Monika Grzymala

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Monika Grzymala (* 1970 in Zabrze , Poland ) is a Polish-German installation artist , sculptor and graphic artist .

life and work

Monika Grzymala spent her early childhood in Poland. In 1980 she came to Germany with her family and initially lived in Hamburg .

After four years of training as a stone sculptor in Kaiserslautern , Monika Grzymala studied fine arts between 1994 and 2001 at the universities of Karlsruhe , Kassel and Hamburg . During her studies in Kassel in 1996 she was one of the founders of the Stellwerk Performance Gallery in the old waiting room of the Kulturbahnhof Kassel . After completing her studies with a diploma in humanities at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, she began with two-dimensional installations and went to New York in 2003 with a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service . In 2005 she received the Dorothea Erxleben grant from the state of Lower Saxony and went to the Braunschweig University of Art , where she also received a teaching position.

She then worked as Artist in Residence at the Center for Experimental Art on Long Island, New York and at the Donald Judd Foundation in Marfa ( Texas ). She has received support and grants from the Art Fund Foundation in Bonn, the Academy of Arts in Berlin and a grant from the Henry Moore Foundation in Hertfordshire . The influential New York art collector Dian Woodner is one of her sponsors. In addition to her artistic work, Monika Grzymala was appointed as a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig (2012–2013) and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2013–2014) and led numerous workshops.

She designed her first major installation in 2000 on the ice rink in Hamburg-Stellingen . For the walk-in installation One Degree Above Zero , she applied ten coats of paint one after the other and let them freeze. In her room installations, Monika Grzymala works with adhesive tapes , reinforced hand-made paper and paper tapes as well as with lead and metal cords. In the last 15 years she has created almost 50 two- and three-dimensional tape art room installations, using between three and ten kilometers of tape for each work. She exhibited these room installations at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum , the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Albertina in Vienna.

Monika Grzymala lives and works in Berlin. She frequently exhibits her installations in the Galerie Crone and participates in international art fairs such as ARCO Madrid .

Awards (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019 Postcard reloaded , European Art Association in the Museum Kunstraum Potsdam
  • 2016 Tensioni Strutturali # 1 , group exhibition, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence
  • 2016 Envoi , Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík
  • 2015 Room drawing , solo exhibition, Albertina , Vienna
  • 2015 How space becomes , solo exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art , Siegen
  • 2015 Spaceliner , Arter Space for Art, Istanbul
  • 2015 Raaklijnen , SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst , Gent
  • 2015 Drawing Biennial 2015 , The Drawing Room, London
  • 2015 Synthesis , Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík
  • 2015, Tree of Life , Woodner Building, New York
  • 2015 Cycle , Museum voor de Schonen Kunsten, Ghent
  • 2014 dismantling , solo exhibition, Villa Zanders Städtische Galerie, Bergisch Gladbach
  • 2013 Mono Meros , solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 2013 volume , The Morgan Library & Museum , New York
  • 2013 Drawing Biennial 2013 , The Drawing Room, London
  • 2012 The River and Aerial , 18th Biennale of Sydney , Sydney
  • 2011 Weiss in Weiss , solo exhibition, Marstall Ahrensburg
  • 2010 Untitled , single installation, On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century , MoMa , New York
  • 2010 permanent installation, The Dian Woodner Collection, New York
  • 2010 Washi made in Germany , group exhibition, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo
  • 2009 Ruptures , solo exhibition, Drawing Room, London
  • 2009 Junge Akademie and pas de deux (with Kelly Wood), Akademie der Künste, Berlin
  • 2009 Dual and Distorsions , joint exhibition with Kelly Wood, Catriona Jeffries Gallery; Vancouver
  • 2008 AND , Griffelkunst , Hamburg
  • 2008 The Last Book by Luis Camnitzer , National Library, Madrid
  • 2007 Hot rock , group exhibition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
  • 2006 Freeing the Line , group exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
  • 2005 LineAge , group exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York

Web links

Literature (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Beyond the line: an artistic research project on drawing on both sides of the line , University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig 2007, ISBN 978-3-88895-054-4 , 112 pp. (With Katrin von Maltzahn )
  • Continuum: from drawing in space and on / in / with paper , Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Holstein, Bad Oldesloe 2011, 159 pp.
  • Room drawing, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4195-8 , 136 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artist in Profile (Sep '15): Monika Grzymala - deepspaceworks Art Center. In: deepspaceworks Art Center. Retrieved April 18, 2016 (UK English).
  2. ↑ Monika Grzymala: A woman draws in the air. In: Kölnische Rundschau. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Monika Grzymala - Starter: Absolutely untransportable. (No longer available online.) In: art. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  4. ↑ Petra Kipphoff: studio visit: Monika Grzymala . In: The time . November 6, 2008, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 18, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Dance with Tesa. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ The amazing changes of Markus Peichl. In: www.tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  7. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Art fair Arco: The miracle of Madrid. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Grzymala first winner of the art award - boesnerKunstportal. In: boesnerKunstportal. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Drawing Now: 2015 | Monika Grzymala's art. In: Vimeo. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  10. ↑ pre-text of Monika Grzymala. In: www.artnet.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  11. ^ Liquid by Monika Grzymala. In: www.artnet.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Poyraz Lodos by Monika Grzymala. In: www.artnet.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  13. ↑ The Making of Forming Something New by Monika Grzymala. In: www.artnet.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Tape sculpture RMX dismantling by Monika Grzymala. In: www.artnet.de. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Monika Grzymala - Hamburger Kunsthalle. (No longer available online.) In: www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de
  16. ↑ Summer Sculpture Series: Monika Grzymala, Volume. In: The Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  17. ^ The Museum of Modern Art: Behind the Scenes: On Line: Monika Grzymala. November 22, 2010, accessed April 18, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Monika Grzymala. In: Drawing Room. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Freeing the line . In: Marian Goodman Gallery (ed.): Exhibition catalog . New York 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Grzymala, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German installation artist, graphic artist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Zabrze