Ueltzhoeffer-Textportrait, Louise Bourgeois *1911 Paris. Lebt und arbeitet in New York Objekte, Malerei, Grafik, Environments Lehrtätigkeit am Pratt Institute und an der New York University Publikation zahlreicher Essays biografie / bilder Louise Bourgeois - Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston Louise Bourgeois - Cheim & Read Gallery, New York Louise Bourgeois - Hauser & Wirth, Zürich Louise Bourgeois - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle 23.06.07 - 23.09.07 10. Triennale Kleinplastik Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach 17.06.07 - 09.09.07 Picasso and American Art Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 10.06.07 - 21.11.07 52. Biennale Venedig 2007 Biennale Venedig 09.06.07 - 10.07.20 ARTEMPO PALAZZO FORTUNY Venedig 06.05.07 - 04.11.07 Vertigo MAMbo Bologna 05.05.07 - 22.07.07 Seven Wishes and Stamps of Memories Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau 28.04.07 - 24.06.07 AFFINITIES Deutsche Guggenheim - Berlin 21.04.07 - 05.09.07 INTO ME / OUT OF ME MACRO Rom 05.04.07 - 05.08.07 Schmerz Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 01.03.07 - 22.07.07 EROS IN DER KUNST DER MODERNE BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien 23.02.07 - 22.04.07 RAUM. Orte der Kunst Akademie der Künste, Berlin 23.02.07 - 07.05.07 Picasso and American Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 16.01.07 - 08.04.07 Louise Bourgeois Kunstmuseum Bern 26.11.06 - 04.03.07 INTO ME/OUT OF ME KW Berlin 17.11.06 - 09.02.07 The Odyssey Continues Wildenstein & Co, New York 09.11.06 - 28.01.07 Little More Sweet, Not too Sour 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok 03.11.06 - 21.12.06 RESONANCE Frith Street Gallery, London 21.10.06 - 25.01.07 Louise Bourgeois Worcester Art Museum 30.09.06 - 12.11.06 Louise Bourgeois BUTLER GALLERY Kilkenny 28.09.06 - 28.01.07 Picasso and American Art Whitney Museum, New York 03.09.06 - 15.10.06 Eccentrics Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal 19.08.06 - 12.11.06 Das Achte Feld / The Eighth Square Museum Ludwig Köln 06.08.06 - 18.02.07 EROS Fondation Beyeler, Basel 04.08.06 - 26.11.06 Review MUMOK Wien 15.07.06 - 01.01.07 redefined Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington 10.07.06 - 10.09.06 HOT/COLD - SUMMER LOVING Zacheta National Gallery, Warschau 25.06.06 - 25.09.06 INTO ME / OUT OF ME P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island 22.06.06 - 09.09.06 The New Landscape Cheim & Read Gallery, New York 09.06.06 - 01.10.06 Transformation Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz 03.06.06 - 22.07.06 Roni Horn / Louise Bourgeois HAUSER & WIRTH Zürich 24.05.06 - 26.03.07 Louise Bourgeois Philadelphia Museum of Art 01.04.06 - 01.10.06 2006 Beaufort Outside Museum of Modern Art, Oostende 31.03.06 - 11.06.06 Artitudes Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel 25.03.06 - 05.06.06 Choix d'oevres graphiques Musée de Grenoble 12.03.06 - 05.06.06 Louise Bourgeois. La famille Kunsthalle Bielefeld 16.02.06 - 01.04.06 Louise Bourgeois Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle 14.02.06 - 11.09.06 La vision impura Reina Sofía, Madrid 11.02.06 - 21.05.06 Louise Bourgeois: Femme Walters Art Museum, Baltimore 11.02.06 - 23.04.06 Louise Bourgeois: Femme Contemporary Museum, Baltimore 10.01.06 - 08.02.06 Leckerbissen II Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm 07.01.06 - 05.03.06 Fiction@Love MOCA Shanghai 25.11.05 - 05.02.06 Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour Kunsthalle Wien 18.11.05 - 26.02.06 La sculpture dans l’espace Musée Rodin, Paris 02.11.05 - 01.2006 Looking at Words Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York 29.10.05 - 07.12.05 Louise Bourgeois Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln 24.09.05 - 08.01.06 The Figurative Impulse Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan 18.09.05 - 08.01.06 Centre of Gravity Istanbul Modern 28.08.05 - 06.11.05 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT Kunsthalle Bielefeld 26.06.05 - 28.08.05 XII. ROHKUNSTBAU ROHKUNSTBAU, Sacrow 24.06.05 - 06.11.05 figur / skulptur Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg 15.06.05 - 06.03.06 Big Bang Centre Pompidou, Paris 12.06.05 - 06.11.05 51. Biennale Venedig 2005 Biennale Venedig 11.06.05 - 28.08.05 La main dans la main Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg 27.05.05 - 01.07.05 Andersen Associations GALLERI SPECTA Kopenhagen 26.05.05 - 11.09.05 Colour After Klein Barbican Centre, London 18.05.05 - 04.09.05 Getting Emotional Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 06.05.05 - 