A residency at the Maison Flottante in March 2025
Ulla von Brandenburg lives and works between Paris and Karlsruhe. With major solo exhibitions at venues such as the Palais de Cristal Reina Sofia in Madrid (2023), Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst in Bremen (2022), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2020), Whitechapel Gallery in London (2018), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2018), Pérez Art Museum Miami (2016) and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2016), she has become one of the most influential and internationally recognized artists of her generation.
Ulla von Brandenburg’s work is characterized by a diversity of media (installations, films, watercolors, murals, collages, performances…) that respond to each other and that she stages according to the exhibition space. A master of the codes of scenography, nourished by literature, art history and architecture as well as psychoanalysis, spiritualism and magic, she borrows from esoteric rituals and popular ceremonies as well as from the mechanisms and codes of theater to explore the construction of our social structures. Masks, costumes, sets and props from various popular traditions enable her to symbolically transgress norms and hierarchies, subtly blending reality and appearances in theatrical stagings.
Two projects on the Maison Flottante
PERFORMATIVE PROJECT
Writing with Benoit Résillot to develop a new performative project, which will be shown in various venues, including the Théâtre de Garonne. It will become a musical performance object with singing around a group of actresses actresses who are searching for a way to create and live in this world, which can seem like an unlivable place.
NEW EDITION
Our editorial project stems from a collective residency in performative research and practice organized by the artist’s studio and the Frac Picardie in October 2022, at the unrivalled Performing Art Forum. The challenge was to identify a gestural grammatology at the source of Ulla’s performative work, in collaboration with her troupe of performers and various participants. Our aim was to initiate sensitive research that would culminate in an object: a manual combining writing, sketches and photographs. This editorial dimension of Ulla von Brandenburg’s work appeared to be an opportunity to produce genuine aesthetic research, notably by working closely with actor and researcher Duncan Evennou (also working on a project with researcher and director Frédérique Aït-Touati and researcher Emanuele Coccia, and having already performed at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris).
Partners
The edition is co-produced by ArTeC - École universitaire de recherche
and Frac Picardie - Amiens
Meeting
Sunday March 23, from 3pm to 6pm
at the Maison Flottante, 52 Chemin du Halage, Poses - Normandie