Lara Schnitger
Lara Schnitger (born 1969 in Haarlem, Netherlands) is a Dutch-American sculptor, living and working in Los Angeles and Amsterdam. Schnitger studied at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague) from 1987 to 1991 and spent a year on a residency at the Kitakyushu Centre for Contemporary Art in southern Japan.
Schnitger works in knitted and sewn textile sculptures, videos and photographs, and has produced a book about art created from mundane materials such as fabric, titled Lara Schnitger: Fragile Kingdom. [1]
Schnitger’s work has been shown internationally at galleries and museums such as Magasin 3 in Stockholm, the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Kunstwerke in Berlin, the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, The Power Plant in Toronto, and the Royal Academy in London. She participated in the Liverpool Biennial in 1999 and the Shanghai Biennial in 2002. She is represented by Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London, Anton Kern Gallery in New York as well as by Galerie Gebr. Lehmann in Dresden and Berlin.
Solo exhibitions (selected)
- 1996 Anton Kern Gallery (New York, NY)
- 1997 University of Buffalo Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY)
- 2001 Basel Art Fair (Basel)
- 2001 Santa Monica Museum of Art (Santa Monica, USA)
- 2002 Chinese European Art Center (Xiamen)
- 2003 Sprengel-Museum (Hannover)
- 2005 Magasin 3 Kunsthall Stockholm
- 2005 Armand Hammer Museum of Art (Los Angeles)
- 2006 National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo)
- 2006 Royal Academy of Arts (London)
- 2008 Double HappinessGalerie Gebr. Lehmann (Berlin)
Dance Witches Dance (with My Barbarian), Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
- 2009 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2010 Lara Schnitger – Two Masters and Her Vile Perfume, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
- 2014 PINKPOP Festival, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastrict, Netherlands
Never Alone: Sister of Arp, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2015 Suffragette City, FRAC Champagne–Ardenne, Reims, France
Group exhibitions (selected)
- 1995 Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)
- 1999 Art Lovers: Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK, curated by Marcia Fortes
- 2000 Kunsthalle Basel
- 2001 11 x Dutch Art, National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2002 Shanghai Biennale
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (New York)
- 2003 Nice and Easy, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
- 2005 Both Ends Burning, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA [cat]
- 2006 Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
USA Today, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK The “F” word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Liz Thomas
- 2007 National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo)
Eight Sculptors from Los Angeles, Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st century, New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Mark Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni [cat]
- 2008 Sonsbeek 2008 Grandeur, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands, curated by Anna Tilroe
- 2009 REBELLE: Art and Feminism 1969 – 2000, Mseuem voor Moderene Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands, Curated by Mirjam Westen
- 2010 Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, curated by Dan Byers
- 2011 Investigation of a Dog: Works from the FACE collections, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Eslov Wide Shut 100 Works by 40 American Artists, Stefan Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain
- 2012 More to Tell, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
Without Hope, Without Fear, Mottahedan Projects, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE
- 2014 Beating Around the Bush Episode #2, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
- 2015 No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Fl
Poor Art - Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968-2015, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway 2016 Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, CA
Public collections
- Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
- Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
References
External links
- www.laraschnitger.com
- Lara Schnitger at Anton Kern Gallery, New York
- Lara Schnitger at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
- E-Flux : Lara Schnitger - (2005-06-24)
- Lara Schnitger - Art Works - The Saatchi Gallery