Johanna Smiatek

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Johanna Smiatek (* 1967 in Hanover ) is a German object and installation artist (interactive art, kinetic objects ).

life and work

In 1986 Smiatek began studying mathematics at the University of Hanover , which she dropped out to devote herself to her artistic work. Smiatek studied from 1987 to 1992 at the University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim / Holzminden and from 1993 to 1997 fine arts at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig . In 2001, together with physicists, she developed a special drive for her kinetic vibration installations. She has continuously changed and developed this drive. In 2008 she had an extensive solo exhibition at the Kunstpunkt Berlin gallery. For this purpose she showed her project "Doggy Doggies", a fictional absurd fashion label, as in a "showroom". She received numerous invitations to curated exhibitions in Germany and abroad. For the Rohkunstbau XVII. In Potsdam she created an interactive pavilion with a mirrored interior , which the visitor could enter. Her interactive mirror works, which she has already shown in many exhibitions, including the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Georg-Kolbe Museum Berlin and the gallery in the Taxispalais in Innsbruck, are well known. During this work, different mirrors are set in vibration, making it impossible to see each other clearly. She works primarily in the field of kinetic and interactive art. Johanna Smiatek's work is irritating. Smiatek thematizes the world of beautiful appearances, the world of fashion or other preferences and refers in her work to everyday objects, but changes them in a cautious way. They are reproduced anew and partly converted into other materials, such as silicone. They are often set in vibration by means of an electric drive specially developed by them. The various objects such as shoes, oversized lipsticks or mirrors develop a subtle life of their own. Moving / kinetic objects are created, which are often integrated into installations. Marc Wellmann writes about the artist in the exhibition catalog "Romantic Machines. Kinetic Art of the Present": "The artist Johanna Smiatek, born in Hanover in 1967, repeatedly approaches the tragicomic dimensions of the world of things in kinetic sculptures and installations. Her practice is less based on the use or transformation of existing objects, but on the alienated reconstruction and intelligent conversion of apparently familiar objects ”. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2004.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2002: In the end something else / In the End something Else ..., Allgemeine Konsumverein Braunschweig (solo exhibition), catalog
  • 2002: Exhibited and Removed, Kunstverein Gifhorn (solo exhibition)
  • 2002: To a Pretty View, Künstlerhaus Meinersen (solo exhibition)
  • 2004: Tension Area Passions, General Consumption Association Braunschweig
  • 2006: City of Women, Women's Museum Berlin
  • 2007: Gelée Royal, Oberwelt, Stuttgart (solo exhibition)
  • 2008: AUTOKINO kinetic sculptures selected by Marc Wellmann, ZERN II, Berlin
  • 2008: Made just for you, Kunstpunkt Berlin, gallery for contemporary art (solo exhibition), catalog
  • 2009: Stuttgarter Filmwinter , Gustav-Siegle-Haus, Stuttgart, catalog
  • 2009: passing through, Kunstpunkt Berlin, gallery for contemporary art
  • 2009: Romantic Machines - Kinetic Art of the Present, curator Marc Wellmann. Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin, catalog
  • 2010: XVII. ROHKUNSTBAU, Marquardt Palace , Potsdam, catalog
  • 2011: BLURRED. After Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg, catalog
  • 2012/2013: THE MIRROR OF NARCISSUS. From mythological demigod to mass phenomenon, gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria, catalog
  • 2013/2014: MACHT / WAHN / VISION. The tower and urban giants in sculpture, Heilbronn museums , catalog
  • 2015/2016: Must-have, Museum FLUXUS + , Potsdam (solo exhibition)
  • 2016: 100 years of Dada: seahorses and flying fish, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , catalog
  • 2016: MOST WANTED - Here you will find happiness, rosalux, Berlin (solo exhibition)

