▪ Barbara Beisinghoff
▪ Atelierhaus
▪ Etching Workshop
▪ Warburger Weg 20
▪ 34474 Diemelstadt-Rhoden
▪ Tel. 05694 9912234
▪ barbara@beisinghoff.de
▪ www.beisinghoff.de
Printmaking, Watermarking, Artist’s Books, Installation, Performance
Studies, workshops, artist in residence:
2010 residency Guanlan, Print Original Industry Base, Shenzhen, China
2009 Artist’s Book Residency at Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
2008 workshops Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes, Lima et las Escuelas Regional Superior de Bellas Artes, Cusco and Ayacucho
2006 St. Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, workshop viscosity technique
Guest artist presentation Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Canada
2003 Emma Ricklund Foundation, Ricklundgarden, Saxnäs, Sweden
2002 Residency Atelier de l’île, Val-David, Québec, Canada
2000 Lichtdruck Leipzig, Gelatine on glass printing
Since 1995 watermark projects with international papermakers
1982+1992 scholarship for lithography Quensen Lamspringe
1989 scholarship for lithography Kätelhön Wamel
1979 Summer Academy Salzburg, Lithography
Residency Rijkszentrum Frans Masereel, Belgium
1978 Summer Academy Salzburg, Etching, Meckseper Class
1964-1968 Study of Fine Arts in Hanover
Awards:
2002 Printer of the Mainz City Printer Prize, presentation at the Gutenberg Museum Mainz
Selected Prize, 12 th International Print Biennal Seoul
1999 Art Prize Heitland Foundation, Celle
1997 Culture Prize Dreieich
1991 International Senefelder Prize , 2nd Prize, „Lithography International“ Offenbach
1991 Graphic Diploma, 2. Biennale „Impreza“ Ukraine
1990 Art Prize Hameln-Pyrmont, 1st Prize
1988 Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Prize for Fine Art, Darmstadt-Dieburg
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Installations:
2010 Kunstverein Wunstorf;
Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz
Centre d'exposition Shawinigan, Québec, Canada with Bärbel Rothhaar
2009 Galerie Forum Amalienpark, Berlin
2008 ICPNA Lima, Peru
2007 Goethemuseum Frankfurt “Run through the Colour Circle”
Regional Gallery of South Hessia, RP Darmstadt “The Angel is my Watermark”
2005 Continuous Installation „Colourlight Sail and Grundbuch“, Glass Paintings and Copper
Reliefs around the Town Hall in Dreieich, communicative project involving 250 children
2004 Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel, Artist’s Book’s section „Dived Time“
„Wörtersee“ International Forest Art Path “Expeditions” Darmstadt
Castle Landestrost, Region of Hanover “Partitions of Light”
2003 Gutenberg Museum Mainz “Die gläserne Libelle“; Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum
der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Leipzig „Room for a Clairvoyante“;
Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen „Hell sehen gegen Licht“
2002 Commerzbank Frankfurt „Partitions of light“, Städtisches Museum Saarburg;
scoop and dight“ (catalogue), Kunstverein Passau, St. Anna Chapel
2001 Ashdod Museum, Israel, “A Throne for Ashdoda”
2000 Fairy tale Museum Bad Oeynhausen, „When the ray of light touched him“
1999 “Zeichenbeete”, Art Prize Heitland Foundation, Castle Celle;
Spandau Citadel, Berlin, „Where light and watermark touch each other“
1997 arche Hameln, „The true blue sky“;
Castle Museum Bad Pyrmont, „Watermarks“
1996 Moncalieri, Italy, „Libra, donne d’Arte e di Carta“
1995 Gallery of the town Dreieich, „Time traces time“;
Berchtold Villa Salzburg, „Imprints of time“
1993 Studio degli Alberici Carrara,“ B.Beisinghoff and Luciano Lattanzi“
1992 Gallery InterArt Munich, „Eyeso verso“
1991 Ivano Frankivsk Ukraine, „Impreza“
1990 Gallery Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt, „ Painting and Etching of B.Beisinghoff“;
Art Prize Hameln-Pyrmont, exhibition Wedding House, Hameln
1989 Kunstverein Biberach a.d.Riss, „B.Beisinghoff, Printing and Painting“
1988 Gallery Libertas Dreieichenhain, „Colour etching and Painting“;
Library of the town Paderborn, „Painting and Etching“
1987 Gallery Meiborssen, „Weeds and Seeds“;
Gallery arche, Hameln, “Arachne, Metamorphosis”
1986 Academy Hofgeismar, „Painting and Etching“ (catalogue);
Castle Heiligenberg, Seeheim/Bergstraße, “Painting and Etching”
Studio Kunsthalle Darmstadt, „Painting and Colour etching“
Selected International Printing Exhibitions:
Frechen 1990,1993,1996,1999, Berlin 1984,1987,1990, Bradford 1984, Maastricht 1993, Krakau 1988, Kairo 1996, Fredrikstadt 1995, 1999, Seoul 2002 and 2008, MIMB (Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books) Traveling ExhibitionUSA 2009-2012
Work in Museums and Public Collections:
Klingspor Museum Offenbach, Gutenberg Museum Mainz, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Herzog August Library Wolfenbuettel, Nationalmuseum Krakau, Fairy Tale Museum Bad Oeynhausen, County Library Lower Saxony in Hannover, Hessian County Museum Darmstadt,
German Library Frankfurt/Main, German Library Leipzig, County of Rheinland-Pfalz; Goethe Museum Frankfurt; Bavarian State Library Munich, Wuerttemberg State Library, Stuttgart; German National Archive Marbach/Neckar; Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek Weimar; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA; Rochester Institute of Technology, USA; University of Delaware, USA; Indiana University (Bloomington), USA; Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; Vassar College, USA; Yale University, USA; State Library Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt
County Hessen; County Rheinland-Pfalz; Hessisches Finanzministerium; Geschäftsstellen and Zentrale Frankfurt of Dresdner Bank AG, Geschäftsstellen and Zentrale Frankfurt and Offenbach of Commerzbank AG; Zentrale and Geschäftstellen der Eurohypo AG and DEKA-DESPA, Frankfurt; Aareal Bank, Wiesbaden; Kreissparkasse Alfeld; Offenbach; Darmstadt; Landkreis Darmstadt Dieburg; the Towns Holzminden, Soest, Paderborn, Hannover, Burghausen, Dreieich, Bischofsheim and Montier-en-Der, France; Atelier de l’Île Val-David Québec, Canada; St. Michael’s Prints Studio, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Kanada, Goethe Institut, ICPNA and German Embassy Lima, Peru; Woman’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York State;
Artist’s Books:
Since 1983 folders and books of watermarks, drawing, etching and letterpress with fairy tales, texts of Ovid, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Marina Zwetajewa, Henry Miller, Karl Krolow, Jacques Prévert, Hermann Burger and Christa Wolf
Installations and Performance:
Since 1997 space-related three dimensional paperwork, “House and Room for a Clairvoyante”, staircases, walls and ceilings of watermarks, stencilled (couched) words of pulp on trees and leaves, “Yellow Koller” (flakes of grinded paper in motion)
Since 1999 Waterjet Performances, dealing with counter-light behind the transparent lines in the paper and the sound of water, dripping on musical instruments
Related Activities:
since 2012 artist in residence program in Atelierhaus Beisinghoff in Diemelstadt-Rhoden
2006/07 founder of “Druckgraphik grenzenlos” together with the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and Ziegelhuette Darmstadt
