Ulla von Brandenburg Schüttelt Schattendramen aus dem Ärmel
22.02.26 – 07.06.26 Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany
(En)
For five months in the summer and autumn of 2024 Ulla von Brandenburg was a fellow at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, where she immersed herself in Japanese culture. She explored the various types of Japanese puppet theatre, festivals and their rituals, traditional architecture, with its accent on thresholds and transitions, the rich repertoire of dyeing techniques, the popular belief in a vast throng of yōkai – benign spirits or evil demons – and finally an aesthetics of opacity and half-light, …
