{"id":45,"name":"","email":"ensembles@muhka.be","language_id":1,"permalink":"barbara-kruger","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://rogallery.com/Kruger_Barbara/kruger-biography.html","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1945-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":"Newark","country_of_birth":"United States","place_of_residence":"New York","country_of_residence":"United States","cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"collage advertising slogan","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Barbara","lastname":"Kruger","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Barbara Kruger","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Kruger, Barbara","stream_count_app":44,"gender":"female","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/720/large/BarbaraKrugerPhotoBW.jpg?1366728607","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":2,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Kruger\u003c/strong\u003e (\u0026deg;1945) lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. She studies visual arts and design in New York and works for several magazines as a graphic designer and head of the design department.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThis background would prove crucial to her subsequent artistic activity. Visual language drawn from the mass media offers very powerful communication tools. Barbara Kruger appropriates the clich\u0026eacute;s and techniques used in the mass media for artistic ends. She works with the same strategies, but only to transmit her own critical message on sexuality and social and political issues. She replaces messages that in the mass media are intended to encourage consumption by critical, aggressive one-liners like \u003cem\u003eI shop therefore I am\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI am not trying to sell you anything\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;or \u003cem\u003eWhen I hear the word culture I take out my check book\u003c/em\u003e. She raises questions about how power functions and its effect on the human condition: how is power accumulated, used and misused. Constantly recurring themes in her subversive and investigative work are feminism, consumption, individual autonomy and desire. She designed posters for a women\u0026rsquo;s-rights demonstration in 1989 in Washington, wrote a much-translated feminist pamphlet and published pieces on discrimination against minorities and AIDS patients.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eKruger\u0026rsquo;s work is shown in museums and galleries, but also on advertising billboards, bus stops, posters, T-shirts and plastic bags, as well as in stations, parks or other public places. At first sight, what you see is advertisement. But what you read, clashes with customary advertising messages. In recent work, in addition to written text, Kruger also uses sound, and video-projection alongside photography. The confrontation with the viewer becomes ever more intrusive and claustrophobic; her work comes even closer to the public. Kruger\u0026rsquo;s concept is both public and political.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Kruger\u003c/strong\u003e (\u0026deg;1945) woont en werkt in New York en Los Angeles. Ze volgt opleidingen beeldende kunst en vormgeving in New York. Als grafisch vormgever en hoofd van de afdeling vormgeving werkt ze voor verschillende tijdschriften.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDeze designachtergrond is cruciaal in haar werk als beeldend kunstenaar. De beeldtaal uit de massamedia heeft zeer krachtige communicatiemogelijkheden. Barbara Kruger eigent zich de clich\u0026eacute;s en technieken toe die in de massamedia worden gebruikt. Ze hanteert dezelfde strategie\u0026euml;n, maar om haar eigen seksuele, sociale en politieke, altijd kritische boodschappen over te brengen. De boodschappen die in de massamedia moeten aanzetten tot consumptie, vervangt ze door kritische, agressieve oneliners zoals\u003cem\u003e I shop therefore I am\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e(ik winkel, dus ik besta),\u003cem\u003e I am not trying to sell you anything\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(ik probeer je niets te verkopen) of \u003cem\u003eWhen I hear the word culture I take out my check book\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(als ik het woord cultuur hoor, neem ik mijn chequeboek). Ze stelt vragen over het functioneren van macht en het effect ervan op de menselijke conditie: hoe wordt macht opgebouwd, gebruikt en misbruikt. Steeds terugkerende thema\u0026rsquo;s in haar subversieve en bevragende werk zijn feminisme, consumptie, individuele autonomie en verlangen. Ze ontwerpt posters voor een vrouwenrechtendemonstratie in 1989 in Washington, schrijft een in vele talen vertaald feministisch pamflet en publiceert over discriminatie van minderheden en aidspati\u0026euml;nten.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eKrugers werk wordt getoond in musea en galerijen, maar ook op reclamepanelen, bushokjes, posters, T-shirts en plastic tassen en in stations, parken of andere plekken in de publieke ruimte. Op het eerste gezicht krijg je een reclameboodschap te zien. Dat wat je leest, strookt echter niet met de gebruikelijke reclameboodschappen. In haar recente werk gebruikt Kruger naast geschreven tekst ook geluid en naast fotografie ook videoprojectie. De confrontatie met de toeschouwer wordt nog indringender en nog meer claustrofobisch; haar werk komt nog dichter bij het publiek. Krugers concept is zowel publiek als politiek.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"US","place":"New York","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}},{"country":"US","place":"Newark, New Jersey","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}},{"country":"US","place":"Los Angeles","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}}]}