Judith Albert

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Judith Albert (born May 2, 1969 in Sarnen ) is a Swiss artist . Video works form the focus of her work. Installation and drawing, often combined with the medium of video, also play a central role. The artist has realized numerous interventions in public space.

Life

Judith Albert grew up in the rural area of Alpnach Dorf in the canton of Obwalden and completed an apprenticeship as a papeterist. In 1990 she traveled to Paris for two years. Back in Switzerland, Albert enrolled at the Lucerne School of Design. In 1993 she moved to the Zurich Higher School of Design , where she completed her studies in fine arts after four years. Since then Albert has lived and worked in Zurich. She regularly relocates her job temporarily to other domestic and foreign countries. Various grants have allowed her to stay in the studio for longer, for example from 2002 to 2003 in Genoa, 2007 in Paris and from 2011 to 2012 in London. Albert participates in art exhibitions and video festivals around the world. Since 2006 she has been working with her partner Gery Hofer on the conception of public interventions.

Works

Judith Albert's groups of works have been formed in the video medium since the 1990s. From the beginning she works with coincidences and what is there is inspired by word images, everyday situations or the strong atmospheres of Félix Vallotton and Jan Vermeer . Most of the time she appears in front of the camera herself, and is also a filmmaker and leading actress. But it's not about her as a person, as the artist says: “I'm more of a variable, a placeholder. Most of the time you don't recognize me in the pictures. ”However, your body contributes to the sensual presence of the video images. One example is the video Livingroom , with which Albert took part in the 1998 exhibition Free View of the Mediterranean at the Kunsthaus Zürich . The video was filmed underwater. It shows how the artist carries pillows and blankets to the bottom of a pool and lies down there to sleep. Judith Albert always works with simple situations or actions. These are done slowly and with concentration. You follow the rhythm of breath and water, which make the passage of time perceptible. The video series Haiku (1999), named after the Japanese short poem , also condenses snapshots into symbols without relying on loud sounds or strong contrasts: “I like the either / or not. Both can be mutually beneficial. The poetic does not have to be apolitical - it is also a commitment to the quiet and the subtle and to differentiated nuances. "

In terms of genre, too, the videos do not persist in opposites, but instead mix documentation and fiction , chance and staging. Works inspired by art historical models form carefully arranged tableaux vivants such as Nu à l'écharpe orange (2009) by Vallotton or Zwischen der Zeit (2004) by Vermeer. The uniqueness of a historical moment, on the other hand, shapes a work like places where I was happy . In the series, which has been running since 2004, Albert holds her forearm in short shots against backgrounds that vary depending on the time of day, weather and whereabouts. In more recent works, the artist also experiments with multiple projection layers. Dunkle Wolke (2013) or Mare mosso (2015) are filmed twice, so to speak: a first shot is projected onto paper, which is manipulated and filmed again in the meantime; the second recording is the work. The light drawings form a recent group of works.

Albert's works in sacred spaces open up a further topic area. Without describing herself as religious, the artist, who grew up in Catholic Central Switzerland not far from Niklaus von Flües ' place of work, has installed or shown several works in churches. In the St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn, which was devastated by an arson attack in 2011, Judith Albert redesigned the choir room together with Gery Hofer and “Brauen Wälchli Architects”, Lausanne. The Carrara marble used for the altar, baptismal font and ambo , like any marble made from limestone, is linked to the building material of the old cathedral. The shape of the altar refers - like the project title L'ultima cena - to Leonardo da Vinci's famous Last Supper fresco and the tradition of celebrating the Eucharist on a white covered altar. 4 new patron saints (2007), on the other hand, a series designed for public space, takes up the format of the popular saints. From photographs found on the Internet, Albert designed new patron saints for modern contemporaries, including Saint Horatio, patron saint of time .

Awards

  • 2000: Jury Prize, Central Switzerland Annual Exhibition in Lucerne
  • 2001: Studio grant from the City of Zurich in Genoa
  • 2003: Unterwaldner Prize for Fine Arts
  • 2006: Federal Prize for Art
  • 2011: Working year of the Landis & Gyr Foundation, London
  • 2016: Central Switzerland Culture Prize

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2002: The one. The same thing. The same , Kunstpanorama Luzern, together with Urban Mäder
  • 2003: Judith Albert , Musée des beaux-arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (cat.)
  • 2004: Bilan d'un été , Espace d'Art Contemporain (les halles), Porrentruy
  • 2005: no water. No moon , Nidwalden Museum , Stans (cat.)
  • 2009: Tamed Light. New video works , Kunstmuseum Luzern (cat.)
  • 2011: Twilight , Kunstraum Engländerbau , Vaduz FL
  • 2012: Moving Pictures , Jerwood Room, LMH, Oxford UK (cat.)
  • 2014: Between Time , Kunstverein Friedrichshafen DE (cat.)
  • 2015: Prologue , Grossmünster Zurich (cat.)
  • 2016: Seh Meer , Benzeholz Room for Contemporary Art Meggen, together with Angela Wüst

Group exhibitions

  • 1996: Body, Identity, Irritation , Kunsthaus Glarus
  • 1998: Unobstructed view of the Mediterranean , Kunsthaus Zürich / Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (cat.)
  • 1998: Dogdays are Over , Center Culturel Suisse, Paris FR
  • 1999: Another Swiss Panorama , Center pour l'Image Contemporaine, Genève
  • 2000: BAC Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona ES
  • 2000: Pulsions , Center Culturel Suisse, Paris FR (cat.)
  • 2003: Pantalla Suiza , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia , Madrid ES
  • 2007: SURRéALITés , Center Pasquart, Biel (cat.)
  • 2007: Top of Central Switzerland , Kunstmuseum Luzern (cat.)
  • 2009: Frozen Moments , Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (cat.)
  • 2011: Much Ado About Everything , House for Art, Uri (cat.)
  • 2012: The Atelier - Places of Production , Lucerne Art Museum
  • 2013: Making Space. 40 Years of Video Art , Musée cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne
  • 2014: La Dada Die Dada She Dada , Forum Schlosspark, Aarau; Appenzell Art Museum ; La Manoir, Appenzell (cat.)
  • 2015: Invent the Future with Elements of the Past , Cabaret Voltaire , Zurich (cat.)

Video festivals

  • 1998: Sélection Suisse. 19th Video Art Festival , Locarno
  • 2002 and 2003: VID Festival for Video Art , Bern
  • 2003: International Video Art Festival , Priština KO
  • 2007: SHIFT Festival of Electronic Arts , Basel (cat.)
  • 2008: Bild-Rausch-Videofestival , Saarbrücken DE
  • 2014: International Festival of Films on Art , Montreal CA

Permanent work in public space

  • 2006: Sarnen, Obwalden vocational and advanced training center: signals , acoustic installation, with Gery Hofer and Stephen Lumenta
  • 2007: Giswil, Kulturhotel Krone: dialect , design of a hotel room, with Gery Hofer (cat.)
  • 2010: Montreux, Sacré-Coeur: Ciel , church window, with Gery Hofer (cat.)
  • 2011: Biel, Mettlen school building: La Promeno , acoustic installation, with Gery Hofer and Martin Bezzola
  • 2012: Solothurn, St. Ursus Cathedral: l'ultima cena , choir room design with Gery Hofer and Brauen Wälchli Architects
  • 2012: Lausanne, CSS: Vasistas , video installation, with Gery Hofer
  • 2016/2019: Lucerne, University of Applied Sciences for Health Central Switzerland: Streiflichter , light drawings, with Gery Hofer

literature

  • Ulrich Loock (text): Judith Albert video works. In: Obwaldner Künstlerhefte, 2/2001, Martin Wallimann, Alpnach Dorf 2001.
  • Judith Albert. Musée des Beaux-Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Société Suisse des Beaux-Arts, Zurich 2003. Texts by Beate Engel and Jean-Paul Felley.
  • Nidwalden Museum (Ed.): Judith Albert. No water. No moon. (= Nidwalden Hefte zur Kunst, 6.) Nidwalden Museum, Stans 2005, texts by Ingrid Textor and Regine Helbling.
  • Tear away. 52 loose drawings. Judith Albert, Barbara Gschwind. Martin Wallimann, Alpnach Dorf [2005]. (52 drawings and a leaflet in a box.)
  • Michael Donhauser: Close to the slope. Urs Engeler Editor, Basel / Weil am Rhein 2009. pp. 39–43.
  • Judith Albert (interview). In: Niklaus Oberholzer : Silent Mail. 27 encounters and snapshots. Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne 2013, pp. 90–99.
  • Kirchgemeinde Grossmünster Zurich (Ed.): Judith Albert. PROLOGUE [the; Greek; The preface"]. Serves as the beginning of a myth and sometimes sets it in motion. (= Art in the crypt, no 3.) everyedition, [Zurich] 2015. Texts by Christoph Vögele, Michael Donhauser, Martin Ruesch.
  • Judith Albert: Through the eye of the hand. In: Adrian Notz (et al.): Invent the future with elements of the past. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2015, pp. 158–171. Text by Adrian Notz and Sandra Bradvic and text by Isabel Zürcher.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Niklaus Oberholzer : Silent Post. 27 encounters and snapshots . Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne 2013, p. 91 .
  2. ^ Niklaus Oberholzer: Silent Post. 27 encounters and snapshots . Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne 2013, p. 99 .
  3. ^ A b Judith Albert, Ueli Brauen, Gery Hofer, Doris Wälchli: L'ultima cena . In: Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology (Ed.): The interior restoration of the St. Urs and Viktor Cathedral in Solothurn 2011/12 . Contributions to archeology and monument preservation in the canton of Solothurn, No. 2 . Solothurn 2013, p. 119 .
personal data
SURNAME Albert, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss video artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnen , Switzerland