Hanne Darboven Overview

Hanne Darboven was born on April 29, 1941, in Munich. Darboven studied under Wilhelm Grimm and Almir Mavignier at the Academy of the Arts in Hamburg from 1962 until 1966.The next two years were spent in New York, where she was infuenced primarily by her contact with minimalist artists such as Carl Andre and Sol Lewitt. Since that time, she has engaged in the attempt to visualize time in her using her own system of characters and symbols.Through numbers and codes, textes,photographs,and diagrams.Darboven tries to cement and control the passage of time or historical events with simple typing paper, making the time dimension of her works perceptible as a spatial dilation by hanging these pages on the wall.Her intention is to make the rather imperceptble flow of time comprehensible and to show thr limits of perception. Her works were exhibited in New York in the Museum of Modern Art in 1970 and in the Guggenheim Museum in 1971.Darboven took part in documenta Kassel four times, participating in 1972, 1977, 1982, and 2002.Also in 1982 she represented Germany at the Biennale di Venzia.Hanne Darboven had lived and worked in Hamburg. She died 2009 at March 13th in the age of 67. With the death of Hanne Darboven Hamburg loses an unique personality and one of the most important contemporary artist.