| Dates: | born 1975
| | Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born New York City, USA, 1975. Lives
and works in New York City
Solo exhibitions
Story, Study, Print, 2006, Stuart
Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Lisa Oppenheim/Alexandra
Leykauf, 2006, FOAM, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Split Screen, 2005,Fries
Museum, Leeuwarden The Netherlands
Parallax View. 2005, Galerie
Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Lisa Oppenheim/Andreas
Zybach. 2005, 51 Rohrbachstr.
Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
(two-person show)
Damaged, 2005, De
Nederlandsche Bank Gallery,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Selected group exhibitions and
screenings
Metaminimal, 2006, Bellwether
Gallery, New York, USA
For Hollis, 2006, Kunsthalle
Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria; Deutches
Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Re:Visie, 2006, Centraal
Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Open Ateliers 2006, Rijksakad-emie
van bedeelnde Kunsten, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Cinematexas, 2006, Austin, TX,
USA
European Media Arts Festival,
2005, Osnabruck, Germany
Botany, 2005, Sonoma County
Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA, USA
Documentary Evidence, 2004,
Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Open Ateliers, 2004, Rijksakad-
emie van bedeelnde Kunsten,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
World of Plants, 2004, in
collaboration with Catharine Clark
Gallery, San Francisco. USA
Good Words and Credentials.
2003, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia
University, New York. USA
Float, 2003, Socrates Sculpture
Park, Queens, NY USA
Hard Times, 2003. Jessica
Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY USA
Open Studios. 2003, Whitney
Independent Study Program, New York,
USA
Drive Into the Sunset, 2003,
Western Front Society Gallery.
Vancouver. BC. Canada
Tonight. 2002, Schnittraum
Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Art in General's 4th Annual Video
Marathon, 2002, Art in General, New
York, USA
Further Reading
Sophie Berrebi, The Document as Idea'.
Jong Holland (December 2005)
Roos Gortzak, 'Lisa Oppenheim',
ArtReviewreview (September
2005)
Sven Lutticken, 'Lisa Oppenheim',
ArtForum review (December 2005)
Sandra Smallenburg.'Old Words, New
Images: Lisa Oppenheim at Gallerie
Juliette Jongma'. NRC
Handelsblad, 1 July 2005
'Up and Coming Photographers of 2005'.
ArtReview(October 2005)
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | There is a general interest today in
archives, both in the material they store
and in the archive as an entity. We have
gained awareness of the personality -
and even the subjectivity - that each
specific archive embodies. It is
impossible to aseptically separate the
collected documents from the collection
itself and its particular curation, structure
and history. Furthermore, we no longer
trust documentation, particularly as
evidence on which we can rely
uncritically.
Some artists share this inclination.
Although there is a considerable amount
of boring, straightforward documentary
work, there are also artists who address
the subject critically, exploring the
complexities and ambiguities involved.
Oppenheim is certainly one of them; her
work is a paradigm of a creative, open
way of dealing with archives. An
iconoclast who works with images, she
enjoys the intriguing appeal of old,
historical photographs and films, but
questions them.
Her approach is simultaneously playful
and subversive, introducing humour into
usually 'severe' subject matter. One
could say that Oppenheim 'replays'
archives. Her work is a sharp jouis-
sance on the relativeness of memory
and the mismatch in the processes of
constructing visual and textual meaning,
highlighting the opacities in their mutual
relationship.
Gerardo Mosquera | | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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