Maria Fisahn

Maria Fisahn (* 1949 in Geldern ) is a German artist and performance actor .

Life

Maria Fisahn was born in Geldern. After graduating from high school, she went to Düsseldorf to study art, art history and art studies at the State Art Academy . From 1968 to 1972 she studied first with Joseph Beuys , then, from 1972 to 1974, with Gerhard Richter , whose master class she became in 1974. In 1976 she passed her first and second state exams in art and art studies. A year later she moved to Hamburg. Here she was a co-founder of the Künstlerhaus Hamburg and then also its employee.

In addition to painting, she also works with the medium of film. From 1982 to 1989 she was a member of the Hamburg Film Office.

In 1992 and 1993 she held an interim professorship for painting at the Braunschweig University of Art . This was followed by a teaching position at the University of Art and Design in Hanover and in 2001 a teaching position at the Muthesius Art University in Kiel for drawing. From 1996 to 2000 she lectured at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel .

In 2003 she founded a mobile artists' museum , the "Strawberry Museum ", which was presented in 2009 in the Schwerin State Museum .

Works in public collections (selection)

Kunsthalle Hamburg , State Museum Schwerin , Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen , Women's Museum Bonn , cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , WGZ Bank Berlin, Warsteiner Bank , Warstein, Museum Olevano Romano, Italy

Catalogs (selection)

• Maria Fisahn – Exchange Values, Kunstverein Wiligrad, Galerie Gehrke, 1999
• Maria Fisahn – Energetic Resonance – Energy (from) Exchange – Money (from) Tauch, Cuxhavener Kunstverein , 1997

Awards / grants

• 1974 Prize of the Poensgen Foundation, Düsseldorf, travel grant to the USA
• 1981 Film funding from the Hamburg Film Office and the Young German Film Board of Trustees
• 1985 Project funding from the Erdwin Amsinck Foundation Hamburg
• 1986 work grant from the city of Hamburg
• 1989 Exhibition funding from the Hamburg cultural authority
• 1989 Screenplay funding from the Hamburg Film Office
• 1989/90 Villa Massimo Prize work grant for Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano, Italy
• 1992 Catalog funding from the Hamburg cultural authority
• 1997 Catalog funding from the Hamburg cultural authority
• 1997 Project funding from the Erdwin Amsinck Foundation and the Rudolf Lodders Foundation
• 1999 Catalog funding from the Hamburg cultural authority
• 2000 travel grant to West Africa
• 2001 Catalog funding from the Hamburg cultural authority
• 2007 Material funding from the Rudolf Lodders Foundation
• 2012 travel grant from the Kanold Foundation

Solo exhibitions / performances (selection)

(K = catalog)

• 2017 Paramente II, Kulturkirche St. Johannis Hamburg-Altona
• 2017 Dance of the Particles in the Fields, Einstellungsraum eV Hamburg
• 2016 Paraments, Kulturkirche St. Johannis Hamburg-Altona
• 2014 Between / Zwei (with Klaus Becker), Pleasureground gallery in Jenischpark Hamburg
• 2009 Biographical space opening of the archives, Westwerk Hamburg
• 2009 Maria Fisahn, The Strawberry Museum, State Museum Schwerin (K)
• 2004 Dance of the telephone ghosts opening the archives, Westwerk, Hamburg
• 2004 Tanz der Kerne, installation, dialogue performance, Kunstclub Hamburg
• 2001/02 Maria's Geld, installation, Galerie Sabine Brhel, Schwerin
• 2001 Seed sound, performance space installation, Paco da Cultura, Municipal Gallery, Guarda, Portugal (K)
• 2001 Tanz der Kerne, ritual performance cell installation, State Museum Schwerin
• 1999/00 exchange values, exhibition, action, Galerie Thomas Gehrke, Hamburg (K)
• 1999 year 49 (with Otto Sander-Tischbein), room installation, Kunstverein Schloss Wiligrad Lübstorf, Schwerin
• 1999 Energetic resonance installations, ritual performance, films, AfBK gallery, Hamburg
• 1998 Festival of Red Haired Women, staging / performance, Kunsthalle Hamburg
• 1997 Money (from) exchange energy (from) exchange Installation, ritual performance, lecture, Kunstverein Cuxhaven (K)
• 1996 Nothing is finished, room installations, Künstlerhaus Bergedorf, Hamburg
• 1995 Money - a swan song, installation! Performance Gallery Handlung, Hamburg
• 1993 We sell our money (with Susanne Amatosero ), installation and action, Westwerk, Hamburg
• 1992 Dance of the Chickpeas, room installation, performance, Galerie Renate Kammer, Hamburg (K)
• 1990 Notturno, Villa Casa Baldi, Olevano Romano, Italy
• 1988 Divine Wind, room installation, Spritzenhaus, Hamburg
• 1986 The work on the spoiled has sublime success, Zeisehallen, Hamburg,

Exhibitions (groups and installations; selection)

• 2018 Geld-Wahn-Sinn, Reinbeckhallen Berlin, Haupt Collection
• 2018 Artists announce ... Blankenese Church, Hamburg
• 2017 My dear friend and engraver, Haupt Collection at VEB Berlin
• 2016 Stage Worlds, Scheinwelten Künstlerhaus Sootbörn , Hamburg
• 2016 Palimpset Park, Künstlerhaus Frize, Hamburg, Trans - An overdrawing project, Barutzki Design, Hamburg
• 2015 This Open Reddoor Symposium, exhibition, performance, Westwerk Hamburg
• 2014 subject 28, Bremer Frühling, Gleishallen Bremen
• 2013 Money, Money, Money Collection Haupt Kunstforum Halle (G)
• 2012 30 pieces of silver ..., Haupt Collection, Altmärkisches Museum , Stendal
• 2012 The Golden Cage, Art Office Berlin (G)
• 2012 Highlights-20 years of the Cuxhavener Kunstverein (G)
• 2011 Lost Money Arms, Museum Suhl (G)
• 2011 30 Silberlinge - Art and Money, Halle am Wasser, Berlin (G)
• 2009/10 Moneta Women and Money Women's Museum Bonn (G, K)
• 2009 Lost Money Museum for Saxon Folk Art Dresden (G)
• 2008 We call it Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg G, (K)
• 2007 The animal in the art gallery Bastian, Bielfeld (G)
• 2006 Art Today, Kunsthalle Hamburg, (G, K)
• 2006 Tierzeichen, The Gallery in the Women's Museum, Bonn (G)
• 2005 The gallery in the Women's Museum Bonn (G)
• 2004 Exhibition for the Gabriele Münter Prize
• 2004, Martin Gropius -Bau, Berlin and Women's Museum Bonn (G, K) Globalia Women's Museum Bonn (G, K)
• 2003 Harakiri candy, Kunsthaus Hamburg (G)
• 2003 International photography and video art exhibit, Whippie Gallery, South West State University Art Museum, Marshall / Michigan, USA (G)
• 2002 Schein und Sein Kunsthalle Hamburg (G) Money and valuel / The last taboo Expo 2002, Biel / Switzerland (G, K)
• 2002 Museutopia, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen (G, K)
• 2001 Energie-Art, Stadtische Galerie Dreieich / Darmstadt (G)
• 2001 Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt (G) Photography Gallery Thomas Gehrke, Hamburg (G) Exposicao V. Simposio Internacional de Arte do Feital, Portugal (G)
• 2001 10 years in 10 days, Kunstverein Cuxhaven (G)
• 2000 The fifth element, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (G, K)
• 2000 Death keeps me awake, Bilgi University Istanbul, Turkey (G, K)
• 2000 artist banknotes, Museum of Modern Art, Weddel (G, K)
• 2000 Printmaking Art Association Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen / Soltau (G)
• 2000 compass next to Stromland, Taschenbergpalais u. Residenzschloss Dresden (G) Art Zurich
• 2000 (G) Artwork, exhibition / auction, Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg-Hau (G)

