Maria Eichhorn
dal 3/4/2008 al 25/4/2008
Segnalato da
3/4/2008
Maria Eichhorn
Galerie Barbara Weiss (old location), Berlin
"Prohibited Imports" (2003) refers explicitly to the Japanese customs authorities' practice of censoring imported books. The video film "Billboard Istanbul Biennial 1995" was created for the Istanbul Biennial 2005.
Galerie Barbara Weiss is showing works by Maria Eichhorn from the years
2001--2007, which the artist created for biennials and other exhibition
projects. Maria Eichhorn's first exhibition at Galerie Barbara Weiss
took place in 1991 and attracted international interest. The gallery was
filled with a salty fog and transformed into a climatic chamber. Since
then Eichhorn has taken part in important and pioneering exhibitions and
biennials and her works are included in many collections. Her complex
and multi-facetted work cannot be simply categorised.
"Joint Account No. 1711601, Bank of Fukuoka, Yahata Branch 411" was
produced for the Yokohama Triennial 2001. Eichhorn used her budget to
set up a joint bank account that was freely accessible and open to
general use. Visitors to the Triennial were able to withdraw or pay in
money and the transactions were registered in an account book on show at
the exhibition.
"Prohibited Imports" (2003) refers explicitly to the Japanese customs
authorities' practice of censoring imported books. In the years
2000--2002 several packages with books were sent from Berlin to Tokyo,
including the monograph on Robert Mapplethorpe, "Mapplethorpe. Die große
Werkmonographie", which was censored. Eichhorn's project has been
exhibited at venues in Japan and Canada, and is now to be shown in
Europe for the first time.
The video film "Billboard Istanbul Biennial 1995" was created for the
Istanbul Biennial 2005. The film refers to Eichhorn's own contribution
to the Istanbul Biennial 1995 ten years previously, which had consisted
of erecting a billboard with political posters on Taksim Square in
Istanbul. Eichhorn invited subcultural and left-wing groups from
Istanbul to design posters for the billboard. This film investigates the
political context that led in 1995 to the billboard twice being taken
down and then reinstated.
"von 12,37 bis 36,08 = 24,94 von 100 %" consists of a presentation
display and a book that provide an overview of all the women who
participated in the Graz festival "Steirischer Herbst" from its
beginnings in 1968 to 2007. Eichhorn designed the display for a bookshop
that only had this book on offer, and this shop was run by women from
feminist backgrounds during the Graz exhibition. The book was published
by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
For this exhibition Maria Eichhorn has compiled an accompanying reader
with extensive text and picture documentation.
Maria Eichhorn (born 1962 in Bamberg) lives in Berlin. She studied at
the Berlin University of Arts; solo exhibitions (selected) at Portikus,
Frankfurt a.M. (1999), Kunsthalle Bern (2001), Lenbachhaus München
(2003), Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona (2004), Centre de l'Image
Contemporaine, Montréal (2006), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2007--08).
Participations include Venice Biennale (1993), Istanbul Biennial (1995,
2005), Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997, Documenta 11 (2002), 2nd
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (2006). Since 2003
professor at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 1992 she received the
George Maciunas prize and in 2002 the Arnold Bode prize.
Exhibitions by Maria Eichhorn in 2008 include: "Maria Eichhorn
Aktiengesellschaft", Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; "Museum as Medium",
Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo; "Die Künstlerbibliothek",
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; "ReCollecting. Raub und
Restitution", Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; "Toward Participation
in Art", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
Maria Eichhorn is represented at the 5th Berlin Biennial, "Mes nuits
sont plus belles que vos jours", with her presentation "The Artist's
Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement". Further participants are
Seth Siegelaub and Daniel McClean. 13 May 08, 8 pm, KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Auguststrasse 69.
In summer 2008 the publishers Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König,
Cologne, will present Maria Eichhorn's book "The Artist's Contract.
Interviews with Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer,
Adrian Piper, Robert Ryman, Jackie Winsor, et al.", edited by Gerti Fietzek.
Galerie Barbara Weiss
Zimmerstrasse 88-91 - Berlin
Free admission