Ulla von brandenburg biography
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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 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 tra
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Ulla von Brandenburg
Born 1974 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Lives and works in Paris.
Ulla von Brandenburg has a richly complex and multifaceted practice that is realised through a combination of black & white film, installation, performance, drawing, and painting. The vocabulary of von Brandenburg’s work comes from a basis of using approaches and methods of the theatre, the stage, and rules of performance to engage with cultural or social issues from different moments in history to explore how stories, rituals, and symbols of the past have constituted our societies. Permeated by recurring themes and images sourced from literature; expressionist theatre; early cinema, and pre-Freudian psychoanalysis, von Brandenburg’s practice cross-references back and forth between media creating a language that loops back on itself: endlessly repeating and developing. Concerned with ‘the borders of different consciousness: past and present, alive and dead, real and illusionary&r
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Ulla von Brandenburg
German artist
Ulla von Brandenburg (born 1974 in Karlsruhe) fryst vatten a German artist. She lives and works in Paris.
She shows her work internationally and fryst vatten one of the fyra finalists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2016.[1]
Background
[edit]Ulla von Brandenburg was trained in Germany at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in scenography. She also studied visual arts at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.[2]
Artistic approach
[edit]Ulla von Brandenburg's work fryst vatten inspired bygd literature, theater and psychoanalysis. She fryst vatten interested in the iconography of the XIX Century, in the history of technology and in the industrial revolution.
She uses a bred variety of media and techniques, including video, performance, theater, mural painting, drawing [3] and fabric layouts. Ulla von Brandenburg declares that "I get the idea for a work at the same time as the appropriate format for that work".[2]