Angelika Platen
14 Nov 2012 - 03 Feb 2013
ANGELIKA PLATEN
14 November 2012 - 3 February 2013
Known as “the friend of the artists” - Angelika Platen begins her career in the ‘60s after studying at the Fine Arts University in Hamburg. She succeeded in promoting portraits of painters, sculptors, video artists and installationists to the wide public which can be found in an impressive photo archive of the Prussian Cultural Patrimony (Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz BPk) in Berlin. These portraits were made in artists’ studios, galleries, at Dokumenta in Kassel, at Venice and Lyon Biennales, in museums or art fairs in Basel, Berlin, Chicago, Köln and Paris.
Andy Warhol, Henry Moore, Man Ray, Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter as well as the „living sculptures” Gilbert and George are only a few names of the portraits gallery of which Angelika Platen presents her work. From 1998 Angelika Platen returns to her first passion, black and white photography with a series of photographs of young artists of that time but also exploring the very fresh area of contemporary art: Jeff Koons and Jonathan Meese, Christian Boltanski and Sylvie Fleury. The artist exhibits at the National Gallery in Berlin, at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, The Art Gallery in Prague and museums in Hamburg, Bologna, Barcelona, Goethe Institute in Paris and Washington, and now, at The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest.
14 November 2012 - 3 February 2013
Known as “the friend of the artists” - Angelika Platen begins her career in the ‘60s after studying at the Fine Arts University in Hamburg. She succeeded in promoting portraits of painters, sculptors, video artists and installationists to the wide public which can be found in an impressive photo archive of the Prussian Cultural Patrimony (Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz BPk) in Berlin. These portraits were made in artists’ studios, galleries, at Dokumenta in Kassel, at Venice and Lyon Biennales, in museums or art fairs in Basel, Berlin, Chicago, Köln and Paris.
Andy Warhol, Henry Moore, Man Ray, Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter as well as the „living sculptures” Gilbert and George are only a few names of the portraits gallery of which Angelika Platen presents her work. From 1998 Angelika Platen returns to her first passion, black and white photography with a series of photographs of young artists of that time but also exploring the very fresh area of contemporary art: Jeff Koons and Jonathan Meese, Christian Boltanski and Sylvie Fleury. The artist exhibits at the National Gallery in Berlin, at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, The Art Gallery in Prague and museums in Hamburg, Bologna, Barcelona, Goethe Institute in Paris and Washington, and now, at The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest.