Anja Mohn
geb. 1970
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Videostill aus Video: CityScape, September 11, 2005
Videostill z.V.g.
Anja Mohn mit Videokamera
Foto: Renate Aller
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| Anja Mohn is a mixed media artist who has exhibited her work internationally including the Goethe Institut New York, Museum Haus der Kunst, Munich, Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Roland Aphold Gallery, Basel, Switzerland, and New York City Galleries and art fairs. Anja Mohn's work derives its imagery from the deeper layers of the human psyche, myths, and dream. The photo objects, sound objects, and mixed media installations are poetic assemblages that use minimalist forms, yet are loaded with emotions, and often full of ambivalence: "The poetic ambivalence ... is a fundamental aesthetic attribute of Anja Mohn’s art. Her installations, objects and films are of almost sorrowful joy and blissful melancholy." (Michael Huebl, BNN) Anja Mohn studied Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany with British Sculptor Michael Sandle, and Japanese Sculptor Hiromi Akiyama. In 2001 she was awarded a one-year grant by the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD, to New York. In 2003 she received the MFA from Parsons the New School. Prior to studying Fine Arts Anja Mohn studied philosophy at the Rheinische-Friedrichs-University of Bonn, Germany. |
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| About my work: "There is a dialogue between the inside and the outside; art makes us listen All forms, movements, color and light carry in themselves their meaning. What they are, their physical form derives from their inner being, their energy and history and, in the case of the man-made environment, the thought and intention that called them into being. The forms that surround us are permeated by inner life and our subconscious mind is the door that connects us to a different perception of the physical world and the immaterial world of time, sound and spirit. Through associative thinking – dreaming - it is open to decipher the underlying life and meaning of our surrounding world. This window of perception is the focus of my work. Long, meditative observation, re-enactment of movement and study of development process, behavior, external and internal phenomena are the means to create works of layered meaning." Anja Mohn |
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| 2006 | Artist Residency Culture House Dillsberg, Rhein-Neckar Kreis e.V. Cultural Foundation of the Federal State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany (Sept. – Oct.) |
| 2002-2003 | Parsons Graduate Dean’s Scholarship and Chaim Gross Scholarship/New School University |
| 2001-2003 | MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, N.Y |
| 2001-2002 | DAAD one year grant to New York and Parsons Graduate Dean's Scholarship/New School University |
| 1999-2000 | Graduation and title “mastery achievement” ("Meisterschueler", post graduation year) |
| 1997 | Annual award of the State Academy for Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1994-2000 | Study of Fine Arts/Sculpture, Academy for Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1992-1994 | Study of philosophy and history of art, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany |
| 1992 | Exam in the trade of furniture making (journeyman), Western German TV and Radio Station, WDR, Cologne, Germany |
| 1970 | born in Leverkusen |
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June 27, 2000 Huebl, Michael: Zwischen Buchstabe und Koerper. Meisterschueler der Akademie im Schloss Bruchsal, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Nr. 145 |
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November 12, 1998 Hommerich, Carola: Mit geschlossenen Augen besser sehen. Anja Mohn's Werke strahlen Ruhe aus, Koelner Stadt Anzeiger, Nr. 264 |
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January 07, 2006 Huebl, Michael: Brooklyn und die Zuversicht (Brooklyn and Optimism); Die Kuenstlerin Anja Mohn arbeitet transatlantisch (Artist Anja Mohn works transatlantically), Badische Neueste Nachrichten |
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February 02, 2006 Nuesseler, Hannes: Wirklich wahr (Really true), Basler Zeitung |
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| 2007 | States of Longing – group show, published by Station Independent Projects, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Anja Mohn – artist in residence Fall 2006, published by the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis e.V., Cultural Foundation of the Federal State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Heidelberg, Germany |
| 2004 | Gleem – published by Parsons School of Design/ The New School University, New York, NY |
| 2000 | 15 Positionen (15 positions), published by the Museum Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
| Anja Mohn – published by the State Academy for Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| 1997 | Plan B – Suzanne Fisher Gallery, Baden-Baden, Germany |
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| 2006 | It`s a fine line, Renate Aller and Anja Mohn, Alp Galleries, New York, NY |
| Galerie Roland Aphold, Allschwil / Basel | |
| 2004 | Here-Anja Mohn and Lee Arnold, VertexList, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Dream, Goethe Institute Inter Nationes, New York, N.Y |
| 2000 | andernorts – blau, Kulturverein Glashaus, Karlsruhe, Germany (two person show) |
| 1998 | Skulptur und Installation, Citty Hall Gallery, Odenthal, Germany |
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| 2009 | Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI |
| State of Consiousness, Collective Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Unsichtbar, w/Artist Group PaulSchwarzLopez at UND #4, art fair, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Unsichtbar, South East Europe Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2008 | Fellows of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis Foundation, Dilsberg, Germany |
| 2007 | Outvideo, public video display of 30sec videos, various cities, Russia |
| State of Longing, Chashama Gallery, curated by Damien Montalieu and Station Independent Projects, NYC | |
| 2006 | Galerie Roland Aphold, Allschwil / Basel |
| War, what is it good for?, B. K. Smith Gallery, Cleveland, OH, Temporary Cities, International ArtExpo Collection, Cultural Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania and National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia | |
| 2005 | Caspar David Seance, Jack the Pelican Gallery, Brooklyn, N |
| “Exchange Routes”, Theater Utan Kayu, Jakarta/Kedai Kebun Forum, Yogyakarta/ Gaya Fusion of Senses, Bali, Indonesia | |
| 2004 | Art Addict-Pool, New York Art Fair, Four Points Hotel, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Gleem, Aronson Galleries, New York, NY |
| Words, Egizios Project, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | Kunst im Knast, year´s-exhibition of the Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst at the old jail of Baden-Baden, Germany |
| Meisterschüler 1999/2000, Schloss Bruchsal, Germany | |
| 15 Positionen – Räume für die Kunst, Große Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany | |
| 1997 | Plan B – Klasse Sandle, Suzanne Fischer Gallery, Baden-Baden, Germany |
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