Annegret Soltau facts for kids

Annegret Soltau (born 16 January 1946) is a German visual artist, born in Lüneburg, Germany.

Her work marks a fundamental reference point in the art of the 1970s and 1980s. Photomontages of her own body and face sewn over or collaged with black thread are the most well-known works of the German artist.

Education

From 1967 to 1972 she studied with Hans Thiemann, Kurt Kranz, Rudolf Hausner and David Hockney at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg in Germany, 1972 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria. In 1973 she received a DAAD scholarship for Milan in Italy.

Life and work

Since 1973 she has freelanced, first in the sphere of painting and graphic art, then from 1975 actions ("permanente demonstration") and first photography and videoworks. In Soltau’s own words “Permanente Demonstration“ is “an attempt to trigger states of consciousness through realization of an image in real life, i.e. make an image physically. The line, becomes a realized line, the person is part of the picture. Line and person are not two opposite things but one reality”.

Over the years, her face has transformed metaphorically into letters, numbers, data and paper documents (identity cards, passports, bank statements, cash machine receipts, dentist’s bills).

Honours

In 1982 she was awarded a working scholarship by the Arts Society of Bonn, in 1986/87 the Villa Massimo prize in Rome in Italy, in 1998 the Maria Sybilla Merian Prize (in the State of Hesse)"Vita" Annegret Soltau and in 2000 the Wilhelm-Loth-prize of the City of Darmstadt, where she is living.

Exhibitions

A retrospective exhibition of Soltau's work was shown at the exhibition halls of Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt in spring 2006.

"More than Meets the Eye", Art Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection on Tour through important Museums Latin America from 2006 until 2007 (Monterrey, Mexico City, Bogota, Lima, Santiago de Chile, São Paulo und Buenos Aires)

2007 until 2009 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York and Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada.

2010 "Donna: Avanguardia femminista negli anni ’70", Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

2012 "Francis Bacon and the Existencial Condition in Contemporary Art", Strozzina Foundazione, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy

"artevida: corpo(body)", 28 June – 21 September 2014, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and Rodigo Maura at Fundação Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2013 until 2017 "WOMAN. Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s. Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND", Vienna (touring exhibition): "MUJER. La vanguardia feminista de los años 70". Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, "WOMAN" Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Mjellby Art Museum, Halmstad, Sweden, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany and MUMOK. Museum moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

2015 "GENDER IN ART", Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Kraków, PL

"PRIÈRE DE TOUCHER – The Touch of Art", 12 February until 16 May 2016, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland Medicine in Art

"MEDIZINE IN ART", 22.04.2016 - 02.10.2016, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCAK), Kraków, PL

"FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1970S". Works from the VERBUND Collection, Vienna, curated by Gabriele Schor and Anna Dannemann. The show is taking place at the Photographers' Gallery in London from October 6, 2016 – January 29, 2017

"AGING PRIDE", 17.11.2017 - 11.03.2018 Belvedere museum, Vienna, Austria

"Family Matters", 04.10.2019 - 30.08.2020 Dom Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria

See also

In Spanish: Annegret Soltau para niños