Ulla von Brandenburg
Born 1974 in Karlsruhe, Germany
Lives and works in Paris
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Under Water Ball, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
Thoughts Are Things, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2023
One-Sequence Spaces, Palacio de Velázquez Madrid, Spain
2022
Meris Angioletti e Ulla von Brandenburg - Sul vestito lei ha un corpo. Note su Sonia Delaunay, XNL Piacenza, Piacenza, Italy
Kubus - Sparda Kunstpreis 2022, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Masqué et surtout - secret, Le Safran - Scène conventionnée d'Amiens Métropole, Amien, France
Feuilles, voiles, danse, Maison de la culture (MCA), Amiens, France
Sachte in die Sinne senken, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
2021
Eine Landschaft ohne Blau, wie ungefaehr, Weserburg Bremen, Germany
Blaue und Gelbe Schatten in ‘Voyage à Nantes’, Passage Sainte-Avoye, Nantes, France
Der absolute Tanz, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
2020
Le Milieu est bleu, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2019
BLAUEPAUSE, Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
L’Hier de demain, Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie, Sérignan, France
2018
C, Ü, I, T, H, E, A, K, O, G, N, B, D, F, R, M, P, L , Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
SWEETS, QUILTS, SUN, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Der Regung Rege, Institut Mathildenhohe, Darmstad, Germany
Sweet Feast, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Duel. Ulla von Brandenburg: Di Un sole dorato, Museo Nove Cento, Florence, Italy
A Color Notation, Musée Jenisch Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
2017
It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, Aarhus 2017 European Capital of Culture, Aarhus, Denmark
Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France
Centro Cultural Nestor Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Two Times Seven, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Two Times Seven, Art: Concept, Paris, France
2016
It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, US
It Has a Golden Red Sun and an Elderly Green Moon, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
It Has a Golden Orange Sun and an Elderly Blue Moon, La Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Canada
It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
Manchmal Ja, manchmal Nein [Sometimes yes, sometimes no], Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Sink Down Mountain, Raise up Valley, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
Orange Meets Blue, Kasia Michalski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2015
Sink Down Mountain, Rise Up Valley, Performa 15, New York, US
Objects Without Shadow, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Kalns, grimsti ! Ieja celies !, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia
Yesterday and Today is Tomorrow is also like this, Kasseler Kunsteverein, Kassel, Germany
Baisse-toi montagne, lève-toi vallon, Performatik 2015, Kaaitheatre, Brussels, Belgium
Zuvor wie Vorher, Produzenten Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Wagon Wheel, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, US
2014
24 Filme, kein Schnitt [24 films, no edits], MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Innen ist nicht Außen [Inside is not Outside], Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2013
Ulla von Brandenburg: Die Straße, Art: Concept, Paris, France
Innen ist nicht Außen [Inside Is Not Outside], Secession, Vienna, Austria
Kunstpreis Finkenwerder 2013, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Das Versteck des W.L.,Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Gleich Gleich Gleich, Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium
Eigenschatten,Monitor, Rome, Italy
Following the signs, Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012
Mirrorsong, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
The Nonexistent Knight, Rosascape, Paris, France
2011
Das Versteck des W.L, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Ulla von Brandenburg: Neue Alte Welt, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
2010
Ulla von Brandenburg: Neue Alte Welt, Art: Concept, Paris, France
Chorspiel, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
The Objects, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France
2009
Wagon Wheel, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Name or Number, Frac Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris, France
Ulla von Brandenburg, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
2008
Art Unlimited, Art 39 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Ulla von Brandenburg: Whose beginning is not, nor end cannot be, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Passengers 1.8 Ulla von Brandenburg, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, US
Where there is a network of red over the green, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
La Maison,Docking Station, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007
Karo Sieben, Art:Concept Paris, France
Brief oder Neuigkeiten, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany
2006
Cinq Milliards D’Années, Module 1, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Ulla von Brandenburg, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland *
2005
Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede, Lüneburg, Germany
Der Brief, installation in public space, Berlin, Germany
I am making a crazy quilt and I want your face for the center, Pavilion Project, Montreal, Canada
Fuenf sind's doch schon im ersten Spiel, Trottoir Hamburg, Germany
Ulla von Brandenburg, Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede, Allemagne, Germany
2004
Ein Mensch ist keine Nadel, Blaue Kugel Hamburg, Germany
Ouija, Diplomausstellung HfbK, Hamburg, Germany
2003
Den Gelben in die Ecke, Doublette in der Mitte, Studiogalerie Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany *
2001
Ja. Auch Sie!, Galerie Taubenstrasse, Hamburg, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Bad Timing, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Poet’s Folly and the Sovereign’s Hand, Wehrmühle Biesenthal, Biesenthal, Germany
