Michel Auder
Michel Auder (* 1945 in Soissons , France ) is a French photographer and filmmaker . He lives and works in Brooklyn .
life and work
Michel Auder started taking photos at the age of 17. His fascination with images was inspired by Jean-Luc Godard and Andy Warhol . He started filming in the 1960s: "Video was a dream I was waiting for and as soon as it happened I got one." (taken from: Excerpts from taped conversations between Michel Auder and Mark Webber, 2000)
His films are in many private and public collections, for example in the Anthology Film Archives , New York, and have been shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art , the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Center Pompidou in Paris. In 2008 Auder showed his works in exhibitions at the European Kunsthalle in Cologne and at the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. In November, the Frenchman won the “ New Vision Award ” at the CPH: DOX Film Festival 2009 in Copenhagen with The Feature (cooperation with Andrew Neel ) .
The feature
"The Feature" is Auder's greatest work to date. The 184-minute film shows the artist's life from the beginning of his creative process as a filmmaker to events from the factory scene in the company of Andy Warhol. Auder brings his memories and observations together in a collage-like film, thus creating a surrealistic variant of the biographical film. "The Feature" was shown at MOMA New York, the Anthology Film Archive New York and in 2008 at the Berlinale in Berlin.
“Usually, you eat, you get laid, you're worried about money, you have money, you're happy, you're sad, you cry, you have more sex, if you're lucky, and then, you know , there's nothing left in life, it's just what it is. ”- Michel Auder in The Feature
Single screenings and exhibitions (selection)
- 2000 The Vanuatu Chronicles, AC Project Room, New York
- 2000 Jacob Fabricius-Nicolaï Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen
- 2000 Kunsthalle St. Gallen , Switzerland
- 2000 Thread Waxing Space, New York (cat.)
- 2000 Anthology Film Archives, New York
- 2001 Michel Auder: Video, Film, Photography 1969–2001, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
- 2001 Portrait of Alice Neel, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- 2001 Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2002 Michel Auder: Retrospective 1969–2002, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
- 2003 Michel Auder: Secret Sharer, Participant Inc., New York
- 2003 Michel Auder: Selected Works 1970–2003, Anthology Film Archives, New York
- 2004 Michel Auder: Chronicles and Other Scenes, Williams College Museum of Art, MA
- 2005 Other Things with Michel Auder, Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Sabrina Gschwandtner)
- 2005 Retrospective at 11th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva
- 2005 Michel Auder: Viewer and Participant, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
- 2006 Yvon Lambert, Paris
- 2006 Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
- 2006 The World Out of My Hands, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York
- 2007 Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2007 Dope and Narcotica Series, Galleria Fonti, Naples, Italy
- 2007 Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin
- 2008 European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany (curated by Anders Krueger)
- 2008 The Weather Channel, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NY
- 2009 Cubitt, London (upcoming)
- 2009 Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece (upcoming)
- 2009 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 2009 IMAI special screening @ Art Cologne, Cologne
- 2009 Heads of the Town, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
- 2013 Stories, Myths, Ironies, and Other Songs: Conceived, Directed, Edited, and Produced by M. Auder, Kunsthalle Basel
- 2017 documenta 14
- 2017 Videoart at Midnight , Berlin
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Auder, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French photographer and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soissons , France |