Thea Djordjadze

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Thea Djordjadze ( Georgian თეა ჯორჯაძე ; * 1971 in Tbilisi , Georgia ) is a contemporary Georgian artist . She came to Germany in 1994 and moved to Berlin in 2009. Djordjadze mainly deals with installation and object art .

education

Thea Djordjadze studied at the Tbilisi Art Academy from 1988 to 1993 . Due to the civil war in Georgia , the academy was closed in 1993. Djordjadze had therefore successfully applied to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and went to the Netherlands , where she continued her training until 1994. After just one year she came to Germany, where she completed further studies at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf until 2001 . She studied there from 1995 to 1997 with Professor Dieter Krieg and from 1998 to 2001 with Professor Rosemarie Trockel , whose master class she became in 2000. In 1996 she already graduated from the Tbilisi Art Academy.

The artistic work

Her artistic work includes sculptural works, installations, but also painting, photography, drawing as well as video works, performance and music recordings.

The majority of her works are installations that she conceives with reference to the respective exhibition location. Her large-scale works have been tidied up, breaking the rigor of the exhibition architecture with elements that appear to be thrown down. Djordjadze often uses watercolors and drawings as parts of her installations, they reinforce their expressive effect and at the same time emphasize the fragmentary, “unfinished” status of the works.

For her sculptures, Djordjadze often uses everyday, sometimes ephemeral materials that come from a more domestic vocabulary that is attributed to “female”, such as glass, ceramics , paper, sponge, soap, silicone and textiles. She combines these as well as other so-called poor materials (cardboard, foam, plaster, foil or paper mache ) with valuable materials and techniques - ceramics, oil painting, gold lacquer. She designs the boxes, railings, shelves and walls, which are both supports or frames and also part of her sculptural objects, as simple, rather delicate structures made of wood and metal. Instead of pedestals, she often uses carpets. She works with contrasts between organic shapes and the simplest structures, between “finished” and “rough, unfinished” surfaces. In this way, Djordjadze creates “signature objects that stand between sculpture and drawing, which look more like hints of objects that we know and which do not seem to reveal their ultimate identity”. In the ensemble, her objects form a "space that describes itself and also closes in the work of art, whereby the viewer stands within the scenery because he wants to read and interpret the indications to the end".

References to popular culture, film, architecture (e.g. le Corbusier in the Mondi Possibli exhibition ), literature (in the installation Je n'ai besoin de personne pour me souvenir Lilja Brik and Mayakowski , or in archeology, Politics, politics, archeology, archeology, politics, politics, archeology André Malraux and Joseph Brodsky ), popular and secret science (Edition Die Mathematik , Kunstverein Düsseldorf, installation oT (Dipol) , Kunstverein Potsdam, WahrSagen , Kunstakademie Düsseldorf or coffee grounds reading Kunsthalle Zürich ) as well as Georgian handicrafts / Georgian folk art.

In her objects and installations, Djordjadze achieved a "balance of the arrangement between space and spatial drawing, between embodiment and disembodiment", according to the jury of the renowned Böttcherstraße Bremen art award in its reason for the 2009 award to Djordjadze. The jury, which included Stephan Berg (Kunstmuseum Bonn), Ulrike Groos (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf), Julian Heynen (K21 Düsseldorf) and Thomas Kellein (Kunsthalle Bielefeld), also justified their decision with Djordjadze's “reference to the classicism of modernism, with the provisional plays the part of the improvisational and topical ”, and her great confidence in the possibilities of the form beyond mere commentary or cynicism would convince.

Galleries

Thea Djordjadze is represented by the Sprüth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles), Kaufman Repetto (Milan) and Meyer Kainer (Vienna) galleries .

Collaborations

Djordjadze worked with her former professor Rosemarie Trockel on several projects. A few times with the Cologne-based artist Manuela Leinhoß . She developed a play as part of the I Will group , which also included students from the Trockel class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In addition to the fine arts, Thea Djordjadze can be heard as a singer on various sound carriers.

hobbypopMUSEUM

From 1999 on, Djordjadze was a member of the artist group hobbypopMUSEUM , which included Björn Dahlem, Bettina Furler, Christian Jendreiko , Matthias Lahme, Dietmar Lutz, André Niebur, Marie-Céline Schäfer , Sophie von Hellermann and Markus Vater. They maintained atelier and exhibition rooms in a wing of the former Düsseldorf main post office. In the first year they organized a new topic-related exhibition almost every week, for which they regularly painted over their pictures. But they also invited other artists. They self-published several publications; In addition, various recordings were released, including a studio apartment . hobbypopMUSEUM soon gained an international reputation, which led to invitations to San Francisco, the Antwerp NICC or the London Tate Gallery . In 2003 Djordjadze ended their collaboration with the group.

Scholarships and Awards

In 2001 Djordjadze received the travel grant from the Sk-Stiftung Düsseldorf and the Peter Mertes grant, which is supported by the Bonner Kunstverein , and in 2004 the NRW grant for artists with children and the studio grant from the Imhoff Foundation and the Kölnischer Kunstverein . In 2006 she was invited to the summer academy of the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, the following year she received the residency grant from the London institution Studio Voltaire , in 2008 a working grant from the Kunststiftung NRW and the catalog grant from the Alfried-Krupp-von-Bohlen-und-Halbach - Foundation, endowment. In spring 2009 she was awarded the Böttcherstraße Art Prize in Bremen .

Exhibitions, installations, performances (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: Thea Djordjadze , Kunstmuseum Winterthur , Winterthur
  • 2019: if I were an early person , Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
  • 2018: o potio n. , Portikus , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2017: Thea Djordjadze inventory SGSM , Pinakothek der Moderne , Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
  • 2017: Thea Djordjadze / Rosemarie Trockel. Un soir, j'assis la beauté sur mes genoux. And I found her bitter. And I hurt her , Sprüth Magers, Berlin
  • 2016: To be in an upright position on the feet (studio visit) , Wiener Secession , Vienna
  • 2016: Space Under , Projects 103, MoMA PS1 , New York
  • 2015: MA SA IA LY EA SE - DE , South London Gallery, London
  • 2014: Thea Djordjadze , MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
  • 2013: Thea Djordjadze , Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (Colorado)
  • 2013: November , Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
  • 2012: our full , Kunsthall Malmö, Malmö
  • 2011: Lost Promise in a Room , The Common Guild, Glasgow
  • 2011: Thea Djordjadze - His vanity requires no response , Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
  • 2010: Foksal , Warsaw
  • 2009: Kunsthalle Basel , Basel
  • 2009: Explain away - ე.ი. , Galerie Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Berlin
  • 2008: Kunstverein Nürnberg , Nürnberg
  • 2008: Un soir, j'ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux. And I found her bitter and i hurt her , Galerie Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (with Rosemarie Trockel)
  • 2007: Possibility, Nansen , Studio Voltaire , London
  • 2007: History of an Encounter , Micky Schubert Gallery, Berlin
  • 2005: 2 , Bar Ornella, Cologne
  • 2003: Happy Science , Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam
  • 2001 The Sight of the Conductor , (Peter Mertes scholarship) Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

Group exhibitions

  • 2019: Hyper! A Journey into Art and Music , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 2018: I do speak Landscape , Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne
  • 2017: Jumping out of an age we found uninhabitable , (two-person show with Fausto Melotti and Thea Djordjadze), Triennale di Milano, Design Museum, Milan
  • 2017: Mental yellow - sun height , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich and Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 2016: Those who don't want to think are thrown out. Instructions for action according to Beuys , Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
  • 2016: NO MAN'S LAND: Women artists from the Rubell Family Collection , National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
  • 2015: All the worlds futures , Biennale di Venezia , Venice
  • 2014: The Brancusi Effect - The Archival Impulse , Kunsthalle Wien
  • 2014: Post / Postminimal , Art Museum St. Gallen
  • 2013: Collection on Display - collection presentation of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Zurich
  • 2012: Olika or Where the Movement is Created , Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
  • 2012: Dear Aby Warburg, what to do with pictures , Museum for Contemporary Art Siegen
  • 2012: Documenta 13 , Kassel
  • 2011: Essential Art , Collezione Maramotti, Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main
  • 2011: Time again , Sculpture Center, New York
  • 2010: Focus 2: Becoming Visible Collection Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
  • 2010: The Promises of the Past , Center George-Pompidou , Paris
  • 2010: Aspects of Collecting , Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg
  • 2009: Art Prize of Böttcherstrasse in Bremen 2009 (candidates) , Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen (in cooperation with the Kunsthalle Bremen ), Bremen
  • 2008: On Interchange , Museum Kurhaus Kleve
  • 2008: Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art , Barbican , London
  • 2008: When Things Cast No Shadow , 5th berlin biennale , Berlin
  • 2007: Élégance , Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne
  • 2007: 9th Biennale de Lyon (with Rosemarie Trockel and Michel Houellebecq ), Lyon
  • 2007: Franz West (cur.): The Ficker , Fortescue Avenue, London
  • 2007: Let's stay alive until Tuesday , Children National Gallery, Tbilisi
  • 2006: modus , Kunsthalle St. Gallen (with Gerda Scheepers, Rosemarie Trockel), St. Gallen
  • 2006: experimence in pop , Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern
  • 2005: Open Garden , Fortescue Avenue, London
  • 2005: 11 , Bar Ornella, Cologne
  • 2004: Djordjadze, Elfgen, Scheepers Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers Projects, Munich
  • 2003: L'Ananas bianco & Utopia Station , Biennale di Venezia , Venice
  • 2003: 20th Anniversary Show , Galerie Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne
  • 2001: Zero Gravity , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf
  • 2000: Wuckenhof - class Trockel , Kunstverein, Schwerte
  • 2000: Art Grus , Dom, Moscow
  • 1999: Djordjadze Föttinger Von Hellermann , Champion Art, Arnheim
  • 1998: Due Dimensioni , Arte giovane in Italia e Germania, u. a. with Armin Baumgarten and Hans-Jörg Holubitschka , Academia di Belle Arti, Venice
  • 1998: Mayday , Böhlerwerke, Düsseldorf
  • 1997: War class , Galerie Timm Gierig, Frankfurt

