Una H. Moehrke

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Una Helga Moehrke (born July 7, 1953 in Hanover ) is a German visual artist with a focus on painting , drawing (art) and performance (art) and experimental text.

Life

Una H. Moehrke studied free painting at the Berlin University of the Arts (1980 master class with Raimund Girke ), as well as art history , religious history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . She received scholarships from the Senate of Berlin, the State of Lower Saxony, the DAAD and prizes from the Ilse Augustin Foundation , Berlin, the Federal Garden Show in Berlin and the Baer Art Center, Iceland. Exhibitions, prizes, residencies and grants have taken her to Toronto, New York, Paris, Korea and Iceland. After teaching assignments and visiting professorships in Berlin, Lüneburg, Kiel, Braunschweig and Dresden, she was appointed professor at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle in 1994 . She taught at the Faculty of Art until 2018 and was a professor for art and art education (art education / art education / visual basics / visual arts). Ulf Aminde , Kathrin Ganser, Irmela Gertsen, Georg Lisek, Julian Plodek, Luise von Rohden, Juliane Schickedanz, Jochen Schneider and Ella Ziegler u. a. studied with Una H. Moehrke. In addition to her apprenticeship, Moehrke pursued her own, mostly painting and drawing work. Una H. Moehrke is a member of the International Artists' Committee and an extraordinary member of the German Association of Artists . She lives in Berlin.

Teaching

In teaching, Una H. Moehrke combined a socially-related art mediation with artistic interventions in museums, galleries, theaters and the world of work in an experimental and multimedia way . Her teaching is based on the experience that artistic work takes place in dialogue with biographical and art-reflective processes. Multi-level research projects were carried out in the context of symposia and catalog publications.

In the project Geometry of Work from 2008, both artistic research and reflection processes on the heterogeneity of the current concept of work and its different manifestations were presented, and artistic transfer projects were documented in specific working environments. A symposium at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK) in Leipzig discussed the geometry of work in its sociological, art-theoretical and economic perspective.

Another, art-theoretical research project Im Modus der Gabe from 2011 focuses on models from theater, visual arts and performance in which processes of exchange, transfer and reciprocity are effective. In view of the performative development of contemporary art, the contributions examine the extent to which the concepts of the gift developed from an ethnological, philosophical and social science perspective ( Marcel Mauss , Maurice Godelier , Jacques Derrida , Bruno Latour , Paul Ricœur, etc.) prove to be sustainable in order to enhance the self-image of contemporary, reflect on artistic practice in the field of tension between the claim to autonomy and social effectiveness.

The exhibition and event series exciter - | EIGEN frequency from 2018, on the perception, communication and visibility of giving, taking and passing on, was Moehrke's last presentation as part of her teaching activities. In conjunction with the work of the professor, a total of 27 different positions on the phenomenon of the gift and the principle of impulse and resonance were presented in the Burg Galerie Halle.

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Una H. Moehrke's artistic oeuvre includes paintings, drawings, performances and experimental texts, which are also presented as lecture performances and put together with phonetic aspects, purely random text fragments and quotations. The context for the work is a philosophical pictorial thinking that creates space without figuration and asks universal questions ( lyrical abstraction , informal art ).

Based on the photographic and performative self-portrait on the water mirror (1980s), the artist developed abstract heads in oil painting (late 1990s) in continuation of the auto -portrait . From the original head and mirror image 'icon' she extrapolated abstract surfaces, which are largely monochrome images . Moehrke pursues the reduction of lines and colored areas. In painting, in the dematerialization of color, changing color surfaces are created which, like mirrors, offer reflection surfaces for light and shadow and change with changing viewing positions. They are images that fluctuate between appearance and disappearance. The viewer perceives them as a trace of movement. With extremely subdued colors, they open up rooms whose atmosphere is reminiscent of light phenomena. Movement within the image can be associated, which corresponds to the physical movement outside the image. ("BildRaumBewendung", 2010). The white-looking pictures, which have been painted with metal pigments since 2012 , are her main works, a continued reduction of monochrome.

