Nan Goldin

“Mein Wunsch ist es, den Sinn im Leben der Menschen zu erhalten, Ihnen die Kraft und Schönheit zu schenken, die ich in Ihnen sehe. Ich will, dass die Menschen in meinen Bildern zurückstarren.“ Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin ist die leidenschaftliche Historikerin im Zeitalter der offenen Sexualität, des Glamour, der Schönheit, der Gewalt und des Todes. Als eine der eindringlichsten Fotografinnen der Welt anerkannt, hat ihre Arbeit zudem einen großen Einfluss auf die Genres Film, Design, Mode und Kunst. Am bekanntesten ist Goldin für ihre Bilder von Menschen am Rande der Gesellschaft - aufgenommen in Metropolen wie New York, London, Berlin, Tokio und Paris. Aus ihrer eigenen Erfahrung schöpfend, fängt sie die Momente ein, die Geschichten von Freundschaft, Leidenschaft und deren Folgen erzählen. Ihre Arbeit durchquert das gesamte Spektrum der menschlichen Beziehungen von Liebe zu Isolation, Betrug, Verlust und Selbstoffenbarung. Gefühlsmäßig aufgeladen und in intensiv gesättigten Farbtönen aufgenommen, offenbaren diese Bilder einen Teil zeitgenössischer Geschichte, die durch das Leben derer, die ihr nahe stehen, in privaten Momenten ungekünstelt nacherzählt wird. Als eine überaus produktive Fotografin verarbeitet Goldin ihre Bilder zu unterschiedlichen Erzählsträngen, deren Fokus zwar meist auf dem Individuum, aber auch auf weiter gefassten Themen liegt. Dabei stand die menschliche Gestalt, aufgenommen mit Mut, Überschwang, Sinnlichkeit, Zärtlichkeit und Pathos, stets im Mittelpunkt von Goldins Fotografie. Ihre Arbeiten geben uns einen tiefen Einblick in die menschliche Sexualität und fangen den Geist unserer Zeit ein.

1953	Born in Washington DC
1974	Imageworks, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1977	B.F.A, School of the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University, Boston
	lives and works in Paris

Auszeichnungen (Auswahl)

Brandeis Award in Photography, 1994
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, 1991
DAAD, Artists-in-Residence Program, Berlin, 1991
National Endowment of Arts, Washington, DC, 1991
Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award, San Francisco, 1990
Art Matters, Inc., New York, 1990
Camera Austria Prize for Contemporary Photography, Graz, 1989
Maine Photographic Workshop Book Award, Documentary Book of the Year, 1987
Photographic Book Prize of the Year, Les Rencontres d'Arles, 1987
Kodak Photobuchpreis, Stuttgart, 1987
Englehard Award, Boston, 1986
School of the Museum of Fine Arts Alumni Traveling Fellowship, Boston, 1986
Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship, Boston, 1978
Wilhelmina Jackson Fellowship, Marblehead, MA, 1977

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)

2006	Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
2005	Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
	Nan Goldin, Monika Spruth/Philomene Magers, Munich
	STARDUST, Guido Costa Projects, Torino, ¬ Italy
2004	Sisters, Saints, and Sybils, La Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris
2003	Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Quebec (catalogue)
	Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva
	Heartbeat, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2001	Le Feu Follet, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Traveled as Devil’s Playground to Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Still on Earth to Reina Sofia, Madrid; Fundação de Serralves, Porto; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; and Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
	Memory Lost!, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
	Studio Casoli, Milan and Rome
2000	Scalo, Zurich
1999	Nan Goldin: Recent Photographs, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
	National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
	The Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut
	Thanksgiving, White Cube/Jay Jopling, London
1998	Photographs, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
	Love Streams, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
	Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
	Nan Goldin: New Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
	Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
	Reflections Through a Golden Eye, 1975-1998,Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
	Jablonka Gallery, Cologne
	Couples and Loneliness, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
	Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi-city, Japan
1997	Love Streams, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
	foto, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden
1996	I’ll Be Your Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Traveled to Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Fotomuseum, Winterthur; Kunsthalle, Vienna; and Prague
	Gandy Gallery, Prague
	Nan Goldin: Children 1976-1996, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1995	Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and New Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
	Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens
	Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
	The Golden Years, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
	Art and Public, Geneva
	Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto
	The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
	Gallery M & R Fricke, (with Kiki Smith), Düsseldorf
1994	Die Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
	A Double Life, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, (with David Armstrong), Berlin; Traveled to Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
	Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
	Tokyo Love, Shiseido Artspace, (with Nobuyoshi Araki), Tokyo
1993	A Double Life, Matthew Marks Gallery, (with David Armstrong), New York
	Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
	Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
	The Other Side, 1972-1993, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
	Stelling Gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
	ICAC Weston Gallery, Tokyo
	La Vida Sin Amor No Tiene Sentido, Fundacio “la Caixa,” Barcelona
	Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
	Robert Klein Gallery, (with Philip-Loca di Corcia), Boston
	Balladen om det sexuella beroendet, Fotografiska Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
	Galerie Marktschlobchen, Halle, Germany
1992	Fotoarbeiten 1972-1992, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
	Obsessions, Orangerie München, Munich
	The Ballad of Sexual Dependency/ The Cookie Mueller Portfolio, Galerie m, Bochum, Germany
	PPS Galerie, Berlin
	Separate Worlds, (with Gundula Schulze), Kunst-Werke, Berlin
	Stelling Gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
	Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1991	Life/Loss/Obsession, Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
	PPS Galerie, Hamburg
	Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
	Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
	The Other Side, Boston, 1972-1974/Hi Girl, New York City 1990-1991, Galerie du Jour, agnes b., Paris
	Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
	Berlin Film Festival, Germany
	Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris
1990	Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
	The Cookie Portfolio 1976-89, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
1989	Brandts Kaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
	Mira Gallery, Stockholm
	Finnfoto, Helsinki
1988	Indiana University Gallery, Bloomington
	Couples, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
	Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
	Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
	Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
	Houston Foto Fest, Rice University Media Center, Texas
	Real Art Ways, Hartford
1987	Les Recontres d'Arles, Arles, France
	Film in the Cities, Minneapolis
	Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC
1986	The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York
	Jay Gorney Modern Art, (with Tim Rollins + K.O.S), New York
1985	Currents, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
	Christminster Gallery, New York
1977	Atlantic Gallery, (with David Armstrong), Boston
1973	Project, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)

2005	Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
	Landscape/Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York
	Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
2004	Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
	About Face: Photographic Portraits from the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
	Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London
	East Village USA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
	PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Destinations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado
	In Bed, The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, JapanIn Bed, The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
	Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
	Artists’ Favourites, ICA Galleries, The Mall, London
	Fictioning Fashion, Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
	Inside Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
	Double Takes, transformations through the lens, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
	Wirklich Wahr! Realitätsversprechen von Fotografien, Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, Germany
2003	Urban Dramas, De Singel International Kunstcentrum, Antwerp, Belgium
	Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
	Enchanted Evening, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
	Flesh Tones: 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
	American Beauty: From Muybridge to Goldin, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
	The Auroral Light: Photographs By Women, The Grolier Club, New York
	Both Sides of the Street: Celebrating the Corcoran’s Photography Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
	Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Travels to University Galleries, Illinois State University, Illinois; DePauw University Art Gallery, Greencastle, Indiana
	Imperfect Innocence, The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
	The family: an exhibition of photography, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida
	To Eat or not to Eat: Or the relations of art with questions of eating, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
	Contemporary Photography from the Harn Museum Collection, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
	Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York
	Pictures of You, Galeria Estrany – De la Mota, Barcelona
2002	Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
	Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
	Cars; Surrounding Interiors, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
	Acquisitions 2001, Part I: Photographs, Video Installations, Video, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
	Inside Cars, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Traveled to Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts; and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
	Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
	Visions from America: Photographs from The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Travels to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
	New York: Capital of Photography, The Jewish Museum, New York; Travels to Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland
	The Nude in 20th Century Art, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany
2001	Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
	Settings and Players, White Cube/Jay Jopling, London
	Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1999	Angles of Incidence, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
	Photographs: A Decade of Collecting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	The 46thBiennial Exhibition, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
	Couples, Cheim and Read, New York
	Essenbilder Dörrie / Priess, Hamburg
	Photography Now, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
	Rendez-vous #2, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
	Rendez-vous #1, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
	Food for Thought, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New JerseyViews from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York
	Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, New York
	Spring Visiting Faculty, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
	Through the Looking Glass, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
1998	Emotions and Relations, Hamburger Kunsthalle
	Remix, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
1997	The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
	Family and Friends, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
	Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
	Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
	Countenance, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
	Rineke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Sharon Lockhart Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
	Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century, The Saint Louis Art Museum; Traveled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; The Mead Museum of Art, Amherst; and The Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
1996	By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
	The American Trip: Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Cady Noland, Richard Prince, The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
	Nudo & Crudo, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan
	Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Traveled to Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
	Urgence, CAPCMusée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
	Social Documents, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
	Happy End: Zukunfts-und Endzeitvisionen der 90er Jahre, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
	The Photographic Collections of the City of Paris: New Acquisitions, Une aventure contemporaine, la photographie 1955-1995, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris
	Sugar Mountain, White Columns Gallery, New York
	Sex and Crime: Von den Verhältnissen der Menschen, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
	Pictures of Modern Life, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
	Passage a l’Acte, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
	Biennale of Sydney, Australia
	It’s a She-Thing: Representations of Women in the Rivendell Collection, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1995	Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; Traveled to The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
	Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	In a Different Light, University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley
	Faculty Works on Paper, Yale University School of Art, New Haven
	Photography Today, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
	Fémininmasculin: Le Sexe de l’Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
	Boston School, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
	Mother Jones 1989-1995, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
	. . . It’s How You Play the Game, Exit Art / The First World, New York
	Altered States: American Art in the 90’s, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis
	Camera Craft, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art at Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston
	Art Against Aids, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
	Close to Life, International Foto-Triennial, Esslingen, Germany

