Fellow, VLC Prize Nominee

Andrea Geyer

Fellow, 2006-2007

Andrea Geyer is an artist living in New York City. She developed the fellowship project, 9 Scripts from a Nation at War during the Public Domain cycle of VLC programs, in collaboration with Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katia Sander, and David Thorne.
www.andreageyer.info

Programs + Projects
“I Beg Your Pardon.” Or the Reestablishing of Cordial Relations, Identify! or Studies on the Political Subject, and Spiral Lands/Chapter 2

9 Scripts from a Nation at War, Considering Forgiveness, and OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding

Geyer is a German artist, who has been living and working between Freiburg, Germany and New York City since 1996. Geyer uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based works. She investigates historically evolved concepts such as national identity, gender and class in the context of the ongoing re-adjustment of cultural meanings and social memories in current politics. Recent works include Spiral Lands, a photographic and textual historiography of the ongoing dispossession of lands from Indigenous people by colonization, governmentality, capitalist development that constitute one of the longest struggle for social justice in North America and 9 Scripts from a Nation at War about the current war in Iraq. She is a 2000 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, after having studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, and Photojournalism at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld.

Geyer’s work has been shown at RedCat/Los Angeles; LACE/Los Angeles; Hessel Museum/Bard College; Vera List Center for Arts and Politics/The New School; the Whitney Museum of American Art; apexart; Artist Space/New York; TATE Modern; Serpentine Gallery/London; Generali Foundation; Secession/Vienna; Smart Project Space/Amsterdam; IASPIS/Stockholm; the Turin Biennale/Italy; and documenta12/Kassel. In 2008 she also had solo shows at the Galerie Thomas Zander/Cologne and Galerie Hohenlohe/Vienna. (Biography as of 2008)

Related

Screening

Theaster Gates: A Way of Working

Sep 18, 2013

Conference

Theaster Gates: A Way of Working

Sep 18, 2013

Lecture

Theaster Gates

Sep 18, 2013

Conference

From “Sustaining Democracy” to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics

May 17, 2013

Conference

Toward a More Perfect History for the 21st Century

Mar 8, 2013

Panel

How Can Art Affect Political Change?

Oct 2, 2012

Conference

The Photographic Universe II

Apr 10–Apr 11, 2013

Conference

The Photographic Universe: A Conference, Day 1

Mar 2–Apr 3, 2011

Panel

Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context -The Projected Photograph

Dec 10, 2009

Book Launch

Considering Forgiveness Book Launch

May 11, 2009

Lecture, Performance

Andrea Geyer: Spiral Lands/Chapter 2

Nov 3, 2008

Workshop

Strategies of Occupation: Grabbing Land, and the Political Agency of the Artist

Nov 29, 2007

Seminar

9 Scripts from a Nation at War

Sep 17, 2007

Screening

Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064

Mar 11, 2007

Book

Considering Forgiveness

Exhibition

Theaster Gates: A Way of Working

Sep 18–Oct 5, 2013

Network