Starting with the performative water drawings of the 1990s, Moehrke designed a large-format, experimental form of drawing that can be assigned to site specific art and that is in dialogue with nature and architectural environments, such as industrial architecture, sacred buildings or parks. According to Moehrke, drawings can capture something incomprehensible. In them the lines condense into emblems and in some work complexes also refer to examples from art history. In 2015, the drawings in Venice were transferred fragmentarily from historical paintings into a free and contemporary line language. The transfer of tradition into actuality is accomplished with small, linear interventions ( Personal Structures. Crossing Borders: These lines are dedicated to ... Palazzo Bembo, 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2015). Moehrke's artistic development takes place dialogically in the media of performance, photography, painting, drawing and text work.

Numerous works by Una H. Moehrke are in public ownership: Bear Art Center Island, Berlinische Galerie , District Government Lüneburg , Franckesche Stiftungen Halle , Gruner + Jahr Berlin, Kulturstiftung Wörnitz-Dessau, Art Museum Moritzburg Halle (Saale) , State of Berlin , Märkisches Museum ( Berlin) , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Lower Saxony Artists' Association, Federal Republic of Germany Collection , Stadtwerke Halle , Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe , Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg , Sparkassen Insurance Mannheim, Sprengel Museum Hannover .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984 No two sheets are alike , Performance, Herrenhausen Gardens, Hanover. Exhibition Sprengel Museum, Hanover
  • 1986 Crier le hasard , Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Goethe-Institut Paris and Mercedes-Benz, Paris / France
  • 1986 Love is every thing that answers a question . Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto / Canada
  • 1987 Dance of Death . Performance on November 22nd, 1987 in St. Petri zu Lübeck. Overbeck Society Lübeck
  • 1987 Narcissus or the love of art - Helga Moehrke . Photo works 1980–1987. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Berlin (traveling exhibition and catalog: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, July 4, 1987– August 8, 1987; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen , September 6, 1987– October 4, 1987; Mannheimer Kunstverein , November 29, 1987– December 27, 1987)
  • 1991 heart leap . Location administration Lüneburg, November 11th - 17th, 1990, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 3rd - 24th 1991. Location administration, Lüneburg 1991 (Catalog: Exhibition on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Bleckede Artists' Center ).
  • 1992 Una H. Moehrke. Pictures 1983–1992 . Künstlerhaus Lauenburg (traveling exhibition and catalog: Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, May 22, 1992– May 31, 1992, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof Kiel, June 19, 1992– August 16, 1992, Galerie am Friedrichsplatz Mannheim, June 26, 1992– August 1, 1992) .
  • 2001 Una H. Moehrke, presence - representative office . Photo installation. Kunstforum Halberstadt, Halberstadt 2001 (exhibition catalog: Das Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, 7 June to 22 July 2001)
  • 2001 Una H. Moehrke, Flächenselbst, interfacial self . Oil paintings and drawings 1998–2001. Kunstverein Unna eV, Unna (traveling exhibition and catalog: Kunstverein Unna eV, March 9 to April 4, 2001; Kunsthof eV Halberstadt, June 18 to July 22, 2001; Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, Illinois)
  • 2005 Una H. Moehrke, appear and disappear . Painting 2001–2005. City Museum Foundation (traveling exhibition and catalog: Märkisches Museum am Köllnischen Park Berlin, August 28 to October 9, 2005; Kunstverein Leipzig , May 4 to June 1, 2006)
  • 2008 pencil, colored pencil and so on . Drawings Una H. Moehrke (traveling exhibition and catalog: Museum Abtei Liesborn of the district of Warendorf, October 12, 2008– November 16, 2008; Hellrot room, March 12, 2009– April 23, 2009; Städtische Galerie Schloss Wolfsburg , June 9, 2009– 23 August 2009).
  • 2011 Una H. Moehrke. Inga Kondeyne Gallery, Berlin
  • 2012 Una H. Moehrke, Lines & Beams , painting and drawing. June 1, 2012–3. June 2012
  • 2013 Whiteness , Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin
  • 2014 Line of Grace , Moritzburg Foundation, State Museum Saxony-Anhalt, Halle / Saale
  • 2015 The gesture of drawing . Una H. Moehrke. Lauenburg City Gallery
  • 2015 Personal Structures. Crossing borders . Palazzo Bembo , Venice Biennale
  • 2016 Images . Three Rings Gallery, Leipzig
  • 2017 text instead of image . Alvar Aalto Kulturhaus, Wolfsburg
  • 2018 Erreger-I OWN frequency , exhibition and communication project, Burg Galerie Halle

Bibliography (selection)

Publications on teaching

  • Geometry of work. Transfer of art to functional areas in society. Documentation of projects in the art education course, art education at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-182-5 .
  • In the mode of gift. Theater, art, performance in the present. In the mode of giving. Theater, art, performance in the present. Ingrid Hentschel, Una H. Moehrke, Klaus Hoffmann (eds.), Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-494-9 .
  • Burg 100 - Professors of the Burg from Art and Design , ed. v. Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and Jule Reuter, Halle / Saale 2015, ISBN 978-3-86019-100-2 .
  • pathogen- | EIGEN frequenz , catalog of the exhibition and mediation project, Burg Galerie Halle, ed. v. Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Halle / Saale 2018

Monographs

  • No sheet like the other. Catalog. Sprengel Museum, Hanover 1984
  • Narcissus or the love of art. Catalog. Neue Berliner Kunstverein (NBK), Berlin 1986
  • Upper water, underwater or being at home in the water. Kunstverein Lüneburg, ship lift, Scharnebeck 1987
  • Distance from the surface. Catalog. Museum of Photography, Braunschweig 1988
  • Una, pictures 1992–1994. Catalog. Künstlerhaus Göttingen, 1994
  • Mehrmirmär, drawings and pictures. Catalog. Galerie Kasten, Mannheim, and Galerie von Tempelhoff, Karlsruhe 1999
  • Surface self, oil paintings and drawings. Interfacial Self, Oil paintings and drawings. Catalog. Kunstverein Unna & Kunsthof eV, Halberstadt, and Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, 2001, ISBN 9783000074547 .
  • The source as inspiration . Historical knowledge in contemporary art, ed. v. Francke Foundations, Halle / Saale 2002, ISBN 3-931479-30-7 .
  • Appearance and Disappearance . Una H. Moehrke Painting 2001–2005, ed. v. Stadtmuseum Foundation, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-016937-7 .
  • Position directions. Catalog. City gallery in the Elbeforum, Brunsbüttel 2005
  • It is the other . Una H. Moehrke, painting 2007, ed. v. Anhaltischer Kunstverein Dessau eV and BIK Galerie 149, Bremerhaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-023795-9 .
  • See white. Pencil, colored pencil, and so on . Painting, drawing, ed. v. Liesborn Abbey Museum and Hellrot Room, Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-941100-36-7 .
  • PANTA RHEI. The river and its images. ed. v. Ute Seiderer, Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 2009
  • Camelia Flowers (cat.), Camelia Hills Jeju, Korea 2012
  • Personal structures. Crossing borders. Catalog. ed. v. Global Art Affairs Foundation, Venice 2015, ISBN 978-94-90784-18-8 .
  • Una H. Moehrke, Bild_Text RAU M. Painting-Drawing, Performance-Text, 1984–2018, ed. from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Halle / Saale 2018, ISBN 978-3-86019-143-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baer Art Center: Alumni. In: baer.is. Retrieved May 22, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Former. Prof. Una Moehrke. In: burg-halle.de. Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Magdalena Drebber, Una H. Moehrke, Joachim Penzel (Ed.): Geometry of work. Transfer of art to functional areas in society . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-182-5 .
  4. ↑ Ingrid Hentschel, Klaus Hoffmann, Una H. Moehrke (ed.): In the mode of gift. Theater, art, performance in the present . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-494-9 .
  5. ↑ pathogen– | EIGEN frequency exhibition and series of events from May 17 to June 10, 2018 on the perception, communication and visibility of giving, taking and passing on. In: burg-halle.de. Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Moehrke, Una H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moehrke, Una Helga (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, performance artist, art historian and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover