Patricia Waller (1962) is a textile artist from Santiago, Chile, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is known for her bright cartoon style crochet work that often has a macabre element to it.
Patricia Waller | |
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| Born | 1962 |
| Occupation | Artist |
Biography
editWaller was born in 1962 in Santiago, Chile.[1] In 1968 Waller moved with her family to Germany. She studied at the Free Art School in Nürtingen from 1983 to 1985.[2][3] She received her diploma and master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, studying sculpture there from 1985 to 1990.[2][3]
She was a lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Pforzheim, Germany from 2002 to 2004; also at Textile Department in the Institute for Art and Art History at the University of Cologne from 2003 to 2004/ 2007; and at the Department Textile Studies and Research in the Institute for Cultural Studies and Social Science at the University of Osnabrück.[2][3]
Artworks
editIn her final year of art school, Waller created her first crochet piece for which her practise is known.[4] The first artwork that Waller crocheted was a bomb.[3] She then went on to re-create iconic pieces from art history like Joseph Beuys' dead hare or Jeff Koons' "Rabbit".[5] She went on to create technology then medical inspired devises before settling into her iconic style of macabre cartoon images.[5] Her work uses cute or kitsch crocheted forms that have a violent edge to them such known TV cartoon figures that are stabbed and bloody or stuffed animals that have been flattened by some mishap.[5]
Selected solo exhibitions
edit- Innocent, 2019 Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm, Germany; 2018, Galerie Deschler, Berlin, Germany
- At the circus, 2016, Kunstverein Speyer, Germany; 2015, Gallery Deschler, Berlin, Germany; 2015, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Germany
- The violent needle, 2016, Shirley's Temple Art, Shanghai, China
- Broken Heroes, 2015, Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm, Germany; 2012, Gallery Deschler, Berlin, Germany
- Bad Luck, 2012, Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm, Germany; 2009, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany; 2009, Gallery Deschler, Berlin, Germany
- Follow the thread, 2011, BWA Galeria, Zielona Góra, Poland; 2011, Museum junge Kunst, Frankfurt Oder, Germany
- Sailor's Yarn, 2004, Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm, Germany; 2003, Gallery Marcus Schmitz, Cologne, Germany
- Handmade, 2002, Gallery Metropolitana, Barcelona, Spain; 2002, EnBW Energie AG, Sonycenter, Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
edit- My Hero! Bedford Gallery, 2016, Lesher Center for the Arts, CA, USA, and California Center of the Arts, Escondido, CA, USA
- Neue Masche, 2011, Museum Bellerive, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
- Woven World, Internationale Triennial Textile Arts, 2011, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai, Belgium
- Trouble set me free, 2010, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- Loops, 2010, Nordic house, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Ten Years Hunting, 2010, Parker's Box, New York City
- Dritto Rovescio, 2009, Triannale Design Museum, Milan, Italy
- International fiber biennial, 2008, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
- D-Haus..D-Street, 2005–2006 Executive Committee German Year in Japan, Tokyo, Japan
- Left Hand, Right Hand, 2003, 798 Space, Beijing, China
Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
edit- Art award of the Werner Stober Foundation, 2002
- Scholarship Cité Internationale des Arts, 1999 Paris, France
- One-year scholarship, 1995, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
- DAAD-scholarship, 1993 Ghent, Belgium
References
edit- ^ Glück – Welches Glück. München: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden. 2008. ISBN 978-3-446-23015-6.
- ^ a b c Patricia Waller – bad luck. Berlin: Gallerie Deschler. 2009. ISBN 9783981288001.
- ^ a b c d Martin Oskar Krammer; André Lindhorst; Carmen Böker; Freidrich Weltzien (2012). Patricia Waller – Even Worse Luck (2., erw. Aufl ed.). Berlin: Galerie Deschler. ISBN 9783981288025.
- ^ Þormóđsdóttir, Vigdís (2010). "Get Ready For Horrible Cuteness!". The Reykjavík Grapevine (8).
- ^ a b c Walde, Gabriela (22 June 2009). "Die Kunst des Häkelns" (in German). Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved 14 September 2020.