Elaine Sturtevant

Basic Data

Elaine Sturtevant was a US painter, sculptor and object artist. Her works are classified as Conceptual Art, Approppriation Art, and Neo-Dada. She is best known for her appropriation of iconic Pop Art artworks, questioning originality, authorship, and artistic processes.

• Born: 23 August 1924
• Place of birth: Lakewood, Ohio, USA
• Died on: 7 May 2014
• Nationality: American
• Era: Modern art
• Stylistic direction: Appropriation art

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Biography

Elaine Sturtevant was born Elaine Heran in Lakewood, Ohio in 1924. She studied psychology at the University of Iowa and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1949. She moved to New York in the 1950s and began studying art at the Art Students League of New York.

In the 1960s, Sturtevant began to recreate works by artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Her repetitions were not simple copies. Rather, she reproduced the creative process that the original artist had gone through. Her goal was to challenge the concept of originality and the mechanisms of art production and reception.

Sturtevant received numerous awards and recognitions, including the prestigious Golden Lion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 for her lifetime achievement. In 2014, Sturtevant passed away at the age of 89.

Exhibitions

• 28.06.2023 – 28.02.2024 Inheritance – Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
• 19.06.2023 – 30.10.2023 Dream Machines – Deste Foundation, Nea Ionia.
• 13.05.2023 – 27.08.2023 ERNSTHAFT?! ALBERNHEIT UND ENTHUSIASMUS IN DER KUNST – Deichtorhallen Hamburg & Sammlung Falckenberg.
• 05.06.2023 – 10.12.2023 WORLDBUILDING. VIDEOSPIELE UND KUNST IM DIGITALEN ZEITALTER - JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf.
• 11.11.2022 – 10.04.2023 ERNSTHAFT?! Albernheit und Enthusiasmus in der Kunst. - BUNDESKUNSTHALLE Bonn.
• 01.10.2022 – 29.01.2023 Somewhere Downtown: Art in 1980s New York - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.
• 22.06.2022 - 02.01.2023 Une seconde d’éternité - Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce, Paris.
• 10.06.2022 – 09.10.2022 Balance - Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin.
• 10.10.21 – 13.02.22 The 80s. Art of the eighties – Albertina, Vienna.
• 28.08.21 – 30.01.22 New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century – Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley.
• 03.07.21 – 19.09.21 Zeros and Ones - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
• 22.05.21 – 24.10.21 Anne Imhof
 - Natures Mortes - Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
• 17.10.20 – 14.02.21 NO DANDY, NO FUN - Kunsthalle Bern.
• 03.10.20 – 29.08.21 She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! The Amazons of POP - MAMAC Nice.
• 12.08.20 – 10.01.21 Risquons-Tout - WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels.
• 29.02.20 – 22.11.20 Alles echt! - Werke aus der Sammlung – Kunstmuseum Luzern.
• 12.01.20 – 14.03.20 Sturtevant - Ça Va Aller – Air de Paris.
• 20.10.19 – 21.12.19 More. - Air de Paris.
• 30.11.19 – 26.04.20 Sans réserve – FRAC – Bretagne, Châteaugiron.
• 03.11.19 – 01.03.20 Theater of operations – MoMA PS1, New York City.
• 19.10.19 – 19.02.20 Michael Müller. "DEINE KUNST" The Conditions of Being Art (oder der Amateur) Dritte Fassung - Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg.
• 17.08.19 – 12.01.20 Ausstellung: "MUSEUM" - MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.
• 24.05.19 – 19.07.20 Forever Young - Museum Brandhorst, Munich.
• 13.04.19 – 28.06.19 Straying from the Line - Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin.
• 22.02.19 – 30.06.19 Lust der Täuschung. Von antiker Kunst bis zur Virtual Reality - Ludwig Forum, Aachen.

Awards

• 2011: Golden Lion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia 2011.
• 2013: Kurt Schwitters Prize of the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hanover.

Literature

• Sturtevant: The House of Horrors, Anne Dressen, Hanover 2013.
• Sturtevant - The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking, Anne Dressen, Zurich 2010.
• Sturtevant: Shifting Mental Structure, Bruce Hainley, Ostfildern 2002.

Collections

Germany

• Munich - Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
• Karlsruhe - ZKM | Karlsruhe
• Frankfurt - MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
• Düsseldorf - JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION DÜSSELDORF

Portugal

• Lisbon - Museu Berardo

Weblinks

• Elaine Sturtevant Kunstaspekte Exhibition and collection overview.