Uta Grosenick
Author of Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century
About the Author
Uta Grosenick has worked at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, and was curator at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Since 1996 she has been working as freelance editor (Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Taschen 1999) and organizer of exhibitions. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Uta Grosenick Von Joachim Baldauf - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25520354
Works by Uta Grosenick
Art Now! Vol. 2 7 copies
Associated Works
Pierre et Gilles: Sailors & Sea (Icons Series) (2005) — Translator, some editions — 114 copies, 1 review
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- Birthdate
- 1960-04-27
- Gender
- female
- Short biography
- Uta Grosenick studierte in Köln und Paris Kunstgeschichte, Germanistik und Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaften. Nach einigen Assistenzen im Bereich Regie und Dramaturgie an verschiedenen Theatern und Schauspielhäusern arbeitete sie als Ausstellungsorganisatorin an den Hamburger Deichtorhallen, u.a. mit Harald Szeemann (1989/90) und der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, mit Pontus Hultén (1991–1993). Von 1993 bis 1999 war Grosenick Kuratorin am Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, wo sie Ausstellungen mit Jean-Marc Bustamante, Gilbert & George, Paul Graham, Nam June Paik, Wolfgang Tillmans und anderen konzipierte.
Für den Taschen Verlag gab Grosenick zwischen 1999 und 2006 20 Bücher heraus, „Art at the Turn of the Millennium“ (1999), „Women Artists“ (2001), „ART NOW“ (2002), „ Büttner“ (2003), „ART NOW Vol 2“ (2005) sowie eine Reihe von 15 Überblicksbänden zu Kunstrichtungen der Klassischen Moderne und der zeitgenössischen Kunst.
Daneben übersetzte sie die Bücher „Collecting Contemporary“ (2006) und „Dennis Hopper. Photographs 1961–1967“ (2009) aus dem Amerikanischen ins Deutsche.
Von 2006 bis 2009 war Grosenick Programmleiterin Kunst beim DuMont Verlag, für den sie „INSIGHT INSIDE – Galerien 1945 bis heute“ (2005) mitverfasste. Es folgten „CHINA ART BOOK“ (2007), „PHOTO ART“ und „Tobias Rehberger 1993–2008“ (beide 2008) sowie weitere Künstlermonografien.
Seit 2010 ist Uta Grosenick Verlegerin von DISTANZ in Berlin. Diesen neuen Verlag für Kunst, Fotografie, Architektur, Mode und Design gründete sie 2010 zusammen mit dem Sammler Christian Boros. Hier gab sie gemeinsam mit Laura Hoptman, Kuratorin für Malerei und Skulptur, MoMA New York, und Yilmaz Dziewior, Direktor Kunsthaus Bregenz, „THE ART OF TOMORROW“ (2010) heraus.
Grosenick lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Köln. - Nationality
- Germany
- Birthplace
- Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- Associated Place (for map)
- Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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How much visual beauty can you stand from one book? Be ready to be overwhelmed by the creativity shown by artists of the late twentieth century. Cindy Sherman (page 288) alone is worth the price. Or Gary Hume (page 140). John Currin, a dutch master reincarnated into the last century. Not heard of them yet? Maybe you will, someday. Get ahead of the curve.
This reasonable size book, it measures 25.5cmm x 20cm (10”x8”) is packed full if images. It covers the work of 137 different artists from the areas of painting, photography, film and video, sculpture, performance art and installation. Each artist is allotted four pages, has a brief introduction of one paragraph (printed in English, German and French), along with a thumb-nail photograph of the artist and a short list of selected exhibitions and bibliography. The pictures fill the pages, show more sometimes several to a page; in total I estimate there are around 750 illustrations almost entirely in colour. The book concludes with a glossary and brief biographical notes on the authors, plus a section entitled The Art Newspaper which provides art market details and facts about leading art cities in the world.
It covers well many known names including Jeff Koons, Damien Hurst, Luc Tuymans, John Currin, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin to mention a few, plus some less familiar, providing a very useful if brief summary of art today.
It should be noted that the more recently published special 25th anniversary edition (ISBN 9783822840931, “Art Now Artist at the rise of the new Millennium”) is a scaled down reissue of this book; scaled down in dimensions and number of artists featured but otherwise identical. show less
It covers well many known names including Jeff Koons, Damien Hurst, Luc Tuymans, John Currin, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin to mention a few, plus some less familiar, providing a very useful if brief summary of art today.
It should be noted that the more recently published special 25th anniversary edition (ISBN 9783822840931, “Art Now Artist at the rise of the new Millennium”) is a scaled down reissue of this book; scaled down in dimensions and number of artists featured but otherwise identical. show less
This fairly compact book, it measures 22.5cmm x 18cm (8.75”x7”) is packed full if images. It covers the work of 81 different artists from the areas of painting, photography, film and video, sculpture, performance art and installation. Each artist is allotted four pages, has a brief introduction of one paragraph (printed in English, German and French), along with a thumb-nail photograph of the artist and a short list of selected exhibitions and bibliography. The pictures fill the pages, show more sometimes several to a page; in total there are over 500 illustrations almost entirely in colour. The book concludes with a glossary and brief biographical notes on the authors.
It covers well many known names including Jeff Koons, Damien Hurst, Luc Tuymans, John Currin, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin to mention a few, plus some less familiar, providing a very useful if brief summary of art today.
It should be noted that this special 25th anniversary edition is a scaled down reissue of “Art Now 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium”, ISBN 382281444X; scaled down in dimensions and number of artists featured but otherwise identical. show less
It covers well many known names including Jeff Koons, Damien Hurst, Luc Tuymans, John Currin, Peter Doig, Tracey Emin to mention a few, plus some less familiar, providing a very useful if brief summary of art today.
It should be noted that this special 25th anniversary edition is a scaled down reissue of “Art Now 137 Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium”, ISBN 382281444X; scaled down in dimensions and number of artists featured but otherwise identical. show less
smal squished print. not all that interesting.
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