Gisela Weiann
Independent Artist, Berlin, Germany
Abstract
Above All The Stars
Cosmos, my series of collages started in 2005 is a work-in-progress. Inspired by the publications that accompanied the Einstein Year, the latest theories of quantum physics and the speculations about parallel universes, I began to create my own universe in the drawer. My working process could be compared to the Boulle inlay technique which simulates infinity in a manageable way: each cut out ‘planet’ has resulted in providing me with the material for the next collage. The titles of the unfinished series include: Remote Worlds, Alien Planets, Dying Stars, Supernovae, Milky Way and Worlds behind Worlds.
PowerPoint of Gisela's presentation
Biographical Details
Gisela Weimann was born in Bad Blankenburg, Germany 1943 and lives in Berlin. She studied painting at Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin, printmaking and experimental photography at the Royal College of Art, London, and film and photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. The breadth and variety of her artistic forms of expression and working techniques range from painting and printmaking, photography and film, mail art, installations and environments to multimedia projects, performances and art in public spaces. She leaps over the boundaries between artistic genres by means of intercultural and interdisciplinary co-operation with artists from theatre, music and film, as well as with researchers from various disciplines. Her work has been shown extensively in Germany and internationally and includes: Windows on Wilshire at the Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, USA 1997); PhotoEspaña 99 in Madrid, Spain; and Transatlantic Impulses at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2005.
Her multimedia projects include: Aussen vor, installation and performance at the New National Gallery Berlin with composer Franz Martin Olbrisch, 1989; Garden of Memories, installation and performance with composer Witold Szalonek at the Muzeum Kulczyckich, Zakopane, Poland, 1996; Opera for 4 Buses, European multimedia art project in four mirrored buses, premiered 2001 at Museum Island Festival, Berlin. In 2002 she received the German Critics Prize for Visual Art.