Opening of Exhibition and Book Presentation "Birgit Jürgenssen" in the "Vertikale Galerie"
On 24 November 2009, the first monograph on the works of Birgit Jürgenssen was published by the Hatje Cantz publishing company as the latest publication from Sammlung Verbund.
Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Director of the collection for photography and new media at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, spoke on the occasion of the ceremonious book presentation and opening of the exhibition at the Verbund headquarters. "In her oeuvre, Ms Jürgenssen above all deals with the image of the feminine and exposes the representations of her male colleagues in this respect as being clichés. Often, the artist herself is her own model; however, her works are never self-portraits. Her own body, her own face is transformed to become the material of the artistic conflict, be it paper, negative, or canvas. Birgit Jürgenssen transforms her work of art to a stage upon which is revealed the ambivalence of the feminine both as the picture and in the picture."
BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN Exhibition. "Pulsschlag einer Sinnlichkeit" (Pulse of Sensuality)
Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), one of the most prominent artists of the feminist avant-garde, would have been 60 years old this year. She has left a legacy consisting of a multifarious oeuvre featuring some three thousand works of art including prints, sketches, pieces in watercolor, collages, paintings, photographs (rayograms, solar graphics, polaroids) and sculptures.
From 25 November 2009 to 24 March 2010, Sammlung Verbund presented around 40 of the artist's works from three decades, in which the mise-en-scène of the female body in the light of masquerade, disguise, fragmentation and becoming animal pervades the oeuvre of Birgit Jürgenssen. "For me, self-irony is a type of autobiographical strategy to facilitate the transmission of subversive and deconstructive pontential." Birgit Jürgenssen
BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN. Pulse of a Sensuality
25 November 2009 – 24 March 2010
Curator: Gabriele Schor, Head of Sammlung Verbund
Accessible to the public by means of guided tour every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Free admission, advance registration required:
sammlung.verbund@artphalanx.at or
Phone: +43 1 5249803-11
