Artists
Jorinde Voigt Born in 1977 in Frankfurt/Main | Lives and works in Berlin
The compositions that Jorinde Voigt develops in her drawings, when viewed from a distance, make one think of maps of airline routes, studies of birds forming into flocks, branching nervous systems, or musical scores; innumerable lines forming themselves into dynamic structures, creating movement, turbulences, and rhythms.
Her for the most part large-formatted, serially structured works are created in close alignment to our everyday reality. Visual, acoustic, tactile, and olfactory perceptions are translated into lines, numbers, and letters. Voigt’s semiotic systems are attempts at capturing, in their synchronicity, a variety of visual and perceptible events surrounding us and transposing them into a unique structuring regime. These everyday observations encounter fictional dimensions of the imaginable in which time and space are given a utopian character.
In her work, Piece for Words and Views I–XXXVI (2012), Jorinde Voigt combines the graphic process of notation with collage techniques. The confrontation with literature, specifically with Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (2004), initially formed the basis for a cycle of collages. The collaged elements are visual associations with the words and situations described in the book that stuck in Voigt’s memory while reading it. Embedded in the sweeping patterns of lines with references to wind direction and strength, rotation direction and speed, the colored collage elements are set in imaginary motion and temporally and spatial located.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2012 | 5th Drawing Prize Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Salon du Dessin, Paris |
2011 | Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal |
2010 | STAAT/ Random I-XI, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag |
2009 |
Symphonic Area, HDKV Heidelberger Kunstverein STAAT/ Random I-XI‚ BHWF Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, New York |
Group exhibitions (selection)
2012 | Turbulences, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris |
2011 | 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia‚ Palazzo Papadopoli, Venedig |
2010 | Future Generation Art Prize 2010, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev |