Annett Zinsmeister
(Germany, b. 1967)

Annett Zinsmeister was born in Stuttgart, currently lives and works in Berlin. Annett studied visual arts, architecture, culture and media science in Berlin. Graduation from the Berlin University of Visual Arts + Design. Since 2003 she is professor at divers art schools and universities and is teaching internationally Visual Art, Photography, Design, Architecture, Culture and Media theory. Space and Architecture are central topics, the artist is dealing with in her large-scale installations, photography, drawings, collages and films. She is the author of numerous interdisciplinary books and is known for the combination of diverse disciplines such as architecture, art, and media studies. Her work has been published internationally and are part of exhibitions and art collections worldwide, e.g. at the MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Annett Zinsmeister is interested in the meaning of architecture and space, in the history, tradition, and innovation, the social and political background and structure of spatial constructions. She's interested in the origins, the forms, and effects of everyday rituals, their effects, and forces of habit. Fascinated by places of transition, places with a certain past and uncertain future, in and with her work, she investigates historical and contemporary developments of the perception and design of space, especially in connection with new technologies. Her works in form of installations, sculptures, images, films, etc. are challenging our perception and understanding of space and open up new approaches to supposedly familiar themes.

Her artistic work is representing an amalgam of art, architecture, and cultural studies: In creating large scale installations, conceptual and built spaces, photography, drawings, films, collages and texts, she is merging theoretical research with conceptual art practice that has an extraordinary effect: the installations and pieces have an immersive impact on the viewer. They challenge human perception and unexceptional habits. Recurring fundamentals in her oeuvre are for example the use and creation of modular principles and the strategy of deconstruction and recomposition.

Her artistic work is representing an amalgam of art, architecture, and cultural studies: In creating large scale installations, conceptual and built spaces, photography, drawings, films, collages and texts, she is merging theoretical research with conceptual art practice that has an extraordinary effect: the installations and pieces have an immersive impact on the viewer. They challenge human perception and unexceptional habits. Recurring fundamentals in her oeuvre are for example the use and creation of modular principles and the strategy of deconstruction and recomposition.

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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