Dara Birnbaum

Dara Birnbaum ( b. 1946 in New York) is an American video and installation artist.

Life

Birnbaum studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. There was a training for video editing in New York. In 1978 she was a lecturer at the NSCAD University in Halifax, where she lives with Dan Graham worked .. Dara Birnbaum and works in New York.

Since the late 1970s to Birnbaum busy with the medium of television. She questions the outer world of images, the expressions and the manipulative effect of mass media. Content, it checks the myth of femininity with the help of personal and social knowledge. She was involved early for an equation of video art with classical art disciplines and participates in the feminist art movement.

One of her best known works from this period: Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman ( 1978-1979 ). With relevant images of the television series, she tries to subvert the inherent ideology of the series heroine of the same name. Mid-1980s, it starts with large -scale installations. Rio Video Wall (1987 to 1989) is considered the first permanent video installation in the public space of a shopping center. It cuts them to 25 monitors images of the original village with CNN sequences that break through the nature shots.

In Hostage ( 1993 to 1994 ) is about the media presentation of political events. Birnbaum edited the kidnapping of Hanns -Martin Schleyer in 1977 Another work is. Kiss the Girls and Make them Cry 1979, The Damnation of Faust trilogy with the parts: Evocation (1983) Will- O' -The- Wisp (1985) and Charming Landscape (1987 ) is based on Goethe's text and the music of Berlioz.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2011 Dara Birnbaum - Arabesque Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
  • 2010 A Materia Negra Da Luz Dos Media Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
  • 2009 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2009 National Museum of Modern Art, Japan
  • 2009 Dara Birnbaum - Retrospective: the dark matter of media light - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Arts, Ghent
  • 2008 Dara Birnbaum: Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
  • 2006 Dara Birnbaum - Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman - Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
  • 2003 Expectation - Expectancy - A Video Installation by Dara Birnbaum - Jewish Museum (New York City ), New York, NY
  • 1992 Dara Birnbaum: The Damnation of Faust, 1984/1992 - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
  • 1987 Damnation of Faust ICP International Center of Photography, New York

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2010 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • 2010 Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
  • 2010 Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, Spain
  • 2010 Kunsthalle and the MUMOK, Vienna
  • 2008 Dara Birnbaum: Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
  • 2006 Dara Birnbaum - Technology / Transformation: Wonder Woman - Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
  • 2004 Museum van Hedendaagse Art Antwerp, Antwerp
  • 2004 Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 2003 Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Vienna
  • 2003 50.Biennale in Venice, Venice
  • 2000 Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
  • 1999 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  • 1995 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
  • 1992 Documenta IX, Kassel
  • 1991 Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
  • 1987 Documenta 8, Kassel
  • 1985 Whitney Biennial, New York City
  • 1982 documenta 7, Kassel

Awards (selection)

  • 2011 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
  • 2010 United States Artists Fellow award
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