Monika Grzymala: drawing spatially = Raumzeichnung : works 2011-16

Abstract

Monika Grzymala (*1970) began her artistic training as a stone sculptor and restorer, after which she studied visual art at the art colleges in Karlsruhe, Kassel, and Hamburg. The Berlin-based installation artist generally describes her work as "spatial drawing" and has presented her works in numerous international group and solo exhibitions, at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Fabrica Brighton, the Albertina in Vienna, and most recently at the Reykjavik Art Museum. Grzymala sees the drawing as thought carried out manually and the physical line poised to come into being, whereby the spatial drawing represents a gesture that plays into the architecture and therefore causes the installation artist's sculptural mode of thought, her "physical thinking," to become visible in unique spatial drawings. This monograph shows how impressively this can be experienced.

Contents

Swirling "linealogy" = Wirbelnde "Linealogie" / Catherine de Zegher -- Drawing at present = Zeichnen zur Zeit / Reinhard Ermen -- In conversation with = Im Gespräch mit / Petra Oelschlägel -- In conversation with = Im Gespräch mit / Petra Kipphoff -- The medium is the message : Monika Grzymala in the Dian Woodner Collection in New York City, 2010 = Das Medium ist die Botschaft : Monika Grzymalas Werk für die Dian Woodner Collection in New York City, 2010 / Elizabeth A. Pergam -- Paper : fiber-line-surface-space : on Monika Grzymala's work for the Dian Woodner Collection in New York City, 2010 = Papier : Faser-Linie-Fläche-Raum : zur Arbeit von Monika Grzymala für die Dian Woodner Collection in New York City, 2010 / Gangolf Ulbricht -- In conversation with Maura Lynch : about Tree of life for the Dian Woodner Collection in New York City, 2013-19 = Im Gespräch mit Maura Lynch : über Tree of Life für die Dian Woodner Collection in New York City, 2013-2019 -- Tree of Life : Monika Grzymala for the Dian Woodner collection in New York City, 2013-19 = Tree of Life : Monika Grzymala für die Dian Woodner Collection in New York City, 2013-19 / Andrew Moore.