Judith Huber

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Judith Huber with 2x spruce

Judith Huber (born October 11, 1964 in Falkirk ) is a Swiss performance artist and curator who lives in Lucerne . As a board member of PANCH - Performance Art Network CH , she campaigns for the visibility of performance art in Switzerland. In 2018 she won the Swiss Performance Prize.

Life

Judith Huber grew up in Zurich . She studied fine arts at the HGK Lucerne (now part of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences ). In 2015 she did the Master of Contemporary Arts Practice at the Bern University of the Arts .

From 1997 to 1999, Huber was an assistant at the School of Design Lucerne HFG (today part of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences ). From 2002 to 2007 she was part of the curatorial team and board member of the self-managed cultural institution Kaskadenkondensator Basel . Among other things, she organized series of performances and appearances as a special guest at the fair for young art, Liste Art fair in Basel.

From 2005 to 2011 she was the artistic director of the Kunstexpander Aarau festival. In 2007 she was one of the co-founders of OFFOFF, an association of independent art spaces in Switzerland. From 2008 to 2017 she was managing director of the Forum Neue Musik Luzern.

In 2001, Huber founded the performance festival migma Performance in Lucerne , in whose artistic direction she is still involved today. In 2014 she co-founded the Switzerland-wide PANCH - Performance Art Network CH , of which she has been co-president since it was founded. In 2018 she won the Swiss Performance Prize and the Audience Prize for her work 2 x Fichte in Basel . Huber is interested in networks and self-organized structures . Judith Huber organizes regular performances in her studio in Lucerne Emmenbrücke , called (place). In her curatorial work, she works with partners from the fields of music and the visual arts in order to make the overlapping of the three art directions visible, for example at the Lucerne Performance Days 2017 with the Kunsthalle Luzern and the Forum Neue Musik . Music and sound also play an important role in their performances. In her artistic work she addresses the relationships between space, movement and physicality.

Awards

  • 2004: Studio grant Berlin
  • 2005: Work contribution from the city and canton of Lucerne for Ushi-Gake & Ashi-Dori (together with Pascale Grau )
  • 2008: Contribution to work by the city and canton of Lucerne for performative word and literature projects (together with p & s netzwerk Kultur)
  • 2015: Work stay at Casa Zia Lina Elba (together with Christoph Stehlin)
  • 2018: Performance Prize Switzerland
  • 2018: Audience Award Performance Award Switzerland
  • 2018: Work contribution from the Canton of Lucerne
  • 2019: Studio stay at the NAIRS Center for Contemporary Art

Works (selection from 2004)

  • 2004: ring ring ; Performance festival Bone Bern , with Pascale Grau
  • 2004: brood ; La Bâtie, Festival de Genève
  • 2005: Snapshots ; Performance, exhibition space Restitution Berlin
  • 2005: FIZZICAL II ; Electricity works in Zurich
  • 2005: brood ; Art credit Baselstadt , 1st round
  • 2006: Ushi-Gake & Ashi-Dori ; Performance with Pascale Grau; Gessnerallee Zurich
  • 2006: Schnirkel snails ; Period_ex! It, Office for Art Mannheim
  • 2006: you ; “Pit star”, art panorama Lucerne
  • 2006: Cephalopoda ; Anniversary exhibition "Second Time" HGK Luzern in the Lucerne Art Museum
  • 2006: Capitulum ; Installation; Anniversary exhibition HGK Luzern in the Kunstmuseum Luzern
  • 2007: I'm always in your neighborhood : video work for Mata Hari, Kunstpanorama Luzern
  • 2007: changeable : “The longest day” Zurich
  • 2007: Billy ; Coiffure dell'arte Luzern, for 30 years IG Kultur Luzern
  • 2008: huhu uaua ; DatanzDa P3 Gessnerallee Zurich
  • 2008: Chewing Gum Culture ; Performance with Franz Szekeres, Kulturforum Luzern
  • 2009: non stop improvisation , LISTE 09, The Young Art Fair
  • 2009: Altars : Within the exhibition "Vom Staub", Forum Schlossplatz Aarau
  • 2009: rising : Exhibition: oT room for contemporary art Lucerne
  • 2009: Spyderwoman . “Basler Walzer” as part of the Wildwuchsfestival Basel
  • 2010: What else is on your mind , Kaskadenkondensator Basel
  • 2010: inside_outside ; sic! Room for Art Lucerne
  • 2011: composition I ; 10th International Performance Art Giswil
  • 2011: composition II : The Art of Encounter IV, Basel
  • 2012: Rampe / composition III : Performance day NEU-OERLIKON
  • 2012: composition IV : Performance Festival Navinki Minsk
  • 2013: mapping pong : a performance with Angela Hausheer, Zurich
  • 2013: The sound of my shoulder : Dimanche Rouge Festival Tallinn, Helsinki
  • 2014: The sound of my shoulder : Festival Blue Shift Leipzig
  • 2014: Trailer : Unwrap The Present and Sattelkammer Bern, with Silvia Isenschmid
  • 2015: Simulacrum : Kaskadenkondensator Basel, with Silvia Isenschmid
  • 2015: Song 2 : Screamscape Fri Art Kunsthalle Friborg, with Silvia Isenschmid
  • 2015: sounding : Trudelhaus Baden
  • 2015: to find out how the land lies : Center PasquArt Biel
  • 2016: The Zurich artist : LEGS Zurich, corner college
  • 2017: happen performance evening : Nidwalden Museum Stans
  • 2017: to find out how the land lies : Interakcje Festival Poland
  • 2017: A touch : LEGS Turbine Giswil
  • 2017: 2x spruce : CAMP Festival Potsdam Berlin
  • 2018: the sound of my shoulder : Walcheturm Zürich, with Karin Ernst, Jan Schacher, Angela Stöcklin
  • 2018: Werk.Statt I , Werkstatt Augustin Luzern, with Jens Nielsen, Laura Laeser, invited by the FNML
  • 2018: "Judith with Axelle" & "Axelle with Judith" : PROGR performance platform Bern, with Axelle boots
  • 2019: 2x spruce : happen performance evening: Nidwalden Museum Stans
  • 2019: 2x spruce : Museum Tinguely Basel

Literature, texts

  • Maricruz Peñaloza (Ed.): Judith Huber (=  substance. Performance art issues . No. 8 ).
  • Michael Sutter: Performance in focus - Judith Huber makes rooms sound . In: Art Bulletin . No. 6 , 2015 ( [2] [accessed February 9, 2020]).
  • Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Muda Mathis and Margarit von Büren (eds.): Recording and remembering. Performance Chronicle Basel (1987-2006) . Berlin and Zurich: diaphanes, 2016, ISBN 978-3-03734-634-1
  • Kurt Beck: Two women are struggling to find the right expression . In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung , January 19, 2004, p. 9
  • Maria Vogel: mashed potatoes erotic and a book fountain bath. Kunstpanorama Luzern: Surprise with performances . In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung , December 19, 2000, p. 47

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julia Stephan: «I was looking for the feeling of balance» . In: Lucerne newspaper . October 27, 2018, p. 17 .
  2. ↑ a b Judith Huber. In: Kunstforum Zentralschweiz. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Import - Export: Temporarily not for sale. February 7, 2012, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Festival. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ PANCH Lupe Luzern by Jan Schacher et al. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Migma - Magma - Mugma - Mogma - Migm - Mig - Mimimimimi - MMMMMMMMMM. March 22, 2009, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Maricruz Peñaloza (Ed.): Judith Huber (=  substance. Performance art issues . No. 8 ).
  8. ↑ Pirmin Bossart: Here everyday life becomes a performance . In: Central Switzerland on Sunday . May 21, 2017, p. 21 .
  9. ↑ Michael Sutter: Performance in focus - Judith Huber makes rooms sound . In: Art Bulletin . No. 6 , 2015 ( [1] [accessed February 9, 2020]).
  10. ↑ jury report; Judith Huber, “2x spruce”. (PDF) Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Performance Chronicle Basel. In: Performance Chronik Basel. Retrieved on February 10, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss performance artist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkirk