CITTADEL-ARTist Lecture Series 2007: Eiko Grimberg
Eiko Grimberg
Fri, October 12, 2007
Studio Visits: TBA
Eiko Grimberg is a Berlin-based artist working in video and photography. His work shifts and detaches images and stories from their role as signifiers of cohesive histories. In Grimberg’s video of a deserted Wall Street in Post 9/11 New York (The Years to Come, 2005), the space of the image is folded into a mismatched historical narrative about a similar but changed series of events, and produces a sensation of dislocated anxiety.
The transfiguration of physical spaces and cultural moments in Grimberg’s work produces uneasy performances of absence that question the meaning of memory, place, and attachment. The result is the realignment and play of the structure of fiction and space itself in a psychologically fractured world, in which the connection between secure meanings and official narratives is often distorted or lost.
Eiko Grimberg received his MFA from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB) in 2003 and is assistant professor at HGB.
The Cittadel-Artist Lecture Series is part of the UNIDEE in Residence Program at the Pistoletto Foundation,
Biella, Italy. For more information, please contact Chelsea Tonelli Knight at chelsea@chelseaknight.com.
