Ulrike Grossarth (born 1952) is a German artist, dancer, and academic. Since 1998 she has been professor of mixed media art at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. She was awarded the 2009 Käthe Kollwitz Prize by the Academy of Arts, Berlin for her collective body of work.[1][2]
Life
editShe was born in 1952 in Oberhausen, Germany. She studied dance at Else-Lang-Schule in Cologne, in Dresden, and at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and was involved with Joseph Beuys' Free International University, an offshoot of the Fluxus movement.[3]
She teaches at Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in Germany, where her role as professor of mixed media art incorporates performance art, installation art, video art, and assemblages.[3]
Work
editHer art is influenced by the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.[3] Her 2009 installation Szeroka 28: Ein europäischer Erinnerungsraum (Szeroka 28: A European Memory-Room) addresses the Holocaust.
Exhibitions
edit- 2014: "Were I made of matter, I would color", Retrospective. Generali Foundation, Vienna[3]
References
edit- ^ "Rote Pantoffeln aus Lublin". Berliner Zeitung. 5 September 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ^ "Käthe-Kollwitz Preis 2009 - Ulrike Grossarth". Monopol. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
- ^ a b c d Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Brigitte (23 January 2014). "Das Fallen der Würfel ins Grün". Wiener Zeitung. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
External links
edit- HfBK Dresden (in German)
- Her website (in German)