Women to Watch: Every 2 or 3 years, the National Museum of Women in the Arts sends out a charge to its outreach committees: work with a leading curator to create a shortlist of emerging female artists connected to your region who work in a particular medium or theme.
In 2020 the medium is paper. NMWA has chosen a Finalist from each participating committee who will have her work included in "Women to Watch 2020: Paper Routes" at NMWA. We will feature these artists from around the world in bi-weekly emails.

Meet Angela Glajcar chosen to represent Germany

Nominated by Irina Hiebert Grün of Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof Museum

2017-012 Terforation
paper 350g, torn, metal mounting and plastic
ca. 290 x 96 x 45 cm (114 x 37 x 17 inches)

2015-054 "Papier ist für die Ewigkeit"(Paper is Forever)
site-specific installation, paper and steel construction
ca. 4,8 x 10 x 6 m (16 x 32 x 20 feet)

                        
                            German artist Angela Glajcar creates massive, seemingly otherworldly environments using hand-torn paper, light, and space. 

Born in 1970, in Mainz, Germany, Glajcar is a German artist who chooses paper as her main material to sculpt, proposing seemingly divergent analyses of the everyday medium. Started in 2005, her ongoing "Terforation" series is not just on paper, but also made of paper. The title, which comes from the union of two Latin words: "terra" (earth) and "foramen" (hole), describes the geometric pure forms she constructs from standard size sheets of paper. The artist tears inner paths through overlapped layers of paper which are either laid on the floor, hung from above, or hung on the wall. These lacerations create dramatic shadows from the light within the hollows, transcending the two- dimensional limits of the pages. Pure white paper, often considered fragile and delicate, takes on an unequaled strength and consistency in Glajcar's works. The exact lines of the paper's edges strongly contrast the receding inner rips, illustrating a human being's dichotomy-always divided between rational and emotional sides.

Glajcar has created installations in public and private venues including St. Peter Kircke Station in Cologne, the cultural department of the city of Frankfurt,  the museums of Ludwigshafen, Hof, and Berlin, the Papiermuseum in Steyrermuhl, the Wichtendahl Galerie in Berlin, and the Fondazione Amici di Castelbasso.

She recently gave a virtual Studio Tour to NMWA's Patrons.  Here is the link to view.

Artist interview Terforation 2013

Thanks to Susan Cohen of Massachusetts State Committee of NMWA for the Women to Watch Finalists series.

COMING IN AUGUST:
Virtual Wikipedia Edit-a-thon:
Black Artists Matter
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) hosts its first all-virtual Art+Feminism Edit-a-thon focused on improving Wikipedia entries related to notable women artists and art world figures. Join us to enrich the representation of all women artists, with an emphasis on women of African descent whose work is included in NMWA's collection.

This event is part of a global initiative to help right Wikipedia’s gender imbalance. In 2019, at least 4,360 Art+Feminism participants created or enhanced over 31,500 Wikipedia pages. Use the hashtags #ArtAndFeminism and #NowEditingAF to share about the event on social media.

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