14.08.05 An International Legacy: Carnegie Museum of Art Columbus Museum of Art 30.03.05 - 22.04.05 Louise Bourgeois Marlborough Gallery - London 17.03.05 - 19.06.05 Kunst in Schokolade Museum Ludwig Köln 15.03.05 - 15.05.05 The Enigma of Modernity Ludwig Museum Budapest 24.02.05 - 22.05.05 Mixed-Up Childhood Auckland Art Gallery 30.01.05 - 01.05.05 Munch revisited Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund 07.01.05 - 20.03.05 An International Legacy: Carnegie Museum of Art Mobile Museum of Art 26.11.04 - 06.02.05 Woman Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona 28.10.04 - 08.11.04 15 Jahre Deichtorhallen Deichtorhallen, Hamburg 23.10.04 - 23.10.05 SAMMLUNG FRIEDER BURDA Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 15.10.04 - 07.02.05 Paula´s Home Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz 07.10.04 - 16.01.05 Utopia Station Haus der Kunst, München 12.09.04 - 17.10.04 Diaries and Dreams Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal 26.08.04 - 26.09.04 Louise Bourgeois Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg 06.08.04 - 04.11.04 Louise Bourgeois CAC Malaga 17.07.04 - 17.10.04 Bodily Space: Permanent Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 04.07.04 - 22.08.04 Retro Fries Museum, Leeuwarden 26.06.04 - 26.09.04 9. Triennale Kleinplastik Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach 26.06.04 - 12.09.04 Bocca della Verità Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg 17.06.04 - 22.08.04 Raison et sentiments - Sense & Sensibility Crac Alsace, Altkirch 14.05.04 - 29.08.04 SUPPORT 2 - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung Neue Galerie, Graz 28.04.04 - 01.08.04 Modern Means Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 22.04.04 - 29.05.04 The personal is political und peinlich Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien 10.04.04 - 05.06.04 Silent Screams - Difficult Dreams Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul 13.03.04 - 12.09.04 Louise Bourgeois Daros Exhibitions, Zürich 06.03.04 - 09.05.04 Louise Bourgeois - Stitches in Time Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 06.03.04 - 23.05.04 La fabrique du sensible Musée de Rochechouart 29.02.04 - 09.05.04 doublebind. kunst-kinder-karriere Paula Modersohn–Becker Museum, Bremen 27.02.04 - 20.06.04 Orizzonti aperti Palazzo Forti, Verona 20.02.04 - 19.09.04 Das MoMA in Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 05.02.04 - 27.03.04 ABOUT CORPOREALITY Galerie Lelong - Zürich 18.01.04 - 04.04.04 An International Legacy: Carnegie Museum of Art Nevada Museum of Art, Reno 13.01.04 - 14.03.04 Louise Bourgeois Kunstmuseum Bern 10.12.03 - 12.09.04 L´Araignée de Louise Bourgeois Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 26.11.03 - 29.02.04 Louise Bourgeois Sigmund Freud-Museum, Wien 26.11.03 - 22.02.04 Louise Bourgeois - Stitches in Time Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 24.11.03 - 26.12.03 Von Picasso bis Warhol Centre for Contemporary Art, Warschau 15.11.03 - 10.01.04 "Silent Screams Difficult Dreams" Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin 14.11.03 - 15.02.04 Heiliger Sebastian Kunsthalle Wien 18.10.03 - 18.01.04 Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 21.09.03 - 18.01.04 SUPPORT 1 - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung Neue Galerie, Graz 20.09.03 - 26.10.03 no art - no city! Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen 18.09.03 - 20.09.03 ein bremer programm 2003 kunst im öffentlichen raum - Bremen 09.09.03 - 25.10.03 Game over GRIMM / ROSENFELD München 14.06.03 - 21.09.03 Louise Bourgeois Whitney Museum, New York 02.06.03 - 27.07.03 Louise Bourgeois Akademie der Künste, Berlin 28.05.03 - 03.08.03 Warum! Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 12.05.03 - 07.06.03 Louise Bourgeois: Spider SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo 11.05.03 - 09.06.03 doublebind. kunst kinder karriere Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 25.04.03 - 19.07.03 Louise Bourgeois Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln 30.03.03 - 10.08.03 Expressiv! Fondation Beyeler, Basel 27.03.03 - 31.05.03 Louise Bourgeois Xavier Hufkens, Brüssel 15.03.03 - 11.05.03 The Perfect Lover Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 14.02.03 - 22.06.03 Louise Bourgeois Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek 15.01.03 - 31.03.03 Louise Bourgeois - James Lee Byars Centre Pompidou, Paris 01.01.03 - 01.02.03 Stitch by Stitch Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland 2003 - 22.06.03 Louise Bourgeois Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek 2003 - 2005 An International Legacy American Federation of Arts, New York 26.11.02 - 22.12.02 THE TRUE VIOLENCE Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich 21.11.02 - 21.11.05 handlungsanweisungen Kunsthalle Wien 17.10.02 - 02.11.03 de Kooning to Today Whitney Museum, New York 27.07.02 - 06.10.02 Alter Ego Musée d´Histoire, Luxemburg 06.07.02 - 15.09.02 Louise Bourgeois Kunsthaus Bregenz 29.06.02 - 09.09.02 Tempo Museum of Modern Art, New York 08.06.02 - 15.09.02 documenta 11 documenta, Kassel 06.06.02 - 15.08.02 Penetration Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York 06.06.02 - 15.08.02 Penetration Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York 26.02.02 - 05.05.02 Louise Bourgeois Helsinki City Art Museum 29.01.02 - 30.03.02 The Tiger’s Eye Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven 26.01.02 - 01.04.02 Das Tier in mir Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 19.01.02 - 02.03.02 Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth HAUSER & WIRTH Zürich 27.11.01 - 10.02.02 The Geldzahler Portfolio Palmer Museum of Art, Town of State College 22.11.01 - 28.01.02 Ausgesucht von Eva Schlegel und Erwin Wurm Galerie Krinzinger, Wien 06.10.01 - 16.12.01 ABBILD / steirischer herbst steirischer herbst, Graz 26.05.00 - 30.07.00 Biennale of Sydney 2000 Biennale Sydney 12.05.00 - 12.2000 The Unilever Series: Louise Bourgeois Tate Modern, London 08.04.00 - 27.08.00 Der anagrammatische Körper ZKM, Karlsruhe 16.02.00 - 02.04.00 Lost Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 05.12.99 - 02.06.00 Zeitwenden Kunstmuseum Bonn 09.10.99 - 01.03.00 Der anagrammatische Körper Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Mürzzuschlag 10.07.99 - 31.12.99 SITE Santa Fe Biennial 1999 SITE Santa Fe 25.06.99 - 06.09.99 The Hand The Power Plant, Toronto 13.06.99 - 07.11.99 48. Biennale Venedig 1999 Biennale Venedig 21.05.99 - 25.09.99 Louise Bourgeois Galerie Paula Böttcher, Berlin 04.10.97 - 09.11.97 5. Istanbul Biennial Biennale Istanbul 12.07.97 - 04.10.97 Von Kopf bis Fuß. Fragmente des Körpers Kunstraum Innsbruck 09.07.97 - 24.09.97 4. Biennale de Lyon 1997 Biennale Lyon 12.06.95 - 15.10.95 46. Biennale Venedig 1995 Biennale Venedig 13.06.93 - 10.10.93 45. Biennale Venedig 1993 Biennale Venedig 13.06.92 - 20.09.92 documenta 9 documenta, Kassel Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art CAC Malaga CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Daros Exhibitions, Zürich Des Moines Art Center Dia:Beacon, Beacon / NY Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia JCCC Overland Park Kemper Museum, Kansas City Kolumba Kunstmuseum, Köln Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA MUMOK Wien Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montreal Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne National Gallery, Washington National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington Neue Galerie, Graz Reina Sofía, Madrid Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln Storm King Art Center, Mountainville Tate Modern, London Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura Gallery Paul Anglim, San Francisco Art Affairs, Amsterdam Art of this Century - New York beaumontpublic+königbloc, Luxemburg PETER BLUM, New York Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm Cheim & Read Gallery, New York Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln Galerie Karsten Greve - Mailand Galerie Karsten Greve - Paris Galerie Karsten Greve - St. Moritz HAUSER & WIRTH London HAUSER & WIRTH Zürich Xavier Hufkens, Brüssel Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Galerie Lelong - Paris Galerie Lelong - Zürich Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven Galerie Terminus, München Yoshii Gallery, New York Zwirner & Wirth - New York Louise Bourgeois (born December 25, 1911, Paris) is an artist and sculptor, whose work has been strongly influenced by the surrealists, abstract expressionism and minimalism. Her work is deeply involved in the investigation of her own psyche and relation to objects through strong intuition. She constantly evaluates her past and creates work that is based out of this nostalgia and torture. She is one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century. It is difficult to directly link her work to other artists because she is extremely original in much of her work. She is most known for her 'Cells', 'Spiders' and various drawings, books and sculptures. Her parents were involved in repairing tapestries. As early as 12, she participated in their industry by helping to draw the missing segments of the tapestries, which would