Asta Gröting

Asta Gröting (* 1961 in Herford ) is a German artist. She lives in Berlin.

Life

After leaving school in 1981 Gröting studied sculpture at the Academy of Arts Dusseldorf and graduated in 1986 as a master student of Klaus Rinke. At subsidies it received in 1989, the Karl Schmidt- Rottluff scholarship and 1992 Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia. Whilst still a student Gröting was represented at numerous national and international exhibitions and received the 1994 Otto Dix price of Gera. From 1996 to 1997 she worked as a visiting professor at the School of Art Valand Gothenburg University, at the University of Kassel and at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main. From 1997 to 2003 she was professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Since 2009, she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.

Gröting initially dealt primarily with the medium of sculpture and "created expansive works of impressive form and material aesthetics "; In 1993 she also began to turn to the artistic expression of the film.

In recent years, Gröting turned more and more to the sculpture.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2010 " Asta Gröting " Lentos, Linz; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, traveling exhibition
• 2009 " Asta Gröting - Sculptures ", Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
• 2008 " The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, and Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections ," Saint Louis Art Museum, USA
• 2007 " Voice and Void", The Alderich Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
• 2005 "The Inner Voice / I AM BIG " Theater der Welt, Stuttgart
• 2004 " Emotion Reason" Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
• 2003 "The Inner Voice / It Seems too loud to come from so far", Freud Museum, London
• 2002 8th Triennial of International Art, Centre of Attraction, Vilnius
• 2001 " working lunch afraid," Zollverein, Essen 2000
• 2000 " Video as a Female Terrain", Styrian Autumn, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
• 1999 " Leiblicher logos ", Osaka National Museum; Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Japan
• 1998 "The Dreamcatchers ", La Biennale de Montréal '98, Centre International d' Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
• 1997 " Homage to Lidice ", České Muzeum výtvarných umění, Praha
• 1996 "Homo ecologicus " KRTU, Departamento de Cultura, Barcelona
• 1995 " Ars 95 ", Museum of Contemporary Art, Finnish National Gallery Helsinki
• 1994 22nd Biennial of São Paulo
• 1993 "Passage Works", Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
• 1992 ' Perils et Colères ", CAPC Musée d'art contemporain Entrepot, Bordeaux
• 1991 " Transformations ", Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
• 1990 " The Ready Made Boomerang ", 8th Biennial of Sydney; " Aperto ", Venice Biennale, " Possible Worlds ", ICA, and the Serpentine Gallery, London

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