Hanne Darboven
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Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) was a prominent German conceptual artist known for her monumental installations that explore the passage of time, history, and memory. Born into a bourgeois family in Munich and raised in Hamburg, she studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg from 1962 to 1966 under Wilhelm Grimm and Almir Mavignier. During a two-year stay in New York in the late 1960s, she was influenced by minimalist artists such as Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt. Her work is characterized by meticulous, serial handwritten notations, mathematical systems, and found objects, often creating large-scale visual representations of time—whether as lifetime, working time, or historical periods. She lived on the outskirts of Hamburg until her death in 2009.[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
- time
- history
- memory
- minimalism
- conceptual art
Books
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Obsession No. 1.€68.00
Works by Hanne Darboven
- 1997 Hanne Darboven. Soll und Haben" und "Welttheater '79" Publication of the exhibition 'Soll und Haben' and 'Welttheater 79'.
- 1997 Briefe aus New York 1966-68 an zu Hause (999 monogrammierte Exemplare)
- 1995 Wenn artig, warum nicht eigenartig
- 1990 Quartett '88
Exhibitions
- 1997 Soll und Haben / Welttheater '79
- 2021 Hanne Darboven – Der Regenmacher
- Hanne Darboven – Welttheater
References
- Sprüth Magers. 2023 link
- Hanne Darboven. Wikipedia. 2024 link
- Darboven, Hanne. Deutsche Biographie. 2024 link
- File Note 67: Hanne Darboven. Camden Art Centre. 2024 link
- Hanne Darboven - biography. Lempertz. 2024 link
- Hanne Darboven. Nasjonalmuseet. 2024 link
- Hanne Darboven. Castelli Gallery. 2024 link
- Hanne Darboven. Deutscher Bundestag. 2024 link
- HD_Pressemappe_ENG_04_Biografie_Hanne_Darboven.pdf. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. 2017 link
- Hanne Darboven Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983. Dia Art Foundation. 1996 link