Andrea Fraser was born in the United States in 1965. The American artist organizes performances , designs and builds installations , designs concept art , and deals primarily with institutional criticism in the art business .
Andrea Fraser currently occupies 264 in the "World Ranking of Art" , which artfacts.net has created regardless of ratings by a computer.
The computer compares how often artists appear publicly, through exhibitions, participations in art festivals, acceptance in public collections, auctions and sales etc. Andrea Fraser is one of the 300 most successful artists in the world and thus also one of the 300 known (most prominent) artists in the world.
With prominence, it is not far from the fact that much fewer people are interested in art than in the flopped-pop part of "art and culture". On the other hand, artists, pop stars, pop stars and athletes, are among the four groups of people who become famous all over the world and not only in their home country or culture.
"For us normal" politicians, democratically chosen and minded, rain the region and then the country and then the country through the supposedly slow pace of their often very detailed compromise discovery work and only in a few, a few, isolated figures (because these isolated figures are already on the way to the war?).
Writers are first known in their culture and only in a few exceptions (mass-compatible sex-love foses, global unity thriller, the same blood sucking vampires worldwide) all over the world.
Actor? Could one think if the series faces can now be confused from the roof countries (DE, AT, CH), Scandinavia is either secured by precautionary clones or a social-freezing clause
But it is not yet that far, the (also) acting daughter of the ex-wife of the well-known football coach knows everyone in the home country of the association and in the neighboring country; The prominence of a humorous cabaret artist and/or a blond private television beauty can be limited to a very small area ...
So dictators, athletes, pop stars, artists; Even if you have to make it clear that the “world of art” in our culture consisted of a short time ago consisting of the EU Kern countries Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and the USA (with the respective small residential states) and still consisted of a significant extent today.
All art exhibitions taken place for a long time (and are 90 % of the art exhibitions to date), these countries have art science , the art festivals were invented in these countries and sometimes launched a long time ago, these countries have started to collect art for their citizens and to be handled in public museums for everyone.
The last point in particular shows why the art world is very slow: These countries are also the democratic primeval cells of modern times, art is closely related to democracy , because only in freedom-democratic state beings are possible to develop art, art exercise and view of art.
The art of Andrea Fraser: Fine irony makes curiosity to more
Andrea Fraser goes a little further, she deals with the democratic processes inside the global art business and became known by the fact that she to register some criticism . Here are a few examples from the O17 Oeuvre by Andrea Fraser:
At the beginning of the 1990s, Fraser presented a number of "Gallery Talks" in which she deals critically with forms of presentation, hierarchies and exclusion mechanisms in the art business. The performances are carried out in the form of guided tours by art institutions, such as the "Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk" from 1989. The artist leads in the role of the lecturer "Jane Castleton" by the Philadelphia Museum of Art , but has to report very extraordinary things:
Instead of art , it is increasingly about minor matters such as the wardrobe, toilets, the museum shop and similar functional units (whose design and functional principles actually find considerably more people than some curators believe).
At the same time, the lecture by the lecturer "The Institution Museum in its context" , the origin and social tasks of museums illustrates; But also the invisible power structures and stuck definition patterns, which can be recognized in the arrangement and selection of the art presented and in the architecture of museums (which should be almost more interesting for a number of museum visitors than art itself).
In 1991 Andrea Fraser wrote for the performance "May I Help You?" A script, quotes from the magazine ArtNew s presented to the audience in a commercialized gallery exhibition with pictures of the artist Allan McCollum
Unusual because visitors and gallery employees usually only get into conversation with each other if they already know each other personally; Entertaining because six different characters of gallery employees appear, from routine art sellers to annoying narrow -minded people, who actually has nothing to do with the contemporary art he presented:
the opening speech for the "Insite97" in San Diego, USA and Tijuana, Mexico with the performance "Inaugural Speech"
Or the opening speeches, as a curator, company sponsor, member of the supervisory board, responsible for public funding ... Fraser in turn puts together a catalog of quotations, from the catalog or from the interview of the "represented" actor.
Summarized in a block (from 27 min), the speeches draw attention to the complex structural conditions, among which and with which the actors work at the global art events.
A little insight that no longer wants to convey than to curious about Andrea Fraser's art, of which of course there is much more to discover.
Macba Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
structures of museums, galleries and other plastics in a very humorous way . Topics such as cultural transfer , sponsorship of art exhibitions , the importance of media reporting about artists and art events play a role in each of their works and are strange, critically, artistically illuminated.
But Fraser also performs incredible learning services, for example memorizing a long speech of a video recording. In a foreign, German, together with the whole drunk habit, had celebrated Martin Kippenberger
Gesture for gesture, word for word, Fraser revives the Kippenberger, who died in 1997, as a personal approach to the artist known to her, but also to draw attention the male connoted artist clichés "Art must hang" , 2001).
And she also really reaches into the full and maybe even publicly "in the eggs of her counterpart": Andrea Fraser shows the one -hour video operating "Untitled" in 2003 in a sexual encounter with an anonymous art collector. Until then, he probably hadn't dreamed that you could collect art, but was immediately ready to pay $ 20,000 for his participation ...
The video is shown in exhibitions and can also be purchased via Frasers Gallery, but only under numerous restrictions: In consultation with Fraser, it may only be shown publicly, every public statement by the owner about the video must be coordinated, the preparation/publication of screenshots is prohibited.
