ULU BRAUN
WORKS II BIOGRAPHY II REVIEWS
VIDEO COLLAGE
Ulu Braun, The Park, video collage, KW Institute for Contemporary Art,Berlin, 2015, image © Timo Ohler |
Ulu Braun, The Park, video collage, Young Projects, L.A., 2013, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Ulu Braun, Westcoast, video collage, Kunstverein Bochum, 2014, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Ulu Braun, Westcoast (left) and Cadavres Exquis Vivants (right), video collages, Kunstverein Bochum, 2014, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Ulu Braun & Roland Rauschmeier, video collage, Livingstone, 2012, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Ulu Braun, Atlantic Garden, video collage, Kunstverein Konstanz, 2014, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Ulu Braun, Atlantic Garden (right) and Cadavres Exquis Vivants (left), video collages, Kunstverein Konstanz, 2014, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Ulu Braun, Vertikale, video, Young Projects L.A., USA, 2013, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
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COLLAGE-WORKS |
Ulu Braun, series of collages, paint, 2013, © Ulu Braun & VG Bildkunst Bonn |
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PHOTOGRAPHY |
Assange_Kahlo_von Hagens, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Bush_Björk, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Ali_Houllebecq, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & & VG Bild-Kunst |
Avatar_Kampusch_Riefenstahl, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Reeves_Van Gaal_Lynch, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Gallery view, © krupic kersting II kuk |
Roche_Benedikt_Knut, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Exhibition view, © krupic kersting II kuk |
Eminem_Kästner_Darwin, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Gallery view, © krupic kersting II kuk |
Assange_Kahlo_von Hagens (left), Klum_Sonneborn_Benedikt, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
Wagner_Jobs, print (Edition), RAG Hahnemühle paper, © Ulu Braun & VG Bild-Kunst |
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BIOGRAPHY: ULU BRAUN
Ulu Braun (*1976, Schongau, Germany) has been using the medium of video to explore the field between the visual arts and auteur cinema since 1997. He is one of the key figures who have transferred painting into video art and have played a significant role in defining and further developing the genre of video collage.
He studied painting and experimental film at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and animation at the Film and Television University Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. His works have been shown at KW Berlin, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Young Projects L.A., Shedhalle Zürich, MARTa Herford, Museo de Reina Sofia Madrid, Berlinische Galerie, Hirshhorn Museum Washington D.C. , Museum der Moderne Salzburg, LISTE 18 Basel, Kunsthalle Wien etc. Ulu Braun is a member of the art collectives ‘BitteBitteJaJa’ and ‚YKON’. He lives and works in Berlin.
EDUCATION
1996 - 1999 | Studies in Painting & Experimental film, University of Applied Arts with Prof. C.L. Attersee & Prof. W. Herzig, Vienna, A |
2001 - 2006 | Studies of film at the Babelsberg Film University, HFF-Potsdam, Germany |
2007 - 2008 | DAAD-scholarship, Academy of Fine Arts,Time & Space Department, Helsinki |
ARTGRANTS 2014 (more grants see end of CV)
Berlin Art Prize 2014
Bundesfilmpreis 2013/14 (German Short Film Award / Best Experimental)
Marler Video-Kunst-Preis 2014
Koneen Foundation, production grant for Platheon 2014
SOLO SHOWS
2016 | I am bagging for likes like Dürerhände, krupic kersting II kuk, Cologne, Germany |
2015 | 12x12, IBB Videoraum, Berlinishe Galerie, Berlin, Germany Meet the Artist, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA (Screening) Videoart at Midnight #63: Ulu Braun, Babylon, Berlin, Germany |
2014 | Formation der Wesen (Videocollages), Kunstverein Bochum, Germany Die Erschöpfung, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany Gurus, Ghosts, krupic kersting galerie, Köln Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia |
2013 | Land of Confusion, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany 13 Works, YoungProjects, Los Angeles, USA |
2012 | Galerie Wolfstädter, Frankfurt, Germany |
2011 | Facing Portraits, C.Rockefeller Center for Contemp.Art, Dresden, Germany Inventure, Galerie Wolfstädter, Frankfurt, Germany Parks, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, Germany |
2010 | Fiebergärten, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen Cadavre Exquis Vivants, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, Germany (BBJJ) 2009 Beauty and Horror of the NoN-NeW Reality, White Square Gallery, Las Vegas Speech to the living species, Natascha Mehlhop Gallery, Brussels, Belgium WESTCOAST, Galerie koal, Berlin, Germany, 2006 Videos by Ulu Braun, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
SOLO SCREENINGS (selected)
2013 | Background Graffiti, Ulu Braun, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany |
2010 | Elektronenströme, Ulu Braun, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
2009 | Focus 1+1, Ulu Braun, Aarhus Filmfestival, Denmark |
2007 | Spotlight Ulu Braun, Media Art Friesland, Leeuwarden, Netherlands |
2006 | Werkschau Ulu Braun, Abaton Kino, Hamburg, Germany |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 | Afterimages. Nachhall der Schwarzen Romantik in der Videokunst, Kunst-sammlung Jena, Germany Welcome to the Jungle, KW, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany I See International Video Festival, Institute for Provocation, Beijing, China I See International Video Festival, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Arcadia Unbound, Funkaus Berlin, Germany Sarajevo International Film Festival, Bosnien-Herzegowina Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico FILM MONTAGE, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong Berlinale, 65. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany |
