art critic
An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...
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art historian
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, and curator. Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, she lives in New York City and Lübeck, Germany. Her book series "Studio Conversations" focuses on contemporary female artists from different cities. Each book is in a different city. The concept for the "Studio Conversations" project goes back to 2012 when Buhamann became increasingly disenchanted with the media’s fixation the soaring art market. Buhmann states, "I wanted to counterbalance that trend while supporting my community by creating a permanent record of something private and simple: conversations with artists in their studios about the works on their walls."
Education
Buhmann received her PhD. from the Humboldt Universität of Berlin in 2021. Previously, she attended
Moore College of Art and Design
Moore College of Art & Design is a Private college, private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its undergraduate programs are available only for female students, but its other educational programs, including graduate programs, are co-ed ...
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and received a B.F.A. and Master in the History of Art, Architecture and Design from
Pratt Institute
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Buhmann has conducted over one hundred interviews with contemporary artists, ranging from Nancy Spero to Mark Dion. She has released five books thus far: "New York Studio Conversations; Seventeen Women Talk About Art” (2016), "Berlin Studio Conversations - Twenty Women Talk About Art” (2017), New York Studio Conversations (Part II) (2018), and Rheinland Studio Conversations (2021). All of these were published by The Green Box, Berlin. Artists include Katharina Grosse,
Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu (born November 28, 1970) is an Ethiopian American contemporary visual artist, known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale. Her paintings, drawings, and prints depict the cumulative effects of urban ...
Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and ...
, Kiki Smith and more than eighty others.
Buhmann’s essays and art reviews have been published by a variety of international art magazines and newspapers, including Kunst Bulletin, Sculpture Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, ARTPulse, Art on Paper, Art Papers, Art Collector, Chelsea Now and Art Lies. She has contributed essays to various monographs, including publications by
Hatje Cantz
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In addition to being an art critic and writer, Buhmann has curated many exhibitions, including the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, the Macy Art Gallery, Teacher's College, Columbia University and Jason McCoy gallery. Artists she has exhibited include, Lee Krasner,
Frederick Kiesler
Frederick John Kiesler (September 22, 1890 – December 27, 1965) was an Austrian- American architect, theoretician, theater designer, artist and sculptor.
Biography
Kiesler was born Friedrich Jacob Kiesler in Czernowitz, Austro-Hungarian Empi ...
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Thomas Nozkowski
Thomas Nozkowski (March 23, 1944 – May 9, 2019) was an American Contemporary art, contemporary painter. He achieved a place of prominence through his small scale paintings and drawings that push the limits of visual language.
Early life and ed ...
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Willy Bo Richardson
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Richard Pousette-Dart
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Buhmann has organized many panel discussions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York, and the Shirley Fiterman Art Gallery at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York.
Her teaching experience includes lectures at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; Pratt Institute, New York; Hofstra University, New York; Wave Hill, New York, and the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick, Canada, among others.
Selected works
Books
*Rheinland Studio Conversations; Fifteen Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2021,
*Los Angeles Studio Conversations; Sixteen Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2019,
*New York Studio Conversations (Part II); Twenty-One Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2018,
*Berlin Studio Conversations; Twenty Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2017,
*New York Studio Conversations; Seventeen Women Talk About Art. Berlin: The Green Box, 2016,
*Frederick Kiesler: Galaxies. Berlin: The Green Box, 2022,
Anthologies and monographs
* ''Christiane Löhr: In Dialogue with Space'', in: Christiane Löhr, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2020
* ''Ulrike Rosenbach; An Interview'', Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, 2020
* ''Frederick Kiesler and Jean Arp'', in: Frederick Kiesler: Face to Face with the Avant-Garde, Basel: Birkhäuser 2019
* ''Yun Gee and Li-lan: Art Without Borders'', Tina Kim Gallery, Hong-Kong, 2017
* ''Across the Atlantic; The Friendship of Jean Arp and Frederick Kiesler'', in: Hans Arp and the United States, Stiftung Arp, Berlin, 2016
* ''Nicole Schmölzer: The Independence of Abstraction'', Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany: Modo Verlag, 2013
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Jack Tworkov
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Biography
Yakov Tworkovsky, more commonly known as Jack Tworkov, was born in Biała Podlaska on the border between Poland and the Russian Empi ...
: Between the Subjective and the Universal'', Birmingham, Michigan: David Klein Gallery, 2013
* '' Jackson Pollock: Signs & Symbols Allover'', New York: Jason McCoy Gallery, November 2012
* Charles Pollock: The Chapala Series 1955–1956, New York: Jason McCoy, Inc., 2007
Art reviews
* ''Behind the Scenes: A Conversation with Mark Dion'', Sculpture Magazine, 2016
* ''Painting For The Experience: Frank Stella at the Whitney Museum'', CHELSEA NOW and AM New York, November 18, 2015
* '' Constantino Nivola'', in: Sculpture Magazine, May 2013
* '' Wilhelm Lehmbruck'', in: Sculpture Magazine, December 2012
* Dan Flavin’s Drawings at the
Morgan Library
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, on: Artcritical, June 2012
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Constantin Brâncuși
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and Richard Serra'', in: Sculpture Magazine, December 2011
* ''The Work of Stephen Mueller (1947–2011)'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, November 2011
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Betye Saar
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, in: Sculpture Magazine, October 2011
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Kathleen Kucka
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's Ultrastructures'', New York: Brenda Taylor Gallery, September 2011
* '' Franz Xaver Messerschmidt736-1783at Neue Galerie New York'', in: Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2011
* '' Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt at Craig F. Starr Gallery'', in: Brooklyn Rail, May 2011
* '' Jackson Pollock Family Letters - Book Review'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, April 2011
* '' Malcah Zeldis: A Life Traveled in Painting'', in: Chelsea Now, February 10, 2011
* ''On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries, 1922–1960'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, February 2011
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Anselm Kiefer
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: Next Year in Jerusalem'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2011
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Julie Mehretu
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at The Guggenheim'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2010
* '' Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery'', artcritical, January 2010
* ''Mark Bradford and Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.'', in: Artcritical.com, October 2009
* ''
Alice Neel
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David Zwirner
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Early life and education
Zwirner was born in Cologne, West Germany. The son of art dealer Rudolf ...
and Zwirner & Wirth'', in: Artcritical.com, August 2009
* ''Nick Cave: Soundsuits'', in: Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2009, Vol. 28, No. 6
* '' Patti Smith: Veil; A glimpse into Smith's work outside of Music'', in: Chelsea now, Vol. 3, No. 18, March 27-April 9, 2009
* '' Alfred Kubin'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, December 2008
* ''
David Byrne
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''; Finding the Voice of the Battery Maritime, in: The Villager, Vol. 78 / Number 8, July 23 – 29, 2008
* '' Olafur Eliasson'' at MoMA, PS1 and the East River, artcritical, June 2008
* ''
Ursula von Rydingsvard
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Early life and ...
at the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon'', in: Art Papers, March/April 2007
* '' Lee Bontecou'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, April 2007
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Caspar David Friedrich
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at the Hamburger Kunsthalle'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, February 2007
* ''
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a varie ...
'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, November 2006
* '' Dieter Roth; A Retrospective'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, April 2004
* ''In Conversation; An interview with Nancy Spero'', in: The Brooklyn Rail, November 2003
Quote
In 2019, when asked by Deanna Sirlin, founder of The Art Section, an online journal of art and cultural commentary, whether her perspective on an artist’s work would change after an interview, Buhmann replied: