Sonja Alhäuser

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Sonja Alhäuser (* 1969 in Kirchen in the Westerwald ) is a German artist .

Life

Alhäuser, studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf , where she became a master student of Fritz Schwegler in 1995 . From 2002 to 2005 she had a teaching position for drawing at the University of Duisburg-Essen , from 2007 to 2009 one for painting at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and from 2015 to 2016 she held the administrative professorship for drawing. In 1997 she received the Peter Mertes grant from the Kunstverein Bonn , in 2000 the sponsorship award from the City of Düsseldorf and from 2007 to 2009 a Dorothea Erxleben grant from the state of Lower Saxony . For 2018/2019 she was awarded a scholarship in the Villa Massimo in Rome. She lives in Berlin .

Works

Her work in various media is largely characterized by a fascination with the ephemeral, both in the material and in the concept of her performances and installations . She organizes banquets where practically everything is edible and should be eaten, and she also works as a sculptor in butter , chocolate and similar materials. The ephemeral character of her installations not only indicates the evanescence of everything earthly, but is also part of venerable traditions. Joseph Beuys , for example, was an artist who worked with perishable materials ( fat and honey ), and the banquets form are in the succession of Cena Trimalchionis of Petronius Arbiter , the royal banquets (and its depiction), which are an honor was to watch the nobility eat and watch the Last Supper . Alhauser's work also includes sculptures in nickel silver and she creates monumental wall drawings. But she also works in traditional media such as watercolor , acrylic, and pencil . In doing so, she creates distributive, all-over compositions with animals, fruits, vegetables, items of clothing, body parts and mythological figures . Her art is considered to be an important contribution to the discussion about the ethics of enjoyment.

Publications (a selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alhäuser in the ranking of artfacts.net , where she is in the top half percent of all successful artists worldwide.
  2. ↑ http://www.hbk-bs.de/aktuell/details/20568/
  3. ↑ Villa Massimo | Sonja Alhäuser. Retrieved August 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ See Herbert Köhler: Sonja Alhäuser.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art . 88/22 (2009).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.zeitkunstverlag.de  
  5. ↑ See Sonja Alhäuser, Art in Chocolate , Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig , Imhoff-Stollwerck-Museum (ed.), Cologne 2005.
  6. ↑ See artist portrait of the Goethe Institute in Brazil , September 2011; Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser. Catalog. Busch Reisinger Museum , Cambridge (Mass.) 2001; and William V. Ganis: Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser. ( Memento from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: contemporary. 35 (2001).
  7. ↑ See Sonja Alhäuser: Enjoy art! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 10, 2011; Sven Drühl: Without being too surprised, you are right in the middle. A conversation with Sonja Alhäuser. In: Kunstforum International . 191 (2008); Heinz-Norbert Jocks: Art on the dessert level: A conversation with Sonja Alhäuser. In: Kunstforum International. 159 (2002); Exhibition review by Anna Winestein In: Philosophy now. 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Alhäuser, Sonja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Churches , Westerwald