The restrictions should be part of the artistic concept, but they sound more like keeping at least a few of the global spinners/sex criminals away from the video. Here is a small excerpt (not afraid, only makes art lovers happy): hwww.youtube.com/watch?v=22FCCKCEU_M.
How did Andrea Fraser get art?
Andrea Fraser decided at a young age to turn art into her profession. After graduating from high school, Fraser studied art until 1986 at New York University and at the School of Visual Arts , New York.
During and after completing her studies, she received scholarships from the Art Docent Matter Inc., the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Fraser's only encounter with academic art did not study; In addition to her artistic work, Fraser taught or teaches at the Maine College of Art, at Vermont College, the Whitney Independent Study Program, the Columbia University School of the Arts, the Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, Leuphana University Lüneburg and currently at the University of California, Los Angeles, www.art.ucla.edu/faculty/fraser.html.
Public (artist) life, exhibitions, awards
Andrea Fraser lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
In 1990 Andrea Fraser had her first public solo exhibition "Andrea Fraser" , in the Christian Nagel gallery in Cologne. 24 solo exhibitions and 206 group exhibitions followed.
Also an appearance at an art festival (Insit97 San Diego Ca, One Minute Film Festival 2003-2012, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art North Adams Ma) and "A little Biennale" (45th Biennale di Venezia 1993, where Fraser represented Austria with Gerwald Rockschaub and Christian Philipp Müller; Whitney Museum of American Art New York in 1993 and 2012), but Andrea Fraser needs to have little fear of becoming a permanent guest on the important world or in Kassel - this is said to have already happened more often, but only the gentlemen of (artistic) creation and not openly feminist creators.
Andrea Fraser has been in the exhibition "We call it Ludwig. The museum will be 40!" of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne , together with Georges Adé Terms & Conditions O, Ai Wei-Wei , Ei Arakawa & Michel Auder, Minerva Cuevas, Maria Eichhorn, Meschac Gaba, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke , Diango Hernández, Candida Höfer, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kuehn Malvezzi, Christian Philipp Müller, Marcel Odenbach , Ahmet Ögüt, Claes Oldenburg , Pratchaya Phin-thong, Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmuş, Gerhard Richter , Avery Singer, Jürgen Stollhans, Rosemarie Trockel , Villa Design Group and Christopher Williams (see Article here at Kunstplaza : “Jubilee exhibition 2016: Museum Ludwig shows Museum Ludwig ”).
" This Meeting Is Being Recorded" (until February 27, 2022) was recently Künstlerhaus Stuttgart , organized by curator Rhea Anastas and Eric Golo Stone, the artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
Works of art by Andrea Fraser can be viewed across the (traditional) art world (above mentioned above) 18 public collections
- Australia : Queensland Art Gallery + Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
- Belgium : Museum Voor Hedendaagse Art Antwerp, Vanhaertets Art Collection Brussels
- Germany : Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Museum Ludwig Cologne
- France : 49 Nord 6 est frac Lorraine Metz, Center Pompidou Paris
- Netherlands : de Hallen Haarlem
- Spain : CCA Andratx, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
- USA : Moca Grand Avenue Los Angeles, Moma + Orchard 47 New York City, Art Institute Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- United Kingdom : The Saatchi Gallery + Tate Modern London, Fogg Museum Cambridge
In 2013 Andrea Fraser received the Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Society for Modern Art at the Museum Ludwig Cologne. A total value of 100,000 euros, including for the purchase of a work for the Ludwig Museum, a presentation and a publication.
In 2016 Andrea Fraser was distinguished with the Oskar Kokoschka Prize Vienna, 20,000 euros at free disposal for "an artist of pioneering importance, which has an impressive concise work and yet has remained completely unpredictable ," said the jury justification.
Andrea Fraser, short short biography
- 1965 Andrea Fraser was born in Billings, Montana, USA
- 1966 - 1982 Frazer grows up in Berkeley, California
- 1982 - 1986 art studies at New York University and the School of Visual Arts NY
- 1986-1996 Member of the feminist performance group "The V-Girls", with Martha Baer, Jessica Chalmers, Erin Cramer, Marianne Weems
- 1994-2001 co-organizer of the “Working Group Exhibition Services”, which visited 8 venues in Europe and the USA
- 1997 - 1998 Member of the Art Initiative Parasite
- 2005 - 2008 Member of the Cooperative Art Gallery Orchard
- 2013 "Andrea Fraser", Retrospective, Museum Ludwig Cologne
- 2013 Wolfgang-Hahn Prize
- 2015 "Andrea Fraser", Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg
- 2016 "Andrea Fraser", Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona
- 2016 "Andrea Fraser", Retrospective, Muac Unam Mexico City
- 2016 Oskar-Kokoschka Prize Vienna
In her home country, the USA, Andrea Fraser has not yet been honored with a retrospective. In the award-winning online art magazine TheCulturetrip.com, you can read at theCulturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/andrea-fraser-to-shocking-for-a-us retrospective why Fraser and their work are (too "too retrospective" "Untitled" , art with sex, plays a role, of course).
You will also read there that the artist has long since accepted her exile through Prude US art sizes in order to turn to the more interested and freer European art audience ...
Significantly translated, fraser expressed “I am satisfied with the turmoil that“ Untitled ”caused in the United States. The best thing about it: I not only put normal citizens into a bright excitement, but also people from the innermost circle of American art world ... "
Andrea Fraser is happy to accept the enlightened European art audience.
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