Annette Messager

Annette Messager ( born November 30, 1943 in Berck, Pas- de -Calais ) is a French painter, photographer and installation artist.

Life and work

Messager was in 1943 in Berck, a spa town in northern France. born. A short time she studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts Décoratifs de Paris. She is married to Christian Boltanski and lives in Paris and Malakoff, France.

Stuffed animals, pieces of cloth, stuffed animals, wool threads, fishing nets, photographs, and a number of other materials processed Messager into assemblages. Traditionally, female hand job is like knitting with her to an artistic medium.

"For several years, there are several Annette Messager Annette Messager the collector, Annette Messager, the practical woman, Annette Messager, the Trickserin, Annette Messager, the artist. Since I had no title, I myself have given me and which have become an important, well-defined personality. "

Solo exhibitions (selection )

• 2012 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
• 2011 Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
• 2010 Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw
• 2008 "The Messengers " Mori Art Museum in Tokyo
• 2007 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Group exhibitions ( selection)

• 2005 51st Venice Biennale
• 2003 50th Venice Biennale
• 2002 Documenta 11 in Kassel
• 2000 ' I is something else, " art collection of North Rhine -Westphalia
• 1982 " Today's Art and Erotism " Kunstverein Bonn
• 1980 39th Venice Biennale
• 1979 Photography as art. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1979
• 1977 Documenta 6 in Kassel

Awards

• 2005 Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale
• 1964 Kodak Prize for Photography