Ulla von Brandenburg

Ulla von Brandenburg has a richly complex and multifaceted practice that is realised through a combination of black & white film, installation, performance, drawing and painting. The vocabulary of von Brandenburg’s work comes from a basis of using approaches and methods of the theatre, the stage, and rules of performance to engage with cultural or social issues from different moments in history to explore how stories, rituals, and symbols of the past have constituted our societies. …

Permeated by recurring themes and images sourced from literature; expressionist theatre; early cinema, and pre-Freudian psychoanalysis, von Brandenburg’s practice cross-references back and forth between media creating a language that loops back on itself: endlessly repeating and developing. Concerned with ‘the borders of different consciousness: past and present, alive and dead, real and illusionary’, von Brandenburg creates work positioned uncertainly at the point at which reality ends and the illusion of life, emotions and events begins.

Biography

Ulla von Brandenburg (born in Karlsruhe, 1974) lives and works in Paris. Her works have been shown in numerous international solo exhibitions, namely at Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2023), Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (2023); Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2022); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2020); Mrac (Sérignan, 2019); Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2018); Kirchner Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, 2017); Pérez Art Museum (Miami, 2016); Contemporary Art Centre (Riga, 2015); Contemporary Art Museum (St. Louis, 2015); Galerie der Gegenwart (Hamburg, 2013); Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2013) and K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Düsseldorf, 2010), among others.

Next to group exhibitions at Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2023); Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (2022); Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla, 2021); Musée des Beaux-Art de Rennes (2021); New Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, 2020); Jut Art Museum (Taipei, 2018); MAMCO (Geneva, 2015); Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Madrid, 2014); The Power Plant (Toronto, 2012) and Galeries Lafayette (Paris, 2011), she took part in various festivals and Biennales such as the 19th Sydney Biennale (2014); 11. Biennale de Lyon (2011); Quadriennale of Performance; Art and Design (Prague, 2011); Graceland’s Performance Festival (Dublin, 2011); Melbourne International Arts Festival (2010) and Yokohama Triennale (2008). Selected screening locations of her films include Centre Pompidou (Paris), Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon) and Canary Wharf Screen (London). Ulla von Brandenburg directed as well as the set and costumes of the third act of Wagner’s opera Die Walküre at Staatsoper Stuttgart (2022) and of a performance of Schönberg choral pieces at Wiener Festwochen (2022).

The artist was among the finalists for the 2016 Marcel Duchamp Prize. She has been awarded grants from Kulturkreis Finkenwerder e.V. (Hamburg), Kunsthalle Bremen, Cité des Arts (Paris), Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung (Frankfurt/Main), Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede (Lüneburg) and Ditze Stiftung (Rosengarten). Her works form part of many public and private collections such as Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Zabludowicz Collection London, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main, FRAC: Ile-de-France – Le Plateau Paris, Sammlung Boros Berlin and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon

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