Isa Genzken: A considerable history of outstanding exhibitions

Among the media reports, which are more of the audience than the audience than the good information, often (or almost always?) Stands a tendency Isa Genzken

It is not the case, and you will never be embarrassed to only suspect such nonsense if you know the following facts from Isa Genzken Exhibition history:

Isa Genzken solo exhibition very early , before visiting the master class: 10–22. January 1976 the exhibition " Isa Genzken. Ellipse and light parallelogram" in the Konrad Fischer gallery in Düsseldorf.

Konrad Fischer was one of the then not uncommon "enfant territory" of modern art; He had opened his gallery in 1967 in the preview of the 1968 movement to participate in the fact that the traditional FRG's traditional art company was thoroughly shaken. What was successful for him, the son of a Mannesman director was able to establish enough contacts during his art studies (at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, of course, but in the early 1960s) to develop his old town gallery created by the glazing of a gap by the glazing through the world.

Fischer represented important artists, often from their first public appearance (in Germany), minimalists and concept artists such as Carl Andre and Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven and Hamish Fulton, Sol Lewitt and Richard Long, Bruce Nauman , Markus Oehlen, Blinky Palermo , Lawrence Weiner and others.

Mainly because many legendary American artists were seen in Germany for the first time at Fischer, the gallery is now given art historical importance. The Konrad Fischer Galerie is also said to have contributed significantly to the fact that Düsseldorf became an internationally recognized focus of contemporary art.

In a similar style, the solo exhibitions of Genzkens continued: May 20 to June 18, 1978 "Isa Genzken" in the cabinet for current art , Bremerhaven.

The cabinet was founded Jürgen Wesseler The surveying engineer with a nose for modern art has made a shop window room on the ground floor of the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven a small but influential exhibition location.

There were numerous significant solo exhibitions and premieres, for example from and with Carl Andre, Bernd and Hilla Becher , Hanne Darboven, on Kawara, Blinky Palermo, on Kawara, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter and Lawrence Weiner. In her first solo exhibition, Isa Genzken showed three of her ellipsoids in this institution.

In 1979, "sculptures, drawings, photographs" by Isa Genzken in the Museums Haus Lange / Haus Esters in Krefeld were to be considered; In 1981 this exhibition was shown as part of the exhibition associated with the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship at the Mathildenhöhe Institute in Darmstadt.

The sculptures were ellipsoids and hyperbolos, in the photographs of Hi-Fi and ear photographs, in the drawings about computer drawings (which many artists presented almost 40 years later).

With exhibition in France, Biennale Venice, Documenta 7 (with four from Genzkens Ellipsoiden), artistic excursions to Bulgaria and New York as well as the clinging of the Münster sculpture with "ABC" , Genzken's first local outdoor sculpture (UA), 1980 to 1986/ spring 1987 passed well; In 1987 Genzken had completed half marriage.

And she had the desire and time for a solo exhibition. The galerist Daniel Buchholz in the desired style by renting a shop of Musix GmbH in Cologne via the Daniel Buchholz gallery so that ISA Genzken had been able to exhibit its "world recipients" (which had now developed from the first ready-made to a number of small concrete sculptures, Mo.MA/2m5ai3o) on a reasonable setting = show window of a local music business.

This first exhibition with Daniel Buchholz, who opened his gallery of the same name in Cologne in 1986, should not remain the last, Buchholz becomes Genzken's main gallery and represents it worldwide to this day. With this, Genzken once again turned to a gallery owner with a great future; A remarkable series of world leaders today exhibited early or for the first time in Germany in the Buchholz gallery: John M. Armleder, Chris Burden, Maurizio Cattelan, Simon Denny, Cerith Wyn Evans, the Canadian group of artists General Idea, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Carsten Höller, Mike Kelley , Mark Leckey, Olivier Mosset, Henrik Oleses, Dieter Roth , Blinky Palermo , Philippe Parreno, Sigmar Polke , Frances Stark, Wolfgang Tillmans , Danh Vo.

Today the gallery has exhibition rooms at central addresses in Cologne, Berlin and New York City and represents over 40 contemporary artists from all over the world.

In 1988 the exhibition “Isa Genzken” followed in the Rheinische Landesmuseum Bonn and thus Genzken's first journey of museum; The exhibition moves under the name "Isa Genzken: Sculptures 1978–1989" to the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland (from January 1989) and the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum (from April 1989).

Introduction to Isa Genzken. Works from 1973 - 1983 by curator Søren Grammel

In 1989 ISA Genzken also exhibited at the Goethe Institute in Rotterdam , in 1990 in the Galerie Greta Meert in Brussels. In 1992 Genzken was back in the Daniel Buchholz gallery in Cologne; The Renaissance Society in Chicago also showed "Everyone needs at least one window", the exhibition continued to the porticus in Frankfurt am Main (1992), the Palais of the Beaux Arts Brussels (1993) and the municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich (1993).

In 1996 the Generali Foundation in Vienna "Metlife" , in 1997 "Isa Genzken" in the Corvi-Mora London gallery and in 1998 in the Init-Kunsthalle in Berlin. The exhibitions "Isa Genzken: You are my luck" in the Kunstverein Braunschweig and "Isa Genzken - Vacation" in the Frankfurt Art Association Frankfurt/Main.

For her appearances in group exhibitions, ISA Genzken also chose the best of the best art exhibition places: After a few exhibitions in West Germany, ISA Genzken was to be seen in the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in the exhibition "Art Allemagne Aujourd ́hui" in 1982 for the first time in 1982 to be invited to the documenta in Kassel.

She showed 7 ellipsoids and hyperbolo sculptures on this documenta. Also in 1982 art by Isa Genzken was seen 0. Biennale of Venice

In 1983 she exhibited her works in the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, in the Center Beneldend Kunst Rotterdam and several times in Germany. The years until 1990 were similar, with highlights in Mumok Vienna (1985, "Art with self-meaning"), Bulgaria (1986, "You do what you want. Young Rheinische Kunst", Union of Bulgarian Artists, Sofia), The Sculpture Projects Münster 1987, 1987, Juxtapositions: Current sculpture from England and Germany, PS1 Institute and Urban Resources, today Moma PS1), Sydney (1988, 7th Biennale of Sydney) and Montreal (1990, Broken Music, Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montréal).

In 1991 Genzken-Kunst was seen in Cologne and Düsseldorf, 1992 on Documenta 9 in Kassel (concrete and epoxy resin sculptures), 1993 at the 45th Biennale of Venice ("Venice", large epoxy sculpture in two parts, which was specially made for the exhibition), 1994 in London and Vienna in 1995 in Tampere, FL + Houston, TX USA, Dunkerque France and again in Vienna.

In 1996 Genzken was represented at the exhibition "Places and Platzen Sign" in the Heilbronn municipal museums, in 1997 there were works from her to Vienna and Mürzzuschlag in Austria, to the sculpture of projects in Münster, New York and Warsaw. In 1998 it went back from Hamburg to Seoul and Hong Kong and to Hamburg; 1999 via Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch Arnhem; In 2000, Rotterdam, the Cologne sculpture park , the K & S Berlin Gallery , the Kunsthalle Bremen , the ZKM Karlsruhe and again Mönchengladbach ("Exchange Aisure 1995-2000", Städtische Museum Abteiberg) were on the exhibition route.

Around 20 solo exhibitions and a good 60 group exhibitions up to the year 2000, which is a mighty exhibition career for the time before the turn of the millennium. Especially for a female artist who is known for not using every suitable or inappropriate opportunity to publicly present her works of art.

It also has to be taken into account that the collections of exhibition data up to the turn of the millennium are quite incomplete, with leading world art viewers, several exhibitions of ISA Genzkens not listed in the overview of her exhibition history (and here, too, no guarantee can be assumed that the author could really research all exhibitions ISA Genzkens up to the millennia).

In any case, Isa Genzken has already exhibited a lot by 2000; And then the art world became global in big jumps, so it really started: Before the anniversary year with her 70th birthday, Isa Genzken brought it to almost 60 solo exhibitions and 350 group exhibitions in the new millennium (Genzken exhibitions after the turn of the millennium were deliberately torn down so that "nice and large material" remains for your own discovery).

After works by Isa Genzken in the new millennium, which caused greater attention in the art world in the art world, the factual articles also increase in the traditional press when it comes to the work and work of the artist. From the abysses of journalism, however, funny statements such as B. the sentence "She was a master student of Gerhard Richter and more than 20 years his wife" ; as the final sentence of an article about the retrospective in the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2009) as wrong as it is incorrectly and incorrectly protected by judge.

Also in the area of ​​"prices and awards", a stately list comes together at Isa Genzken:

• 1977: Travel scholarship from the Düsseldorf Art Academy to the United States
• 1978-1980: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship
• 1980: Berlin Kunst Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
• 2002: Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize Museum Ludwig Cologne
• 2004: International Art Prize of the Cultural Foundation Stadtsparkasse Munich
• 2007: "Most important living artist" in the annual "artist ranking" of the art magazine Monopol
• 2008: Yang Hyun Prize of the Yang Hyun Foundation, Seoul
• 2013: The magazine " Mirrors " is one of the "most important artists of the past 30 years" on the occasion of the retrospective of her works in the New York MoMA "
• 2017: Isa Genzken is awarded the Goslarer Kaiserring

In 2018, for the 70th birthday of the artist, enough exhibitions with art by Isa Genzken equipped with those who missed all, one of the numerous Genzken works in public spaces can be viewed (in addition to the z. B. the "X" in Münchner Arnulfstraße, which from Münster to Gnadendorf/Austria to the Wenzersdorf Castle Ruin, sculpture is fully by her who are presented public collections

• Belgium: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD), Deurle
• Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
• Germany: H2 Center for Contemporary Art in the Glass Palace Augsburg; Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden; Hoffmann Berlin Collection; Museum Ludwig Cologne; MMK Frankfurt/Main; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau Munich; Städtische Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach; Art space Grässlin St. Georgen
• France: Frac Nord-Pas de Calais Dunkerque; Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris
• Italy: Museion Bolzano; Fondazione Morra Naples
• Japan: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa
• Netherlands: van Abbemuseum Eindhoven; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
• Austria: Generali Foundation Vienna; Museum of Modern Salzburg
• USA: Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA; The Warehouse Dallas, TX; Moca Grand Avenue Los Angeles, Ca; Moma New York City, NY; Kemper Art Museum Saint Louis, Mo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC;
• United Kingdom: The Saatchi Gallery London

Tour: Isa Genzken. Here and now

With two parallel exhibitions on Isa Genzken (*1948), here and now and working from 1973 to 1983, the North Rhine-Westphalia art collection offers a special insight into the work of one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. The focus is on two phases of work from their five decades.

Current works of the past decade can be seen on the Beletage. At the same time, the focus is on your visionary early work in the basement of the K21, which has not yet been recognized to this extent in any other exhibition. This exciting compilation directs the view of developments within the OEUVRE and Isa Genzkens Weltanschauung.

Lina cream

Passionate author with lively art interest

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