Lutz Bacher

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Description Lutz Bachers; In Memory of My Feelings, 1990

Lutz Bacher (born September 21, 1943 - † May 14, 2019 in Manhattan , New York City , New York ) was an American artist who had worked since the 1970s. She was from Berkeley , California and lived in New York. The name Lutz Bacher is a pseudonym . In the 1970s, their gender was also unknown to the public. She taught for a while at UCLA , where Trisha Donnelly studied with her. For a long time she was considered a cult figure in the art scene, but since the beginning of the 2010s she has also gained attention from a larger audience.

subjects

Bacher's work includes videos , photographs, and sculptures . Much of this work includes elements of popular culture, personal artifacts, and found objects. Her work resists recognisability and categorization and deals with questions about identity, sexuality and the body.

Exhibitions

In her more than 40-year career, Bacher has shown her works in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world, such as the Berkeley Art Museum and the Ratio 3 Gallery in San Francisco . Museum solo exhibitions took place in the Secession , Vienna (2016); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2014); National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen (2014); and Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2008).

Further solo exhibitions took place in the Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK and in the Kunsthalle Zürich . These three institutions published the first monographic publication on Bacher's extensive oeuvre. In 2009 her multimedia work was shown in MY SECRET LIFE at PS1 MoMA in New York City, which was also her first retrospective.

Collections

Lutz Bacher's works are represented in various collections:

Fonts

  • Lutz Bacher - Snow . On the occasion of three distinct exhibitions, Lutz Bacher, 9.2. - April 14, 2013, Portikus, Frankfurt; Lutz Bacher: Black Beauty, 25.9. - 17.11.2013, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Lutz Bacher: Snow, November 23, 2013 - February 2, 2014, Kunsthalle Zürich, Bacher, Lutz (Ill.); Ruf, Beatrix (ed.); Exhibition Lutz Bacher 2013 Frankfurt am Main; Exhibition Lutz Bacher: Black Beauty 2013 London; Exhibition Lutz Bacher: Snow 2013–2014. With an afterword by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Léith: Lutz Bacher, Disjecta Membra (en, de). Zurich. 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holland Cotter: Lutz Bacher, Conceptual Artist Who Hid Much About Herself, Dies at 75. In: The New York Times , May 26, 2019. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  2. ↑ Martha Schwendener: Lutz Bacher Gets Damaged . In: The Village Voice , March 4, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2014. 
  3. ↑ Martin Herbert: Tell them I said no . Sternberg Press, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95679-200-7 , pp. 74 .
  4. ↑ Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith: Lutz Bacher, Disjecta Membra . Epilogue, 2013, no page number
  5. ^ Andrew Berardini: Lutz Bacher . In: Art in America , March 1, 2012. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014 Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artinamericamagazine.com 
  6. ↑ a b Martin Herbert: Ten exhibitions on in November 2013 you won't want to miss . In: Art Review . Retrieved February 1, 2014. 
  7. ↑ Miranda Sawyer: Frieze Art Fair 2013 - review . In: The Observer , October 19, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2014. 
  8. ↑ YES. About Lutz Bacher at the Munich Art Association. July 29, 2009, accessed November 1, 2017 .
  9. ^ A b Lutz Bacher: Black Beauty . Archived from the original on February 4, 2014. 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. Retrieved January 31, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ica.org.uk
  10. ↑ a b Lutz Bacher / MATRIX 155 . In: Exhibition brochure . Berkeley Art Museum. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. 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. Retrieved February 1, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
  11. ^ Ratio 3 gallery: Lutz Bacher. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on November 1, 2017 . 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.ratio3.org
  12. ↑ Lutz Bacher, More Than This. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
  13. ^ Aspen Art Museum: Lutz Bacher. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
  14. ↑ SMK Statens Museum for Art: Lutz Bacher. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on November 1, 2017 . 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.smk.dk
  15. ↑ CAM Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis: Lutz Bacher: Spill. Retrieved November 1, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Lutz Bacher CV . In: Greene Naftali .
personal data
SURNAME Bacher, Lutz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1943
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2019
Place of death New York City