Jorinde Voigt

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Born 1977, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; lives in Berlin, Germany

BOTANIC CODE – M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, Kiev (August 2010), 2010; industrial paint and ink on 24 aluminum rods; each rod: 118 inches/300 cm tall, diameters variable

Thoughts, sensory impressions, philosophical writings, and music find graphic form in Jorinde Voigt’s idiosyncratic system of drawing. Markings, notations, collaged gold leaf are all dictated by both algorithms and the artist’s visceral responses expressed in freehand.

Jorinde Voigt is Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany. Her early accomplishments as a cellist, and her university level studies in philosophy, sociology, and comparative literature provide a rich well of content to which she brings her devised systems that result in elegant and delicate drawings. Her work has been collected by institutions including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; the British Museum, London, United Kingdom; and the Morgan Library, New York.

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Photographs courtesy of the artist