Marlene Dumas
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
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)
- 2017: Hans Theo Richter Prize (Dresden)
- 2011: Rolf Schock Prize in the field of fine arts
- 2007: Art Prize of the State Capital Düsseldorf
- 1998: Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award , shared with Stan Douglas and Edward Ruscha
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.
- 2017 Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie , National Portrait Gallery , London
- 2016 comment , group exhibition, Kestner Gesellschaft , Hannover
- 2014/2015 Marlene Dumas. The Image As Burden , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam , Tate Modern , London, Fondation Beyeler , Basel
- 2012 Marlene Dumas: Love hasn't got anything to do with it , Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
- 2011 Marlene Dumas: Coming and Going , Moderna Museet , Stockholm
- 2010/2011 Tronies . Marlene Dumas and the old masters, House of Art , Munich
- 2008 Measuring your Own Grave, Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art , New York, The Menil Collection , Houston, Texas
- 2007 Broken White . Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), Marugame, Japan
- 2005 Female , Kunsthalle Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland, Nordic Waterclourmuseum Skärhamn, Skärhamn, Sweden, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden , Baden-Baden
- 2003 Time and Again , Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago, USA
- 2002/2003 Wet Dreams, watercolors, Städtische Galerie, Ravensburg
- 1996 Marlene Dumas , Tate Gallery , London
Public and private collections (selection)
- Albertina , Vienna
- Arken Museum for Modern Art, Copenhagen
- The Broad , Los Angeles
- Center Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , The Hague
- Beyeler Foundation , Basel
- Kunsthalle Kiel , Kiel
- The Menil Collection , Houston, Texas
- Museum of Contemporary Art , Tokyo
- Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main (MMK)
- Museum of Modern Art , New York
- Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam
- Garnatz collection in the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
- Tate Modern , London
literature
- Barbara Alms (Ed.): Unheimlich. Exhibition catalog Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst Haus Coburg. Stuckenberg Collection . HM Hauschild, Bremen 2003 ISBN 3897572141
- Ross Bleckner : Marlene Dumas (parquet; 38). Parkett-Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-907509-88-9 .
- Ilaria Bonacossa: Marlene Dumas . Electa, Milan 2008, ISBN 978-88-370-4353-7 (English)
- Marlene Dumas . In: Munzinger archive
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
- Marlene Dumas website
- Literature by and about Marlene Dumas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Materials by and about Marlene Dumas in the documenta archive
- Marlene Dumas at Google Arts & Culture
- Detailed list of exhibitions
- Deborah Solomon: Figuring Marlene Dumas New York Times , June 15, 2008
- Kia Vahland: Marlene Dumas in the House of Art. Art has many faces Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 29, 2010
- Your exhibition of models in 1995 in the Portikus
- Literary portrait of the artist
- Zeno X Gallery - Marlene Dumas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Theo Richter Prize goes to Marlene Dumas , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, September 14, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2018
- ^ Website of the artist. In: Marlene Dumas. Resources and references. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
- ^ Museum of Modern Art, 2008
- ↑ Contains: Armin Boehm , Miriam Cahn , Thomas Dillmann, Peter Doig , Marlene Dumas, Johannes Hüppi , Michael Kunze , Daniel Richter , Norbert Schwontkowski , Luc Tuymans
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dumas, Marlene |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd August 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cape Town , South Africa |