funding program in the Kulturwerk of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin .

She lives in Berlin-Treptow . Some of her works are exhibited in the Gerken Gallery in Berlin-Mitte , with which she works closely.

Together with other artists, she campaigned for the expansion of a factory building on Frankfurter Allee in Berlin-Friedrichshain , which was unused until 1996 . Here she can work creatively together with musicians and other visual artists on an entire factory floor. The converted house is called La Fabrik and is to be developed as a “house for art, culture, meeting and business”.

Works and exhibitions

Works (selection)

Ring stages
The three iron, untreated tires symbolize the past, present and future.
  • Shelter , 2005, granite, copper pipe, engine
  • The Embrace , 2007
An oversized open room system made of wood, foam and textiles can be operated by a person at the push of a button and symbolically hugs the user. (The idea of ​​a touch machine was previously realized by the American Temple Grandin under the name "Hug-box", who helped her overcome autism .)
  • The time (paper, wax, microcontroller, motors, loudspeakers), 2010
It is an interactive room installation. The movement of visitors entering the room is transmitted via sensors to electromechanically moving structures (defined by the artist as skin marks ). These generate noises and movements that, in harmony, represent moods such as fear, joy, sadness or anger. - Brockmann himself explains her subject as follows: “Limits of experience, living space, collective behavior, social interaction, silence. The project is an experiment. "
With this work, she was one of six prize winners at the Art of Engineering in 2010, which awarded prizes with a total value of 30,000 euros. The award ceremony took place during the Hanover Fair , after which the 6 exhibits were shown in February 2010 in a special exhibition The interdisciplinary art competition IT & Media Art in the German Museum of Technology Berlin .

Exhibitions

The following solo and collective exhibitions with works by Jenny Brockmann took place or are taking place:

  • February 2, 2010–7. February 2010: 10th Transmediale Berlin
  • May 14, 2010–22. May 2010: Test phase 1: Glück cascade capacitor , Basel
  • June 5, 2010–2. July 2010: Zurab Bero and Jenny Brockmann in the Gerken Gallery
  • October 23, 2010–28. October 2010: Positions + Present - 1960-2010 GEDOK Berlin Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
  • November 12, 2010–30. January 2011: Scheuer Raum , Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
  • February 12, 2011–26. March 2011: Brockmann, Gerken-Grieshaber, Mügge, Kunbi and Pokorny in the Gerken Gallery, Berlin
  • June 4, 2011–19. June 2011: A kind of riot , house on Lützowplatz , Berlin
  • June 25, 2011–21. July 2011: Jenny Brockmann in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin
  • September 8, 2012 - October 11, 2012: interactive sculpture

literature

  • Experiment Cyclebowl: A Pavilion of Cycles at Expo in Hanover , avedition 2002 (English), ISBN 3929638657
  • Good Design May / Good Design May. German Designer Club: 2 volumes, Birkhäuser-Verlag 2005, ISBN 3764372362

Web links

Commons : Jenny Brockmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief information on the career and a work at a competition in 2010 , accessed on June 21, 2011
  2. ↑ Berlin studio program
  3. ↑ a b c Jenny Brockmann. In: galerie-gerken.de. Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  4. ^ Exhibition overview Galerie Gerken , accessed on June 21, 2011
  5. ^ The La Fabrik project on a website of the city of Thun, which maintains the artist studios and uses one floor itself. ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lafabrik.de
  6. ↑ Online magazine Art in Berlin , accessed on June 21, 2011
  7. ↑ Information on Art of Engineering 2010 , accessed on June 21, 2011
  8. ^ Artists & Curators at Kunstaspekte.de , accessed on June 2, 2011
  9. ↑ Monopol, Magazin für Kunst und Leben  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.monopol-magazin.de  
  10. ^ Exhibition arrangement Jenny Brockmann on kunst-und-kultur.de , accessed on April 5, 2012
  11. ↑ Exhibition review. In: galerie-gerken.de. Archived from the original on May 29, 2013 ; accessed on January 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brockmann, Jenny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin