Marlene Dumas

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Marlene Dumas (born August 3, 1953 in Cape Town ) is a South African artist. She has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1977 . In the past, Dumas has made paintings, collages, drawings, prints and installations. Today she works mainly with the techniques of oil on canvas and ink or watercolor on paper. Almost all of Marlene Dumas' works are based on a photographic template that she took herself or taken from the media.

Career

“Waterende Vrouw”, lithograph, 1996

Dumas studied visual arts at the University of Cape Town and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts . She then emigrated to the Netherlands . During her art studies in Cape Town, Dumas dealt with drawings , collages , painting and occasionally with sculptures . Her main motif, the human figure, was already clearly expressed during this experimental period.

In an art historical period of abstraction , Dumas immersed himself in the figurative and thus also hinted at the leitmotif of her future work, the figurative representation of the human being. Although apartheid never became the main theme of her work, the artist dealt very early and very clearly with the conflict between black and white, and thus also with the political situation. The media culture and the image culture of the western world are also addressed in their work. Memories, associations and expectations that arise in the viewer form a large part of Dumas' work.

In the Netherlands, Dumas deepened her art studies in Ateliers '63 in Haarlem , under the supervision of the sculptor Carel Visser and the conceptual artists Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk . Studying in Haarlem brought a brief phase that deviated from the figurative works of Dumas. She dealt with informal painting , photo collages and abstract linear works. From 1979 to 1980 Dumas studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Although she dropped out of psychology shortly before graduation, the knowledge she acquired influenced the artist's work here as well. From 1983 the figurative finally found its way back into her repertoire .

Awards (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Marlene Dumas' works have been shown in exhibitions since the late 1970s. She took part in Documenta 7 ( 1982 ) and DOCUMENTA IX in 1992 in Kassel . She participated in the Venice Biennale (1995) and in part to the biennials in Johannesburg (1995), São Paulo and Sydney (2000). Her works are in museums, public and private collections.

Public and private collections (selection)

literature

source

  • Tinani van Niekerk: Marlene Dumas. Analysis of the leitmotifs and main thematic themes based on selected works . Grin Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-66316-8 (excerpt from a seminar paper 2005).

Web links

Commons : Marlene Dumas  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Theo Richter Prize goes to Marlene Dumas , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, September 14, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2018
  2. ^ Website of the artist. In: Marlene Dumas. Resources and references. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Christina Végh : Marlene Dumas , in: Lotte Linse, Elmas Senol, Lea Steinkampf, Christina Végh, Helen Wobbe: take a position. Joseph Beuys, Marlene Dumas, Christian Falsnaes, Martin Kippenberger, Christian Philipp Müller, Ahmet Ögüt, Britta Thie, Franz Erhard Walther , accompanying document for the exhibition from May 28 to August 21, 2016, Hanover: Kestnergesellschaft, 2016, p. 10f.
  4. ↑ Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  5. ^ Museum of Modern Art, 2008
  6. ↑ Contains: Armin Boehm , Miriam Cahn , Thomas Dillmann, Peter Doig , Marlene Dumas, Johannes Hüppi , Michael Kunze , Daniel Richter , Norbert Schwontkowski , Luc Tuymans
personal data
SURNAME Dumas, Marlene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African artist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South Africa