2014 | Berlin Art Prize, Berlin, Germany HANSEvideoartWORKS, Kunsthalle St.Annen, Lübeck, Germany Private Nationalism, Divus Gallery, Prag, CZ Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle Kosice, Slowakia |
2013 | Ruhe-Störung, Marta Herford, Germany Rom for Kunst, Central Station, Oslo, Norway LISTE 18, House of electonic Arts, Basel, Switzerland The poetics of mountains…, Artprojx at Verbier, Switzerland VKunst, Frankfurt, Germany OSTRALE 13, Dresden, Germany Zuviel? Zu Wenig?, Villa de Bank, Enschede, NL |
2012 | Apokalypse & Utopie, curated by Olaf Stüber, Galerie Pankow, Berlin, Germany OUDEIS, Le Vigan, France ...and they lived happily ever after, GlogauAir, Berlin Braun, Rauschmeier, Kilpper, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany Aarrgh, 10 Years Huuto, Helsinki, Finland re:MMX, Linienstrasse 142, Berlin |
2011 | Art Platform, curated by Paul Young, Los Angeles, USA Dangerously Young, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium 8.Mercosul Biennal, Porto Alegre, Brazil (with YKON) Bare House Project, Zanabazar Art Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Based in Berlin, After the Butcher, KW, Berlin The Return of the Losers, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden (with YKON) 2 cm mehr - 2 cm de +, Centre d’art le LAIT, Albi, France |
2010 | Höhepunkte der Kunstfilmbiennale, KW, Berlin, Germany Short-Term Deviation, Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, US Videorama.Artclips from Autsria, Zacheta, National gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Verbotene Liebe: Kunst im Sog von Fernsehen, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria Videorama, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (BBJJ) Rauma Biennale Balticum 10, Rauma, Finnland Lands End. Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland MASH UP, EMAF, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid,Esp Selected works from Videonale 12, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, England |
2009 | Videorama: Subversion, Absurdity and Form, Austrian Cultural Forum, NewYork VIDEORAMA, Kunsthalle Wien, Österreich (BBJJ) 5th Biennal Vento Sul, Videos de Artista, Brasilien Landschaft 2.0, Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany 2.nd Athens Biennale "Heaven", Athens, Greece (with YKON) Videonale12, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Happy Together,Tallin Art Hall, Estonia (with YKON) |
2008 | FRAgILE, Musee Le Carre Bonnat, Bayonne, France tina b -The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prag, Czech Republic Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid,Haus der Kulturen, Berlin Der gefilmte Himmel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Trunk 2007, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden |
2007 | 11 Videomedeja, Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia Videonale Selection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Made in Berlin and in The Hague, Cookie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands Videonale11, Art Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
2006 | 40jahrevideokunst.de – was fehlt?, Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin, Germany Eastern Alliance, National Museum for Contemporary Arts, Bucarest, Romania |
2005 | Videonale 10, Art Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
SCREENINGS (selected from 250)
2014 | Berlinale, 64. Int.Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany 60. ‚Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen‘, Germany |
2013 | Loop, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark Berlinale, 63.Int.Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany Game Arts Festival, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad, Norwegen The New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington, New Zealand Guanajuato Int. Film Festival, Mexico |
2012 | Helsinki Short Film Festival, Finland Nashville Filmfestival, US Flickerfest, Sydney, Australia |
2011 | EMAF, 24.European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany 40th. International Rotterdam Filmfestival, Netherlands DIAGONALE, Tage des Österreichischen Films, Graz, Austria |
2010 | Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin EXPIFF, Int. Experimental Filmfestival, Bucharest, Romania EMAF 2010, European Tour Programm Media Facades Festival, Public Screenings, Helsinki (Fi) + Berlin Videoart at Midnight # 12, Babylon Kino, Berlin Screenfestival 2010, Oslo, Norway |
2009 | 25 FPS, International Experimental Videofestival, Zagreb, Croatia Kunstfilmbiennale, Filmforum-Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany EMAF, 22.European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany |
2008 | Platforma, Athen Technopolis, Athen, Greece Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2008, Madrid, Spain EMAF, 21.European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany DIAGONALE, Tage des Österreichischen Films, (BBJJ), Graz, Austria 38 thTampere Film Festival,Tampere, Finland Trunk - The Nordic Video Art Festival, Sundsvall, Sweden Transmediale 08, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
2007 | Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2007, Paris, France Trunk - The Nordic Art Video Festival, Sweden 53rd Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany EMAF, 20. European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany 29th. Clermont Ferrand, Int. Film Festival, France |
2006 | 8th Tinklai International Short Film Festival, Lithuania EXiS 2006, Experimental Film und Video Festival, Seoul, Korea 22nd International Shortfilm Festival, Hamburg, Germany |
ARTGRANTS
2014 | Berlin Art Prize Bundesfilmpreis (German Short Film Award / Experimental) Marler Video-Kunst-Preis 2014 Koneen Foundation, production grant for Platheon |
2011 | Kunstfonds working grant |
2010 | Live 2011 Grand Prix , Turku, European Capital of Culture in 2011, 1st price Expiff, Int. Experimental Filmfestival, Bucharest, Special Mention, Marler Video-Kunst-Preis 2010, Special Mentioned, Germany |
2009 | 25 FPS, Zagreb, Croatia, Critics Award/ Special Mention |
2007 | 25 FPS, Zagreb, Special Mention, Croatia Best video art work, 26. AsoloArtfilmFestival, Italy DAAD-Exchange Grant for one year, Finland |