Sonja Alhäuser
Sonja Alhäuser (* 1969 in churches in the Westerwald ) is a German artist.
Life
Alhäuser, studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where it was in 1995 master student of Fritz Schwegler. From 2002 to 2005 she was a lecturer for drawing at the University of Duisburg-Essen, from 2007 to 2009 such a painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. It has 1997 Peter Mertes Scholarship of the Kunstverein Bonn, in 2000 the prize of the city of Dusseldorf and 2007 by 2009 Dorothea Erxleben stipend of Lower Saxony. She lives in Berlin and is represented by Galerie Michael Schultz.
Works
Her work in various media are characterized to a large extent by the fascination of the ephemeral, both in material as in the concept of their performances and installations. It organizes banquets, where virtually everything is edible and should be eaten, and she works as a sculptor in butter, chocolate and similar materials. The ephemeral nature of their installations not only indicates the transience of all earthly things out, but also stands in the venerable traditions. Joseph Beuys, for example, was an artist who worked with perishable materials (fat and honey), and form the banquets in the succession of Cena Trimalchionis of Petronius Arbiter, the royal banquets ( and its depiction ), which are an honor was to go and look for the nobility while dining, as well as the Last Supper. Alhäusers work also includes sculptures in silver, and they manufactured monumental wall drawings. But she also works in traditional media such as water colors, acrylic and Bunststift. Here she creates distributive, all-over -like compositions with animals, fruits, vegetables, clothing, body parts and mythological figures. Their art is considered an important contribution to the debate about the ethics of enjoyment.
Publications ( selection)
- Sonja Alhäuser, All the time, Köln 2007
- Sonja Alhäuser, hard- Otten, Municipal Gallery Delmenhorst / Kunstverein Ulm 2010
- Sonja Alhäuser, fundamental Perhaps, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin 2010
- Sonja Alhäuser, Maxime Long, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin 2013