Monika Huber

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Monika Huber (born January 22, 1959 in Dingolfing ) is a German artist specializing in painting , photography and video .

biography

Monika Huber studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Günter Fruhtrunk and graduated in 1985 with a master's degree in painting and graphics. Her work has been shown in numerous gallery exhibitions, museum presentations, architecture-related installations and public interventions since 1983. Monika Huber lives and works in Munich .

Artistic work

Since her first solo exhibition in 1983 at the Art and Architecture Gallery in Hamburg, Huber's painterly work has been characterized by its reduction to the shape of the rectangle as a minimal form of expression for the idea of ​​a picture. The works of the 1980s and 1990s are mostly multi-part and always use three-dimensional elements to cover the space. Her initially gestural painting with a reduced color palette later changes into stricter geometric forms that emphasize the architectural structures of the picture. Various found objects, steel surfaces and rods as raw material are essential components of the picture until 1995. From 1998 onwards, the so-called sewing pictures were created , whereby the rectangular shape is inserted as a sewn shape into the picture base. For the work groups mirror , meander and snow , Plexiglas was added as a further medium from 2003. The black and white tones that have dominated for a long time are expanded to include strongly colored surfaces in the plexiglass pictures.

In 2011 Huber set an artistic turning point and developed the series EINSDREISSIG parallel to her previous work . Thirty-one means the period of time that a message usually takes up within a message block on television. Since late 2010, Huber puts an archive of news images on the media dominate the television coverage: protests that the Arab Spring sparked demonstrations in Europe, the Occupy movement ; the hot spots and war zones in Ukraine and Syria . The archive images form the basis for the photo works Einsdreissig and RIOTS , as well as for the video works Protest , Captured , Hunter / Street , Moonstar .

In the context of Einsdreissig , Huber realized the book news the televised revolution in 2012 in collaboration with journalist Susanne Fischer and other journalists / human rights activists . In 2012, the Haus der Kunst in Munich showed for the first time in the exhibition picture against picture photographs from the series Einsdreissig , hybrid pictures in which media images are processed and re-photographed using painting and drawing in order to renew the view of the photographed event. 2013, the film work was PROTEST . Huber intervened in the film scenes of the protests in Istanbul's Gezipark with painterly gestures. The protest scenes appear as a continuous process of creating and deleting images, detached from the real place and time of the political event. In the video work CAPTURED (2014) an imaginary hand made the published group photo of the 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria emerge and disappear. The Protestant regional church of Württemberg awards the video with the main prize of the regional church. The animated videos HUNTER and STREET (2015) are part of a walk-in video / room installation. It's about male violence and the destruction of places.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2012: Munich, House of Art: Image-Against-Image
  • 2015: Leipzig, Grassimuseum : Captured

Film documentaries

  • 2009: Snow, film about Monika Huber in the " Kunstraum " series, ARD-alpha
  • 2013: Protest , film about the creation of the video Protest in the series “ Kunstraum ”, ARD-alpha

Exhibition catalogs

  • Image against image - Image Counter Image. Haus der Kunst Munich 2012. Foreword: Okwui Enwezor; Texts: Patrizia Dander, Tom Holert, Marion G. Müller, David Levi Strauss, Georges Didi-Huberman. Verlag Walther König, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86335-208-0
  • news - the televised revolution, Monika Huber, Susanne Fischer. Introduction: Ulrich Wilmes; Text contributions: Susanne Fischer, Raghda al-Halawany, Maryam Hassan, Sabry Khaled, Zainab al-Khawaja, Raed Rafei, Tiare Rath, Hazim al-Sharaa, Atiaf al-Wazir, Razan Zeitouneh. Hirmer Verlag, Munich and University of Chicago Press, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7774-5581-5
  • Transforming Cities . PLATFORM Munich. 2014. pp. 58–63, excerpt from the lecture by Heinz Schütz; Conversation between Ulrich Wilmes and Monika Huber, ISBN 978-3-9816807-1-3
  • Stathmoi, Monika Huber and Rudolf Wachter . Text: Wolfger Pöhlmann and Erika Wäcker-Babnik. Goethe-Institut, Athens 2011. ISBN 978-3-00-033617-1
  • Stations, Monika Huber and Rudolf Wachter. Text: Erika Wäcker-Babnik. Städtische Galerie, Rosenheim 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-030148-3
  • From the Heydt Museum Wuppertal, The paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. Collection catalog. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2003.
  • Monika Huber. Series of exhibitions: Städtische Galerie, Regensburg, Kunstverein Ahlen, Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Heidelberger Kunstverein. Texts: Konrad Schmidt, Jochen Ludwig, Hans Gercke, Simone Dattenberger, Werner Fritsch. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 1998. ISBN 3-928342-81-9
  • Museum of Concrete Art, inventory catalog. Ingolstadt 1993.
  • Monika Huber. Exhibition series: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Middle Rhine Museum Koblenz; Bielefeld Art Gallery; Municipal Gallery Würzburg; From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; Municipal Gallery Ingolstadt; Museum for Art and Cultural History, Lübeck. Texts: Bernhard Holeczek, Britta Buhlmann. Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989
  • Monika Huber. Text: Konrad Schmid. Bonner Kunstverein, 1987.
  • Monika Huber, Museum Villa Stuck , Munich. (Series of monographs by the Munich Cultural Department), 1985, art award winner, text: Hanne Weskott.

literature

  • Susanna Partsch : Huber, Monika (1959) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , p. 284.
  • news - the televised revolution, Monika Huber, Susanne Fischer. Introduction: Ulrich Wilmes, Texts: Susanne Fischer, Raghda al-Halawany, Maryam Hassan, Sabry Khaled, Zainab al-Khawaja, Raed Rafei, Tiare Rath, Hazim al-Sharaa, Atiaf al-Wazir, Razan Zeitouneh. Hirmer Verlag, Munich and University of Chicago Press, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-5581-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kulturreferat/Bildende-Kunst/Preise-Stipendien-Kunst/stipendien_fuer_bildende_kunst.html
  2. ↑ [2] , https://www.munichre.com/corporate-art/de/collection/artists/show.html?artist=Monika+Huber
  3. ↑ Beate Reese: The Municipal Collection: Artists, Themes and History (s) , Museum im Kulturspeicher , Würzburg, 2009 ISBN 978-3-928155-55-7 . P. 127
  4. ↑ Karin Sagner: Differences without a beginning, without an end, without limits ( memento of the original from March 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Japan Art Galerie., Frankfurt am Main @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.japan-art.com
  5. ↑ Monika Huber: Snow . Internet site ARD education channel alpha from August 31, 2016
  6. ↑ [3] , https://derego-online.de/artist-blog/einsdreissig-monika-huber-2/
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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.kommunikation.uzh.ch @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kommunikation.uzh.ch
  8. ↑ [4] , http://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/sendung/kunstraum/monika-huber-protest-100.html
  9. ↑ [5] , http://www.elk-wue.de/pressemitteilung/03032016-kunstpreis-der-evangelischen-landeskirche-vergabe
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Monika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Moni K (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist with a focus on painting, photography and video
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Dingolfing