Star of the art scene in-between provocation and personal tragedy
Tracey Emin 20 Years
Tracey Emin (born in 1963) belongs to the group of successful contemporary British artists. Becoming known in the field of Young British Artists (YBA), she gained a degree of notoriety with her uncompromising personal works in which she thematized her sexual past, her lack of schooling as well as her affinity with drugs.
In 1999 Tracey Emin was nominated for the Turner Prize. She did not win it with her work My Bed (1998) but was discovered by the collector Charles Saatchi, as well as by a large television audience. Her official national entry for Britain at the Venice Biennale 2007 provided an opportunity to experience her contemporary and older works in juxtaposition and to see behind the haze of glamour and personal tragedy which surrounds the star Tracey Emin.
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art has compiled the first retrospective of the artist which will be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Bern as Emin's first solo exhibition in Switzerland.
