Mechtild Böger

Mechtild Böger (* 1960 in Bochum ) is a German visual artist.

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Woman in evening dress with accessory, 2007

Mechtild Böger's “sieves” are a form of ready-made , consisting of small commercially available metal sieves that are covered with filigree printed wafers . The artist finds the motifs in print media.

In order to visualize eating habits, Böger prints tablecloths in the style of potato printing and uses food directly as a stamp. The shapes of the vegetables, meat, cheese or fruits are easily recognizable and are lined up in series or form a still life. Mechtild Böger uses parts of pigs as printing blocks for her “pig prints” . Heads, ears or paws prepared as stamps are printed in color on the image carrier and achieve an aesthetic effect through this abstraction process. Other works by Böger are the "Knüpferlis". Using a plug-in game from the Dusyma company, the artist creates numerous knot, bend and combination options and creates emblematic sculptures , from simple shapes to fantastic animals to life-size swimwear or a 2.60 meter long boat made up of around 3,000 plug-in modules .

With your wire figures, the shape is created in the process, the first bends and twists of the wire determine the further course.

Works by the artist are in the fund of the Kunsthalle Bremen and in the East Frisian State Museum Emden. Her work "Grail Guardian of the Elements" was purchased by the Bremen Senate. In 2005 Mechtild Böger designed the Bremen Film Prize .

Böger lives in Bremen.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1989 Les Alizes, Paris
• 1996 New Gallery, Hanover
• 1999/2000 Gerhard-Marcks-Haus pavilion, Bremen (catalog)
• 2003 Adlergasse Gallery with B. Beßlich, Dresden; Art Association Rügen, Rambin; Gallery of the West, Bremen
• 2004 Syke District Museum ; Artists unlimited gallery, Bielefeld
• 2005 Art Association Rügen, Rambin
• 2008 Paula Becker House , Bremen
• 2010 GaDeWe, Bremen

Participation in exhibitions

• 1990 "Gralshüter", Breminale '90, Bremen (purchased by the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen)
• 1991 “In Progress” - European picture frieze, artist workshop Lothringerstraße 13, Munich
• 1992 “In Progress” - European picture frieze, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, Netherlands
• 1995 "Pig", Gallery ARTicle, Cologne (Edition); “10 Years”, Galerie des Westens and Städtische Galerie Bremen in Buntentor, Bremen
• 2002 City Gallery Wollhalle, Güstrow
• 2003 Künstlerhaus DeFKa, Assen, Netherlands
• 2006 “Übersee”, Hafenmuseum , Bremen
• 2007/08 “Forum 2007”, Vischering Castle , Lüdinghausen
• 2008 "Inkognito", Sparkasse Bremen
• 2009 "Tease", Cologne Art Fair
• 2011 "vis à vis", Art Collections Böttcherstraße Museum in the Roselius House , Bremen
• 2012 Villa Ichon , Bremen
• 2013 Kreuzberg Pavilion, Berlin
• 2015 "Inside the City", Center for Artist Publications , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art Bremen

literature

• Mechtild Böger. Screen prints and still life, exh. Cat. Pavilion of the Gerhard Marcks House, Bremen, Bremen 2009. ISBN 3-931737-26-8
• In progress. A European picture journey, a European picture frieze, exhib. Kat. Städtische Galerie im Buntentor Bremen [including], Bremen 1993. ISBN 3-924903-46-8
• Kunstforum Nord 7. At a distance from the similar. The environment is stage-like. Backdrops are passages to art, exhib. Kat. Schwerin, Halle im Marstall, ed. v. Künstlerbund Mecklenburg and Vorpommern e. V. [= series Edition Januskopf, Journal 1], Schwerin 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Mechtild Böger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mechtild Böger at the Galerie des Westens
• Mechtild Böger at the GEDOK Artists' Association Bremen
• Mechtild Böger at the BBK Bremen Association of Visual Artists

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mechtild Böger's website. Retrieved June 23, 2018 .