Rune Mields
Year of birth, place
1935
Germany
Role at the ZKM
- Artist of the Collection
Biography
Rune Mields was born in Münster in 1935. Since 1970 she has worked as a freelance artist. She lives in Cologne.
A Conceptualist, Mields transforms into images the abstraction of mathematical operations. In every culture, counting and counting systems are a component of the prevailing image of the world, and they therefore determine the structures of the rational within those of the culture as a whole. They often also possess a magical significance. In her multi-part works and series of drawings and paintings, Mields seeks to explore and to visualize these counting systems and their varying significance. She combines the form-bestowing capacities of painting with concepts of mathematical arrangement. In the early 1970s Mields produced cylindrical pictures, their simple shapes linking perspective, dynamism and geometric symbolism. Prime numbers - numbers divisible only by themselves and by the number one - recur frequently in Mields's work. Mields uses series of images to address themes such as systems of notation, myths of creation, the Western ideal of beauty, theories of colour, and music.
Individual exhibitions (selection)
1969 Galerie Kuhn, Aachen
1970 Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
1971 Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1977 Kunsthalle, Kiel
1979 Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1983 Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
1985 Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht
1988 Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
1991 Stará Radnice, Brno
1992 Altes Rathaus, Göttingen
1994 Kunstverein, Schwerte
1996 Marburger Universitätsmuseum für Bildende Kunst, Marburg; Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Sevilla
1997 Kunstsammlung im Romantikerhaus, Jena; »Lebenszeichen«, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart; Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst, Theatinerkirche, Munich; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Group exhibitions (selection)
1970 »Giovane Pittura Tedesca«, Galleria Levante, Milan
1974 »Geplante Malerei«, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1976 »Frauen machen Kunst«, Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn
1977 »Künstlerinnen international 1877-1977«, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, subsequently at Kunstverein Frankfurt/M; documenta VI, Kassel
1979 »Sprachen jenseits von Dichtung«, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1981 »Typisch Frau«, Galerie Philomene Magers; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
1985 »Zugehen auf eine Biennale des Friedens«, Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Hamburg
1986 »Androgyn - Sehnsucht nach Vollkommenheit«, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
1990 »Blau: Farbe der Ferne«, Kunstverein, Heidelberg
1995 »Wiederbegegnung mit Unbekanntem«, Diözesanmuseum, Cologne; »Art as Thought, Art as Energy«, Architekturmuseum, Wroclaw
1996 »Dea Syria«, Frauenmuseum, Bonn; »Berechenbarkeit der Welt«, Banner Kunstverein, Bonn
1997 »Magie der Zahl«, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
[Frauke Syamken, 1997]
A Conceptualist, Mields transforms into images the abstraction of mathematical operations. In every culture, counting and counting systems are a component of the prevailing image of the world, and they therefore determine the structures of the rational within those of the culture as a whole. They often also possess a magical significance. In her multi-part works and series of drawings and paintings, Mields seeks to explore and to visualize these counting systems and their varying significance. She combines the form-bestowing capacities of painting with concepts of mathematical arrangement. In the early 1970s Mields produced cylindrical pictures, their simple shapes linking perspective, dynamism and geometric symbolism. Prime numbers - numbers divisible only by themselves and by the number one - recur frequently in Mields's work. Mields uses series of images to address themes such as systems of notation, myths of creation, the Western ideal of beauty, theories of colour, and music.
Individual exhibitions (selection)
1969 Galerie Kuhn, Aachen
1970 Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
1971 Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1977 Kunsthalle, Kiel
1979 Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1983 Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
1985 Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht
1988 Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
1991 Stará Radnice, Brno
1992 Altes Rathaus, Göttingen
1994 Kunstverein, Schwerte
1996 Marburger Universitätsmuseum für Bildende Kunst, Marburg; Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Sevilla
1997 Kunstsammlung im Romantikerhaus, Jena; »Lebenszeichen«, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart; Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst, Theatinerkirche, Munich; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Group exhibitions (selection)
1970 »Giovane Pittura Tedesca«, Galleria Levante, Milan
1974 »Geplante Malerei«, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1976 »Frauen machen Kunst«, Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn
1977 »Künstlerinnen international 1877-1977«, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, subsequently at Kunstverein Frankfurt/M; documenta VI, Kassel
1979 »Sprachen jenseits von Dichtung«, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1981 »Typisch Frau«, Galerie Philomene Magers; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
1985 »Zugehen auf eine Biennale des Friedens«, Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Hamburg
1986 »Androgyn - Sehnsucht nach Vollkommenheit«, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
1990 »Blau: Farbe der Ferne«, Kunstverein, Heidelberg
1995 »Wiederbegegnung mit Unbekanntem«, Diözesanmuseum, Cologne; »Art as Thought, Art as Energy«, Architekturmuseum, Wroclaw
1996 »Dea Syria«, Frauenmuseum, Bonn; »Berechenbarkeit der Welt«, Banner Kunstverein, Bonn
1997 »Magie der Zahl«, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
[Frauke Syamken, 1997]