Bücher/Kataloge (Auswahl)

Books by Nan Goldin

Memories are made of this, Wuppertal: Galerie Epikur Wuppertal, 1998
Ten Years After, New York: Scalo, 1998 (with Guido Costa)
Couples and Loneliness, Tokyo: Korinsha Press, 1998
I’ll Be Your Mirror, New York, Whitney Museum of Art, Scalo, 1996
Tokyo Love, Tokyo: Hon-Hon-Do, 1994 (with Bobuyoshi Araki)
Desire by Numbers, San Francisco: Artspace, 1994 (text by Klaus Kertess)
A Double Life, New York: Scalo, 1994 (with David Armstrong)
German language edition published as Ein doppeltes Leben by Scalo Zurich and Berlin Vakat, Cologne: Walter König, 1993 (with poems by Joachim Sartoruis)
The Other Side, New York: Scalo, 1993
German language edition published as Die Andere Seite by Scalo, Zurich and Berlin, 1993
Japanese edition published by Déja-Vu, Tokyo, 1993
Cookie Mueller, New York: Pace/Mac Gill Gallery, 1991
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, New York: Aperture, 1986. German edition published by 2001, Germany British edition published by Secker and Warburg, London

Catalogues

American Dreams, Madrid: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1987
Andre, Dena, Philip Brookman, and Jane Livingston, eds. Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry, Washington DC: The Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Hospice Foundation, 1996
Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990
Arles Cité des Photographes, Arles: Les Rencontres d’Arles, 1987
Une aventure contemporaine, la photographie 1955-1995, Paris: Maison Européene de la Photographie, 1995
Bad Girls, London: Institute of Contemorary Arts, 1993
Bischoff, Ulrich and Thomas Weski. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 1995: Dicht am Lieben/ Close to Life, Esslingen: Villa Merkel, Bahnwäterhaus, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, 1995
By Night, Paris: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain,1996
Un couteau dans la photo, Paris: Galerie du Jour, 1990
Désordres, Paris: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1992
Emotions and Relations, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1998
Ethik und Aesthetik, im Zeitalter von Aids, Hamburg: Kunstverein, 1992
Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portraits of Contemporary Women, Tokyo Metropolitain Museum of Photography, 1991
Faces Photographed, New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1982
Family, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, 2002.
Fémininmasculin: Le sexe de l’art, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995
Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art, ICA, Philadelphia, 1994
Galassi, Peter. Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1991
Gangitano, Lia, ed. Boston School, Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art, 1995
Getrennte Welten/ Separate Worlds: Nan Goldin, Gundula Schulze, Berlin: Kunst-Werke Berlin, 1992
Goldin, Nan, Naked New York. Nan Goldin meets Yukio Kobayashi, Tokyo: Nicole Times, 1996
Grundberg, Andy and Kathleen McCarthy Gauss, Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987
The Indomitable Spirit, New York: Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, 1990
Kertess, Klaus. 1995 Biennial Exhibition, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Kozloff, Max. New York Capital of Photography: The Jewish Museum, New York. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002.
Lichbildnisse - Das Porträt in der Fotographie, Bonn: Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, 1982
Lovatt-Smith, Lisa and Patrick Remy, eds. Fashion Images de Mode, Göttingen, Germany Stiedl, 1996
Mezil, Eric. Love Streams: Galerie Yvon Lambert, 1997.
Monk, Phillip. The American Trip: Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Cady Noland, Richard Prince., 1996
Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1995
Toronto: The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre


Aufsätze/Artikel (Auswahl)

Liebmann, Lisa. “Goldin’s Years,” in ARTFORUM, October 2002.
Garratt, Sheryl. “The Dark Room,” in Life: The Observer Magazine, 6 January 2002.
Bracewell, Michael. “Landmarks in the Ascent of Nan,” in The Independent on Sunday, 14 November 1999.
Danto, Arthur C. “Nan Goldin’s World” in The Nation, 2 December 1996.
Cooper, Dennis. “The Ballad of Nan Goldin,” in Spin, November 1996.
Hughes, Robert J. “Goldin Years,” in The Wall Street Journal, 12 May 2000.
Jenkins, Nicholas. “Nan Goldin’s Manhattan,” in The Times Literary Supplement, 11 July 1997.
Kimmelman, Michael. “Nan Goldin,” in The New York Times, 23 October 1998.
Lacayo, Richard. “Shots Through the Heart,” in Time, 21 October 1996.
Reilly, Maura. “Nan Goldin at Matthew Marks” in Art in America, May 1999.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “A Fine Rawness” in The New Yorker, 16 November 1998.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Goldin Age” in Vogue, March 1995.
Smith, Roberta. “A Piaf With a Camera Sings of Self,” in The New York Times, 4 October 1996.