Antonia Hirsch (born 1968, in

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) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in

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Life and work

Antonia Hirsch was educated at

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in London, Great Britain. From 1994 to 2010, she lived and worked in Vancouver, Canada. Hirsch's work engages a variety of media, including installation, film, video, and photography. In her preface to ''Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience'' curator and writer Melanie O'Brian states "Antonia Hirsch's practice testifies to a long-standing engagement with the quantitative, spatial, and syntactic systems that structure an understanding of our universe… Hirsch's work relates these ordering structures to embodied and visual experience, considering how the equivocal and often ideological nature of these representational systems is expressed through a level of abstraction."

Exhibitions

Hirsch's work has been featured in exhibitions such as ''Art In The Age Of…Planetary Computation'' at

Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art Kunstinstituut Melly is a contemporary art gallery located in a former school building on Witte de Withstraat, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was founded in 1990 and originally named after the street it was located on. It presents curated exhib ...

, Rotterdam (2015); ''Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun)'', Tramway, Glasgow (2012); ''The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989'' at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2011–12); and ''Universal Code'' at

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, Toronto.

Collections

Hirsch's work can be found in the public collection of the

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and the

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Publications

* Antonia Hirsch (ed.), ''Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience'' (with contributions by

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, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Lorna Brown, Elena Filipovic, Francois Laruelle,

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, Ana Teixeira Pinto,

Lisa Robertson Lisa Robertson (born July 22, 1961) is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator. She lives in France. Life and work Born in Toronto, Ontario, Robertson moved to British Columbia in 1979, first living on Saltspring Island, then in Vancouver, wh ...

, Wolfgang Winkler). Vancouver: SFU Galleries, 2015. * Antonia Hirsch (ed.), ''Intangible Economies'' (with contributions by Juan A. Gaitàn,

Melanie Gilligan Melanie Gilligan (born 1979) is a Canadian artist living in New York City who works in video, performance, text, installation, and music. Gilligan graduated from Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002 and studied at the Whitney Museum of Amer ...

, Hadley + Maxwell, Candice Hopkins,

, Patricia Reed, Monika Szewczyk, and Jan Verwoert). Vancouver:

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, 2012. * Antonia Hirsch, ''Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun)'', (with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva). Vancouver:

, 2011.

References

External links

*
Antonia Hirsch on Republic Gallery's website

Antonia Hirsch's online project The Surplus Library on Affect & Economic Exchange

Antonia Hirsch interviewed by Brittany Paris. Annotations: Out of Circulation.
Triple Canopy, January 13, 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hirsch, Antonia German women artists 1968 births Living people German installation artists German multimedia artists