Le vide comme repère, Musée Alpin Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France
House of Dreamers, Boghossian Foundation Villa Empain Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
2022
The Valkyrie, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (forthcoming)
2021
Textiles Instalativos - Del medio al lugar, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Der absolute Tanz, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Children Power, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
La couleur crue, Musée des Beaux-Art de Rennes, Rennes, France
Diversity United, Contemporary European Art. Moscow / Berlin / Paris, Berlin, Germany
Diversity United, Contemporary European Art. Moscow / Berlin / Paris, Paris, France
2020
Noire Lumière, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
LA COLÈRE DE LUDD – New Acquisitions, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium
Let’s eat, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Dance?, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Diversity United, Contemporary European Art. Moscow / Berlin / Paris, Moscow, Russia
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
MASK, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2019
Le Marbe et le Sang / Carte blanche à Katinka Bock, Monastère Royal de Brou, Bourg en Bresse, France
I dreamed I was a house, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Toi qui chemines il n’y a pas de chemin, Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, China
Toi qui chemines il n’y a pas de chemin, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Your footsteps are the road, for there is no road, The Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Hinge Pictures, Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, US
2018
Autofictions: Contemporary Drawing, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Mimikry Empathy, Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran, Iran
A Clown Walks into a Gallery…, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
Sculpture as History, Pingyao Sculpture Project, Pingyao, China
Experience Traps: The Contemporary Legacy of Baroque Landscape Architecture, Experience Traps, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
The Flying Land, Jut Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
The Szechwan Tale: China, Theater and History, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
Colorama, Le Silo, Château Thierry, France
2017
Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Stuttgart, Germany
La terre la plus contraire, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France
Inside Intensity, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
A Look at the French Scene - Prix Marcel Duchamp, Hangar H18, Brussels, Belgium
One and Other, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
BoCA, Biennal of Contemporary Arts, Lisbon & Porto, Portugal
It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgie, US
Tjorg Douglas Beer, Ulla von Brandenburg, Dirk Stewen, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany
2016
L'esprit du Bauhaus, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Strange Attractor, the Agency, London, UK
Interprétations à l'oeuvre, Astérides, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Kunsten, Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Germany
Le Cabaret au Salon, Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France
Mixtape 2016, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
Queensize: Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, Me Collectors Room Berlin/Olbricht Foundation, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands
Ulla von Brandenburg, Haris Epaminonda & Francis Upritchard, Art:Concept Galerie, Paris, France
2015
Collection '15, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France
Anatomie de l'automate, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
WAR II, Mostyn I Wales, Llandudno, UK
Clouds Dissolve in Water, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Wolken lösen sich in Wasser, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Et bien dansez maintenant!, Centre d’art contemporain de Pontmain, Pontmain, France
Les Mondes Inversés, B.P.S.22, Espace de création contemporaine de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium
International Faber-Castell Drawing Award, New Museum in Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Accrochage no. 3: Pop et Musique, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
L'icosasphère, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, Switzerland
Tapisserie ? De Piccaso à Message, Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine, Angers, France
Lunettes noires et chambre claire, Centre d'art image/imatge, Orthez, France
Signalwege, Rudolf Virchow Center, Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg / Curator Ulrike Lorenz, Würzburg, Germany
Vidéodanse, Le corps en jeu, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
VariationsLeCorbusier, Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Château de Carros, Carros, France
After Dark, Oeuvres de la collection du Frac Ile-de-France, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Creating Realities, Goetz Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
2014
Queensize - Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room / Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Nothing twice, Crikoteka, Krakow, Poland
Explore, Frac Ile-de-France, Chåteau de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France
The Other Sight, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
FIAC, Art: Concept stand, Paris, France
Noli me tangere, Bibliothèque municipal et théâtre de la ville, Vérone, Italy
Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London, UK
Informal Forms, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles, US
Les cours des choses, Art: Concept, Paris, France
Le Mouvement – The City Performed, Centre PasquArt, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland
Bash II, BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York, US
On Stage, Karst, Plymouth, UK
