Vita of Yutta Saftien
1963
Born in the Black Forest, Germany
1982 - 1987
Studied fashion-design at the `Hochschule für Künste´ in Bremen, graduation diploma.
Beside this: Participation in the classes of grafic design and painting.
1988
Started working as fashion designer in the textile industry, since 1992 freelance.
Also working as free artist.
1995
Student at the `Internationale Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst´ in Salzburg, illustration-class of Luis Murschetz.
since 1996
concentration on her artwork, which is very much influenced by her roots in fashion and textile design.
Since that year Yutta lives and works in Hamburg.
1997
Student at the `Internationale Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst´ in Salzburg, painting-class of Nancy Spero and Leon Golub.
Nancy Spero und Leon Golub, in whose class the idea for the first installation was born, kept contact and gave good advice for the further artwork.
They arranged the contact to the New York art historian Jo Anna Isaak, who, since 1998, included Yutta´s garbage-T-shirt installation from Hamburg in her lessions at the Cornell University in Los Angeles.
2002
birth of the Greeny-idea while staying in Stuttgart for two years (2002-2004)
since
2004 back in Hamburg
Group-exhibitions (selection):
1986
Bremen, Galerie am Postmoor
1987
Bremen, 1.Short-film-festival: Participation with the diploma experimantal-video `Syntax Error´] -> video activity
1994
Osnabrück, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, `Myth from a bottle - Coca-Cola culture in the 20th century´, Organisation: Designzentrum Essen.
Thessaloniki, Gallery Lola Nikolaou
1995
Paris, Marseille, Barcelona, itinerant exhibition against discrimination, violence and intolerance
Organisation: Humanistisches Zentrum Köln
1996
Stuttgart, Galerie unterm Turm
1997
New York, New Art From Israel Gallery
1998
Hamburg, Galerie im Atrium
Hamburg, Galerie Kruse am Groß Neumarkt
1999
New York, Synchronicity Space
2001
Hamburg, Galerie im Atrium
2004
Stuttgart, Künstlerhaus - `Draw and Order´
Emmendingen, City Hall, Greeny IV - `Answers to Eva und Borchert´
2006
Stuttgart, Greeny at a bus-stop on Birkenwaldstrasse as part of the project `Vorfahrt´ from the Gallery `eigen-art´.
2008
Frankfurt a.M. / U.F.O., Participation at the exhibition `Bodenlos´ with the Cocoons
Solo-exhibitions and projects:
1987
Bremen, Wallanlagen / costumes from the video `Syntax Error´
1994
Steinhagen, City Hall / paintings
Peking, Febrü offices / paintings
1998
Hamburg, Fischmarkt and Stilwerk: Installation `Garbage-T-Shirts´
1999
Emmendingen, City Hall und Market-place: T-shirt action und installation UC-M1-EM
2003
Berlin, The Collegium, Studio of television station OKB: Greeny II - `Christmas-tree´
2004
Berlin, Greeny III -Greenys on parking-meters
Hamburg, Greeny III - Greenys on parking-meters
2005
Albstadt, Maschenmuseum, large Greeny-Installation
Berlin, Greeny III - Greenys on parking-meters
Bremen, Greeny III - Greenys on parking-meters
2005 - 2010
Istanbul, Bosporus-Greeny-Project, Greeny over the Bosphorus-Bridge `Istanbul-Bogazici-Köprüsü´
connected to this project:
2007
Bosporus-Greeny workshops in Berlin, Albstadt, Vienna
2008
Streetlamp Greenys in Istanbul / Nisantasi as preproject for the Bosporus-Greeny-Project
Nisantasi-Streetlamp-Greenys as `Greeny on the Tour´ in North Cyprus / Lefkosa, Girne
2009
Bosporus-Greeny workshops in Albstadt, Duisburg and New York,
Amsterdam / Platform 21: Participation at the exhibition `Domestic Wilderness´ from the Virtueel Museum Zuidas, combination of Bosporus-Greeny piece with the cocoons.