Filmography

• 1974 duck cycle, 10 min., Super 8, Hyla production
• 1980/82 Tropiafric - Greetings from the wilderness, 87 min., Color, 16mm, experimental feature film, Kenya / East Africa, script and direction together with Karol Schneeweiss, coproduced by WDR Cologne / editor Alexander Wesemann, Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film, Filmbüro Hamburg and Tropiafric film production, predicate valuable (film festivals, art house cinemas, TV)
• 1990 Tropiafric greetings from the wilderness, second version 47 min. For La Sept / Arte

Video films (selection)

• 1982 Redheads , 12 min. Super 81 video, Hyla production
• 1983 tongue pieces , 7 min. Video, Hyla production
• 2001/07 Tanz der Kerne performance - documentation, 9 min. DVD, objects, performance, production: Maria Fisahn (Collection Staatliches Museum Schwerin 2007)
• 2001 Die Reise nach Benin , 50 min., Documentary film 1st version 2001 work in progress (original sound without subtitles and text) DVD, Benin! West Africa, concept, production, camera: Maria Fisahn, with the support of Maria Hemmleb / Thede Filmproduktion , Axel Schäffler
• 2007/09 Tillys Erdbeerfeld , 3 min. Concept, camera, production, Maria Fisahn, editor: Axel Schäffler (premiere in the State Museum Schwerin)

Bibliography (selection, since 1996)

• 1997 Interview with Dr. Sabine Baumann in the catalog Maria Fisahn - Energetic Resonance, ISBN 3-8042-2010-X
• 1997 Living with the I Ching, publisher Hanna Moog, Dietrichs Gele Reihe 3-424-01331-5 1999 Hajo Schiff exchange values ​​in the catalog Maria Fisahn exchange values, published by Stock and Stein Verlag
• 2000 Kylliki Zacharias, in the catalog: The fifth element money or art, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Ed. Jürgen Harten ISBN 3-7701-5044-9 (Museum) ISBN 3-7701-5043-0
• 2003 Thomas W. Rieger: Museutopia steps into other worlds, Neuer Folkwang-Verlag Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum , ed. Michael Fehr and TW Rieger, ISBN 3-926242-50-7
• 2006 Petra Roettig : Maria Fisahn in the catalog Kunst Heute II, publisher Kunsthalle Hamburg ISBN 978-3-939429-05-0
• 2009 Belinda Grace-Gardner: Between Eros and Thanatos, cycle of becoming and passing away, Maria Fisahn's Strawberry Museum in the catalog book From flower images to digital gardens, State Museum Schwerin, publisher Gerhard Graulich ISBN 978-3-86106-111-3
• 2011 Ursula Meyer-Rogge: Metamorphosen, artists in Hamburg Dölling and Gallitz Verlag ISBN 978-3-86218-013-4
• 2013 Haupt Collection: Thirty pieces of silver, art and money, edited by Hermann Büchner and Tina Sauerländer , Edition Braus Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86228-086-5

Documentary film about Maria Fisahn (selection)

• 1977 A woman is a woman ... 45 min. Documentation on feminism, Christina von Braun , WDR
• 1995 Maria Fisahn: Portrait of Jacob Maria Böhmer in the series Kunststreifzüge, NDR
• 1998 Maria Fisahn: The festival of red-haired women, by Frauke Stroh, Hamburg Journal NDR

Web links

• Center for Contemporary Art , accessed on November 24, 2018.
• Culture and art in Lippstadt , accessed on November 24, 2018.
• Maria Fisahn on "art aspects" , accessed on November 24, 2018.
• Interview with Michael Schirmer , accessed on November 24, 2018.