Astrid Klein lebt und arbeitet in Köln und Leipzig
1951 geboren in Köln
1973-77 Studium an der Fachhochschule für Kunst und Design, Köln
1980 Stipendium des Deutsch-Französischen Jugendwerks
1982 Arbeitsstipendium des Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn
1983 Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
1984 Förderpreis der Stadt Köln
1985 Annemarie-und-Will-Grohmann-Stipendium 1985
1986 Förderpreis Glockengasse, Köln
1986 Gastprofessur an der Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg
1987 Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium
1991 B.D.I. Preis für gestaltete Räume (ARS VIVA)
1991 Bühnenbild für Kalldewey, Farce (Botho Strauß) am Schauspielhaus Dortmund
1992 Krupp-Stipendium für Fotografie
1997 Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 1997 der Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2000 Helmut-Kraft-Preis
2001 Kunstpreis des Bundesverbandes der deutschen Kunstverleger
seit 1993 Professur an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Since the invention of photography more than 170 years ago it has been largely women who have used this technical medium to project themselves through role playing and masquerading. As well as the experimental urge to constantly recreate ones ego, the camera has also served as a means of calling into question clichés of female representation. Playing with the image of the eternally feminine was and remains a discourse with gender identity, its social and political definitions and reaching beyond them.
The exhibition focuses on contemporary women artists such as Cindy Sherman, Sarah Lucas, Monica Bonvicini and Pipilotti Rist, who with the aid of photography and video art investigate the female image. The artists explore the question of what image patterns the media age employs for portraying femininity and how t...
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present Astrid Klein's exhibition 'Les tâches dominicales'. Born in 1951 and trained as a painter and sculptor, Klein is a manipulator of the photographic medium. Her photographs, paintings and installations contaminate, deconstruct and revive the relationship between the photographic image and text and can be interpreted as a metaphor for the estranged personal self and its representation in society. Like the work of Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, Klein's art is an expression of the burgeoning media culture of Western society in the 1970s. While her work is well established in Germany, the exhibition 'Les tâches dominicales' (Sunday Work) at Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers is her first solo show in Britain since her 1989 exhibition at the IC...
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich proudly present works of Astrid Klein. The exhibition, which covers works from the late 1970s and the 1980s, includes photographic, sculptural and installation work.
Photography has played a key role in Astrid Klein's oeuvre since the mid 1970s. Her approach to photography differs from the traditional documentary use of the medium: Astrid Klein uses photographic material taken from film, TV, advertising and journalistic texts, which she manipulates. She inverts colours, layers images, adds fragments of texts to the images or overexposures them.
Astrid Klein attempts to eliminate the viewers' possibility to recognize familiar images: in doing this, she questions their perception....