Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz are a Berlin artist duo who have been working together since 2006. You produce cinematic installations that quote and process historical material, a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance. In their works they also reflect the critical history of photography and the moving image itself. In 2019 they will be exhibiting in the Swiss Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale .

life and work

The duo uses performance to create embodiments that allow different times to coincide and create illegitimate collaboration - partly fictional, partly cross-temporal. Her work To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, In Recognition of their Desperation (2013) is based on the eponymous score by the feminist avant-garde composer Pauline Oliveros (1970), filmed at Funkhaus Nalepastraße, the former GDR Radio Studios in Berlin, with the participation of Musicians Rachel Aggs, Peaches , Catriona Shaw, Verity Susman , Ginger Brooks Takahashi, William Wheeler. The work had its premiere as part of the solo exhibition Patriarchal Poetry in the Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe, in the fall of 2013 and was in the Museum of Modern Art shown, New York, in an event in the presence of Oliveros and Gregg Bordowitz in May 2014. In I Want stage she met punk writer Kathy Acker , artist Sharon Hayes, and transgender activist and prison abolitionist Chelsea Manning , who leaked information about the Iraq war through WikiLeaks in 2010 . All of the performers in their films are choreographers, dancers, artists and musicians, with whom Boudry / Lorenz had conversations for years about performance, the importance of visibility since the beginning of modernity, about the pathologization of bodies, but also about friendship, glamor and resistance . Recent solo exhibitions include Improvisation télépathique , at the Center Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018; Everybody talks about the weather ... we don't at Participant Inc., New York, 2017; Loving, Repeating , Kunsthalle Wien , 2015; Portrait of an Eye , Kunsthalle Zürich , 2015; Aftershow , CAPC , Bordeaux, 2013; Toxic Play in Two Acts , South London Gallery, 2012; Contagieux! Reports contre la normalité , Center d'Art Contemporain, Geneve, 2011.

Boudry / Lorenz represent Switzerland at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019.

Her work is the subject of texts by theorists such as André Lepecki, Gregg Bordowitz, Antke Engel and Mathias Danbolt. Her catalogs include Telepathic Improvisation , edited by CAMH Houston, 2018; I Want , edited by Sternberg Press, 2015; Aftershow , edited by Sternberg Press, 2014 and Temporal Drag , edited by Hatje Cantz , 2011.

The curator Charlotte Laubard is showing an exhibition by the duo in the Swiss Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz - Statement, Biography . boudry-lorenz.de. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Badischer-Kunstverein program preview . badischer-kunstverein.de. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ MoMA | An Evening with Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz with Gregg Bordowitz and Pauline Oliveros . moma.org. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  4. ↑ Swiss appearance at the Art Biennale 2019 in Venice: Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz in the Swiss Pavilion, Céline Eidenbenz curates the “Salon Suisse” . Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ Queer Temporalities and the Chronopolitics of Transtemporal Drag | e-flux . e-flux.com. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  6. ^ Mathias Danbolt "Publications . mathiasdanbolt.com. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz, Gregg Bordowitz (eds.): Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz - I want . Sternberg Press, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95679-235-9 (English).
  8. ^ Aftershow: Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz . Sternberg Press, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95679-049-2 (English).
  9. ^ Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz | Contemporary Art | Hatje Cantz . hatjecantz.de. Retrieved February 15, 2018.