Fernelmont Contemporary Art, Château de Fernelmont, Fernelmonth, Belgium
La Poetica Della Meraviglia, Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy
A Guest Without a Host is a Ghost, The Kadist Collection in residency, Le Caire, France
Manners of Matters, Salzburger Kunstverein & Musée des Ducs de Würtemberg, Montbéliard, France
Bash I, BYRDCLIFFE Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, New York, US
19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney, Australia
Happier than the Morning Sun, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rose, Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines (CEAAC), Strasbourg, France
Something Less, Something More, CNAP, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
PER/FORM. HOW TO DO THINGS WITH[OUT] WORDS, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, Spain
Lumière Noire, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
The Crime was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2013
Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Muse national de l’art moderne, Paris, France
Wide as an Illusion. Expansion Dissolves, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Film as Sculpture, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
1966-79, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Salon du dessin - Prix Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Palais de la Bourse, Paris, France
The Objects, Glasgow Sculpture Studio, Glasgow, UK
2012
Forming, Norming, Performing, Storming, Christian Nagel Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Intense Proximite, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Way Things Are, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, US
Fools. Artists. Saints. Masters of Chaos, Kunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Made in Germany Zwei: International Art In Germany, Sprengel Museum Hannover, kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Andreas Slominski, Christoph Blawert and Ulla von Brandenburg, ph-projects, Berlin, Germany
Fetish and Figure, LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving images, ICA, London, UK
30 Kuenstler – 30 Raueme, Neues Museum, Nuernberg, Germany
Coup Double, Hangar 2, Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Castle in the Air. A seance of imagination, Centre of Culture ZAMEK, Poznan, Poland
The Poster Show, Galerie Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Crossroads: Between Intimacy and Spectacle, Prague Quadrennial, Kulturni Centar, Belgrade, Serbia
Forum Sanai (Ice Man), Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
Festival Entrevue, 40 ans d’Artpress, Belfort, France
Kunst film Kino, Kunststiftung NRW, Cologne, Germany
Art Cologne, Stand Produzentengalerie, Cologne, Germany
The Human Board, CPIF & parc culturel, Rentilly, France
Superamas / Phase n°2 - Cerveau Morille, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Cosmic Laughter - Timeware zero, then what?, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Memento Mori, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China
Intersection: Intimacy and spectacle Post Event, Prague, Czech
2011
Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence, CAPC Bordeaux, France
People Things Enter Exit, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Ulla Von Brandenburg and Malin Pettersson Oberg, Bonnierskonsthal, Stockholm, Sweden
A Terrible Beauty is Born, 11th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankurt, Germany
Tableaux, Magasin - Centre National d’ArtContemporain, Grenoble, France
Constitution of the Damned, Landing, Vestfissen, Norway
Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space, Prague, Czech
A geographical expression, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Gespenster, Magie und Zauber in der Kunst, Neues Museum Nuernberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Magic Lantern, recent acquisitions in contemporary art, Bella & Harry Wexner Gallery, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Vergangenes Begehren, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Antidote 7, Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
Collector, Tripostal, Lille, France
Phénomènes, NEON, Lyon, France
Eyes Wide Shut - Contemporary Drawings from Germany, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, US
Le modèle a bougé, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mons, Mons, Belgium
Soirée nomade, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
The Big Clown Show, Sorry We Are Closed, Brussels, Belgium
Taming of the gaze, Goethe-Institute, Athens, Greece
The rehearsal of repetition, Grantpirrie, Sydney, Australia
Récits anamorphiques, Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Cut, Scherenschnitte 1970 - 2010, Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten, Klagenfurt, Austria
2010
Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion, ZKM-Center for Art Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Simply Video, Bewegte Bilder aus der Kunsthalle Bremen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
K20 Grabbeplatz, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Crystal Hypothesis, GAMEc, Bergamo, Italy
Wystawa, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland
Project 35, curated by ICI – worldwide
Dying in Spite of the Miraculous, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
Cinématique, Esthétique, Politique, Hermétique, Art:Concept, Paris, France
Le décor à l’envers, La Filature, Mulhouse, France
«Intensive Care» – 26 Artist’s Rooms in the K21, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Weisser Schimmer/ You can observe a lot by watching, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Audience as Subject, part 1 : medium, YBCA, San Francisco, US
THE YVONNE RAINER PROJECT, BFI Gallery, London, UK
Cut, Scherenschnitte 1970 - 2010, Hamburger Kunsthalle, galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
Light Drifts, Matthieu Foss Gallery, Mumbai, India
Antidote 6, Galerie des Galeries, Galerie Lafayette, Paris, France
Nuit Blanche, Maison des Métallos, Paris, France
Possible worlds II/Des mondes possibles II et Possible worlds I/Des mondes possibles I, NCCA, Novgorod, Russia
