Ulrike Kuschel's work – photography, video film and slide installations – frequently originates from extended journeys. She has been traveling in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, where she made several series of the rural landscape, or prospects of an industrial city from a distant, often elevated, point of view.
The chosen motifs and the composition of her early landscape pictures refer to the pictorial tradition of European painting. On the other hand, she always also deals with the cultural history of the sites themselves. She understands them as cultural landscapes that convey – in fragments – their very own memories and traces of time. Time is a very important aspect of her work: it seems frozen, thus pointing out to the moment of transition in which everything in nature and history is situated. As essential is movement as an integral part of the process of creation, re-experienced by the viewer in his own perception.
Kuschel uses the camera not only as a medium of reproduction; in her work, it turns into an instrument to approach to new places or, more generally, to deal with her surroundings and to involve the viewer into these processes.
| Biography
- born 1972 in Berlin
- 1991-98 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
- 1995 Erasmus scholarship Oslo
- 1996 scholarship at the Surikow Institute, Moscow
- lives and works in Berlin
| Solo Exhibitions:
2003
- "Laub", Klosterfelde, Berlin, D
2000
- "Österbotten", Klosterfelde Berlin, D
1999
- Vasa Konsthall, Vasa, (with Maxine Adcock), FIN
1997
- Klosterfelde Berlin, (with Anna Ferrer), D
| Group Exhibitions:
2005
- "Red Riviera Revisited", ICA, Sofia, BG
2004
- "Aus aktuellem Anlass", Johann König, Berlin
- "Atomkrieg", kuratiert von Antje Majewski & Ingo Niermann, Kunsthaus Dresden, D (cat.)
2003
- "Unbekannte Schwester, unbekannter Bruder I", Kunsthaus Dresden, D
- "Gesellschaftsbilder / Images of Society", Kunstmuseum Thun, CH (cat.)
2002
- "The Berlin Files", De Chiara Gallery, New York, NY
2001
- "belonging – Sehnsucht und Zugehörigkeit", Shedhalle Zürich, CH
1998
- "KK Berlin", Linköpings Konsthall, S
- "Schöne Welt", Goethe-Institut, London; Goethe-Institut, Manchester
1997
- "Schöne Welt", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (cat.)
1994
- "Vier Räume", Brecht-Haus, Berlin-Weißensee, D
1993
- Galerie im Turm, Berlin, D
- classes Evison and Szymanski, École des Beaux-Arts Superieur, Paris, F
| Bibliography (selected):
2004
- Frankfurter Rundschau, 8.Juli,Tödlicher Anachronismus/Testgelände-Topographie, Schutzräume und das friedliche Meer, Johannes Wendland
- taz, 22. Juni, Trauma einer Generation, Henning Kober
- Welt am Sonntag, 23. Mai, Wie wir lernten mit der Bombe zu leben, Gabriele Thiels
- Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten, 8.Juni, Die Ausstellung "Atomkrieg" im Kunsthaus Dresden, Lisa Werner-Art
- Neue Review, #6, Juni 2004, "Museumsshop", Ulrike Kuschel u. Antje Majewski, pp. 6-10
- exh. cat. Atomkrieg, Kunsthaus Dresden, pp. 36/37 and 62-65
2003
- exh. cat. Gesellschaftsbilder/ Images of Society, Kunstmuseum Thun, pp. 66-69
2002
- Kunstforum International, Bd. 158, Jan-März, Ralf Christofori, pp. 371-372
- Springerin, Bd. 7, Heft 4, Dez. 2001 - Febr. 2002, Edith Krebs, pp. 74-75
2000
- frieze, Juni/Juli/August, issue 53, "Ulrike Kuschel. Klosterfelde Berlin", Dominic Eichler, pp. 124, 125
- Die Welt, Feb. 17
- Vasabladet, Feb. 4
1999
- Vasabladet, Sept. 19, Lisbeth Rosenback
- Polijalainen, Sept. 10, Päivi Vuoljärvi
1998
- exh. cat. "kommander ketchup Berlin" Linköping Konsthall
- Vasabladet, Nov. 25, Lisbeth Rosenback
- Der Tagesspiegel, July 7, Josefine Janert
- The Times, Jan. 31
1997
- Berliner Zeitung, Aug. 18, "Eine Frage des Standpunktes", Robert Weixlbäumer
- Der Tagesspiegel, Aug. 14, "Ende eines Heilsversprechens", Nicola Kuhn
- taz Berlin , Aug. 9, "Stadt, Land, Foto", Harald Fricke
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