Tracey Emin

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Tracey Emin (2007)

Tracey Emin CBE RA (born July 3, 1963 in Croydon , London ) is a British artist .

life and career

Emin, who grew up in Margate , is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). The daughter of an English mother and a Turkish Cypriot father left school early at the age of 13. From 1981 to 1982 she attended Medway College of Design in Rochester , Kent, and earned a degree in fashion. From 1983 to 1986 she studied at Maidstone College of Art and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 1987 she moved to London, where she studied art at the Royal College of Art from 1987 to 1989 and philosophy at Birbeck University of London . Her “shop”, which she opened in Shoreditch in 1993 together with artist colleague Sarah Lucas , is at the beginning of her career . The "shop" was on Bethnal Green Road and only existed for 6 months. Nevertheless, Emin and Lucas managed to gain a foothold in the art business with the “shop” and make a name for themselves. Less than a year later, Emin was able to show her first solo exhibition at the White Cube gallery in London. This was called My Major Retrospective .

Emin is known for her autobiographical art and often provokes media interest. She is one of the artists of the Young British Artists (YBA). She became known to a wider audience with Charles Saatchi's exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy , which subsequently caused a sensation in Berlin. In 1994 she showed Exploration of the Soul - Journey Across America with readings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Detroit, Pittsburgh and New York. In 1995, Tracey Emin opened the museum , which had to close two years later because of its popularity. In the same year she received the International Video Art Award ( ZKM Karlsruhe ) and took part in the 5th Istanbul Biennial .

One of her works, My Bed , was included in the 1999 Tate Gallery 's prestigious Turner Prize exhibition . It consists of her unmade bed, used condoms and bloodied underwear. The object with the traces of a love night was auctioned in 2014 for 2.2 million pounds.

Emin herself describes her work as living autobiography . Drawings, objects, wall hangings, installations, films and books that tell chapters of her sometimes tragic life story, stories of sexual abuse, her search for female identity, the desire to break out of his life. Emin confronts the visitor directly and provocatively with personal self-confessions.

With the International Woman series , Tracey Emin was involved in the design of luggage for the Longchamp fashion house in 2004 and 2005 .

In March 2007, the Royal Academy of Arts (London) elected Emin as a member. She received a PhD from London Metropolitan University and a PhD from the University of Kent . In the same year she was responsible for the design of the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

David Bowie compared Emin to " William Blake as a Woman, written by Mike Leigh ". Critics describe their art as a collection of passion, desire, and life, coupled with raw openness.

In March 2009, the Kunstmuseum Bern dedicated a retrospective to Emin on her work over the past two decades. The exhibition shows flag-sized carpet embroidery decorated with slogans, paintings, videos and installations as well as the well-known bed. Whether it can be assigned to conceptual art or rather to the “personal mythologies” direction remains controversial. In Bern there was a debate about whether Emin "should be located somewhere between Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys ."

In 2011 Emin was appointed professor of drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts . This makes her the second female professor at the Royal Academy after Fiona Rae since it was founded in 1768.

From May 26 to September 23, 2012, one of the artist's most extensive shows to date was shown at Turner Contemporary in Margate, She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea: Tracey Emin at Turner Contemporary . Emin lives and works in London.

Works (selection)

"I felt you and I knew you loved me"
Tracey Emin's neon artwork on the west window of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral was installed in 2008 when Liverpool was named European Capital of Culture .
  • Exploration of the Soul
  • 1996: Everyone I have ever slept with 1963–95 (*)
  • Fighting For Love
  • The Last Thing I Said Is Don't Leave Me Here (*)
  • 1998: My Bed
  • The interview
  • No chance
  • The Hut (*)
  • Singing Bird
  • Just Love Me , light installation, 1998. Goetz Collection .
  • Book: Strangeland : Hodder & Stoughton 2006; German edition Blumenbar Verlag 2009

Emin's work has been shown in solo exhibitions in the USA , Japan and Germany , for example:

(*) On the night of May 24, 2004 a fire in a London warehouse destroyed her works Everyone I have ever slept with 1963–95 , The Last Thing I Said Is Don't Leave Me Here and The Hut .

Books

  • Tracey Emin, Karol Winiarczyk, Diethard Leopold: Tracey Emin | Egon Schiele - Where I Want to Go , Leopold Museum, Vienna 2015
  • Tracey Emin: The Last Great Adventure is You Fuel London 2014
  • Tracey Emin: I Followed you to the Sun Lehmann Maupin New York 2013
  • Tracey Emin: My Photo Album Fuel London 2013
  • Tracey Emin: My Life in a Column Rizzoli New York 2011

literature

  • Larratt-Smith and Philip (Eds.): Tracey Emin How it Feels Malba Buenos Aires 2012
  • Julian Schnabel : Tracey Emin. 20 years. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art . Edinburgh 2008.
  • Mandy Merck: The art of Tracey Emin. London 2002.
  • Christiane Weidemann, Petra Larass, Melanie Klier (eds.): 50 women artists you should know Prestel Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7913-3957-3 , pp. 160–163
  • Jorinde Gustavs: Original: Pictures from Life and Art weiw-Verlag Stralsund 2007, ISBN 978-3-9379-3809-7
  • Max Hollein and Matthias Ulrich (eds.) The youth of today; The Youth of Today Walther König Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-8656-0071-4
  • Image disturbance Society of Friends of Young Art, exhibition catalog, Baden-Baden 2003
  • Uta Grosenick (Ed.): Art Now Taschen Köln 2002, ISBN 978-3822814444
  • Rainald Schumacher and Matthias Winzen (eds.): The benefit of art. Post / Feminist Positions of the Nineties from the Goetz Collection Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-88375-621-0
  • Ulrike Knöfel: Public Affairs: From Beuys to Zittel: The public in the Kunst Kunsthaus Zürich 2002, ISBN 978-3-9065-7416-5
  • Olafur Eliasson : Freestyle: Works from the Boros Verlag collection of the bookstore Walther König Cologne 2001
  • Full House: Young British Art Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg 1996
  • Isabel Bredenbröker: Individual Mythology. Object, image and writing in works by Tracey Emin , Master's thesis FU Berlin , 2013.

Web links

Commons : Tracey Emin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "International Woman" Suitcases from Longchamp , travelandleisure.com, December 2004, accessed November 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ Tracey Emin - International Woman Suitcase , Apropos Pig, March 6, 2007, accessed November 23, 2014.
  3. ↑ Tracey Emin RA in the database of the Royal Academy of Arts , English, accessed on May 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/jun/07/emin The Guardian Emin Biennale, accessed on July 9, 2015
  5. ↑ Tracey Emin achieves eminence at last as enfant terrible grows up. The Telegraph .co.uk, August 2, 2008, accessed May 26, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Deutschlandfunk from March 19, 2009: Unmade beds The British artist Tracey Emin in the Kunstmuseum Bern
  7. ↑ Tracey Emin becomes professor at the Royal Academy ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), monopol-magazin.de, Kunstticker, December 15, 2011
  8. ^ She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea: Tracey Emin at Turner Contemporary. Turner Contemporary, accessed May 26, 2012 . See also interview with Tracey Emin about the current exhibition . Guardian .co.uk, May 26, 2012, accessed May 26, 2012.
  9. ^ Burned into the memory . The Guardian , May 27, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Emin, Tracey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Croydon , London