Hanne Darboven

Please note: Beginning April 2, 2005, Hanne Darboven's "Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983" will be de-installed for conservation for two years.


Selected Bibliography
Lippard, Lucy R. "Hanne Darboven: Deep in Numbers." Artforum 12, no. 2 (October 1973), pp. 35–39. Pohlen, Annelie. "Hanne Darboven's Time: The Content of Consciousness." Artforum 21, no. 8 (April 1983), pp. 52–53. Bordaz, Jean-Pierre. "Hanne Darboven, or the Dimension of Time and Culture." Parkett 10 (September 1986), pp. 104–11. Hanne Darboven: Primitive Time/Clock Time. Philadelphia: Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, 1990. Texts by Coosje van Bruggen, Klaus Honnef, and Elsa Longhauser, and an interview by Amine Haase. Hanne Darboven: Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983. Cologne: Walther König, in association with Edition Cantz, Ostfildern, 2002. Newman, Michael. "Remembering and Repeating: Hanne Darboven's Work." In Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, vol. 2. Ed. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 2003.


Biography
Hanne Darboven was born in Munich in 1941. Following a brief episode as a pianist, she studied painting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg. Between 1966 and 1969 she lived intermittently in New York City, then returned to her family home in Hamburg, where she continues to live and work. Her first one-person show was at the Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, in 1967. Darboven has participated in many international exhibitions, including Documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 11 (2002), in Kassel; the 1973 São Paulo Bienal; and the 1982 Venice Biennale. She has also had numerous one-person shows in Europe and North America, including major presentations at the Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto, in 1991, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, in 1997, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, in 1999. Dia exhibited Kulturgeschichte 1880–1983 in 1996–97.