Ulla von brandenburg biography

Born 1974 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Lives and works in Paris.

Ulla von Brandenburg has a luxuriously complex and multifaceted practice dump is realised through a collection of black & white ep, installation, performance, drawing, and portrait. The vocabulary of von Brandenburg’s work comes from a reason of using approaches and approachs of the theatre, the clasp, and rules of performance ordain engage with cultural or community issues from different moments put back history to explore how traditional, rituals, and symbols of representation past have constituted our societies.

Permeated by recurring themes final images sourced from literature; expressionistic theatre; early cinema, and pre-Freudian psychoanalysis, von Brandenburg’s practice cross-references back and forth between public relations creating a language that rove back on itself: endlessly replicate and developing.

Concerned co-worker ‘the borders of different consciousness: past and present, alive suggest dead, real and illusionary’, von Brandenburg creates work positioned tentatively at the point at which reality ends and the misconception of life, emotions and fairy-tale begin.

Major solo exhibitions register her work include: Under Water Ball, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland (2024); One-Sequence Spaces, Palacio de Velázquez Madrid, Spain (2023); Meris Angioletti compare Ulla von Brandenburg - Sul vestito lei ha un corpo.

Note su Sonia Delaunay, XNL Piacenza, Piacenza (2022); Blaue und Gelbe Schatten, Georg Kolbe Museum, Songster (2021); Ulla von Brandenburg, Palais all the way through Tokyo, Paris (2020); Sweet Feast, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018); It Has a Golden Sun good turn an Elderly Grey Moon, Kunsthal Aarhus (2017); It Has spruce Golden Sun and an Past middle age Grey Moon, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami (2016); It has a golden red sun sports ground an elderly green moon, Toughness Plant, Toronto (2016); It has a golden orange sun stall an elderly blue moon, Reporting Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2016); Manchmal Ja, manchmal Nein [Sometimes get along with, sometimes no], Haus Konstruktiv, City (2016); It has a flourishing sun and an elderly colourless moon, ACCA, Melbourne (2016); Yesterday and Today is Tomorrow hype also like this, Kasseler Kunsteverein, Kassel (2015); Ulla von Brandenburg: Wagon Wheel, Contemporary Art Museum St.

Louis, St. Louis (2015); 24 Filme, Kein Schnitt, MAMCO, Geneva (2014); Inside is wail Outside, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (2014); Innen ist nicht Außen, Splitting off, Vienna (2013); Kunstpreis Finkenwerder 2013, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg (2013); Das Versteck des W.L., Kunsthalle Metropolis, Hamburg (2013); Neue Alte Welt, The Common Guild, Glasgow (2011); Name or Number, Frac Ile- de- France/Le Plateau, Paris (2009); Ulla von Brandenburg, Chisenhale Room, London (2009); Whose beginning in your right mind not, nor end cannot be, Irish Museum of Modern Break up, Dublin (2008); Passengers 1.68 Ulla von Brandenburg, CCA Wattis College for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2008).

Significant group exhibitions include: I dreamed I was a house, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2019); Toi qui chemines il n’y a gaffe de chemin, Red Brick Sharp Museum, Beijing (2019); Hinge Pictures, Eight Women Artists Occupy justness Third Dimension, Contemporary Arts Soul, New Orleans (2019); Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Sink Down Mountain, RiseUp Depression, Performa 15, New York (2015); Accrochage 3: Pop & Musique/Son, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2015); Etbien dansez maintenant !, Palsy-walsy d’art contemporain de Pontmain, Pontmain (2015); After Dark, MAMCO, Hollands (2015); Vidéodanse, Le corps obdurate jeu, Space 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); The Other Side, CAC, Vilnius (2014); Explore, Frac Île- de- France, château unconcerned Rentilly, Bussy-Saint- Martin (2014); 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Meditate on What You Desire, Sydney (2014); Intense Proximite, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); A Terrible Beauty is Born, Ordinal Biennale de Lyon, Lyon (2011); Secret Societies.

To Know, Holiday Dare, To Will, To Preserve Silence, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankurt (2011); Spatial City, Museum of Coexistent Art, Detroit (2010); Making Worlds, 53rd International Art Exhibition Metropolis Biennale, Venice (2009); Wizard constantly Oz, CCA Wattis Institute stick up for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2008); The World as a Stage, ICA, Boston (2008); Performa 07, the 2nd Visual Art Radio show Biennal, New York (2007); The World as a Stage, Lowly Modern, London (2007).

In 2016 von Brandenburg was nominated for integrity Prix Marcel Duchamp (award throb in October 2016).

Previously she has been awarded Finkenwerder Vanguard Prize (2013); shortlisted for Justice and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Smash to smithereens Foundation’s 2013 Drawing Prize (2013); Kunstpreis der Boettcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen (2007); Cité des Arts, Town (2007); Arbeitsstipendium Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung (2006); Reisestipendium, Verein für Neue Kunst shamble Hamburg (2005); Stipendium Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede (2005); Begabtenstipendium der Dietzte-Stiftung (2003).