literature

  • 2009: Johanna Smiatek, Don't Touch, ed. Heinz-Günter Herpel, Kunstpunkt Berlin, gallery for contemporary art. Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86828-094-4
  • 2009: Romantic machines. Kinetic art of the present. Edited by Marc Wellmann. Wienand Verlag Cologne 2009, pages 70 to 73, ISBN 978-3-86832-005-3
  • 2009: Kunstforum International, Vol. 199. Romantic machines. By Johannes Wendland, page 278
  • 2010: XVII. Rohkunstbau, Atlantis II - Hidden Histories - Imagined Identities. Edited by Arvid Boellert. Berlin 2010, pages 106, 107, 108, 109, 119, ISBN 9783899303063
  • 2010: Kunstforum International, Vol. 204. Rohkunstbau XVII. By Matthias Reichelt, pages 269, 270
  • 2011: BLURRED. After Gerhard Richter. Hatje Cantz Publishing House. Ostfildern 2011, pages 146, 147, ISBN 978-3-7757-2805-8
  • 2012: The Mirror of Narcissus. From mythological demigod to mass phenomenon. Edited by Beate Ermacora, Maren Welsch, Snoeck Verlag, Cologne 2012, pages 146 to 151, ISBN 978-3-86442-030-6
  • 2013: MACHT.WAHN.VISION. The tower and urban giants in sculpture, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, page 16, 160, 162, ISBN 978-3-86678-908-1
  • 2016: seahorses and flying fish. Edited by Oliver Kornhoff. Salon Verlag Köln 2016, pages 27, 39, 40, 84,85,86, 101, ISBN 978-3-89770-470-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Good art, taz.blogs
  2. ↑ XVII. Rohkunstbau: ATLANTIS II HIDDEN HISTORIES - IMAGINED IDENTITIES ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.monopol-magazin.de
  3. ^ Ivory Tower, 2010, kunstmarkt.com
  4. ↑ ROMANTIC MACHINERY, KINETIC ART OF THE PRESENT ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.georg-kolbe-museum.de
  5. ↑ Gelée Royal, Oberwelt eV
  6. ↑ AUTOKINO selected by Marc Wellmann
  7. ↑ Thea Herold: Subjective self-measurement In: Tagesspiegel Berlin, June 14, 2008
  8. ↑ Barbara Kalender, Jörg Schröder: Gute Kunst In: blogs.taz.de, June 10, 2008
  9. ^ Art-in-berlin, Romantic Machines
  10. ^ Sebastian Preuss on Romantic Machines Berliner Zeitung, July 23, 2009
  11. ↑ Magnus Klaue: Flirting with the Friday Culture Machine , July 23, 2009
  12. ^ Rohkunstbau XVII., Art in berlin
  13. ↑ Thea Herold: In the Palace of Lost Remembrance Berliner Zeitung, October 6, 2013
  14. ↑ Ingo Arend: Rohkunstbau: ideal state of Atlantis
  15. ↑ Heiko Klaas: Ten Artists at Marquardt Palace Berliner Morgenpost, July 5, 2010
  16. ↑ Heidi Jäger: Pain under frosting Tagesspiegel, June 30, 2010
  17. ↑ BLURRED. According to Gerhard Richter ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2013 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
  18. ↑ Ivona Jelcic: Much too beautiful for this world, Tiroler Tageszeitung, November 30, 2012
  19. ↑ POWER / WAHN / VISION. The tower and urban giants in the sculpture
  20. ↑ Ulla Fölsing: From Babylon to Ground Zero, In: Tagesspiegel Berlin, July 24, 2014
  21. ↑ Kira Graser: Power, Wahn and Vision in Heilbronn, kunstmarkt.com, October 29, 2013
  22. ^ Johanna Smiatek: Must-have, Museum Fluxus +
  23. ^ Anna Gesher: Genese Dada, In: Kunst am Mittelrhein, March 29, 2016
  24. ↑ Giacomo Maihofer: Indeed ... pheromones, Tagesspiegel Berlin online, September 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Smiatek, Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German action artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover