Eva Grubinger (born 1970 in
Salzburg
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) is an Austrian sculptor and
installation artist
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.
Life
Between 1989–95 Grubinger studied at the
Hochschule der Künste Berlin where she worked with
Valie Export
Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work. Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer an ...
and
Katharina Sieverding
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Early life and educati ...
. Her graduation project, ''C@C, or Computer Aided Curating'' (1993–95), provided a branching interface for visitors to explore a social network of artists. While Grubinger began her career with works that reflected and commented, in a pioneering manner, on the early development of the Internet, since the mid-1990s she has worked primarily in sculpture and installation. These phases are not, however, disconnected: her latter-day focus on materiality and space, not least social space and how it subliminally affects us, might be seen as a reaction to the immateriality of the online world.
Grubinger’s method is primarily to focus on, and unsettle via various strategies, recognizable objects. Her scope in this regard is wide: she draws inspiration and iconography from such diverse worlds as seafaring, history, architecture, the theatre of politics, and the recent history of art itself, particularly Minimalism and Conceptualism. As a sculptor she has worked, accordingly, in numerous different formats and materials. Typically, however, Grubinger’s approach is to take subjects that we might be familiar with, even to the point of no longer ‘seeing’ them, and alter their scale, context and material, often with attention to surfaces – for surfaces, and their deceptions, are a strong part of her interest – so that they register anew. As she works, the familiar comes to reveal not only itself but also its subtle, often politicised workings on body and mind.
In the 1990s and 2000s Grubinger had numerous residencies in Cologne, Stockholm, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. She was professor for Sculpture – Transmedial Space at Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria and in 2016 taught at the Academy of fine arts in Düsseldorf, Germany. She lives in Berlin.
[CV Eva Grubinger www.evagrubinger.com]
Exhibitions
Grubinger’s works have been shown in numerous international venues, with solo exhibitions at, among others,
Abteiberg Museum
The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for contemporary art in the German city Mönchengladbach.
Since the 1970s, the museum has been known for its experimental and avant-garde exhibitions, starting with director Johannes Cladders (1967-1985 ...
Mönchengladbach; the
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (also known simply as (the) Baltic, stylised as BALTIC) is a centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It hosts a frequently changing variety ...
, Newcastle;
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Museum, Helsinki;
Berlinische Galerie
The Berlinische Galerie is a museum of modern art, photography and architecture in Berlin. It is located in Kreuzberg, on Alte Jakobstraße, not far from the Jewish Museum.
History
The Berlinische Galerie was founded in 1975 , Berlin; Tobias Nahring Gallery, Berlin and Leipzig;
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt;
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA c ...
; and the
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna. She has also participated in many group exhibitions in Germany and abroad, e.g. the
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; the Taipei Fine Art Museum;
Krannert Art Museum, Illinois; the Marrakech Biennale; and
Witte de With
Witte Corneliszoon de With (28 March 1599 – 8 November 1658) was a Dutch naval officer. He is noted for planning and participating in a number of naval battles during the Eighty Years War and the First Anglo-Dutch war.
Early life and chil ...
Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
References
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1970 births
Living people
20th-century Austrian women artists
21st-century Austrian women artists
Artists from Salzburg
Austrian women sculptors
Austrian installation artists
Women installation artists
Austrian contemporary artists