Una H. Moehrke

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Una H. Moehrke
Born (1953-07-07) July 7, 1953 (age 68)
Hannover, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forFine Art, Performance Art, Text Art, Art professor
Website www.una-moehrke.de

Una Helga Moehrke (born July 7 1953 in Hanover) [1] is a German visual artist specializing in painting, drawing, performance art and experimental text. [2] She was a Professor for Art and Art Mediation at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle from 1994 to 2018.

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Life

Una H. Moehrke studied Painting at the Berlin University of the Arts (graduated in 1980 as a Master Student of Raimund Girke), along with Art History, Religious History, and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. She has received stipends from the Berlin Senate, the State of Lower Saxony, and the German Academic Exchange Service and prizes from the Ilse Augustin Foundation, Berlin, the Federal Garden Exhibition in Berlin, and the Baer Art Center, Iceland. After lectureships and guest professorships in Berlin, Lüneburg, Kiel, Braunschweig, and Dresden, she was appointed a Professor at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle in 1994. There she taught until 2018 in the Faculty of Art and was a Professor for Art and Art Mediation Art Education. [3] Ulf Aminde, Irmela Gertsen, Georg Lisek, Julian Plodek, Luise von Rohden, Juliane Schickedanz, Jochen Schneider, Ella Ziegler and others were taught by Moehrke. Along with her teaching, Moehrke pursued her own painting and drawing. [4] Moehrke is a member of the International Artists Bureau and an associate member of the German Artists Association. She lives in Berlin.

Teaching

As an instructor, Moehrke combined in an experimental and multi-media manner societally related art mediation with artistic interventions in museums, galleries, theaters, and the world of work. Her teaching is based on the experience that artistic work is carried out in dialog with biographical and art-reflecting processes. In the framework of symposiums and catalog publications, she has realized research projects involving multiple steps.

In the 2008 project Geometry of Work, [5] she presented artistic research and reflection processes on the heterogeneity of the current concept of work and its various manifestations, as well as documenting artistic transfer projects in concrete work milieus. A symposium in the Gallery for Contemporary Art (GfZK) in Leipzig discussed the geometry of work from its sociological, art-theoretical, and economic perspectives.

At the center of another art-theoretical research project, Im Modus der Gabe (In the Mode of the Gift), 2011, [6] stand models from theater, visual art, and performance, in which processes of exchange, transfer, and reciprocity are effective. Considering the performative development of contemporary art, the contributions examine the degree to which concepts of the gift that develop from ethnological, philosophical, and sociological perspectives (Marcel Mauss, Maurice Godelier, Jacques Derrida, Bruno Latour, Paul Ricœur, etc.) prove viable for reflecting on the self-understanding of contemporary artistic practice in the field of tension between social effectiveness and the claim to autonomy.

The exhibition and event series erreger- | EIGEN frequenz (agent or pathogen – eigenfrequency), 2018, on the perception, mediation, and visibility of giving, taking, and passing on, is Moehrke's last presentation in the context of her teaching. [7] In interplay with the works of the Professor, twenty-seven different positions on the phenomenon of giving and the principle of impulse and resonance were presented in the Burg Gallery Halle. [8]

Oeuvre

Starting with the photographic and performative Self-Portrait on the Surface of the Water (1980s), the Moehrke continued to develop self-portraits as abstract heads in oil painting (end of the 1990s). [9] From the original head and mirror image Icon, she extrapolated abstract surfaces that present themselves as mostly monochromatic pictures. Moehrke works with the reduction of line and color fields. In painting, the dematerialization of color produces shifting color fields that offer reflection surfaces for light and shadow like a mirror and that change with the changing position of the viewer. These are pictures that oscillate between appearance and disappearance. [10] The viewer perceives them as the trace of a motion. With extremely reduced coloration, they open up spaces whose atmosphere is reminiscent of phenomena of light. The viewer can associate motion within the picture with the physical motion outside of the picture (PictureSpaceMotion, 2010). Her pictures painted since 2012 with metal pigments that seem white are her primary works, a further extended reduction of monochromy. [11]

Beginning with the performative water drawings of the 1990s, Moehrke designed a large-format, experimental form of drawing that can be categorized as site-specific art and that stands in dialog with nature and architectonic environments, for example industrial architecture, sacred buildings, or park facilities. Moehrke says drawings can grasp something ungraspable. In them, the lines condense to emblems and, in some work complexes, refer to examples from art history. [12] Thus, in Venice in 2015, the drawings were fragmentarily transposed from historical paintings into a free and contemporary language of lines. With small, linear interventions, tradition is transferred to contemporaneity (Personal Structures. Crossing Borders: These lines are dedicated to... Palazzo Bembo, 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice 2015). [13] Moehrke's art develops dialogically in the media of performance, photography, painting, drawing, and text.

Many of Una H. Moehrke's works are publicly owned by Bear Art Center Island, the Berlinische Galerie, the Lüneburg District Government, the Franckesche Foundations Halle, Gruner + Jahr Berlin, the Wörnitz-Dessau Art Foundation, the Art Museum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), the State of Berlin, the Märkisches Museum (Berlin), the New Berlin Art Association, the Lower Saxony Artists Association, the Federal Republic of Germany Collection, the Halle Municipal Utilities, the Karlsruhe Municipal Gallery, the Wolfsburg Municipal Gallery, the Mannheim Savings Banks Insurances, and the Hanover Sprengel Museum.

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Publications on Teaching

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References

  1. ↑ "Helga Moehrke". RKD. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "erreger– | EIGEN frequenz. Ausstellung und Veranstaltungsreihe zur Wahrnehmung, Vermittlung und Sichtbarkeit von Geben, Nehmen". art-in.de (in German). 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  3. ↑ Moehrke, Una. "Former Staff: Prof. Una Moehrke". Burg Giebichenstein. University of Art and Design Halle (in German). Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  4. ↑ Kowa, Günter (2018-05-22). "Arbeit am Mythos: Una Moehrke gibt ihren Ausstand von der Burg Giebichenstein". mz-web.de – Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  5. ↑ Drebber, Magdalena; Moehrke, Una H.; Penzel, Joachim (2008). Geometrie der Arbeit. Transfer von Kunst in gesellschaftliche Funktionsbereiche. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag. ISBN   978-3-86678-182-5.(in German).
  6. ↑ Hentschel, Ingrid; Hoffmann, Klaus; Moehrke, Una H. (2011). Im Modus der Gabe. Theater, Kunst, Performance in der Gegenwart. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag. ISBN   978-3-86678-494-9.
  7. ↑ "Erreger-Eigenfrequenz – eine Ausstellung in Halle/S., Volkspark". lokal.radiocorax.de (in German). 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  8. ↑ "erreger-/EIGEN frequenz". burg-halle.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  9. ↑ Moehrke, Una H. (2001). Flächenselbst, Ölbilder und Zeichnungen. Interfacial Self, Oil paintings and drawings. Unna: Kunstverein Unna, Kunsthofverein Halberstadt e. V., Fassbender Gallery Chicago. pp. 2–4. ISBN   9783000074547. OCLC   76189524.
  10. ↑ Hentschel, Ingrid; Moehrke, Helga (2005). Una H. Moehrke, erscheinen und verschwinden: Malerei 2001-2005. Berlin: Stiftung Stadtmuseum. pp. 7–8. ISBN   9783000169373. OCLC   160196671.
  11. ↑ Moehrke, Helga; Hentschel, Ingrid & others (2018). Una H. Moehrke BILDText_R a u m : Malerei – Zeichnung – Performance – Text: 1984_2018. Halle (Saale): Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. pp. 12–15. ISBN   978-3-86019-143-9. OCLC   1035942074.
  12. ↑ Bauerle-Willert, Dorothée; Moehrke, Una H. (2008). Es ist das Andere: Una H. Moehrke, Malerei 2007 (Limited Edition of 500 ed.). Dessau: Anhaltischer Kunstverein. pp. 5–6. ISBN   978-3-00-023795-9. OCLC   553990881.
  13. ↑ Jongh, Karlyn de; Gold, Sarah (2015). Personal structures: crossing borders, Palazzo Mora, Palazzo Bembo. Leiden: Global Art Affairs Foundation. p. 264. ISBN   978-94-90784-18-8. OCLC   917349546.
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