Siglinde Kallnbach
Siglinde Kallnbach (* 1956 in Tann (Rhön ), Hesse ) is a German, international artist. Her work includes performance, installation, multimedia, photography and performance art.
Life
From 1976 to 1983 she studied at the Art Academy in Kassel Harry Kramer, Karl Oskar Blase, Georg Bussmann and Heiner Georgsdorf. She was a fellow of the Evangelical Studies Villigst. In 1977 she spent a year to Auckland, New Zealand, and spent an academic year. In 1983 she completed her studies in fine arts, among others with the exam performance from L ( e ) ine and received her state exam in art education and English. Since then she has worked as a freelance artist. 1985 received a grant from the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Study visits, exhibitions and projects have taken her to Oceania and Southeast Asia. Kallnbach has taught at the Musashi University in Tokyo, Wako University in Machida in Tokyo, FH Bochum and Art Academy in Bad Reichenhall. In 2002, she trained as a multimedia designer. She lives and works in Cologne.
Life and work
In her performances and actions, Siglinde Kallnbach sets since the late 1970s, deals with socio-political issues such as discrimination, racism, war and injustice. Mediated by their trips also be trans-cultural aspects such as basic human needs and rituals discussed, which are compared across cultures and provide an opportunity for dialogue and exchange. The use of the body as an instrument of physical knowledge is of vital importance - to yourself Kallnbach realized until now the impact of societal increase or grievances, which they often went to their early work in physical border situations.
Kallnbach applies across all media a photographs, various objects and materials in their performances and installations to convey complex cultural meanings in symbolic acts. These can not be confined to a hermetically sealed individual mythology, but transfer the own existential experience into a larger social context. An important aspect of her artistic work is also the active involvement of others. In the second part of the trilogy Kleinsassen 1985 as they could unite 360 participations from 39 countries around the world in their exhibition. At her request, project track Wishingtrack from 1999-2001 they collected more than 4,000 wishes for the future, which turned it into a 460 -meter-long abstract trace and New Year's Eve 2000 and 2001 rolled out in a service tunnel under the River Rhine in Cologne worldwide.
Siglinde Kallnbachs artistic work is closely related to everyday life and limb. Since she became ill with cancer for the first time in 2000, it focuses on the disease and its consequences in their art, in which it sets the individual suffering into a wider social context. With their interactive project a performance life ( since 2001) for expressions of empathy with cancer patients Kallnbach creates leeway to release creative energy to them as transformative force patients, relatives and medical staff to feed again. For their strong commitment to social issues Kallnbach received in the mid- 80s in Japan, the artist name, the fire lovers.
Solo performances and solo exhibitions (selection)
Works in public collections
- Art Collection Deutsche Bank
- Kölnisches City Museum
- Vonderau Museum Fulda
- City Museum Siegburg
- City Kölnischer art collection
- Muzey i galerija Ijentnikovca Buca / Centar za Kulturu Tivat ( State Museum of Contemporary Art Tivat / Montenegro)
- State Art Collections - Neue Galerie Kassel
- Documenta Archiv Kassel
- Art Kleinsassen
- City Savings Bank Wuppertal