Gisela Weimann

Gisela Weimann (born June 10, 1943) is a German visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. She is known as a multimedia artist including many disparate elements, from painting, printmaking, photography and film to performance art and art in public space.[1] Her work often focuses on political - particularly feminist - themes, and on art's relationship with politics.[2]

Life and Career

Weimann was born in Bad Blankenburg, Germany in 1943, a period of German history. Weimann describes as, "characterized by destruction, displacement and loss of identity."[3] From 1965 Weimann studied Painting at the Berlin University of the Arts Berlin, graduating in 1971 when she went on to study Printmaking and Photography at the Royal College of Art in London, under the DAAD Scholarship.[2] In 1978 she received the Airlift-Memorial and Fulbright-Scholarships to study Film and Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute.[2] After her studies she lived in Tepoztlan (Mexico)[4] until 1981 when she returned to Berlin and was made Head of the Department of Art and Creativity at the University of Continuous Education in Berlin-Wedding from 1982 until 1987.[2] In 1989 she received the GEDOK Catalogue Prize.[2] In 1991 she was awarded a residence scholarship in Istanbul (Turkey) by the Cultural Senate of Berlin.[2] The following year, she received a production grant from the Berlin Women Artists Programme and in 1994 a publishing grant from the Käthe Dorsch Foundation, Berlin.[2] Between 1996 and 2004, Weimann was a DAAD Guest Lecturer in the Fine Arts Departments of the Universities of Salamanca and Madrid (Spain), U Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City.[2] In 1997 she received a grant from the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles and project grants for “Opera for 4 Buses” by Kulturfonds and Berlin Capital Culture Fund in 2000.[2] In 2002 she was awarded the prestigious Critics Prize for Visual Arts, and in 2011 she received a production grant from the Centre d’Art Essaouira, Ifitry (Morocco).[2] Her most recent resident scholarships were from the Kunstverein Frankfurt-Oder (Germany) in 2009 and the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice (Italy) in 2014.[5] Since then, she has been living and working in Berlin.[2]

Solo Work and Performances

Weimann's work has been exhibited internationally and includes exhibitions, sound installations and multimedia performances. These include: "Une mer deux rivages" MAC.A, Asilah (Morocco) (2014–15); "My shadow Stays", solo exhibition, Brno House of Arts (CZECH Republic) (2014); "Start Date End Here Now", solo exhibition, Kunsthalle Brennabor, Brandenburg an der Havel (2013); "World in Flames", Casablanca Biennale (Morocco) (2012); "Memorias", Palacio de la Mosquera, Arenas de San Pedro (Spain) (2011); "La Notte Blu", Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Venice (Italy) and galerie futura, Berlin (2010); "Winds Ballet I / Aurora", Body Navigation Festival, St. Petersburg (Russia) and "Espacios Mediterraneos" Casa de las Conchas, Salamanca (Spain) (2008); "Transatlantic Impulses", Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin (2005); and "Opera for 4 Buses" Museumsinselfestival Berlin (2001).[6]

Critical Reception

When Weimann was awarded the Critics Prize for Visual Art, the awardee Dr. Stefanie Endlich said of the artist: "There are two leading threads in Gisela Weimann’s life’s work: her diaries, which are conceived visually as well as narratively and which describe her continuous reflections on the relation between politics, society and personal experience. Both threads determine the specific form of her artistic references. Both include her repeated mental struggle with the powerlessness of art against war and violence. In awarding this prize, the jury wishes to emphasize that Gisela Weimann’s struggle is not outdated but as important as ever in today’s world." [7]

References

  1. ↑ documentation work description
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Gigler, Dietmar. "Gisela Weimann - biography". www.giselaweimann.de. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  3. ↑ "Gisela Weimann". 2visual4arts's Blog. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  4. ↑ "Gisela Weimann". Wikipedia (in German).
  5. ↑ "Grant Recipient Details - Villa Aurora (en)". www.villa-aurora.org (in German). Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  6. ↑ "Werke und Performances". www.giselaweimann.de (in German). Retrieved 2016-03-23.
  7. ↑ "Gisela Weimann, Critics’ Prize 2002 for Visual Art, Text of the Laudatio by Professor Dr. Stefanie Endlich" (PDF).

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