Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas ( born August 3, 1953 in Cape Town ) is a South African artist in the creative visual range. Today she lives and works in Amsterdam.

Career

Dumas studied visual arts at the University of Cape Town and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts. They then emigrated to the Netherlands. During her art studies in Cape Town Dumas dealt with drawings, collages, painting and occasionally with sculptures. Your main subject, the figure, coined already during this experimental time clearly.

In an art historical period of abstraction Dumas deepened in the figurative and thus also interpreted the theme of their future work, the figurative representation of the people to. Although apartheid never became the main theme of her work, the artist began very early and very clearly for the conflict between black and white, and thus also with the political situation. The media culture and the culture of the Western world images is addressed in their work. Memories, associations and expectations that arise in the viewer, form a large part of the work of Dumas.

In the Netherlands, Dumas deepened her art studies in studio '63 in Haarlem, among others under the supervision of the sculptor Carl Vissers and the conceptual artist Jan Dibbet and Ger van Elk. Studying in Haarlem brought a brief period that is different from the figurative works of Dumas. She sat apart with informal paintings, photo collages and abstract linear works. From 1979 to 1980 Dumas studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Although they broke the study of psychology just before completion, the acquired knowledge influenced the artist's work here. From 1983, the figurative is finally back in their repertoire.

Awards (selection)

  • 2007 Art Prize of the City Dusseldorf.
  • 2011 Rolf Schock Prize in the visual arts

Exhibitions (selection)

Since 1979, Dumas has exhibitions. She participated in the Documenta 7 (1982 ) and the DOCUMENTATION IX in 1992 in Kassel. She participated in the Venice Biennale (1995 ), then at the biennials in Johannesburg (1995 ), São Paulo and Sydney ( 2000) part. Her works are in museums and other public and private collections.

  • 2010/2011 Tronies. Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters. Haus der Kunst, Munich
  • 2007 Broken White. Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art - ( MIMOCA ) Marugame, Japan
  • 2008 Measuring your Own Grave MoMA New York
  • 2008 MOCA
  • 2005 Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
  • 2005 Nordic Waterclourmuseum Skärhamn, Skärhamn, Sweden
  • 2005 Female, Kunsthalle Baden -Baden, Baden -Baden
  • 2003 Time and Again, the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
  • 1996 Marlene Dumas, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt

Public collections (selection)

  • Arken Museum for Modern Art, Copenhagen
  • Centre Pompidou - Musée National d' Art Moderne, Paris
  • Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
  • Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel
  • Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main ( MMK)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • City Gallery at the ZKM, Karlsruhe

Source

  • Excerpt from a term paper: Marlene Dumas - Analysis of leitmotifs and thematic main topics using Selected Works, 2005 T. van Niekerk. .
Rolf Schock Prizes Arken Museum of Modern Art Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Integrated Authority File
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