Verena Issel
Verena Issel (born June 16, 1982 in Munich ) is a Norwegian object and installation artist who lives and works in Germany.
Career
Verena Issel completed a double degree in fine arts and classical philology (Latin and ancient Greek) at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfBK) and the University of Hamburg from 2002 to 2011 . In 2005 and 2006 she completed guest semesters at the Faculdade de Belas Artes in Lisbon. In 2011, after an exchange semester at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, she finished her art studies with distinction. She studied sculpture and installation with Pia Stadtbäumer , Andrea Tippel, Franz Erhard Walther and Michaela Melián . Film and video with Gerd Roscher and Wim Wenders .
Her versatile artistic work consists of room installations, paintings, material images, reliefs and films. Besides Germany she exhibited in Norway, England, Ukraine, Iceland, Japan, Korea, China, Portugal and more.
She achieved nationwide attention outside of the art scene with her “Art Boy 2010” campaign, for which she had twelve of her Hamburg fellow students photographed for artfully and ironically arranged nudes, in which she quotes art history such as the dead rabbit by Joseph Beuys or the black square hid by Malevich .
Solo exhibitions
(Selection)
- 2009 More Moor , installation in the Trottoir exhibition space, Hamburg
- 2010 Paths, fields, gardens, rubble , Melike Bilir Gallery, Hamburg
Group exhibitions
(Selection)
- 2009 Krabben im Nebel , Kunstverein Ettlingen
- 2009 Pudel Art Basel , Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
- 2009 33 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall , Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
- 2009 Gut Schuss , Dockville Hamburg for the Hamburg art and music festival "Dockville"
- 2008 Maximum Art - Che cazzo voi! Theory-heavy young art, art and culture association Linda, hamburg
- 2005 Almost Perfect Conditions , Gallery of the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg
Publications
- 2009 Art Boy 2010 , 12 calendar pages, 4-colored, Textem Verlag, idea and concept: Verena Issel; Photography: Kathrin Brunnhofer and Fabienne Mueller, design: Julia Gordon
Awards
- 2010 Master's scholarship from the Karl Heinz Dietze Foundation
- 2012 residency at the Künstlerhaus Lauenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicole Büsing, Heiko Klaas: The end of comfort. on: artnet.de , February 28, 2011.
- ↑ Art calendar with naked guys: "I've sold myself" Interview with Verena Issel on Spiegel online. November 26, 2009.
- ↑ Verena Issel - MORE MOOR. on: kultur-port.de
- ^ Art Boy 2010: Naked Art Students. ( Memento from February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on: art-magazin.de
- ^ Promotion of international mobility: »Art School Alliance«. on: hfbk-hamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Issel, Verena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German object and installation artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |