Vera Frenkel

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Vera Frenkel (born November 10, 1938 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak - Canadian video artist .

life and work

Vera Frenkel was born in Bratislava before the outbreak of World War II . Her family emigrated to Canada via England . Frenkel graduated from McGill University in 1959 with a degree in art and then studied with Arthur Lismer (1885–1969) and Albert Dumouchel (1916–1971).

After initially focusing on prints, drawings, collages, and written text, she turned to video art in the late 1970s . In the 1990s she experimented with video installations and net art . Frenkel's works relate to the topics of migration , cultural memory , language and bureaucracy .

Frenkel taught at the University of Toronto (1970–72) and York University (1972–95).

Her work has been shown at documenta IX in Kassel, Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich , Linz, the Museum of Modern Art , New York, the Setagaya Art Museum , Tokyo, National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa and the Venice Biennale .

Awards (selection)

  • 1989: Canada Council Molson Prize
  • 1991: Toronto Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award
  • 1993: Gershon Iskowitz Prize
  • 2001: Bell Canada Award for Video Art

literature

Vera Frenkel by Sigrid Schade , Griselda Pollock , Dot Tuer, Anne Bénichou, Ryszard W. Kluszcynski , John Bentley Mays, Elizabeth Legge, Sylvie Lacerte, Frank Wagner, Amy Marshall Furness, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757- 3246-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13th-20th September 1992 - catalog in three volumes, volume 1, page 147; Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0
  2. ↑ The Canadian encyclopedia Vera Frenkel , accessed on March 23, 2016 (English).
  3. ↑ National Gallery of Canada Vera Frenkel , accessed on March 26, 2016 (English).
  4. ↑ Jewish virtual library Vera Frenkel , accessed on March 26, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Frenkel, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak-Canadian video artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava