Annett Zinsmeister
(Germany, b. 1967)

Annett Zinsmeister出生于德国斯图加特,目前居住与工作于柏林。柏林视觉艺术与设计大学毕业,学习艺术,建筑,文化和媒体科学。自2003年以来,她任教于艺术学校和担任数间大学的教授。空间和建筑是Zinsmeister创作的核心主题,以大型装置,摄影,素描,拼贴画和电影的形式呈现。她同时也是许多跨领域学科书籍的作者,书籍在国际间出版,并以建筑,艺术和媒体研究等不同学科的结合而闻名。她的作品曾参与多间国际机构展览并获收藏,例如纽约现代艺术博物馆(MOMA),新柏林艺术中心(NBK),法国奥尔良当代艺术中心(FRAC Centre-Val de Loire)等。

Annett Zinsmeister对建筑和空间的定义、历史、传统、创新、社会政治背景以及空间结构等极感兴趣。她探究日常仪式的起源,形式和日常行为因习惯而产生的效果。她尤其着迷于经历转化的特定地点,这些地点有着已发生的不可逆的过去,和充满着不确定发展的未来,在不同的作品中,她针对特定建筑或空间过去的历史及当下正在进行的发展,进行关于空间感知和设计的研究。

Zinsmeister的装置作品由她于世界各地不同的城市空间中所拍摄的建筑照片组成,最初从1993年东德的Plattenbau(公共住宅)文献资料和照片开始,当时德国Plattenbau的拆除和重建成为建筑实践中相当重要并引起讨论的主题,她因此利用不同的技术将这些具特殊历史意义的公共住宅的照片,不断的改变及堆叠,使这些图像从纪录文件转化为她特殊的艺术性语彙。至90年代后期,Zinsmeister将Plattenbau的外牆图像以Wallpaper牆纸装置的形式表现,在不同的空间中进行牆纸装置或投影的创作,她将外部空间翻转为内部空间,透过让人们走入装置,体验不同于平时的观看经验以及对于空间的认知。

她的艺术作品代表着艺术,建筑和文化研究的混合物,在创建大型装置,概念式空间,摄影,绘画,电影,拼贴画和文字时,她将理论研究与概念艺术的实践相融合:她使用模块化(modular)的原理进行反復的解构和重组,大型的装置作品让观看者具有身临其境的感官效果,挑战人们对空间的感知和理解,并为人们认为熟悉的主题开闢了新途径。

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Shifting Space, JD Malat Gallery, London, UK
2019 Urban Structures, LH2 Contemporary Berlin, Germany
2018 Space, Fragment, Formation, Gallery Braunbehrens, Stuttgart, Germany
2018 Infintiy, MPV Gallery, s´Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
2018 Fictitious Reality, LH2 Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2017 Searching for Identity, gkg, Bonn, Germany
2016 Urban Shelter, BNKR, Munich, Germany
2016 Tank / Transformation, Kornhaus KirchheimITeck, Germany
2016 Virtual Interior, Gallery NMerino, Paris, France
2015 Confession Library, Installation in progress, Germany
2015 Data. Grid, Space. Module, Cubus, SSC Böblingen, Germany
2014 I confess, Installation in situ, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany
2013 Annett Zinsmeister, Plattenpalast, dr.julius|ap, Berlin, Germany
2011 Raum I – No Place. Nowhere?, Gallery 14-1 Stuttgart, Germany
2011 Searching for Identity, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Germany
2010 Annett Zinsmeister + Hans Kotter at Gallery Grazia Blumberg, Germany
2007 Plattenbau II, Konzerthaus at Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany
2007 Plattenbau I, Berlin Academy of Science Berlin, Germany
2005 outside_in II, Academy Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2005 outside_in I, solo show at Gallery Oberwelt, Stuttgart, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2019 Linear Construction, LH2 Contemporary Berlin, Germany
2019 Century Bauhaus, Gallery dr.julius|ap, Berlin, Germany
2018 Wonders, MPV Gallery, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
2019 postcard reloaded, Kunstraum Potsdam , Potsdam
2018 Decade One, Gallery dr.julius|ap Berlin, Germany
2018 A to Z – works from the collection, LH2 Contemporary Berlin, Germany
2018 Various Artists, MPV Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2017 Walking Trough Someone Else´s Dream Biennial Orléans, France
2017 Start up!, Gallery Robert Drees, Hanover, Germany
2017 Espacios Concretos, Galeria Impakto Lima, Peru
2017 Start up! dr.julius|ap Berlin, Germany
2016 Are we human? Biennial Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Raumwunder, Museum Ritter Waldenbuch, Germany
2016 Positions, Dr. Julius, Berlin, Germany
2015 Revisiones, Galeria Impakto Lima, Peru
2015 Endless House, MoMA New York, USA
2015 Concept Paper, dr.julius|ap Berlin, Germany
2015 The Art of Fold, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
2015 The Art of Folding, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt, Germany
2015 Teknology, Galeria Impakto Lima, Peru
2014 Anonymous Drawings, Pavillon in Milchhof, Berlin, Germany
2014 Scenes of the Uncanny, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany
2014 Private View, Gallery dr.julius|ap Berlin, Germany
2014 PARC, Galeria Impakto at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Lima, Peru
2013 Lumino City, Galeria Impakto Lima, Peru
2012 Rasterfahndung – Tracing the Grid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany 2011 (In)visible Cities, Kunstverein Wilmshöhe, Ettlingen, Germany
2009 Urban Hacking, Paraflows, Vienna, Austria
2009 ZEIGEN – An Audio Tour through Berlin, curated by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
2008 New Works in the Collection of NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2008 Digital Spaces, Gallery Digital Art Museum, Berlin, Germany
2007 Searching for an ideal urbanity, Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2007 New members, Werkbund Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006 Talking cities – ENTRY 2006, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2004 Fly Utopia!, transmediale 04 – i media art festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Germany
2002 urbandrift / night space, Café Moskau, Berlin, Germany
2002 MUSEUTOPIA, group show KarlErnst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
2002 Stadt(t)räume – works from the collection, Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

Awards

2018 Grant: Artist in residence, Schlesinger Foundation Switzerland
2017 Grant: Artist in residence, Villa Lena Foundation, Italy
2014 Grant: Cité des Arts Internationale de Paris selected by German Ministry of Cultural Affairs
2005/07 Grant: Academy Schloß Solitude Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Grant: Postgraduate scholarship of the State Thüringen, Germany
2001 Grant: Artist in residence, Schlesinger Foundation Switzerland
2000 2nd Prize in the Competition for the redesign of Plattenbausiedlung Hellersdorf
1999 Art Award ring Switzerland

Public Collections

MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Karl Ernst Osthaus, Museum Hagen, Germany
NBK – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein Berlin, Germany
Deutscher Bundestag zu, Berlin, Germany
About Change Collection, Munich, Germany

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