Tino Sehgal

Tino Sehgal (* 1976 in London ) is a German-British artist . He calls his works "constructed situations". These are "interpreted" by instructed persons and only exist at the moment, as they may neither be documented nor reproduced in the media.

Life

Tino Sehgal was born in London as the son of an Indian living in Germany and a German. He spent his school days in Böblingen and Sindelfingen . He studied economics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and dance at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen . He lives in Berlin.

Together with Thomas Scheibitz , he designed the German pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale from June 12th to November 6th, 2005. He selected 30 amateur actors for two situations. On the one hand, This is so contemporary , which was intended as a reflection on the position of art in today's world. In the second work, This is exchange , the actors involved the visitors in discussions on the subject of the market economy.

Sehgal was nominated for the 2007 National Gallery Prize for Young Art .

At dOCUMENTA (13) , which took place in Kassel in 2012, Sehgal played in the lightless Bode-Saal of the Grand City Hotel Hessenland . The visitors entering were surrounded by 12 actors, individually or in small groups, who danced around them audibly and perceptibly singing, humming, crawling, clicking in a choreographically defined basic rhythm and trying to include those who had entered into the action.

Sehgal is married to the art historian Dorothea von Hantelmann . The couple have two children and live in Berlin.

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The art of Tino Sehgal only takes shape the moment the viewer meets it. For his works he uses interpreters who come into contact with the visitors of the respective exhibition in the form of movements, spoken words or singing. For example, in an exhibition he has interpreters disguised as museum attendants sing a sentence like This is propaganda, you know, you know . His works, which are only realized in museums or art exhibitions, are for sale and can be performed for months during the entire opening time. At the express request of the artist, there may be no film, photographic or other documentation of any of his works. No invitations to exhibitions are printed or catalog texts are published. The works are bought or sold exclusively through verbal negotiations with the artist and therefore only remain in the memory of all those involved.

In his adopted home Berlin, made possible by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds , he got a retrospective in 2015 in the Martin-Gropius-Bau and another work was performed in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele .

Awards

• Baloise Art Prize , 2004
• Golden Lion of the Venice Art Biennale , 2013
• Berlin Bear (BZ Culture Prize) , 2013
• Globart Award , 2015
• Hans Molfenter Prize , 2016

Exhibitions

The works of Tino Sehgal can be seen at various exhibitions since 2001. The most important of these are:

• 2002: I promise it's political , Museum Ludwig , Cologne
• 2003: Le Plein , Galerie Jan Mot, Berlin
  • This is right , Wrong Gallery, London; Utopia Station , 50th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale
• 2004: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • This objective of that object , Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
• 2005: ICA, London
  • Museu Serralves , Porto
• 2007: Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
  • This is so contemporary ; This situation
• 2010: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , New York City
• 2012: Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London
  • These Associations ; documenta (13), Kassel
• 2015: Exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau
  • A year at the Stedelijk: Tino Sehgal , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• 2016: Albertinum in Dresden
  • These Associations
  • Carte Blanche to Tino Sehgal, Palais de Tokyo , Paris
• 2017: Fondation Beyeler , Basel

literature

• Angeli Janhsen : Tino Sehgal , in: New Art as a catalyst , Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 71–78. ISBN 978-3-496-01459-1

Web links

• Sebastian Frenzel: This is not a void . Portrait in the taz, June 6, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Studio visit: TINO SEHGAL . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on April 25, 2018]).
2. ↑ Kreiszeitung Böblinger Bote: Tino Sehgal with "This is exchange" in the Sindelfingen gallery. Retrieved April 25, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Gabriela Walde: "This is Propaganda": Tino Sehgal, for Germany at the Biennale . In: THE WORLD . June 9, 2005 ( welt.de [accessed April 25, 2018]).
4. ↑ Karlheinz Schmid : Changing sides - Tino Sehgal's dark secret . In. Art newspaper , August 2012 edition, p. 7
5. ^ The Question Artist . In: The New Yorker . ( newyorker.com [accessed October 7, 2018]).
6. ↑ Till Briegleb: The curse of excessive demands . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 29, 2015, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed October 7, 2018]).
7. ↑ Berliner Festspiele / Martin-Gropius-Bau show Tino Sehgal
8. ↑ Tino Sehgal in Berlin's Gropius-Bau - art that does not want to last, review in Deutschlandradio Kultur from June 25, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015
9. ^ Tino Sehgal - 2004 Prize Winner, Baloise Art Prize. Retrieved April 24, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Tino Sehgal wins the Golden Lion at the 55th Venice Biennale
11. ^ Artist Tino Sehgal: happiness in swarms . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on April 25, 2018]).
12. ↑ Tino Sehgal in the Albertinum ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2016 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. (accessed on July 25, 2016) 
13. ↑ Exhibition in Dresden ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2016 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. (accessed on July 25, 2016) 
14. ↑ Badische Zeitung: Nothing is permanent - literature & lectures - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on April 25, 2018]).