Judith seeds

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Judith Samen (born December 20, 1970 in Gladbeck , Westphalia ) is a German visual artist . Her work focuses on photography , room installation , video and drawing .

Life

Judith Samen initially studied at the Art Academy in Münster , then moved to the Art Academy in Düsseldorf in 1992 in the class of Fritz Schwegler , whose master class she was from 1995 to 1996. There she studied a. a. with Sonja Alhäuser , Christine Erhard, Gregor Schneider and Nele Waldert . In 1992 she won the German Youth Photo Prize . She has also received several awards, sponsorship awards and grants. She has been a member of the German Association of Artists since 2003 and was one of the 44 participants in the DKB project exhibition Herbarium of Views , which was shown in the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. In the same year she took over the professorship for photography at the University of Siegen . From 2005 she was professor for photography and new media there. Judith Samen has been leading the Artistic Photography class at the Mainz Art School since 2011 .

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Judith Samen is best known for her staged photographs. Your images are charged with meaning through economical but precise compositions. Because of this, they have often been associated with 17th century Dutch genre painting. What is striking is a sublime seriousness that overlays the absurdly banal scenes. Although the motifs superficially suggest topics such as nude and portrait photography, food or the relationship between mother and child, Judith Samen's works primarily question image mechanisms, the boundary between art and banality and the concept of art itself.

literature

  • Samen , Ed. Märkische Kulturkonferenz eV, Vica Versa Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-932809-48-3 , 88 pages, hardcover
  • Ersatzherz , Ed. Städtische Galerie Gladbeck, Druckverlag Kettler, Bönen, 2002, ISBN 3-935019-42-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Youth Photo Prize Vita with exhibition directory, awards and publications
  2. ↑ Five grants awarded to women artists with children ( Memento from May 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Ministry of Culture NRW with a short portrait of Judith Samen
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: "Herbarium of Views - New Admissions in the German Association of Artists" ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 15, 2015)
  4. ^ University of Siegen, Professors: Art
  5. ↑ Photography / Prof. Judith Samen ( memento of November 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of the Mainz University of Art; Retrieved May 19, 2012
  6. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine, FAZ.NET Current: Feuilleton, October 29, 2001
  7. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: The art of quiet provocation ) Art Prize Münsterland@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bbv-net.de
  8. ↑ Carmen Böker: These eternally interrupted thoughts. In: Berliner Zeitung . May 10, 2003, accessed June 8, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Seed, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th December 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck , Westphalia