Ulla von Brandenburg

Through Ulla von Brandenburg’s choreographic pictorial language, which draws on both theater aestethetics and sculptural ideas, a complex interplay between performance and installation; among film, props, and static imagery; and among music, colors, and costumes takes place within this stage-like overall arrangemant. Finely balanced contradictions and mutually responsive contrasts of the individual elements are decisive for the performative experience of Ulla von Brandenburg’s stage installations. The oscillation between flowing cloth backdrops and rigid wooden constructions, between emptiness and density, between monochrome projection surfaces and richly colored ornaments thus intensifies the multimedia conflation of cinematic and real space. Under the artist’s direction, ephemeral intermediate spaces are created, spaces of transition at the interface between a fictive and real world, spaces that draw the visitor into often surreal settings and stituations.

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 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. Further solo shows will take place at Reina Sofia (Madrid), Pilar Corrias (London) and National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne) in 2023.

Next to group exhibitions at 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 created 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, DE) and Ditze Stiftung (Rosengarten, DE). 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

Ulla von Brandenburg

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