Annelies Strba
Annelies Štrba is a Swiss multimedia artist, who lives in the Zurich metropolitan area. She works with video, photography, and digital media to approach her subjects, which range from domestically themed images, portraiture, and both urban and natural landscapes.
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Born |
Zug, Switzerland | 8 October 1947
Nationality | Swiss |
Known for | Photography, Video Art |
Spouse(s) | Bernhard Schobinger |
Life
Annelies Štrba was born in Zug, Switzerland in 1947. She now lives in Richterswil (Lake Zurich) and Ascona, Switzerland. She started showing her work in 1990, and has participated in many group shows alongside other artists known for their portrayals of family, society, and everyday subjects, such as Nan Goldin, Shirin Neshat, Pipilotti Rist and Wolfgang Tillmans. She has traveled internationally for her work, spending time in Japan, Poland, Scotland, Paris, and England, amongst other places. She received a Federal Grant for Applied Art in 1971 and has exhibited widely in Europe, primarily in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria, and France, as well as in the United States.
Work
Štrba combines photography, digital media, and film to chronicle her physical and emotional life. A mother of three, she has been documenting her family environment through her work for over four decades. Her best-known bodies of work, Shades of Time, AYA, NYIMA, and her most recent publication, Noonday, depict her immediate family including her three children, and five grandchildren. Although she is working with subject matter that is very personal and quite literally close to home, Štrba constructs a quality of fantastical narrative in her pictures, utilizing combinations of the different mediums in her repertoire. While creating images that evoke fantastical emotion using technological processes, she simultaneously embraces a sense from 19th Century romanticism while addressing themes of domesticity and nature.[1]
Štrba uses a digital camera to capture moments and figures in film and still, which she then colors with the aid of computer programs. This digital manipulation provides Štrba’s images with a sense of painterliness and allows her to abandon naturalism and realist details in favor of complex visual textures. She often photographs around the family homes just outside of Zurich or in the Swiss mountains, where they spend many weekends and holidays. The product is a personal and poetically abstract documentation of the life around her, capturing her subjects at the dining room table, grooming, in the chaos of untidy rooms, or surrounded by nature. Overall, a personal story is told of the intertwined lives and relationships, speaking to memories, reactions, and nostalgic realization.[2]
Selected works
- Noonday
- NYIMA
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- AYA
- Shades of Time
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Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2016
HOLY VISIT, Madonnabilder of Annelies Strba, Museum m'zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Switzerland
2015
Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
Annelis Strba - Madonnen, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2013
Shades of Time, Kunsthaus Zug
2011
Summerending (with Adrian Schiess), Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland
2010
Frances et les Elfes, Ferme-Asile, Centre artistique & culturel, Sion, Switzerland
Annelies Strba, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
2009
My Life Dreams: Annelies Strba, Kindermuseum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf, Germany
2008
My Life Dreams, The Brontë Parsonage Museum Haworth, Haworth, UK
Annelies Strba: Selected Works from the NYIMA Series, Jason McCoy Gallery, 2008
2007
Annelies Strba, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
2006
Museum Valchava, Switzerland
Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland[3]
2004
Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Netherlands
2003
NYIMA, Helmhaus Zürich
2001
Annelies Strba: An 1-An11, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
Shades of Time, Centre national de la photographie, Paris
Centre pour l'image contemporaine, St. Gervais, Genf
1999
Eçoles des Beaux Arts, Nantes
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1998
Europäisches Fotomuseum Paris
1996
Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Kunstverein Weimar
1995
Museum Moritzburg
1994
Albers Museum, Bottrop
1991
Centre d'art contemporain, Martigny
Group Exhibitions
2016
Im Rausch - Zwischen Höhenflug und Absturz, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland
Heiliger Besuch, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Aufs Land, Bilder von Kobel bis Richter, Schllossmuseum Murnau
2013
Hold und mächtig? Das Bild der Mutter in den Kulturen, Religio. Westfälisches Museum für religiöse Kultur
2012
Alice in the Wonderland of Art, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Galerie der Gegenwart
MART Rovereto, Italien
Annelies Strba and Adrian Schiess: Collaboration, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
2011
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Jahresausstellung 2010, Luzern, Switzerland
2010
Centre National de l'Audiovisuel, Luxemburg
International Aleppo Woman Art Festival, Aleppo, Syria
2009
Controverses au Botanique, Museum de Botanique, Brussels
Ego Documents. Das Autobiograische in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008
In Voller Blüte, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
Baby. Picturing the ideal human 1840-now, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Adolescents, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007
Top of Central Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Viewfinder, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2006
Museum Chasa Jaura Valchav, Switzerland
In the Face of History, European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Centre, London, Great Britain
Artists for Miroslav Tichy, Museum of Arts, Brno/Brünn (CZ); JEZ, Kyiov (CZ); MMK, PassauLeigh (UK), The Kingston Turnpike, Turnpike Gallery, Kingston (UK), Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University
2005
Kunst Berlin, University of Massachusetts and Hampshire College
2004
Architecture Biennale
kunst kinder karriere, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
Rose c’ est la vie – on flowers in contemporary art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2000
fleurs, Museum zu Allerheiligen / Kunstverein Schaffhausen
1999
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Nude, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Missing Link, Kunstmuseum Bern
1998
Fotomuseum Antwerp
L'imaginerie, Lannion, Swiss Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
1997
Fotografie als Geste, Staatliches Museum Schwerin
Aspekt: Landschaft, Engelberger Talmuseum
1996
Kunstverein Bonn
The Eye of the Beholder, The Swiss Institute, New York
1995
Sourroundings, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1994
Another Continent, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1992
Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund
Biennale Sydney
Selected collections
France
- Centre Georges Pompidou
- FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen
- Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
- Collection de la caisse des depots et consignations, Paris
- Fondation NSM VIE, Paris
- Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris
- FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
- FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Les-Rouen
- Collection Premiere Heure, St. Cloud
Great Britain
- Celebrity Cruises, London
- Leeds City Art Gallery, England
- Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Germany
- Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Sammlung HVB Group
Switzerland
- Sammlung Bosshard
- Kunstmuseum Bern
- Fotomuseum Winterthur
- Kunsthaus Zug
- Kunsthaus Zürich
- Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich
- Zürcher Kantonalbank
- ZKB Private Banking, Zürich
USA
- Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
- Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Monographs
Ilma Rakusa, Annelies Strba: Madonna, Switzerland: Galerie Anton Meier
2014
Annelies Strba, Noonday, Switzerland: Lars Müller Publishers
2010
Veronique Mauron, Strba, Annelies: Frances et les Elfes, Ferme-Asile: Sion, Switzerland
2005
Ralf Christofori, Strba, Annelies: Frances und die Elfen, Ilma Rakusa Stuttgart
2003
Simon Maurer, Strba, Annelies: NYIMA, Zürich: Helmhaus Zürich / Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag
2002
Strba, Annelies: AYA, Zürich, Berlin, New York: Scalo
2001
Strba, Annelies: ÅN 1–ÅN 11, Richterswil, 2001. (Publication accompanying the exhibition at Kunsthaus Zug)
1997
Ilma Rakusa, Strba, Annelies: Shades of Time, Baden: Lars Müller Publishers
1994
Roman Kurzmeyer, Strba, Annelies: Ware iri ware ni iru, Luzern: Galerie Urs Meile
1990
Bernhard Bürgi, Georg Kohler, Strba, Annelies: Aschewiese, Zürich: Edition Howeg (Publication accompanying the exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich)
1988
Schobinger, Bernhard. Devon, Karbon, Strba, Annelies / Perm. 62 ausgewählte Objekte, 1984–
1987, Zürich: Edition Howeg
References
- ↑ [http://artforum.com/picks/id=7713 2007 Gladstone, Valerie: “Annelies Strba,”, [[Artnews]], September]]
- ↑ 2008 Koplos, Janet: “Annelies Strba at Jason McCoy,”, Art in America, January
- ↑ https://christopheguye.com/exhibitions/eroeffnungsausstellung/introduction
- 2010 Herbert, Martin: “Now see this,” Art Review 38, January, p. 24
- 2008 Lang, Susanne: “Personales apologias de la familia,” Humboldt 149, pp. 36–39
- 2004 Schindler, Anna: “Anneliese Strba,” in: ArtForum
- 2001 Daly, Catherine: “Annelies Strba and Bernhard Schobinger: The Paradise“, The Sunday Times (27 May 2001)
- 2001 McKeon, Belinda: “Paradise regained“, The Irish Times, 31 May
- 2000 Briers, David: "The Idea of the North“, Art Monthly 242: pp. 48–50
- 2000 Carvill, Sonia: "The Secret Attraction of Somebody’s Diary“, East Anglian Daily Times, 31 March
- 2000 Snell, Ted: "Visual perspectives find a space“, The Australian, 11 Feb: pg 11
- 2000 Vogel, Sabine: “Annelies Strba“, Artforum International 4, December: pg 154
- 1999 Esplund, Lance: "Truth or Dare.“ In: Modern Painters 12, 1, Spring 1999: pg 104–107