then be rewoven. At 15 she studied mathematics at the Sorbonne. Her studies of geometry contributed to her early work concerning cubism (in early paintings and drawings). Unable to find what she was looking for, she began with painting, studying at the École du Louvre and then the École des Beaux-Arts, and worked as an assistant to Fernand Léger. In 1938 she moved with her American husband to New York City, where she still lives. Louise Bourgeois Maman, by Louise Bourgeois, is a 30-foot-tall spider. This copy of the bronze sculpture was photographed outside the National Gallery of Canada. Her works are sometimes abstract and she speaks of them in symbolic terms, and the main focus is "relationships" - considering an entity in relation to its surroundings. Louise Bourgeois finds inspiration for her works from her childhood: her adulterous father, who had an affair with her governess (who resided in the home), and her mother, who refused to acknowledge it. She claims that she has been the "striking-image" of her father since birth. Louise Bourgeois is very effective in conveying feelings such as anger, betrayal and jealousy. Her earliest exhibition, in 1947, consisted of tunnel sculptures and wooden figures (such as The Winged Figure (1948)). Despite early success in that show (one of the works was purchased for the Museum of Modern Art), she was subsequently left alone by the art market during the fifties and sixties. It was in the seventies, after the deaths of her husband and father, that she became one of the most successful artists living. In her sculpture, she has worked in many different mediums, including rubber, wood, stone, metal, and appropriately for someone who came from a family of tapestry makers, fabric. Some of her pieces consisted of erotic and sexual images, with a motif of "cumuls" (she named the round figures such because they reminded her of cumulus clouds). Her most famous works are possibly the spider structures, titled Maman, that have been made in the last dozen years. Today, she continues to work, having one of the longest careers that any artist has had. In 1993 she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. In 1999, Bourgeois was the first artist commissioned to fill the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Publicity at the time stated that "Three large steel towers, about 30 feet high, dominate the east end of the Turbine Hall. Each tower supports a platform on which two chairs are surrounded by a series of large swivel mirrors. The mirrors with their reflective surfaces create an intense space for contemplation and reflection. Visitors are able to mount spiral staircases on the towers to experience the space of the platform and the Turbine Hall. Bourgeois imagines that the platforms will become the stage for significant conversations and human confrontations. Adjacent to the towers and straddling the bridge of the Turbine Hall is an enormous 35 feet high spider by Bourgeois, the largest she has made."[1] The installations were later dismantled, the spider sculpture ("Maman") being relocated to Ottawa where it stands outside the entrance to the National Gallery of Canada. [edit] Bourgeois' brief personal history · 1911 – Born in Paris, France. · 1932-1935 – studies at the Sorbonne Paris France. · 1936-1937 – studies at the Ecole du Louvre Paris France. · 1937-1938 – Pupil of Fernand Leger. · 1938 – Emigrates to New York, USA. [edit] See also List of artworks by Louise Bourgeois [edit] Notes 1. ^ Special Exhibitions [edit] Books * Marika Herskovic, American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s An Illustrated Survey, (New York School Press, 2003.) ISBN 0-9677994-1-4 * Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists, (New York School Press, 2000.) ISBN 0-9677994-0-6 [edit] External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Spider by Louise Bourgeois * Exhibition at Tate Modern * Available Artwork at Gallery Paule Anglim * Spider Photo of statue at Philadelphia Museum. - Portrait Louise Bourgeois - Porträt - Textporträt - Textportrait [text 20.10.07 beitrag ; textportrait] Der heilige Ignatius hat mit seinen Regeln Wege zur Erlangung der Heiligkeit vorgezeichnet. Der Kritiker zeichnet mit Hilfe der Theorie Linien um den Künstler herum, um ihn aus dem Alltag in die heilige Kunstgeschichte zu versetzen. Kann man Achille Bonito Oliva nachahmen? Ich glaube mit Buffon, daß jeder Mensch ein Stil ist. Das heißt, daß jeder Mensch besonders im kulturellen Bereich Träger einer stilistischen Differenz ist. Man kann das nicht nachahmen. Ich habe nie geduldet, daß es eine Kritikerschule um mich herum gibt.