Antonia Hirsch Explained

Antonia Hirsch (born 1968, in Frankfurt on Main, West Germany) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin.^[1]

Life and work

Antonia Hirsch was educated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, Great Britain. From 1994 to 2010, she lived and worked in Vancouver, Canada.^[2]

Hirsch's work engages a variety of media, including installation, film, video, and photography.

In her preface to Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience curator and writer Melanie O'Brian states "Antonia Hirsch's practice testifies to a long-standing engagement with the quantitative, spatial, and syntactic systems that structure an understanding of our universe... Hirsch's work relates these ordering structures to embodied and visual experience, considering how the equivocal and often ideological nature of these representational systems is expressed through a level of abstraction."^[3]

Exhibitions

Hirsch's work has been featured in exhibitions such as Art In The Age Of...Planetary Computation at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2015);^[4] Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun), Tramway, Glasgow (2012);^[5] The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2011–12);^[6] and Universal Code at The Power Plant, Toronto.^[7]

Collections

Hirsch's work can be found in the public collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery^[8] and the National Gallery of Canada.^[9]

Publications

• Antonia Hirsch (ed.), Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience (with contributions by Theodor W. Adorno, Daniel Colucciello Barber, Lorna Brown, Elena Filipovic, Francois Laruelle, Olaf Nicolai, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Lisa Robertson, Wolfgang Winkler). Vancouver: SFU Galleries, 2015.
• Antonia Hirsch (ed.), Intangible Economies (with contributions by Juan A. Gaitàn, Melanie Gilligan, Hadley + Maxwell, Candice Hopkins, Olaf Nicolai, Patricia Reed, Monika Szewczyk, and Jan Verwoert). Vancouver: Fillip, 2012.
• Antonia Hirsch, Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun), (with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva). Vancouver: Fillip, 2011.

External links

• • Antonia Hirsch on Republic Gallery's website
• Antonia Hirsch's online project The Surplus Library on Affect & Economic Exchange
• Antonia Hirsch interviewed by Brittany Paris. Annotations: Out of Circulation. Triple Canopy, January 13, 2013.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Irvine. Karina. Black Mirror: Image and Reality in the Work of Antonia Hirsch. Canadian Art Magazine. 27 November 2016.
2. Web site: Laurence. Robin. Tulips are a charged metaphor in Antonia Hirsch's Light Tender. Georgia Straight. 27 November 2016.
3. Book: O'Brian. Melanie. Preface, Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience. 2015. SFU Galleries. Vancouver. 978-0-9868581-4-7. 23.
4. Web site: Art in the Age of... Planetary Computation. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. 17 November 2016.
5. Web site: Antonia Hirsch: Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun). Tramway, Glasgow. 17 November 2016.
6. Web site: The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989. Global Contemporary. ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. 17 November 2016.
7. Web site: Universal Code: Art and Cosmology in the Information Age. The Power Plant. 17 November 2016.
8. Web site: Acquisitions 2005. Vancouver Art Gallery. 27 November 2016.
9. Web site: Collections: Artists A-Z. National Gallery of Canada. 17 November 2016.