Ydessa Hendeles

Ydessa Hendeles

Ydessa Hendeles
Born December 27, 1948[1]
Marburg, Germany
Nationality Canadian
Known for Artist
Philanthropist

Ydessa Hendeles, C.M., O.Ont., PhD, LL.D. (Hon.), D.F.A. (Hon.), A.O.C.A.D., D.T.A.T.I. (born 1948 in Germany) is a Canadian artist-curator and philanthropist.[2] She is also the director of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation based in Toronto, Canada.[3] Previously, Hendeles taught art history (New School of Art, Toronto), ran a commercial gallery (The Ydessa Gallery) and was an independent curator. A graduate of the University of Toronto, the New School of Art and the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, Hendeles earned her PhD, cum laude, from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 Hendeles donated 32 works of International and Canadian contemporary art to the Art Gallery of Ontario. This donation represented the most significant single gift of contemporary art in the gallery's history.[4]

Life and work

In 1980, Hendeles opened The Ydessa Gallery in Toronto, a commercial space devoted to the presentation of Canadian contemporary art.[3] The gallery represented such artists as Kim Adams, Shelagh Alexander, Tony Brown, FASTWÜRMS, Andreas Gehr, Rodney Graham, Noel Harding, Nancy Johnson, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, John Massey, John McEwen, Sandra Meigs, Jana Sterbak, Jeff Wall and Krzysztof Wodiczko.[5] Hendeles closed The Ydessa Gallery in 1988.

Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation

In October 1987 Hendeles announced that would establish a non-profit art foundation and that she purchased a two-storey building located at 778 King Street West in downtown Toronto as the future site of the foundation’s exhibition programme.[6] In November 1988, after extensive renovations, the 14,000-square-foot former uniforms factory became home of the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation and was Canada’s first privately supported contemporary-art exhibition space.[7]

Hendeles launched her exhibition programme in December 1987 with Katharina Fritsch: Madonna of Lourdes, presented at the Toronto Eaton Centre (the city’s most popular shopping mall). For the week leading up to Christmas, Hendeles positioned Fritsch’s sculpture of a small Madonna icon statue, enlarged to adult-size and rendered in bright yellow-painted Duroplast, in the middle of the pedestrian mall at the peak of its busiest shopping season where it could be viewed against the background of the Church of the Holy Trinity, an historic Anglican Church around which the western side of the Toronto Eaton Centre was built.[8]

The Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation was formally established in 1988 with the mandate to provide an exhibition programme of contemporary-art exhibitions from a developing collection.[9] The gallery space opened in November 1988 with the inaugural show Christian Boltanski, a five-gallery exhibition, including the site-specific commission Canada (1988).[10]

Peter Doroshenko in his 2010 book Private Spaces for Contemporary Art, described the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation as functioning “more like an intellectual visual arts laboratory than an art centre or private collection space,” and declared the foundation’s gallery “one of the most important contemporary spaces in North America.”[11]

Over a span of 25 years Hendeles curated more than 30 exhibitions at the Toronto space. Though the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation closed its gallery doors in 2012, it continues to function as a non-profit organization but now, as Hendeles stated, "without walls."[12][13]

Exhibitions

In 2003, Hendeles guest-curated Partners, a 16-gallery exhibition for the Haus der Kunst, Munich, at the invitation of then-incoming director Chris Dercon and the new chief curator, Thomas Weski. For Partners Hendeles combined work by Diane Arbus, Maurizio Cattelan, James Coleman, Hanne Darboven, Walker Evans, Luciano Fabro, On Kawara, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Giulio Paolini, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner, together with series of photojournalistic images, anonymous vernacular photographs and antique vernacular objects.[14] This exhibition also included Hendeles's own work Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002, a large-scale installation built around an archive of family-album photographs, each including the image of a teddy bear (see external link below).[15]

Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) was first shown in the group exhibition sameDIFFERENCE at the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation in Toronto (2002). It was expanded as a two-gallery installation for Partners at Munich’s Haus der Kunst (2003), then remounted in Noah’s Ark by the National Gallery of Canada (2004)[16] and 10,000 Lives, the 2010 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.[17] It was exhibited again in 2016 at New York’s New Museum in The Keeper, a group show curated by Massimiliano Gioni.[18]