Spatial City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, US
Bagna Cauda, Art:Concept, Paris, France
The horizon line is here (tornare per partire), Umberto di Marino gallery, Naples, Italy
Les Elixirs de Panacée, Palais Benedictine, Fécamp, France
Scene Grammar, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Being There, MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, Czech
Voici un dessin suisse, projet Jenisch Outdoor, Musée Rath, Vevey, Switzerlad
Ulla von Brandenburg & Julie Favreau, Guelph goodwater, Toronto, Canada
2009
The Object of the Attack, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Singspiel, Playground Live Art Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
Hidden in Remembrance is the Silent Memory of Our Future, Contour 2009: 4th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
Making Worlds,53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Les belles images - Première hypothèse, la Box, Bourges, France
The Night of Living Pictures, Musée des Augustins, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Ein Traum ist alles Leben und die Träume selbst ein Traum, Kunsthalle Lingen, Allemagne, Germany
Le sang d’un poète, Biennale Estuaire Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, France
Dreamologie domestique, Carte blanche à Alexandra Midal (collection du Frac des Pays de la Loire), Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carequefou, France
Shining by Absence, Galerie Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Torino Triennale ‘50 Moons of Saturn’, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; Palazzina della Societa Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
Yokohama Trinnale 2008, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, US
Fables Du Doute/Tales of Disbelief, La Gallerie – Centre d’art Contemporain, Noisy le Sec, France
E-flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão – Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Past-Forward, Projectspace 176, London, UK
Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Revolutions – Selectedworks from the collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, US
Vier, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Fables du doute, La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, Paris, France
The World as a Stage, ICA/Boston, Boston – US
... 5 minutes later, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Artfocus, 5th International Contemporary Arts Biennale, Jerusalem, Israel
transformational grammars, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Legende, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
Disarming Matter, Dunkers kultuhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
Summer Group Show, IBID Projects, London, UK
That beautiful pale face is my fate, Newstead Abbey, Nottingham, UK
2007
Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
Against Time, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Like Leaves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US
Housetrip, Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
No More Boring Art, Point Ephemere, Paris, France
Le Truc, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
100 Tage = 100 Videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Re-dis-play, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Tanzen, Sehen, (Dancing, Seeing), Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; Centro Andaluz de Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Expanded Painting 2, Prague Biennale 3, Prague, Czech
Time out of Joint, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
Café Moskau, Berlin, Germany
Le Maitre: Électrons libres, Tabacalera, San Sebastian, Spain
Bookish relations, Anna-Catharina Gebbers Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin, Germany
Re-trait, Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen 2007, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Les roses de Jericho, attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland
Insert 1: who, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol – UK; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Inky Toy Affinitas, Cerealart, Philadelphia, US
Re-Mission, Liebling, Berlin, Germany
Collector, Point Ephemere, Paris, France
Performa07, the 2nd Visual Art Performance Biennal, New York, US
The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London, UK
Le Jour et la Nuit, Parc culturel de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint Martin, France
Continuous Project Altered Monthly, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
Surface Wave, Foxy Production, New York, US
2006
Jahresgaben, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Faster! Bigger! Better! - Signet works of the collections ZKM, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Three Cities - London: The Warehouse, Warehouse, London, UK
Art’Fab, l’Été Culturel de Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez, France*
Premier Jour, IrmaVepLab, Châtillon sur Marne, France
With no Trouble at all, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt, Germany*
Deutsche Wandstücke, Museion, Bozen, Italy*
100 Tage = 100 Videos, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany*
Liste 06, Performance program, Basel, Switzerland
Stipendium, Neue Kunst in Hamburg 2006, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany *
Again for tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, UK*
Bonanza, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, US
Motor Immobile, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, US
Groupshow, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt, Germany
as if by magic, Art Center/ South Florida, Miami Beach, US
2005
Jahresgaben 2005, Kunstverein Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria; Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V, Braunschweig, Germany
Don’t accept manana, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V, Braunschweig, Germany*
Neue Freunde, Kunstverein Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
I still believe in miracles, ARC Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France*
2004
Nobody - Der Graue Zylinder, Merrettich Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
Jahresgaben 2004, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V, Braunschweig, Germany; Koelnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
Deutschland sucht, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany*
Provide it, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
Sammlung Taubenstrasse, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany*
Index, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
Ouija, Diplomausstellung HfbK, Hamburg, Germany
2003
Jahresgaben 2003, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V, Braunschweig, Germany
Feine Ware 3, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Reward, Blueroom Gallery, London, UK
Zimmer aufräumen, Zupfgeigenhansel komm, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2002
Slow, Shedhalle, Zürich, Germany*
Jahresgaben 2003, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
2001
Wir, Comawoche, Klasse Cosima von Bonin, Hamburg, Germany
2000
Die jüngere Generation, Orgelfabrik Karlsruhe Durlach, Allemagne, Germany
Neue Blicke, Neue Räume, Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany*
1999
Voices, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
1998
5 Jahre HfG, HfG, Karlsruhe, Germany*
* Indicates catalogue
PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
2020
Musée des phares et balises & dans l'espace public, Ouessant, France
Festival de Saint-Briac, Saint-Briac, France (online)
Oltre qui, Magic Lantern Film Festival, MAXXI-Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
2017
An evening with a film program by Ulla von Brandenburg, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, Centre Dramatique National, Nanterre, France
2016
Interprétations à l'oeuvre, Astérides, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2015
PERFORMATIK 2015, Performance, Kaaitheatre, Brussels, Belgium
Sink down mountain, raise up valley, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK
2014
The Yvonne Rainer Project. From choreography to cinema, Jeu de Paume film programme, Concorde, Paris, France
Talk, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Thinking Reality and Time Through Film, International Conference on Philosophy and Film, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
2013
Artists’ Film Club: Ulla von Brandenburg, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
STOP!, Canary Wharf Screen, London, UK
Signal, Copeland Book Market at Bold Tendencies, London, UK
Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fü, Fü, Fü, Fünf, A Theatre Cycle, NOMAS Foundation at Teatro Valle Occupato, Rome, Italy
2011
Graceland’s Performance Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2010
Chorspiel, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
2009
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Parfums Pourpres Du Soleil des Pôles, Ulla von Brandenburg and Laurent Montaron, Playground Live Art Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
Fü-Fü-Fü…, Ghost, The Night of Living Pictures, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, Germany
2008
Singspiel, The World as a Stage, Tate Modern, London, UK
Ulla von Brandenburg? Wo über dem Grün ein rotes Netz liegt, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007
Danse de l’ombre – Ein seltsames Fest, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Schattenspiel- The Fall of the House of Usher, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Shadowplay, with Julia Hortsmann, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Performance Schattenspiel, BonniersKunsthalle, Stockholm, Germany
2006
Ein Zaubertrickfilm, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ghost, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ghost, Warehouse, London, UK
Fü-fü-fü-fü-fünf, Liste 06, Basel, Switzerland
2005
Reiter, Mi-Careme, The Artist Cinema: "Still", Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Der Brief, in public space, Berlin, Switzerland
What you are, we were; What we are, you will be, Art Basel Miami, Miami, US
La regle du jeu, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Danse de l’ombre, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Danse de l’ombre - Ein seltsames Fest, Kunstverein Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
2004
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Bahnhof, Kunstverein Köln, Cologne, Germany
Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Bahnhof, Buttclub Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
5 Tableaux Vivants, Ein Zaubertrickfilm, e-flux, New York, US
Performance Perfekt, Die Blaue Kugel Gruppe, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
2 Positionen auf einmal, Kunstverein Köln, Köln, Germany
2003
Tennisplatz, Eigene Systeme/Autonomous Systems, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Ein Zaubertrickfilm, Fundus im Renthof, Kassel, Germany
Zimmer aufräumen, Zupfgeigenhansel kommt, HfbK, Hamburg, Germany
Zimmer aufräumen, Zupfgeigenhansel kommt, Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Zimmer aufräumen, Zupfgeigenhansel kommt, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Ein Zaubertrickfilm, (cinema program during the exhibition Alles Roger Commander by Cosima von Bonin) Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Alles Roger Commander, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Planche, HfbK, Hamburg, Germany
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2017Monument to the Gays and Lesbians Persecuted Under the Nazi Regime, Munich, Germany
EDUCATION
1995-98
Scenography and Media Art, Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
1998-04
Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2016
Prix Marcel Duchamp (Nominee)
2013
Finkenwerder Art Prize (Airbus-Prize)
Shortlisted for the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Contemporary Art Foundation’s 2013 Drawing Prize
2007
Kunstpreis der Boettcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen Cité des Arts, Paris
2006
Arbeitsstipendium Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung
2005
Reisestipendium, Verein für Neue Kunst in Hamburg Stipendium Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede
2003
Begabtenstipendium der Dietzte-Stiftung