BIRGIT BRENNER
b. 1964, GermanyBirgit Brenner creates her works out of the dramas of everyday life, and this is mimicked in her use of common materials. Mediums like wood, cardboard, and acrylic paint are combined like a modern-day Assemblage, blurring the line between painting, sculpture, and drawing.
Birgit Brenner (b. 1964) studied at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin under renowned installation artist and film director Rebecca Horn. She is a Professor of Art at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, and her work has been shown extensively in Europe including a 2011 major exhibit at the Dortmunder Kunstverein in Germany. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany; Kunstsammlung Jena,. Germany; and Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany. She was a recipient of the Tisa of the Schulenburg-Stiftung art award in 2004, Christian Karl Schmidt subsidy award in 2003, and a P.S.1 scholarship from 2001-2. She lives and works in Berlin. She is represented by Eigen-Art Berlin and Leipzig since 1992 and MARC STRAUS in New York.
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