Sarah Ortmeyer will speak about her GRANDMASTER series (I–VII) shown over a period of 5 years in Gent,
Vienna, Tel Aviv, New York, Rome and Brussels – as well as about her non-fiction book on chess and politics.
Sarah
Ortmeyer was born in Frankfurt, Germany. She is a graduate of Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste and
has recently published a non-fiction book on chess, aesthetics and politics.
Selected shows include: Tel Aviv Museum
of Art, (Tel Aviv); MoMA PS1, (New York); Istituto Svizzero, (Rome); SMAK Museum for Contemporary Art, (Ghent); Swiss Institute,
(New York); Museum of Modern Art, (Warsaw); Palais de Tokyo, (Paris ); MAK Center, (Los Angeles ); KW Institute for Contemporary
Art, (Berlin); Luma Foundation, (Zurich); Wittgenstein Haus, (Vienna); Stedelijk Museum Bureau, (Amsterdam) and Museum für
Moderne Kunst, (Frankfurt).
www.sarahortmeyer.com