Projects in public space

  • 2008: Folded B , Sculpture Park, Berlin
  • 2006: A room of one's own (with Manuela Leinhoß), Zülpicher Platz, Cologne
  • 2006: Pampel , Frauenplatz, Munich (then: Mohr-Villa, Munich)

Performances

  • 2008: Untitled (reading coffee grounds) , Art Museum, Zurich
  • 2005: Südstadtvirus , Studio Voltaire, London
  • 2005: I Will , Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , Düsseldorf
  • 2001: WahrSagen (coffee grounds) , State Art Academy, Düsseldorf
  • 2001: Untitled (hair cutting) , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf
  • 2000 Untitled (I have no strength for London) , Vilma Gold Gallery, London

Bibliography (selection)

  • Thea Djordjadze. Inventory SGSM , State Collection of Graphics, Munich 2017
  • To be in an upright position on the feet (studio visit). , Secession Vienna 2016
  • Thea Djordjadze - Our Full , Malmö Konsthall 2012
  • Thea Djordjadze , Kunsthalle Basel 2009
  • Thea Djordjadze , Modern Art Publishing House 2009
  • Barunke / Haberer (eds.): On Interchange - interludes of a collection , Museum Kurhaus Kleve 2008
  • Josh Smith: The Ficker , London / New York 2007 (artist book)
  • Leaflet Bar Ornella Cologne 2006
  • modus , Kunsthalle St. Gallen, exhibition catalog, St. Gallen 2006
  • experimence in pop , Zentrum Paul Klee, exhibition catalog, Bern 2006
  • I Will , Cologne 2005 (artist book)
  • Biennale 2003, exhibition catalog, Venice 2003
  • Malcolm Maloney: death to the fascist insect that preys on the life of the people , Anthony d'Offay, London 2001
  • Three Women , Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn / Düsseldorf 2001 (artist book)
  • Wuckenhof - Schwerte Art Association , Düsseldorf 2001
  • hobbypopMUSEUM , Düsseldorf 2000
  • Bistro Forever , Düsseldorf 1999 (artist book)
  • Class War II , Galerie Timm Gierig, Frankfurt 1997

Sound carrier

  • 2006: Andreas Reihse: Kleines Musikbrevier , Cd, Cologne
  • 2005 I Will - Portfolio For Sponsors And Employees , Cd, Cologne
  • 2004: Midnight Mike: Bring me to my senses , Gomma, 12 ″ record, Munich
  • 2002: hobbypopMUSEUM: A Selection Of Sound-Pieces Cd, Düsseldorf
  • 2001: April: if… , italic 13, 12 ″ record and postcard, Cologne
    • ST AP 00: Nanobots , fleshrecords 05, 12 ″ record, London
    • Midnight Mike & Violetta: Round and Round , fleshrecords, 12 ″ record, London

Trivia

In 2001, the photographer chose Ines van Lamsweerde Tea Jorjadze as Madonna -Double for a photo gallery in the American fashion magazine W .

Thea Djordjadze's father is the musician Irakli Djordjadze.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Levitation in the art space. Thea Djordjadze is awarded the Böttcherstrasse 2009 prize / exhibition in the Weserburg , review by Arnulf Marzluf in Weser-Kurier , Bremen, from April 29, 2009, p. 26.
  2. ^ Thea Djordjadze - Works. In: kaufmannrepetto.com. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ Gallery Meyer Kainer
  4. ↑ Djordjadze on discogs
  5. ↑ Possibility, Nansen , Thea Djordjadze, July 28 - September 2, 2007 in Studio Voltaire, London (last accessed: April 29, 2009).
  6. ↑ Djordjadze as Madonna in the magazine W
personal data
SURNAME Djordjadze, Thea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES თეა ჯორჯაძე (Georgian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian-German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgia