Shannon Bool, installation view, From the Kingis Quair, Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2012
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Shannon Bool, Gaza Zebra (1 Version), 2012. Courtesy Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Shannon Bool, Ryan Air, 2004. Deutsche Bank Collection. © Shannon Bool
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Mariechen Danz, Performance at Koh- I- Noor, Kopenhagen, 2011
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Mariechen Danz, Tower Vessel Tooth, 2010. Installation
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Heide Hinrichs, from "dust drawings", 2012
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Heide Hinrichs, exhibition view, 'Echos', Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2012
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Daniel Maier-Reimer, Caucasus 2005. A walk from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. C-Print, 2005
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Daniel Maier-Reimer, O. T., 2007
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The Villa Romana Prizewinners 2013 have been announced: Shannon Bool, Mariechen Danz, Heide Hinrichs, and Daniel Maier-Reimer
will begin a ten-month residency in the artist’s house in Florence.
They have access to a studio in the Villa Romana and will receive
further support in the form of a monthly stipend. This year’s
jurors—the artist Ulrike Grossarth and Janneke de Vries, director of the Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst
(GAK) Bremen—selected the four artists from ten candidates. The Villa
Romana Prize is awarded by the Villa Romana Association and financed by
the Deutsche Bank Stiftung,
the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, and additional private
sponsors. The Villa Romana Prize is not only the oldest German art
prize, but also the longest-standing cultural commitment on the part of
Deutsche Bank and its foundations: the bank has been supporting this
renowned award for contemporary art in Germany since 1929.
The 1972-born Canadian Shannon Bool lives in Berlin; her art has been part of the Deutsche Bank Collection for quite some time. Several of her works on paper were included in 25,
the anniversary exhibition of the corporate collection. Bool combines
her drawings, collages, rugs, and murals to create a variety of new
arrangements. She constructs entire rooms in which high and low, relics
of modern, everyday, and pop culture merge. Bool’s work can currently
be seen in the large survey show Made in Germany 2 in Hanover.
Mariechen
Danz also lives in Berlin. Over the past several years, the artist,
born 1980 in Dublin, has attracted international attention with her
unique blend of live performance, drawing, video clip, and sculptural
installation. She calls systems of knowledge and the power structures
inscribed therein into question. Danz has taken part in numerous
international exhibitions, including Younger than Jesus (2009) in the New Museum, New York, and the 2011 show based in Berlin.
Heide
Hinrichs, born 1976 in Oldenburg, currently lives in Brussels. Hinrichs
works with ambivalent sculptural installations that delve into the
meaning of things, their locations and memories. Her art addresses the
relationship between language and body, subjective and architectonic
spaces. The Heidelberger Kunstverein is currently dedicating a solo show to Hinrichs’s work.
Daniel
Maier-Reimer lives and works in Hamburg. For over 20 years, the
1968-born artist has been taking extensive trips to places like
Lapland, Iceland, China, and Iran, but also along the Vorder Rhine and
the boundaries of the state of Hamburg. He travels by foot and in the
end brings back only a small number of photographs, a kind of
concentrate of his impressions and feelings.
The Villa Romana
is a place of contemporary artistic production and international
exchange. Only ten minutes from Florence’s city center, it combines the
peace of a park property with the urban reality of a major city. With
exhibitions, a wide range of events, and invitations to international
guest artists, the Villa Romana carries on a dialogue between producers
and the public, positions itself in an international artistic context,
and furthers communication with Mediterranean cultures. In Florence, a
city rich in art historical treasures, the Villa Romana defines itself
as a forum for contemporary art that initiates cooperative projects
with international partners and dialogues with the public on site.
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