Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer, press conference at the opening of the Yvonne Rainer retrospective . Space, body, language

Yvonne Rainer (born November 24, 1934 in San Francisco ) is an American choreographer , dancer and filmmaker . Her work has been shown at two Documenta exhibitions; she is considered to be one of the most important representatives of postmodern dance .

Life

Yvonne Rainer, 2014

Yvonne Rainer grew up in San Francisco in an immigrant family. Her mother was Jewish and came from Poland while her father (an anarchist and house painter) was from Italy. In 1957, at the age of 23, she went to New York to become an actress. However, she became more interested in modern dance and began studying at the Martha Graham School . She later also studied with Merce Cunningham .

Rainer founded the Judson Dance Theater with Trisha Brown , Elaine Summers , Meredith Monk and others in 1962 , which performed at the Judson Memorial Church in New York. The first performance on July 6, 1962 marks the birth of postmodern dance. After 1970, Rainer turned to film and directed several experimental films. In 1990 she was named a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation . Yvonne Rainer lives and works in New York City and Los Angeles.

In 2007 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Movies

• Lives of Performers . 1972
• Film about a Woman Who ... 1974
• Kristina Talking Pictures 1976
• Journey from Berlin / 1971 1980
• The Man Who Envied Woman 1985
• Privilege 1990
• MURDER and murder 1996

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2012: Yvonne Rainer. Space, body, language , Kunsthaus Bregenz and Museum Ludwig Cologne
• 2004: Yvonne Rainer - Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002 , shown at LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles and the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University , Milwaukee.

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

• 2008: Here We Dance , Tate Modern , London.
• 2007: Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance , New York .
• 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel. The work RoS Indexical, 2007 was shown .
• 2007: Dancing, Seeing , Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen .
• 2007: Lights, Camera, Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema , Whitney Museum of American Art , New York.
• 2005: On the presentation of terror: The RAF exhibition , Kunst-Werke Berlin .
• 2004–2005: behind the facts. inter functions 1968 - 1975 , Fundació Joan Miró , Barcelona and Kunsthalle Fridericianum , Kassel.
• 2003: Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance , Tate Liverpool .
• 2002: Violence is the edge of all things , Generali Foundation , Vienna .
• 2000: The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought - Women Avant-Garde Filmmakers in America , Whitney Museum , New York.
• 2000: Afterimage - Drawing Through Process . Contemporary Arts Museum Houston , Houston , Texas .
• 1999: Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art , Contemporary Museum, Baltimore .
• 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel.

Retrospectives

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  Yvonne Rainer at a press conference in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (Germany) Exhibition: Yvonne Rainer - Space, Body, Language
  2012: Yvonne Rainer. Space, body, language , Museum Ludwig (Cologne)

Web links

Commons : Yvonne Rainer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Yvonne Rainer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Yvonne Rainer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Erin Brannigan: Yvonne Rainer (biography in English with extensive bibliography)
• Interview with Yvonne Rainer in Frieze (June 2006)
• Yvonne Rainer on kunstaspekte.de
• Materials by and about Yvonne Rainer in the documenta archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MacArthur Fellows - R ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved June 17, 2008.)  
2. ^ Yvonne Rainer - Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002 , Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, May 5 - August 8, 2004. Catalog published by University of the Arts, 2003. ISBN 0-962-79165-2 . Available online (Retrieved June 17, 2008.)
3. ^ Yvonne Rainer - Radical Juxtapositions 1961-2002 , Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, September 23, 2004 - January 9, 2005. Available online. (Accessed June 17, 2008.)
4. ^ Here We Dance , Tate Modern - Level 2 gallery, London, March 14 - May 26, 2008. Curated by Catherine Wood. Available online ( memento of the original from April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved June 9, 2008.) 
5. ^ Performa 07 , New York City, October 27 - November 20, 2007. Available online. (Accessed June 17, 2008.)
6. ^ Documenta 12 , Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the works by Yvonne Rainer shown on the official documenta blog: Available online ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 June 17, 2008) 
7. ↑ dance, see . Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, February 18 - May 28, 2007. Catalog published by Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 3-86588-397-4 . Available online (Retrieved June 9, 2008)
8. ^ Lights, Camera, Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 8 - April 1, 2007. Available online ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der 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. (Retrieved June 9, 2008.) 
9. ↑ On the presentation of terror: The RAF exhibition . KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, January 30th - May 16th, 2005. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach , Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin . Catalog published by Steidl, Göttingen 2005. ISBN 3-86521-102-X . Available online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved June 9, 2008.)  
10. ↑ behind the facts. inter functions 1968 - 1975 , Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, ​​February 19 - May 2, 2004. Curated by Gloria Moure. Catalog published by PoligrafaORT 2004. ISBN 8-434-31017-1 . Available online (Retrieved June 17, 2008.)
11. ↑ behind the facts. inter functions 1968 - 1975 , Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, January 29 - April 3, 2005. Available online (Retrieved June 17, 2008.)
12. ^ Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance , Tate Liverpool, November 14, 2003 - January 25, 2004. Curated by Adrian George. Catalog published by Tate Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-854-37537-7 . Available online ( memento of the original from June 20, 2008 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. (Retrieved June 17, 2008.) 
13. ↑ Violence is the edge of all things , Generali Foundation Vienna, January 17 - April 21, 2002. Curated by Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann . Catalog published by König, Cologne 2002. ISBN 3-88375-564-8 . Available online ( memento of the original from November 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved June 9, 2008.) 
14. ^ The Color of Ritual, The Color of Thought , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 29 - October 1, 2000. Melissa Anderson: Celluloid Heroines and Local Color . Two-part review in the Village Voice on June 27 and August 29, 2000. (Accessed June 17, 2008.)
15. ^ Afterimage: Drawing Through Process . Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, May 13 - July 16, 2000. Shown artists: William Anastasi, Mel Bochner, Agnes Denes, Nancy Grossman, Robert Grosvenor, Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt , Barry LaVa, Sol LeWitt, Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Gordan Matta-Clark, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Overby, Yvonne Rainer, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Saret, Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart , Richard Tuttle and Jack Whitten. Available online ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed June 17, 2008) 
16. ↑ Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art , Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, September 25, 1999 - January 3, 2000. Available online ( memento of the original from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved June 17, 2008.)