Other exhibitions include Marburg! The Early Bird! at the Marburger Kunstverein, Germany (2010);[19] The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project) with Roni Horn at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (2011);[20] and THE BIRD THAT MADE THE BREEZE TO BLOW at Galerie Johann König, Berlin (2012).[21] Her work From her wooden sleep... (2013) was shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK in 2015, curated by Philip Larratt-Smith (see external link below).[22] In 2016 Hendeles expanded and augmented From her wooden sleep… specifically for the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, curated by Suzanne Landau.[23]

Hendeles is represented by Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto. Her first exhibition for the gallery, Death to Pigs is on view until December 10, 2016.[24]

Recognition

Hendeles was inducted as a Member into the Order of Canada in 2004[25] and the Order of Ontario in 1998.[26] She received a Governor General's Award in 2002 for "Outstanding Contribution in the Visual and Media Arts."[27] She was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.[28]

Hendeles has received honorary doctorates from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design[29] and the University of Toronto,[30] and an Award of Distinction from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Concordia University in Montreal.[31] She was also named an Honorary Fellow of the Ontario College of Art and Design, now OCAD University.[32]

References

  1. ↑ Amaral, Rui. "The Author as Autoethnographer" (PDF). open research.
  2. ↑ "Art Gallery of Ontario".
  3. 1 2 "The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2002". canadacouncil.ca.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Ydessa Hendeles Makes AGO History with Contemporary Art Donation". Ago.net. Art Gallery of Ontario. January 21, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Ydessa Hendeles Makes AGO History with Contemporary Art Donation". January 21, 2009. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ "An End and a Beginning". Canadian Art: 10. Winter 1987.
  7. ↑ Mays, John (1989). "The Critical Edge". Art & Auction. 11 (7).
  8. ↑ Hume, Christopher (December 18, 1987). "Kitschy Madonna Adds Poignancy to Shopping". Toronto Star.
  9. ↑ Christian Boltanski (Exhibition card). Toronto: Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation. 1988.
  10. ↑ Mays, John Bentley (November 26, 1988). "Wayside Shrines of Memory and Hope". The Globe and Mail.
  11. ↑ Doroshenko, Peter (2010). Private Spaces for Contemporary Art. Brussels: Rispoli. pp. 110–113.
  12. ↑ Rhodes, Richard. "Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation: Once Upon a Time" (Fall 2014). Canadian Art.
  13. ↑ "End of an era: Ydessa Hendeles has closed her Toronto gallery doors". The Globe and Mail.
  14. ↑ "Partners". Haus der Kunst. Retrieved 10 August 2016.
  15. ↑ Hendeles, Ydessa (2003). Partners. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. ISBN 3-88375-755-1.
  16. ↑ Milroy, Sarah. "Animal Magnetism". Globe and Mail.
  17. ↑ "Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) by Ydessa Hendeles at Gwangju Art Biennale 2010". designboom. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  18. ↑ Ryder, Katie. "A Piercing View of the Twentieth Century, Through the Eyes of the Teddy Bear". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  19. ↑ Hoffmann, Jens (Summer 2011). "Review of 'Marburg! The Early Bird!'". Frieze d/e. 1 (1): 143.
  20. ↑ Milroy, Sarah. "The Wedding: Ydessa Hendeles' New York Vow". Canadian Art. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  21. ↑ König Galerie. "THE BIRD THAT MADE THE BREEZE TO BLOW".
  22. ↑ "From her wooden sleep". ICA. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Exhibitions". Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
  24. ↑ Pavka, Evan. "Ydessa Hendeles: Dystopia, Trump and Twitter". Canadian Art. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  25. ↑ "Order of Canada".
  26. ↑ "Order of Ontario". Order of Ontario.
  27. ↑ Government of Canada (Canada Council for the Arts and Governor General). "The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2002)". Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  28. ↑ "Honours". Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  29. ↑ NSCAD. "Facts and Figures: Selected Honorary Degree Recipients" (PDF). NSCAD. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  30. ↑ Anson Mime, Christina. "All About Alumni". University of Toronto. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  31. ↑ Concordia Journal. "Faculty of Fine Arts honours contributions". Concordia University. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
  32. ↑ OCADU. "Honorary Fellows (1973 to 2002)" (PDF). OCADU. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
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