Over more than four decades, Isa Genzken has incessantly probed the shifting boundaries between art, design, architecture, technology, and the individual. Her prodigious oeuvre frequently incorporates seemingly disparate materials and imagery to create complex, enigmatic works that range in media, including sculpture, painting, collage, drawing, film, and photography.

Genzken received the prestigious Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar in 2017.

Isa Genzken (b. 1948, Bad Oldesloe, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. 

Education

She studied at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and Berlin, University of Cologne, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2023); Glenstone Museum, Potomac; K20/K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; (all 2021); Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel (2020); Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (2019); Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Holle (2018); Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar (2017); Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn (all 2016); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; ICA, London; MMK, Frankfurt am Main (all 2015); Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Fondazine Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Inverleith House, Edinburgh; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (all 2014); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (touring to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas); Villa Massimo, Rome (all 2013); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2012); Museion, Bolzano; New Museum, New York; (both 2010); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009); German Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennial, Venice; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Zwinger (both 2007); Camden Arts Centre, London; and Secession, Vienna (both 2006).