View Isa Genzken paintings, biography, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and resource of Dick Evans artist. View art online at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery.Isa Genzken
Isa Genzken was born on 1948 in Bad Oldesloe and currently lives and Works in Berlin, Germany.Urlaub possesses a ridiculous elegance, caught between high design and holiday festivity. Drawing from the Minimalist concept of objective abstraction, Genzken’s work straddles the spheres of formalist purity and narrative interpretation. Entrenched in the process of making, Genzken’s work is the result of her own intimate interaction with materials, tempering the procedure of formal decision-making with the spontaneity of imaginative play. Kitsch objects such as plastic leaves, figurines, and an oversized wine glass carry their own associative references while operating as neutral compositional elements of shape, colour, and texture. Urlaub exudes escapist fantasy while retaining a refined order, culminating as surreal microcosm of caprice vs. rationale.
Isa Genzken EDUCATION:
1993-1997
• Düsseldorf Art Academy
1993-1975
• Studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Cologne
1971-1973
• Berlin University of Fine Arts
1969-1971
• Hamburg College of Fine Arts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
• Der Spiegel 1989-1991: Isa Genzken, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
• Kinder filmen, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
New Work, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2004
• Wasserspeier and Angels, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
• China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
• International Art Prize, Cultural Donation of SSK Munich, Munich, Germany
2003
• Isa Genzken, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland [catalogue]
• Empire Vampire Teil II, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
• The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY
2002
• Haare wachsen, wie sie wollen, Skulpturenprojekt Galerie Meerrettich (Josef Strau), Berlin, Germany
• Museum Abeiberg Mönchengladbach [catalogue]
• Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2001
• Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
• Magnani, London, UK
• Science Fiction/Heir und jetzt zufrieden sein, AC-Saal (with Wolfgang Tillmans),
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany [catalogue]
Conclusions:
Isa Genzken has been making a name for herself with an oeuvre including sculpture, photography, film, video, works on paper and canvas, collages and books.
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