Artist

Hanne Darboven

1941–2009 · German

Hanne Darboven developed vast numerical and calendrical systems that translated time into handwritten notation, arithmetic, grids, photographs and archival material. After a formative period in New York in the late 1960s, she returned to Hamburg and built increasingly expansive installations in which private chronology, world history and repetitive labor overlap.

Conceptual art; drawing; writing; installation; music