21 Facts About Isa Genzken

Isa Genzken was born on 27 November 1948 and is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin.

Hanne-Rose "Isa" Genzken was raised mostly in the small northern German city of Bad Oldesloe and in Hamburg.

Isa Genzken studied fine arts and art history with Almir Mavignier and Kai Sudeck at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts.

Isa Genzken married German visual artist Gerhard Richter in 1982 and moved to Cologne in 1983.

The couple separated in 1993 and Isa Genzken moved back to Berlin.

Isa Genzken has bipolar disorder, goes through manic and depressive phases and has spent time in psychiatric hospitals.

Isa Genzken has worked in studios in Dusseldorf, Cologne ; for short stretches in the United States, in Lower Manhattan and Hoboken, New Jersey; and currently in Berlin.

Isa Genzken uses location placement methods to inflict emotions into her sculptor viewers by making her viewers physically move out of the way of Isa Genzken's sculptor due to the placement of the sculptor.

Between 1986 and 1992, Isa Genzken conceived her series of plaster and concrete sculptures to investigate architecture.

Later, in the series New Buildings for Berlin, which was shown at Documenta 11, Isa Genzken designed architectural visions of glass high-rises.

One of Isa Genzken's best known works, Rose, is a public sculpture of a single long-stemmed rose made from enamelled stainless steel that towers eight metres above the Leipzig fairgrounds.

Since the end of the second half of the 1990s, Isa Genzken has been conceptualizing sculptures and panel paintings in the shape of a bricolage of materials taken from DIY stores and from photographs and newspaper clippings.

Isa Genzken often uses materials that underline the temporary character of her works.

Isa Genzken worked frequently with Zwiner, who held her Paris New York Exhibition from August 29-October 10 in 2020.

Isa Genzken had five solo exhibitions with him and this last one was her fifth.

Isa Genzken used multiple forms that include, vertical structures, of medium-density fiberboard with inclusion of a mirror foil, spray paint as well as other media.

Isa Genzken's work has undoubtedly impacted art culture through her unique ability to create sculptures out of many materials such as wood, plaster, concrete, steel, epoxy resin, and even household kitchen materials, as seen in her "Babies" semblance from 1997.

Isa Genzken redefined the art of creating sculptures and even combated discrimination against sculpture art in the 60s and 70s as she pursued her unique talent.

Isa Genzken's sculptures have even been recognized as art that creates illusions with the mind and opens the imagination of the viewer.

From November 23,2013 to March 10,2014, "Isa Genzken: Retrospective" was on view at the Museum of Modern Art.

Isa Genzken won the International Art Prize in 2004 and the Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize in 2002.