Ingrid Hermentin (born September 26, 1951 in Löwenstein, West Germany) is an artist and pioneer of serial computer graphics.
From 1969 to 1979, Hermentin was trained in the medical field and worked at various hospitals in the Stuttgart area. In 1980, she spent several months in Canada and the US. Since 1981, Hermentin has lived and worked in Marburg. In 1983, she launched her career as an artist with several study trips to Italy. Her focus has been on computer graphics since 1990. She has since had numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
Linking people, computers, and art, Hermentin regards her works as "aesthetical reflections of a world organized through media. Our media experiences have become epistemological and pragmatic motivators and originators for our consciousness. Our existence, or our perception of it during an instant of experienced "reality", signifies itself as a synthetic image and is then expressed in a distanced fashion”. [translated from ] To show the ambivalent nature of the technical present and to give a form to the phenomena of signifiers, which are converted into information and stored, requires, according to Hermentin, the using of a distancing instrument: the computer. “The extension of thought through electronic distance must be read as a spontaneous and reflected creation. The significant aspect here is the representation of altered forms and the endlessness that becomes imaginable through a series. ... The desire for the imaginable but not for measurable space produces the sign. The resistance of the material is not broken by strength and destruction, but rather through calculation”. [translated from ] “The overlapping of intellectual patterns of thoughts in art, philosophy and science, in resonance and connection with the memory, knowledge and experience, make appear various forms of phenomena”. [translated from ]
While Hermentin with her "digital collages" in the inkjet print format up to Din-A3 laid the basis for her printed graphics (1991-1994), she also developed a serial inkjet printing method for producing large image formats based on Din-A3 prints (1993-1994). Simultaneously, she used the upcoming large format digital printing for serial works in the Din-A1 format (since 1992) or Din-A0 format (since 1994) and developed a glazing technique for her "synthetic images" in order to produce more brilliant colors, using a large format inkjet printer with non-fading colors since 1998.
Awards and distinctions
2001 'Digital New Art Award': 1st prize of the international art competition "The Human Machine Project", Dominikaner Kloster / DigitalART, Frankfurt
2000 Honor at the Gabriele Münter art award competition, the Women's Museum, Bonn
1996 Award of the 11th German International Graphic Triennale Frechen
1992 Award at the Prisma Award Competition of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation
1992 Art Award of the Frankfurter Neue Presse
Transcriptions_BioBricks (2014) - in cooperation with biologists of the LOEWE-Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) of the University of Marburg
Transcriptions_TATA box (2012-2013) - in cooperation with biologists of the LOEWE-Centre for Synthetic Microbiology (SYNMIKRO) of the University of Marburg
Transcriptions_Malus domestica (2010-2011) - in cooperation with biologists of the University of Mainz
Transcriptions_decoded (2006-2008) - in collaboration with geneticists of Eurofins Medigenomix, Martinsried and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig
Transcriptions - Silicone-Genes 2 (human bodies) (2001-2006)
Digital women [re-converted] (1997-2000)
Synthetic images - information at distance (1994-1998)
Media anatomy (1993-1994)
Digital collages - memory without remembrance (1991-1994)
2015 Transcriptions - Synthetic Images - Alte Brüderkirche, Kassel
2013 Transcriptions_TATA box – Lutherische Pfarrkirche, Marburg
2012 Transcriptions_decoded - GEDOK Stuttgart
2011 Transcriptions_Malus domestica - Galerie im Rathaus, Mainz
2007 Transcriptions_decoded - Galerie auf Zeit, Braunschweig
2004/2005 Codes and Transcriptions - Kunstverein Rüsselsheim / TIGZ - Gallery bij de Boeken, Ulft / NL - Wetzlarer Kunstverein
2002 Transcriptions - DigitalART, Frankfurt
2000 Digital Women [re-converted] - Hanauer Kulturverein
1998 Synthetic Images - Information at Distance - Art Forum Gummersbach
1996 Information at Distance - Marburger Kunstverein
1995 Digital Collages - HP, Barcelona
1994 Information at Distance - Forum Leverkusen
2014 art@science – Drei Positionen der Wissenschaftsästhetik, Marburger Kunstverein
2013 EUREGIO creative 2013 Schönecken / Eifel, Kunstkabinett
2012 Kunst in Marburg 2012, Marburger Kunstverein
2010 Computerkunst / Computer Art, Gladbeck (as part of Ruhr.2010), Stadtmuseum Bergkamen
2006/07, 2011 Große Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Ehrenhof
2005/06 Kunstforum Gummersbach, Gummersbach
2003 Lucas Cranach Stiftung / Cranach-Höfe, Wittenberg
2001-02 The Human Machine Project, Dominikaner Kloster / DigitalART, Frankfurt
2000/01 Gabriele Münter Preis, Women's Museum, Bonn and Exhibition Hall, Leipzig
2000 CynetArt, Kunsthaus Dresden
1999-2001 Große Kunstausstellung NRW Düsseldorf, Messehallen
1998/2002 Computerkunst / Computer Art, Gladbeck / Stadtmuseum Bergkamen
1996/1999 German International Graphic Triennial, Frechen
1997 Begegnungsraum Schloss - Zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen sehen alte Räume neu, Schlitz (Hessen)
1996 Imaginäre Galerie - Zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen in Mittelhessen. ISBN 3-929425-15-7
1995 Art competition "Mainzer Kunstpreis Eisenturm", Kunstverein Eisenturm, Mainz
1994 Contribution to the first CD-ROM of World Media Interactive
1993 Fünf aus Marburg (Marielies Hess-Stiftung), Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt
1993 Cultural Exchange Hamburg-Prague, ULUV Gallery, Prague
1993 Art & Fair, Mediale, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
