Nadja Verena Marcin
| Nadja Verena Marcin | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 28, 1982 Würzburg, Germany |
| 🏳️ Nationality | German |
| 💼 Occupation | Artist |
Nadja Verena Marcin (born October 28, 1982) is a German performance and media artist known for remaking the 1940s instructional film How to Undress in Front of Your Husband.[1][2][3]
Early life and education[edit]
Marcin was born on October 28, 1982, in Würzburg, Germany to a family of German and Slovakian descent.[4] In 2010, she graduated with a Master of Visual Arts from the School of the Arts at Columbia University in New York in 2010, and received a Diploma of Fine Arts with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster.[5]
Art career[edit]
Marcin is the recipient of the New York State Council for the Arts Grant in Film, Media and Technology for her first feature film, Pocahontas Returns.[6] Her work was highlighted in an exhibition at Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, featuring all entrees for the Climate Change Action Award.[6] She also exhibited her work Cover Girls Art in Odd Places entitled Cover Girls.[6]
In 2016, Marcin had a booth at NADA Art Fair, New York,[7] for which she received the Art Fair Goers Award for Best Booth.[8] The same year she also participated in the 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.[9]
In 2016/17 Marcin was granted with a Franklin Furnace grant for her performance and video-sculpture OPHELIA that lead to a world-wide and ongoing tour of the ecofeminist artwork, comparing the history of hysteria with the destruction of the biosphere.[10] A video sculpture of her architectural, interdisciplinary performance was presented by the New York-based 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel at CONTEXT Art Miami in 2017.[11] In 2018, during a live performance at Fridman Gallery in New York, she immersed herself in a salt-water solution in a life-size stainless steel sarcophagus.[12][13]
Notable work[edit]
- 2009, Singing in the rain
- 2013, Zero Gravity[14]
- 2014, La Mujer
- 2015, Jedi
- 2015, Bride
- 2016, How to Undress in Front of Your Husband a remake of a Hollywood 1937 exploitative short film by Dwain Esper showing the alleged “dos” and “don’ts” of a woman undressing in front of her husband.
- 2017–present, Ophelia a live performance and digital sculpture module on a world tour which first premiered at Context Art Miami in December 2017.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Feminist Artist Has Some Fun With '60s Misogynist Instructional Video". HuffPost Canada. 24 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ↑ Battista, Kathy. New York, new wave : the legacy of feminist art in emerging practice (First ed.). London. pp. 69, 76, 77, 78. ISBN 978-1-84885-894-7. OCLC 1088693386. Search this book on
- ↑ Nunes, Andrew (23 September 2016). "A Sexist 1960s Film Remake Rewrites Cinema History". Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- ↑ "Nadja Verena Marcin präsentiert im Schauwerk Sindelfingen ihre Unterwasser-Performance". krzbb.de. 10 February 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ↑ "Nadja Verena Marcin graduated from the Visual Art Department of New Genre, School of the Arts at Columbia University". issuu.com. 15 October 2019. pp. 2–3, 6–7, 24–25, 30–31. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Alumna Nadja Verena Marcin '10 Awarded NYSCA Grant". arts.columbia.edu. 10 January 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ↑ Nunes, Andrew (16 May 2016). "Finally, the Art World Gets a Bootleg Video Store". Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- ↑ "The Artspace Fairgoer Awards: NADA New York". Artspace (2016 ed.). Retrieved 2020-06-23.
- ↑ "Participants at Moscow Biennale for Young Art". artnet News. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
- ↑ "Nadja Verena Marcin's Ophelia goes on a world tour". Cultured Magazine. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- ↑ "Art Basel Miami Beach Satellite Fairs Report 2017". Artlyst. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- ↑ Desmarais, Charles (27 March 2018). "Ophelia returns after 400 years with new message". SFGate. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
- ↑ "Ecofutures /// Queer-feminist Ecocriticism Conference". cuntemporary.org. 7 April 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- ↑ Molina, Ashli (30 July 2013). "Artist Nadja Verena Marcin Travels to Florida to Recite Nietzsche in Zero Gravity". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
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