Renate Brink
The multilayered space of the city and the notion of –˜soft space' inform the work of Renata Brink. The city as a place of passage and the physical experiences of moving through its complexities evoke ideas about the invisible, absence and presence, inclusion and exclusion. The site-specific installations and interventions often have sequential, graphic or minimalist qualities and they are variable in their dimensions.
Biography
1960 born in Hamburg
1989-1992 MA Textiles, Visual Art Department Goldsmiths College - University of London, UK
Thesis: Passage and Jouissance in the works of Eva Hesse and Rebecca Horn; Postgraduate Diploma
1982-1984 Diploma in Woven Textiles
Harrogate College of Arts and Technology, Harrogate, UK
Since 1984 working freelance as artist and author, exhibiting internationally with diverse teaching jobs:
Guestprofessor at Kassel and Berlin, Visiting Tutor at Winchester School of Art, Goldsmiths College London, UdK
seit 1998 based in Berlin
1989-1998 based in London
1984-1990 based in Hamburg
Selection of recent projects and exhibitions
2007 TEXTILE TRANSPORTER,
arttransponder e.V., Berlin
2006 Synopse 06, Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin (catalogue)
Publication CITIES ISBN-10: 3-00-019085-6,
ed. Renata Brink, Berlin
Contract with the Art College/Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee:
concept, design, organization on site of a stand to represent the department
at Home Textiles Fair, Frankfurt/Main
2004-2005 Guestprofessorship Textiles
Art College/Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee
2004 Cork County Courthouse Commission, Cork/Ireland:
Shortlist of four artists for a textile-based work
in the modernized courthouse building
Catalogue Essay for a Textile Designer, Hamburg
Request of portfolio for the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung
(Site specific Work) – contemporary archive, Berlin
2002 hell sehen, Verborgenes Museum, Berlin
Renata.Brink@gmx.net