BARBARA GRAF

BORN: 1963 in Winterthur, Switzerland
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Cairo, Egypt
 
EDUCATION:
1985-1990 Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Master�s degree in Painting and Contemporary Experimental Art in 1990

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1988 Gallery ge, "Pictures," Winterthur, Switzerland
1990 Psychoanalytical Seminary, Zurich, Switzerland, "Figures"
1991 Gallery ge, "Objects and Photographs," Winterthur, Switzerland
1994 Gallery ge, "Objects," Winterthur, Switzerland
1997 Gallery ge Marie-Louise Wirth, "Anatomical Garments and Body Objects," Winterthur, Switzerland
1998 Gallery Atrium ed Arte, "Empty Figures, Garments and Boxes," Vienna, Austria
1999/
2000
Gallery Marie Louise Wirth. "Empty Figures" Zurich, Switzerland
2001 "Switzerland in Austria" Project Hall WUK, Vienna, Austria
2001 Gallery ge, Winterthur, Switzerland
2002 Gallery Atrium ed Arte, Vienna, Austria

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1988 steirischer herbst, "Mit Blick Voraus" (Look Ahead), Young Art in Austria, Graz, Austria
1989 Heiligenkreuzerhof, "Master Class Maria Lassnig," Vienna, Austria
Messepalast, "Confrontations," Vienna, Austria
1990 Sommeratelier Hannover, "Young Art in Europe," Hannover, Germany
1991 Exhibition Hall Exnergasse, ".mono.poli.-women artists of the nineties," Vienna, Austria
Museum of Art Olten, "Liberty," Olten, Switzerland
1994 Institute for the Science of Evidence (Weihs/Graf/Domes) "Still Living," Old General Hospital, Vienna Austria
1995 "SPACES" (Sino-Austrian Exhibition of Women Artists), Museum Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China; Parliament, Vienna Austria; Meerscheinschloss University, Graz, Austria
Festival: "Diagonale '95," Salzburg, Austria
1996 Mashrabia Gallery, "TRAVEL KIT," Exhibition with Sadhyo Niederberger, Cairo, Egypt
Art Museum Glarus, "Body/Identity/Irritation," Glarus, Switzerland
1997 Cairo Atelier, "Gathering," Cairo, Egypt
Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Art, Kartause Ittingen, "Positions in Space," Ittingen, Switzerland
Upper Austrian Gallery (Museum of Linz), "Paper Sculpture," Linz, Austria
1998 IGNIS Cultural Center, "COINCIDENCE," Cologne, Germany
NO CON 1998, 4th International Biennial, Mendoza Museum of Art, Mendoza, Argentina
Cairo Atelier, "Dimensions," Cairo, Egypt
1999/
2000
"Flexible 3-Close to the Body" (Catalog) Upper Austrian Gallery, Linz, Austria; BWA Contemporary Art Galleries, Wroclaw, Poland; Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands; Textile Museum, Helmshore, UK, Art Museum Bayreuth, Germany
1999 "Sculpture Compositions" Centre of Arts, Ekhnaton Galleries Exhibition with Hazem El Mestikawy (Catalog), Cairo, Egypt
2000 "Case Aspects" Exhibition Hall Steyr, Steyr, Austria
2001 Eighth International Cairo Biennial (catalog), Cairo, Egypt
2001 Gallery Hubert B�chler, "Love/Sex/Intelligence," Zurich, Switzerland

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS:
1985, 1986, 1987 Grant for Visual Art from the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
1990 Fine Art Award, City of Winterthur, Switzerland
1996 Cairo Grant and Studio by the City of Winterthur, Switzerland and the Swiss City Conference for Cultural Policies, Swiss Artists' House, Cairo, Egypt
1998 Paris Studio by the GSMBA Zurich, Cit� Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

 

MONOGRAPHS AND EDITIONS BY THE ARTIST:
1991 "Figuren 1989-91" (Figures, 1989-91), text by Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Vienna Austria
1994 Edition: "Sieben Objekte im Schuber" (Seven Objects in the Cardboard Sleeve), Vienna, Austrian
1996 "Jumping Out of One's Skin-Anatomical Garment III," Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1997 "Zeichnungen" (Drawings), Cairo, Egypt
1998 "Segment Suit-Anatomical Garment VI," Cairo, Egypt

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1991 Caroline Kesser, "Nacktheit aus Karton: Nicht Von Pappe," Tages Anzeiger z�ri-tip, Zurich, Switzerland, 4/12/1991.
1994 Ludmilla Etter, "Faszinierende K�rpersprache abstrakter Objekte," Der Landbote, Winterthur, Switzerland, 10/19/1994
1995 Gerburg Treusch-Dieter, "Space-Script-Symbol: Noun and Verb," Spaces/Sino-Austrian Exhibition (catalog)
Daniele Pabinger, "Spaces or (female) space metamorphosis," Spaces/Sino-Austrian Exhibition (catalog)
1996 Dalia Chams, "Deux Suisses Nomades," Al-Ahram Hebdo, Cairo, Egypt, 8/9/1996
1997 Ludmilla Etter, "Spielerische K�rperkunst," Neue Z�rcher Zeitung, Zurich, Switzerland, 7/1/1997
Barbara Handke, "Auf den Leib geschneidert," Tages Anzeiger, Zurich, 6/5/1997
Adrian Mebold, "Barbara Graf-k�nstlerische Erkundungen �ber K�rper und Skulptur," Winterthur Jahrbuch 1998, 68-75, Edition Verlagsgemeinschaft, Winterthur, Switzerland
1998 LA NO CON '96-4ta. Bienal Internacional de arte experimental, "Los vestidos anat�micos de Barbara Graf," Museo Municipal de Arte Modernos, Mendoza, Argentina (catalog)
1999 Christina Lammer, "Die Puppe und ihr Double," Puppe-Monster-Tod, Edition Turia + Kant, Vienna, Austria
Christina Lammer, "Schnittmuster," Die Puppe. Ein Projektionsmodell, Edition Turia + Kant, Vienna, Austria

 

 

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