»I'm already particularly interested in everything ephemeral. My murals, for example, are always meant to last only for the duration of the exhibition. After that, they are painted over. Even with my watercolor drawings, I pour so much water over them that the drawing is almost disappearing. You don't need art forever. I think it's good if art also fades«, says Ulla von Brandenburg, explaining her artistic approach. The artist worked as a stage designer at the beginning of her career. In her works, which include installations, films, murals and performances, her connections to the theater scene echo again and again. The ephemeral nature of theater art, of acting as well as of scenery, and the stage-like characterize von Brandenburg's oeuvre to this day. In Madrid, the Mueso Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is now showing new works in Ulla von Brandenburg: Spaces of a Sequence. The show by the internationally renowned artist runs from November 30, 2023 to March 10, 2024.
Von Brandenburg was born in Karlsruhe in 1974, where she now works as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts. She also lives and works in Paris. In addition to solo exhibitions in London, Vienna, Zurich and Düsseldorf, among others, she has won many art awards. In 2016, she was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, a major French art prize. Von Brandenburg is also known for her monument to lesbians and gays persecuted during the Nazi era, which has been in Munich since June 2017.
