Ulla von Brandenburg

Exhibition view of 'Le Milieu est bleu' - Ulla von Brandenburg, Palais de Tokyo, 21.02 – 13.09.2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Exhibition view of 'Le Milieu est bleu' - Ulla von Brandenburg, Palais de Tokyo, 21.02 – 13.09.2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Exhibition view of 'Le Milieu est bleu' - Ulla von Brandenburg, Palais de Tokyo, 21.02 – 13.09.2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Exhibition view of 'Le Milieu est bleu' - Ulla von Brandenburg, Palais de Tokyo, 21.02 – 13.09.2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Das Was Ist, 2020, Painted fabrics, variable dimensions. Photo : Aurélien Mole
Le milieu est bleu, 2020, Super 16 mm film transferred to HD video (colour, sound), 23’ 43”
Das Was Ist, 2020, Painted fabrics, dimensions variable. Photo : Aurélien Mole
Tigerfrau I, 2019, watercolour on assembled papers, 100 x 80 cm. (Private collection, USA)
Tigerfrau II, 2019, watercolour on assembled papers, 100 x 80 cm. (Private collection, Paris)
Tigerfrau III, 2019, watercolour on assembled papers, 80 x 100 cm. (Private collection, Paris)
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Exhibition View, Prix Michel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2016. Photo: Georges Meguerditchian
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Exhibition View, K21 Ständehaus Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, 2017. Photo:Achim Kukulies.
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Exhibition View, Innen ist Nicht Aussen, Succession, Vienna, 2013. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler.
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Exhibition View, Innen ist Nicht Aussen, Succession, Vienna, 2013. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler.
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Exhibition View, Innen ist Nicht Aussen, Succession, Vienna, 2013. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler.
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Exhibition View, Drinnen ist nicht Draussen, Kunstverein Hannover, 2014. Photo: Raimund Zakowski.
Exhibition view, Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 2013ulla-von-brandenburg-innen-ist-nicht-aussen-hannover-2014-tableau-a
Exhibition View, Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Shadowplay, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 2012. Photo: Hayo Heye
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Exhibition View, A Colour Notation, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2018. Photo: Julien Gremaud.
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Exhibition View, A Colour Notation, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2018. Photo: Julien Gremaud.
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Exhibition View, A Colour Notation, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2018. Photo: Julien Gremaud.
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Exhibition View, The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 2018. Photo: Lu Guo Way.
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Exhibition View, The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 2018. Photo: Lu Guo Way.
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Exhibition View, The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 2018. Photo: Lu Guo Way.
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Exhibition View, The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 2018. Photo: Lu Guo Way.
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Installation View, Sweet Feast, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018. Photo: Stephen White.
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Installation View, Sweet Feast, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018. Photo: Stephen White.
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Installation View, Le soleil te regarde, Experience Traps, Middelheim, 2018. Photo: Sigrid Spinnox
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Installation View, Interventions on the Building, Death of a King, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012-2013. Photo: André Morin.
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Renée Vivien, 2017 aquarelle sur papiers assemblés 100 x 80 cm (39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.)
ulla von brandenburg, Margaret Lindsay Huggins, 2018, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
Margaret Lindsay Huggins, 2018, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
ulla von brandenburg, Hedwig Dohm, 2018, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
Hedwig Dohm, 2018, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
ulla von brandenburg, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, 2018, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
Elisabeth Dmitrieff, 2018, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
exhibition view, It Has A Golden Sun and An Elderly Grey Moon, Part I & II, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2017
exhibition view, It Has A Golden Sun and An Elderly Grey Moon, Part I & II, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2017
exhibition view, Prix Duchamp 2016: A look to the French Scene au Hangar 18, brussels, 2017
exhibition view, Prix Duchamp 2016: A look to the French Scene au Hangar 18, brussels, 2017
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ulla von brandenburg, Mann mit Tiger (Homme avec tigre), 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
Mann mit Tiger (Homme avec tigre), 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. and 40 3/4 x 32 7/8 in.
ulla von brandenburg, Mann mit Affe (Homme avec singe), 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, 40 3/4 x 32 7/8 in.
Mann mit Affe (Homme avec singe), 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, 40 3/4 x 32 7/8 in.
ulla von brandenburg, Lubov, Stanislas, Olga, Helena, 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, polyptych of 4, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. and 40 3/4 x 33 1/8 in.
Lubov, Stanislas, Olga, Helena, 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, polyptych of 4, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in. and 40 3/4 x 33 1/8 in.
ulla von brandenburg, Au Maquillage, 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, 63 x 49 5/8 in. 64 5/8 x 51 5/8 in.
Au Maquillage, 2017, watercolour on ancient paper, 63 x 49 5/8 in. and 64 5/8 x 51 5/8 in.
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Exhibition view, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2016, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Two Times Seven, Exhibition View, Art : Concept, 2017
Two Times Seven, exhibition view, Art:Concept, 2017
TEUFEL (DIABLE), 2016, AQUARELLE SUR PAPIER ANCIEN, 140 X 110,5 CM
TEUFEL (DIABLE), 2016, AQUARELLE SUR PAPIER ANCIEN, 140 X 110,5 CM
Ulla von Brandenburg, It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, film, couleur et son, 22', 2016
Ulla von Brandenburg, It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, film, couleur et son, 22', 2016
Ulla von Brandenburg, It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, film, couleur et son, 22', 2016
Ulla von Brandenburg, It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, film, couleur et son, 22', 2016
Sieben Farben, Bänder (Sept Couleurs, Rubans), 2016, watercolour on ancient paper mounted on canvas, 78 3/4 x 50 in.
Sieben Farben, Bänder (Sept Couleurs, Rubans), 2016, watercolour on ancient paper mounted on canvas, 78 3/4 x 50 in.
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Innen ist nicht Aussen, Secession, Vienna, 2013
Exhibition view, Die Strasse, Art : Concept, Paris, 2014
Exhibition view, Die Strasse, Art : Concept, Paris, 2014
Exhibition view, Die Strasse, Art : Concept, Paris, 2014
Die Strasse, 2013, installation with curtain & film b&w with sound, 11’20”, 5/5, dimensions variable
Exhibition view, Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, 2013
Shadowplay, 2012, installation in fabric (painted cotton), HD video, black and white, sound 7’00’’
Exhibition view, Inside is not outside, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, 2014
Exhibition view, Inside is not outside, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, 2014
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Biography:
Ulla von Brandenburg is a German artist born in 1974 in Karlsruhe and based in Paris since 2005. After training as a scenographer in Karlsruhe and a brief period spent in the world of the theatre, she studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. Her work is characterised by a diversity of means and media (installations, films, watercolours, murals, collages, performances…) that answer to one another and which she stages according to different exhibition spaces. Perfectly mastering the codes of scenography, nourished by literature, the history of the arts and architecture but also psychoanalysis, spiritism and magic, she derives as much from esoteric rituals and popular ceremonies, as from the mechanisms and codes of the theatre, to explore the construction of our social structures. Masks, costumes, sets and props coming from different popular traditions thus allow her to transgress symbolically norms and hierarchies by subtly mingling reality and appearances in theatrical presentations.

