• Vue d’exposition | Exhibition view Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm. Photo: Mick Vincenz, 2022 © Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation views, Sul vestito lei ha un corpo, Meris Angioletti e Ulla von Brandenburg, 2020-2022, Courtesy le artiste e XNL Piacenza.
  • Installation view Ulla von Brandenburg – Masqué et surtout secret, Le Safran – Scène conventionnée, Amiens, 2022. Photos © Le Safran
  • Vue d’exposition / Installation view The Taguchi Art Collection at Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama, Japan, 2023
  • regie, set and costumes Ulla von Brandenburg / Benoit Résillot / Julia Mossé in Staatsoper Stuttgart, April-May 2022
    Esther Dierkes (Gerhilde); Clare Tunney(Helmwige); Leia Lensing (Waltraute); Stine Marie Fischer (Schwertleite); Catriona Smith (Ortlinde); Linsey Coppens (Siegrune); Anna Werle (Roßweiße); Maria Theresa Ullrich (Grimgerde); Okka von der Damerau (Brünnhilde); Simone Schneider (Sieglinde); Brian Mulligan (Wotan)
    photo : Martin Sigmund
  • Regie, set and costumes Ulla von Brandenburg / Benoit Résillot / Julia Mossé in Staatsoper Stuttgart, April-May 2022
    Esther Dierkes (Gerhilde); Clare Tunney(Helmwige); Leia Lensing (Waltraute); Stine Marie Fischer (Schwertleite); Catriona Smith (Ortlinde); Linsey Coppens (Siegrune); Anna Werle (Roßweiße); Maria Theresa Ullrich (Grimgerde); Okka von der Damerau (Brünnhilde); Simone Schneider (Sieglinde); Brian Mulligan (Wotan)
    photo : Martin Sigmund
  • Ulla von Brandenburg, Masked and above all – discreet, 2022, detail, © Courtesy of the artist
    and Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe; Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg; Galerie Art: Concept, Paris; Pilar Corrias, London. Photo: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Sander Pitl
  • Installation view Eine Landschaft ohne Blau, wie ungefähr, Kunstmuseum Weserburg, 2021, Courtesy Ulla von Brandenburg & Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Photo: Tobias Hübel
  • Installation view Ulla von Brandenburg, MIMESIS, 2021. Photo Nicolas Brasseur
  • Ulla von Brandenburg, Sweet Feast 2018, Super-16 mm film, colour, sound, 9.18 min & Das ist Was, 2018, Painted fabrics, dimensions variable. Installation view “Diversity United.”, Flughafen Tempelhof Berlin, 2021. Photo: Silke Briel / © Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur, Bonn
  • Ulla von Brandenburg, Blaue und Gelbe Schatten, Performance at Georg Kolbe Museum, 2021, Photo: Enric Duch © Bildarchiv Georg Kolbe Museum
  • Installation view, Deux scénarios pour Une collection, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Photo Marc Domage / Frac Normandie Rouen
  • Installation view, Groups and Spots. Contemporary Art at Baloise, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf/CH © Bernhard Strahm, Gerlafingen, 2021
  • Installation view, Le Milieu est bleu, Palais de Tokyo, 2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
  • Installation view, Le Milieu est bleu, Palais de Tokyo, 2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
  • Installation view, Le Milieu est bleu, Palais de Tokyo, 2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
  • Installation view, Le Milieu est bleu, Palais de Tokyo, 2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
  • Installation view, Le Milieu est bleu, Palais de Tokyo, 2020. Photo: Aurélien Mole
  • Le milieu est bleu, 2020, Super 16mm film transferred on HD video (colour, sound), 23’43”
  • Installation view, Le Colère de Ludd, BPS22, Charleroi, 2020. Photo: Leslie Artamonow
  • Hedwig Dohm, 2018, watercolour on assembled paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
  • Margaret Lindsay Huggins, 2018,
    watercolour on assembled paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
  • Installation view, Sweet Feast, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018. Photo: Stephen White.
  • Installation view, Sweet Feast, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2018. Photo: Stephen White.
  • Installation view, The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 2018. Photo: Lu Guo Way.
  • Installation, Le soleil te regarde, Experience Traps, Middelheim, 2018. Photo: Sigrid Spinnox
  • Installation view, The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, 2018. Photo: Lu Guo Way.
  • Installation view, Une Notation de Couleur, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2018. Photo: Julien Gremaud.
  • Installation view, Une Notation de Couleur, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2018. Photo: Julien Gremaud.
  • Installation view, Une Notation de Couleur, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2018. Photo: Julien Gremaud.
  • Elisabeth Dmitrieff, 2018. Watercolour on assembled paper, 39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.
  • Zwei Frauen, 2017. Watercolor on gesso and wood, 33 1/2 x 26 3/8 in.
  • Installation view, K21 Ständehaus Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, 2017. Photo: Achim Kukulies
  • Installation view, It Has A Golden Sun and An Elderly Grey Moon, Part I & II, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2017
  • Installation view, Prix Michel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2016. Photo: Georges Meguerditchian
  • It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon. Super 16 mm film, colour, sound, 22’25”.
  • Installation view, Drinnen ist nicht Draussen, Kunstverein Hannover, 2014. Photo: Raimund Zakowski
  • Installation view, 2014, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne
  • Installation view, Innen ist Nicht Aussen, Succession, Vienne, 2013. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler
  • Installation view, Innen ist Nicht Aussen, Succession, Vienne, 2013. Photo: Wolfgang Thaler
  • Installation view, Interventions sur le bâtiment, Mort d’un Roi, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012-2013. Photo: André Morin
  • Installation view, Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Shadowplay, Kunsthaus, Hambourg, 2012. Photo: Hayo Heye

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 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 interact with 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 takes 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.*

Her work has appeared in numerous solo shows recently for example at Stuttgartstaats Galerie (2022), Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (2021), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2020), MRAC in Sérignan (2019), Whitechapel Gallery in London (2018), Musée Jenisch Vevey in Switzerland (2018), Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2018), Perez Art Museum in Miami (2016) and Contemporary Art Museum of Saint Louis (2016). In 2023, an exhibtion is going to take place at the National gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Her works are included in collections such as the Tate Modern in London, the MAMCO in Geneva, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the GAM in Turin or the Mudam in Luxembourg. Her work is represented by Art : Concept in Paris, Pilar Corrias Gallery in London, Produzentengalerie in Hamburg and the Meyer Riegger gallery in Karlsruhe, Basel and Berlin.

*Text: Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2020

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