Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham (* 1940 in Houston , Harris County (Texas) ) is an American political activist, conceptual artist and writer.
Life
Durham began his artistic activities around 1960 during the civil rights movement . The artist had his first solo exhibition in Austin (Texas) in 1965 . From 1968 to 1973 Durham studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva . He finished his studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. From 1973 to 1980 Durham held political offices in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and in the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), of which he was a co-founder in 1974. As a representative of the IITC, Durham was active at the United Nations and, in that capacity, contributed to a declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples . After the end of his political activities, he devoted himself to the fine arts in New York City , and he also wrote essays and poems. In 1987 Durham moved to Cuernavaca (Mexico). Jimmie Durham has lived and worked in Berlin and Rome since 1994.
Awards
- 2003: Peill Prize of the Günther Peill Foundation , Düren
- 2016: Goslarer Kaiserring Accessed March 14, 2016
- 2019: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 58th Venice Biennale
Exhibitions
- 1992: Sculpture This Stone is from the mountain - This stone is from the Red Palace , documenta IX
- 2002: Solo exhibition, Art Association Arnsberg
- 2010: Solo exhibition: Rocks Encouraged , Portikus , Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2012: Retrospective A Matter of Life and Death and Singing , Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp
- 2012: Sculpture This Stone is from the mountain - This stone is from the Red Palace , dOCUMENTA (13)
Publications
- Poems in the poetry album , Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1985, issue 209/1985
- A Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics. Kala Press, London, 1993
- The seducer and the stone guest. Springer, Vienna, 1996, ISBN 3-211-82837-0
- Stone Heart . CCA Kitakyushu, 2001 ISBN 4-901387-10-3
- The Second Particle Wave Theory. Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 2005, ISBN 978-1-894773-23-2
- Material. 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, No. 49 on dOCUMENTA (13). Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2898-0
- Amoxohtli. Libro de Carretera. A road book. in Nahuatl , Spain and English. Buchhandlung König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 3-86560-920-1
- Poems That Do Not Go Together. Wiens Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-9811288-8-8
- Waiting to be interrupted, selected writings 1993–2012. Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2014, ISBN 978-88-6749-120-9
- Venice, Work and Tourism. Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2015, ISBN 978-88-6749-134-6
swell
- Jimmie Durham Rocks Encouraged. Portikus, accessed June 27, 2012 .
- Till Briegleb : stones to toast. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 143 of 23./24. June 2012, p. 15
Web links
- Materials by and about Jimmie Durham in the documenta archive
- Native American Author
- Jimmie Durham: Essay on the Krenak Indigenous People. Quack's return. Accessed March 14, 2016.
- Regan, Sheila (June 28, 2017). "Jimmie Durham Retrospective Reignites Debate Over His Claim of Native Ancestry" , Hyperallergic . Accessed July 19, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ "The Whitney to Present First US Retrospective of Jimmie Durham," Whitney Museum of American Art, September 20, 2017
- ↑ Sheila Regan, Jimmie Durham Retrospective Reignites Debate Over His Claim of Native Ancestry " , Hyperallergic , June 28, 2017th
- ↑ a b Jimmie Durham: Material. 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, No. 49 on dOCUMENTA (13). Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, p. 22.
- ^ The stones of the Cherokee in FAZ from April 19, 2013, page 37
- ^ Art Prize - Jimmie Durham receives Goslarer Kaiserring 2016
- ↑ Till Briegleb: stones to toast. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 143 of 23./24. June 2012, p. 15.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Durham, Jimmie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American conceptual artist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Harris County, Texas |