Marlen Liebau

Marlen Liebau (* 1951 in Saxony-Anhalt ) is a visual artist who works with painting , room installation and land art .

Life

Liebau grew up in Thuringia ( GDR ) and studied in Dresden and Berlin . Since emigrating to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1980, she has lived and worked as a freelance visual artist in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 2012 she shifted her life and work focus to a small village near Stendal in the Altmark , where she founded the Art and Energy Initiative .

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The artistic works range from painting to video productions , installations, sculptures , urban projects and land art contributions. Overall choreographies of space, music and artistic means have emerged from the collaboration with musicians. The space operas I - V were created with the musician and composer Ulrich Krieger in the 1980s, productions based on the location that began with the space opera I at SO 36 in Berlin-Kreuzberg and with the space opera V , performed in 1989 at the Hamburger Bahnhof ended in Berlin. Working with the Austrian musician Stefan Schiske, a special form of landscape staging has developed from dealing with industrialized landscapes ( post-mining landscapes ) , which, with and in opencast mining formations in southern Brandenburg, over a period of five years (1991 to 1995) the trilogy “Requiem about a landscape ”, which was awarded the main prize of the European Biennale Niederlausitz in 1995.

The preoccupation with ecological questions as a central topic of today also becomes the subject of Marlen Liebau's conception of art in an overarching understanding. This discussion led to the inclusion of new, alternative technologies in artistic work. Since the mid-1990s, solar sculptures and groups of sculptures have been created in collaboration with Marc Lingk . The solar sound installation Sonnengesänge , inspired by the Sonnengesang (Franz von Assisi) , shown for the first time in 2003 in the ruins of the Franciscan monastery church in Berlin, was further developed in 2010 with funding from the Autostadt in Wolfsburg. It is part of the exhibition series Recommended for Imitation of the Federal Cultural Foundation , which was shown in fourteen locations worldwide.

Exhibitions

• 1996: painting. Marlen Liebau. Figure and landscape. (Solo exhibition), Orangery of the New Garden Potsdam
• 2010–2016: With the solar installation Sonnengesänge mit Klänge by Marc Lingk, participation in the exhibition project Recommended for imitation! Expeditions in Aesthetics and Sustainability (ZNE) of the Federal Cultural Foundation . Fourteen exhibition locations worldwide

Web links

• Marlen Liebau on kunstaspekte.de
• Marlen Liebau at Artfacts
• Official website of Marlen Liebau

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official website of Marlen Liebau
2. ↑ Kunsthof Dahrenstedt
3. ↑ Adrienne Goehler, Jaana Prüss: EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! EXPEDITIONS IN AESTHETICS & SUSTAINABILITY, Berlin 2010, p. 11 (pdf)
4. ↑ Sonnengesänge , Solar KlangRaumInstallation in the ruins of the Franciscan monastery church
5. ↑ Sonnengesänge in der Autostadt, 2010 ( memento of the original from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
6. ↑ Sound installation by Marlen Liebau in the lagoon landscape, WAZ
7. ↑ Federal Cultural Foundation: Recommended for imitation! Expeditions in aesthetics and sustainability. Exhibition information, accessed on March 10, 2016.
8. ↑ "Recommended for imitation". Art with cucumbers or money , Ruhr news  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Marlen Liebau | Marc Lingk - songs of the sun
10. ^ ZNE, all exhibition locations