Hanne Darboven

Hanne Darboven was born 1941 in Munich, lives and works in Hamburg. According to self-imposed rules the artist writes down the course of time, which is the course of history. In thousands of sheets of paper conceived as serial works she notes sequences of text and numerals, often combined with visual documents reflecting her own biography, contemporary history, or cultural phenomena. The wide range of her themes and the wealth of her photographic material lends her work the appearance of a visual encyclopedia of our time.