The artist currently exhibits a solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris and her work has also appeared in numerous other solo shows recently for example at the MRAC in Sérignan (2019), the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2018), the Musée Jenisch Vevey in Switzerland (2018), the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2018), the Perez Art Museum in Miami (2016) or the Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis (2016). Her works are included in collections such as the Tate Modern in London, the MAMCO in Geneva, the Centre Pompidou in Paris or the Mudam in Luxembourg.

Ulla Von Brandenburg

Monographic book published on the occasion of Ulla von Brandenburg’s solo show at the Palais de Tokyo, 21.02 – 17.05 2020

Ulla Von Brandenburg, Ed. Palais de Tokyo/Les presses du réel, Paris, 2020, 112 pages

Bilingual (French/English)
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It Has a Golden Sun

Mousse publishing

ulla von brandenburg, art concept, Kreis/ Innen ist nicht Aussen (Cercle / L’intérieur n’est pas l’extérieur)

Innen ist nicht Aussen

Exhibition catalogue, Secession, Vienna and Kunstverein, Hanover, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2013, 155 p.

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Ulla von Brandenburg, Dort hausten vormals Elentiere

Exhibition catalogue, Ulla von Brandenburg – Dort hausten vormals Elentiere (Elk used to be common here), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2008

Le cours des choses

Le cours des choses

Art : Concept presents Le cours des choses, a group exhibition with Martine Aballéa, Ulla von Brandenburg, Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, Hubert Duprat, Richard Fauguet, Vidya Gastaldon, and Geert Goiris.

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Bagna Cauda

Bagna Cauda

Art : Concept presents Bagna Cauda, a group exhibition with Martine Aballéa, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Julien Audebert, Francis Baudevin, Whitney Bedford, Jean-Luc Blanc, Michel Blazy, Ulla von Brandenburg, Jeremy Deller, Richard Fauguet, Vidya Gastaldon, Geert Goiris, Lothar Hempel, Nathan Hylden, Jacob Kassay, Andrew Lewis, Adam McEwen, Philippe Perrot, Jimmy Robert, Pietro Roccasalva, Gedi Sibony, Alexandre Singh, Roman Signer, and Laurent Laclos.

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