Jorinde Voigt (Germany, 1977) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Berlin. From 2014 to 2019, she taught at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, and today she is Professor of Conceptual Drawing and Painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. In her work Voigt observes and explores the inner processes of perception in relation to various aspects and subjects such as affects and emotions, imagination, memory, sensory experience, natural and cultural phenomena, scientific data, interpersonal actions, and relationships. Since her early work, Jorinde Voigt has taken an analytical approach, understanding her subjects as dynamic situations whose state of being is in constant change. Within a conceptual approach Jorinde Voigt has been expanding her work beyond the medium of drawing in recent years, including and experimenting with painterly elements, collage, sculpture, design, and music.
Besides several grants and prize nominations such as the the Zurich Art Prize in 2021, Voigt was rewarded the prestigious Daniel & Florence Guerlain Contemporary Drawing Prize in 2012. She has participated in biennials worldwide, most notably the 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2011), Venice, Italy; Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland (2016); Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2017); Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2017); and Vienna Biennial for Change, Vienna, Austria (2019).
Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented by Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria (2020); BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2020); The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2019); Horst Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg, Germany (2019); Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany (2017); Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2016); Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria (2015); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (2014); the Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany (2013); Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2010); as well as Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX (2022).
Voigt’s work is included in the permanent collections of notable institutions worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; Bundeskunstsammlung, Bonn, Germany; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthalle Praha Collection, Prague, Czech Republic; Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey; Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; among others.