Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler

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Teresa Hubbard (born February 20, 1965 in Dublin , Ireland ) and Alexander Birchler (born September 13, 1962 in Baden , Switzerland ), often Hubbard / Birchler for short , are an artist couple who have been working together since 1990. Her artistic work includes sculpture, installation, photography and video. They first gained international attention with their participation in the 48th Venice Biennale , curated by Harald Szeemann . Hubbard and Birchler were part of the American PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) television series "Art: 21".

Life and career

Hubbard was born in Dublin , Ireland in 1965 and grew up in Australia. She studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and at the Yale School of Art, Yale University in the Sculpture MFA program in New Haven, Connecticut. Birchler was in 1962 Baden, Switzerland born and studied at the University of Art and Design in Basel and at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Finland.

Hubbard and Birchler began their artistic collaboration in 1990 as Artists in Residence at the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. Hubbard and Birchler both studied from 1990 to 1992 at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada, where they obtained a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) for their joint artistic work in 1992. In 2007 they were fellows at the Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart, elected by Jeff Wall .

The artist couple lived and worked between 1990 and 2000 in Canada, Switzerland and Germany. They have lived in Austin , USA, since 2001 , where Teresa Hubbard holds the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Photography in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin . Hubbard and Birchler are both faculty members at EGS, the European Graduate School, in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and at Bard College at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York.

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In their video works, which are elaborately produced in terms of film and architecture, the artist duo explores conflicts about desire and suppression, gender positions, remembering and forgetting. With their open narratives without beginning or end, which combine actions and spaces of action in a complex way, they unhinge the spatial-temporal order. The artist duo is not interested in the dramatic escalation, but in an epic expansion of the hidden.

Exhibitions

Numerous solo exhibitions have been dedicated to the work of Hubbard / Birchler, including in the Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin; in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Basel) , Kunstmuseum Basel ; in the Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich; at the Modern Art Museum , Fort Worth; at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; in the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart ; in the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; in the Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld; in the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam; and in the National Gallery in Prague .

In 2017, Hubbard / Birchler represented Switzerland at the 57th Venice Biennale. They exhibited together with the American artist Carol Bove in the exhibition 'Women of Venice' in the Swiss Pavilion. (Curator: Philipp Kaiser ).

Collections

Works by Hubbard and Birchler are in several private and public collections, including the Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau, Switzerland; in the Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth, Australia; in the Walter A. Bechtler Foundation , Switzerland; at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin , USA; in the Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; in the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; in the Columbus Museum of Art, USA; in the Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland; in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , USA; in the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands; at the International Center of Photography , New York, USA; in the Israel Museum , Jerusalem, Israel; in the Kunsthaus Zurich , Switzerland; in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel , Germany; in the Art Museum St. Gallen , Switzerland; in the Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA; at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston , USA; at the Museum of Contemporary Art, MOCA, Los Angeles , USA; in the Kunstmuseum Basel , Switzerland; in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth , USA; in the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; in the Museum Sammlung Goetz , Munich, Germany; in the New Museum Nuremberg , Germany; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA; in the Städel Museum , Frankfurt, Germany; in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , Germany; in the Pinakothek der Moderne , Munich, Germany; in the Swiss Federal Art Collection, Bern, Switzerland; in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria; at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA; in the collection of the University of St. Gallen, HSG , Switzerland; and in the Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan.

Awards

Publications

  • Ellegood, Anne, Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Jeffrey Kastner et al. Sound speed marker. Exhibition cat. Ballroom Marfa. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2015. ( ISBN 978-1-9389-2282-4 )
  • Schuppli, Madeleine, Andrea Karnes, Iris Dressler, Sara Arrhenius. No Room to Answer: Extended Edition. Exhibition cat. Aarau: Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2009. ( ISBN 978-3-905004-33-5 )
  • Kaiser, Philipp, Dominic Molon, Maya Naef. House with pool. Exhibition cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel. Basel: Christoph Merian, 2004. ( ISBN 3856162135 )
  • Hentschel, Martin, Philipp Kaiser, Konrad Bitterli. Wild Walls. Exhibition cat. Bielefeld: Kerber, 2001. ( ISBN 3-933040-75-2 )
  • Doswald, Christoph, Theodora Vischer. Slow place. Exhibition cat. Basel: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1997. ( ISBN 3-7204-0102-2 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Regula Freuler: Hubbard / Birchler in Sikart , accessed on January 6, 2016
  2. ^ Art News - 48th Venice Biennial
  3. ↑ PBS Art21 - Hubbard / Birchler
  4. ^ Hubbard / Birchler - website
  5. ^ Akademie Schloss Solitude
  6. ^ Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
  7. ^ European Graduate School, Saas-Fee
  8. ^ Bard College, New York
  9. ↑ Metropol Magazin : No Room to Answer. Press release Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2009, accessed on January 6, 2016
  10. ↑ https://prohelvetia.ch/de/press-release/teresa-hubbard-alexander-birchler-und-carol-bove-im-schweizer-pavillon/
  11. ^ Hubbard / Birchler - Aargauer Kunsthaus Collection
  12. ^ Kunsthaus Zürich - photo collection
  13. ^ Kunsthaus Zürich - Video Collection
  14. ^ Kunstmuseum Basel, Online Collection
  15. ^ Hubbard / Birchler, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth - Collection