| Nele Ströbel, artist, was born in 1957 in
Stuttgart and got her polytec BA in the USA in 1976. She studied
sculpture at the College of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1979 to
1984, where she obtained her MA. She was appointed as guest
professor at the Academy of Art in Berlin from 1991 to 1992. Since
1979 she has held numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Her
works for public spaces emphasize the tensions inherent in such
places: 93/94: Trombe, Ruhrallee, Essen. 96/97 Kreuzblume, Red
Cross Hospital, Munich. 97/98 Landshuter Bogen, Clinic, Landshut.
98/00 Sonnenhof, city preschool in Munich. 1998/99 vogelwolke,
Finance Court, Munich. 2000 REM-Terrakotten, Neubiberg cemetery.
2001 guter stern, Police Department, Wolfratshausen. Since 1998,
she has worked on her book and exhibition "reparaturen der welt"
(repairing the world). A preliminary presentation of this work was
held in 2000 in the new city museum in Landsberg, and in 2002 in
the Maximiliansforum in Munich. She was awarded the Karl-Buchrucker
Prize for Fine Arts in 2002 for her spacial work "Sonnenhof". |
Books: overview
