Sabine Franek-Koch

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Sabine Franek-Koch (* 1939 in Potsdam ) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin and Radegast; from the beginning of the 1980s known under the name Franek (proper spelling: FRANEK).

Life

Sabine Franek-Koch studied at the Berlin University of Fine Arts with Fred Thieler and Mac Zimmermann . After her studies in 1981, her first major solo exhibition took place in the Pels-Leusden gallery in Berlin. Others followed in galleries, art associations and museums in Germany, France, Morocco, Kenya, Finland, Hungary, Spain and the USA. She also works as a painter, draftsman and graphic artist under the name Franek. Sculptures, photos, films and recordings complement her work. In the 1970s and 1980s she worked in the Indian cultural sector: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras (Mayan project). In the Nazca Plain (Peru) she assisted the mathematician Maria Reiche in the measurement of spirals (Nazca project). At the Lakota (Sioux), Rosebud Indian Reservation, USA, she recorded the rituals for the Übersee-Museum Bremen. Scholarships and residencies support her work. a. Kunstfonds Bonn, Berlin working grant, Djerassi Foundation, USA, Casa da Cultura, Portugal, Künstlerstätte Bleckede, 2009 Fundación Valparaíso, Spain.

Franek-Koch taught at the Berlin University of the Arts (today Berlin University of the Arts), at the Academy for Industrial Design and Art in Helsinki and Lahti, and at the Bremen University of the Arts.

Regular exhibition participations: from 1961 to 2003 at the Great Munich Art Exhibition (member of the Neue Gruppe), 1963 to 1990 Free Berlin Art Exhibition , from 1970 to 1992 at the annual exhibition of the German Association of Artists (of which she was on the board) and from 1984 to 2000 as Guest at the Great Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf .

Sabine Franek-Koch was included with her work in the " artist database and estate archive Lower Saxony ".

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In the 1970s and 80s, Franek mainly dealt with elementary signs of foreign cultures. The focus was on projects with past and living indigenous peoples, which were reflected in their artistic work: research, installation, painting.

“ Frank's work is not least a plea for a sensitive openness towards everything foreign, for overcoming mistrust, intolerance and fear, for the possibility of a meaningful, neither uncritical nor engaging encounter.” Wolfgang Zemter

Large-format canvases and works on paper were created in the following years. Workgroups (selection): KALEVALA (based on the Finnish creation myth, German Embassy Helsinki), The Green Shine, Legend Germany (based on Heinrich Heines: Germany - A Winter Tale, German Bundestag Berlin), Allegories of the Senses - La Dame à la Licorne (based on tapestries 15th century in the Museé national de Moyen Age, Paris), vampire in the back (based on a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann), wallpaper paintings, breath of wind (Death and the Maiden), shadow play. The spectrum of Frank's representations ranges between objectivity and abstraction.

A part of their work is in the Treuhandstiftung Franek, Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg. Her works are / have been shown in numerous exhibitions in galleries, art associations and museums, including:

  • 2018 Transit 2018 Salon Salder - New Art from Lower Saxony
  • 2015/2016 Franek when the soldiers were shepherds - A kaleidoscope of memories - painting. Objects. Artifacts. Municipal Gallery Berlin, Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 2011 Hamlet Syndrome - Skulls. Marburg Art Association
  • 2010 Franek: Plotpoints. Salder Castle. Salzgitter municipal art collections
  • 2008 Love and Hate. Municipal gallery KUBUS and gallery of chance and luck, Hanover
  • 2004 vampire in the back. Museum of Young Art, Frankfurt (Oder)
  • 2002/2003 moving mountains. Heidelberg Art Association. Märkisches Museum Witten
  • 1998 Green glow. Emsdetten Art Association

bibliography

  • Elisabeth Voigtländer: FRANEK - studies on the iconography of the artist. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Heidelberg 2001.

Publications

  • FRANEK Bär looks back / bear-looking behind - Werke / works 1960–1990. DISTANZ Verlag 2019
  • FRANEK when the soldiers were shepherds. nicolai, Berlin 2015 [4]
  • Municipal art collections of Salzgitter (ed.): FRANEK: PLOTPOINTS. Salzgitter 2010
  • KAP international GmbH (ed.): FRANEK VAMPIRE in the BACK. Berlin 2005
  • Gercke, Hans / Zemter, Wolfgang (eds.): FRANEK Bergeversetzen - Movingmountains. DruckVerlag Kettler, Bönen 2002
  • Kunstverein Uelzen (ed.): FRANEK Allegories of the Senses. City of Uelzen, Uelzen 2001
  • Kulturforum Lüneburg, Gut Wienebüttel (ed.): Einfangendeswindes. Lueneburg 1998
  • Winkelmann Gallery (ed.): FRANEK mural-paintings. Düsseldorf 1996
  • Winkelmann Gallery (ed.): FRANEK Ringplanet. Düsseldorf 1993
  • Gallery Mühlenbusch-Winkelmann (ed.): FRANEK Kalevala. Düsseldorf 1991
  • Galerie Becker and Scherer (eds.): FRANEK legend Germany. 1989-1990. Miltenberg 1990
  • Gallery Artforum (ed.): FRANEK Big Five. Leporello. Artforum Gallery, Hanover 1989
  • Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (ed.): Sabine Franek. Detection flights 1985–1988. Berlin 1988
  • Mühlenbusch-Winkelmann Gallery (ed.): FRANEK Heisterbusch. Miltenberg 1988
  • Scherer, Wolfgang (ed.): FRANEK Cross of the South. The edition of the book consists of 1075 copies. Standard edition, 1–1000, individually numbered in Arabic. Special edition: 50 copies, numbered with an original lithograph. Special edition: 25 copies with a colored drawing, numbered and signed. Miltenberg 1988
  • Gallery Birgit Waller (ed.): Sabine Franek-Koch: Geisterbilder. Birgit Waller Gallery, Bremen 1987
  • District of Lüneburg (ed.): Sabine Franek-Koch Castle Bleckede. Scholarship from the State of Lower Saxony. Exhibition in the Museum for the Principality of Lüneburg. Lueneburg 1985
  • Art Fund e. V. Bonn (ed.): Franek-Koch In the characters. Nazca project. Berlin 1982
  • Märkisches Museum der Stadt Witten (ed.): Sabine Franek-Koch. Signs - symbols - images - fonts. Witten 1982
  • Senator for Science and Cultural Affairs (ed.): Franek-Koch. NAZCA, 81st Berlin 1981
  • District Office Wilmersdorf of Berlin (ed.): Sabine Franek-Koch. Maya - traces - signs - interpretation - images. An acquisition process. Municipal Gallery Berlin, Berlin 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea Gruß-Wolters: A memory kaleidoscope: Berlin artist Franek in the Mülheim art museum. In: lokalkompass.de. October 26, 2015, accessed February 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ FRANEK (Sabine Franek-Koch) - nbk - Video forum. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  3. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund eV - Archive. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ Sabine Franek-Koch: Franek: Bergeversetzen = Movingmountains . Kettler, 2002, OCLC 680058319 , p. 8 ( worldcat.org [accessed February 4, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Foundation administration. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ detailed bibliography on the artist's website
personal data
SURNAME Franek-Koch, Sabine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam