Hanne Darboven (born 29 April 1941 in Munich, died 9 March
2009 in Hamburg) was a German conceptual artist. She became best known for her
large scale minimalist installations consisting of handwritten tables of
numbers.
Hanne Darboven grew up in Rönneburg, a southern suburb of
Hamburg, as the second of three daughters of Cäsar Darboven and Kirsten
Darboven. Her father was a successful and well-to-do businessman in Hamburg.
Following a brief episode as a pianist, Darboven studied art
with Willem Grimm, Theo Garve and Almir Mavignier at the Hochschule für
bildende Künste Hamburg from 1962 to 1965. From 1966 to 1968, she lived in New
York City, at first in total isolation from the New York art scene. She then
moved back to her family home in Hamburg and continued to live and work there
among an extraordinary collection of disparate cultural artefacts until her
death in 2009
Established in 2000 and named after its founder, the Hanne
Darboven Foundation promotes contemporary art by supporting young talents,
which, in particular, tackle the theme of ‘space and time’ in the realms of
conceptual art, visual arts, compositions, and literature. The heir of the
artist's estate, the foundation recorded Darboven’s complete Requiem Cycle. In
order to preserve the artist's work and make parts of her own collection
available to the public, the foundation purchased her former Rönneburg
residence in 2012.
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