Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger ( born June 6, 1942 in Konstanz as Ulrike Weinberg) is an avant-garde, contemporary artist. It is particularly well known and successful as a filmmaker, painter and photographer.

Life

At Lake Constance grew up the daughter of a foreign language correspondent Maria Vineyard and artistic and decorative painter Ulrich Ottinger completed post-high school, first as a bank clerk. From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter.

From 1962 to 1968 he lived and worked in Paris as a painter Ottinger and studied with Johnny Friedlaender etching. She participated in several Pop Art exhibitions and wrote her first screenplay in 1966 with the title The Mongolian double drawer.

Ulrike Ottinger returned to Germany and founded in 1969 in cooperation with the Film Seminar at the University of Konstanz the film club "Visual", which she directed until 1972. It built a gallery and an associated printer who " press gallery ", where they edited contemporary art and became a focal point of avant-garde visual arts. Since 1973, Ulrike Ottinger lives in Berlin.

In Berlin Ottinger worked repeatedly with actress and scene KünstlerinTabea Blumenschein, which was next to Magdalena Montezuma Actress their incurred from 1972 films. Ulrike Ottinger developed an expressive bizarre surrealist film - style, which is characterized by a widespread abandonment of a linear plot lines. Ottinger told as a river meanders. Artistically and aesthetically convincing staged moving magic (film) pictures. Ottinger's unconventional and original imagination creates handcrafted soundness and technical brilliance always surprising, expressive and extravagant shapes in bold colors and shapes magnetizing.

Ottinger also worked for the theater and directed, among others, in 1983 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart Elfriede Jelinek's Clara S. and 1986 in Graz Jelinek desire and driving license.

Since childhood, Ottinger is fascinated by different culture circles. In Ottinger documentaries and feature films is Mongolian and Japanese idiom recognition and expression. Ottinger turned impressive documentaries about Asian cultures, including the four and a half hour drive China - the arts - the everyday and the eight half-hour production taiga.

Ottinger was part of the series 100Tage - 100 guests invited to Documenta 10 in July 1997 to Kassel and erneut2002 to documenta 11 exhibition " Floating Food " made ​​in 2011 at the House of World Cultures sensation.

In 2005, a retrospective of Ottinger's photographs appeared in the German publishing house for contemporary art under the title: Ulrike Ottinger. Image archives. Photographs 1970-2005. In 2008, Laurence A. Rickels published, a professor at the University of California, under the title Ulrike Ottinger: the Autobiography of Art Cinema an overview of the life and work of the artist. From inside the book interviews with Ottinger and cutouts are merged their photographic work to an exploration of filmmaking and the possibility of art film. Her films are regularly invited to the Berlin Film Festival.

Filmography

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2013/2014 UNDER SNOW, Johanna Breede PHOTO ART, Berlin
  • 2013: THE OLD NEW IN THE NEW OLD, Johanna Breede PHOTO ART, Berlin
  • 2012: Goetz Collection | Munich - Ulrike Ottinger ' Floating Food '
  • 2011: House of World Cultures | Berlin - Ulrike Ottinger ' Floating Food ', a collage of the films taiga, Johanna d' Arc of Mongolia and China. The Arts - The People.
  • 2013 Ulrike Ottinger | worldviews. Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
  • 2007 film.kunst: Ulrike Ottinger. Museum for Film and Television, Berlin
  • 2005 En Face. Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal - Unteröwisheim
  • 2004 Ulrike Ottinger. Image archives. Witte de With. Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Faces, Found Objects, and Rough Riders. ArtPace, San Antonio / Texas
  • 2002 Documenta 11, Kassel
  • 2001 sessions. Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin image archives. Kunst-Werke, Berlin in cooperation with Filmkunsthaus Babylon and Arsenal, Berlin
  • 2000 stills. David Zwirner Gallery, New York
  • 1993 Taiga. Ethnographic Museum of Zurich. Other stations include Film Museum Dusseldorf, Rice Museum Mannheim, including
  • 1981 Freak Orlando - An overall artistic conception. Installation and photographs. DAAD Galerie, Berlin
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