Antonia Hirsch


Antonia Hirsch is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin.

Life and work

Antonia Hirsch was educated at Central [Saint Martins College of Art and Design] in London, Great Britain. From 1994 to 2010, she lived and worked in Vancouver, Canada.
Hirsch's work engages a variety of media, including installation, film, video, and photography.
In her preface to Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience curator and writer Melanie O'Brian states "Antonia Hirsch's practice testifies to a long-standing engagement with the quantitative, spatial, and syntactic systems that structure an understanding of our universe... Hirsch's work relates these ordering structures to embodied and visual experience, considering how the equivocal and often ideological nature of these representational systems is expressed through a level of abstraction."

Exhibitions

Hirsch's work has been featured in exhibitions such as Art In The Age Of...Planetary Computation at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam ; Komma , Tramway, Glasgow ; The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe ; and Universal Code at The Power Plant, Toronto.

Collections

Hirsch's work can be found in the public collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.

Publications

  • Antonia Hirsch, Negative Space: Orbiting Inner and Outer Experience. Vancouver: SFU Galleries, 2015.
  • Antonia Hirsch, Intangible Economies. Vancouver: Fillip, 2012.
  • Antonia Hirsch, Komma ,. Vancouver: Fillip, 2011.