TATJANA DOLL (*1970, DE)
The work of German painter Tatjana Doll, extremely vast and plural, focuses on the analysis of contemporary symbolic and its reproducibility. With a stroke as brutal as it is vivid and precise, the artist takes an uncompromising stab at the figures and objects that make up our contemporaneity and our societies: Tatjana Doll expresses and translates the ambiguity and ambivalence of our relationship to these surrounding symbols and markers of wealth, conditions and social belonging. She thus challenges the viewer to look at things in their existential rawness. Through the painterly gesture, reality and fiction cancel each other out and clear the view for the factual essence of the object, which has been influenced by social structures and automatically directs our view of our environment. Doll proposes us an unsparing look at the world. Without judgment. Without falsification.
Doll's works can be found in major collections including those of Berlinische Galeri, Berlin, Germany; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Chiado Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Würth Collection, Künzelsau, Germany; FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France; Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany; Fondation Salomon, Annecy, France; Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Klaus Biesenbach, Germany; Kasper König, Germany.
Her work has been shown in major museums and institutions including LWL Museum, Münster, Germany; Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy; Moma PS1, New York, USA; Kindl Museum, Berlin, Germany; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Port-Louis-sur-le-Rhin, Germany; Art Basel Unlimited, Miami, USA; Kunsthalle Würth, Künzelsau, Germany; Marta Herford, Herford, Germany; Musée Picasso, Paris, France; Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France.