Ulf Aminde

Ulf Aminde (* 1969 in Stuttgart ) is a Berlin- based artist and professor at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

biography

Aminde is the son of the architecture professor Hans-Joachim Aminde from Stuttgart. He studied fine arts at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) with Lothar Baumgarten and received his master's degree in 2004. He lives with the author Svenja Leiber , with whom he also works artistically.

Aminde's artistic practice discusses socially relevant issues using photography, drawing, video art and performance. In his performative work in particular, in dealing with different social groups, he creates images that repeatedly generate the desire for community building. In the participatory works, Aminde also reflects on his own position as an author, initiator and artist. Thus, in his “social machineries and complicity” (Aminde), questions about the relationship of the individual in relation to a community are necessarily addressed. At the Berlin Biennale 2006 he showed his film installation “Life is not a request concert”, in which he brings together the recordings of various street musicians, who each only play a single note, on twelve monitors to form a noisy orchestra. In the same year he was awarded the authors and producers prize of the Bremen Young Theater for “Street is street and no concept art” .

Awards, grants and exhibitions

Awards and grants

2003 Helmut Thoma Prize
2004 Nafög scholarship
2006 Author and Producer Award of the Bremen Young Theater, Bremen
2008 Art Fund Bonn Foundation , work grant

2010 Berlin Senate work grant

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2005/06 The survival of the fittest , Kunstverein Wolfsburg and Kunstraum Munich
2007 Street is street and not conceptual art , Society for Current Art (GAK), Bremen
2008 Peace and order , JET Berlin
2008 Life is not a listener's request program , Schlechtriem, New York
Rotting together in 2008 , Schlechtriem Brothers, Berlin
2010 the hidden chapters of my lost insistence , Kunstverein Arnsberg
2011 learning from big mistakes , Tanja Wagner Gallery Berlin
2012 Obeying need, not one's own instinct , Kunstverein Heidelberg
2013 the weight , Tanja Wagner Gallery, Berlin
2013 don't fuck with my name (hacking the curator) with Sabine Reinfeld, Kunst-Werke Berlin KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Publications and catalogs (incomplete)

Publications

2005: the survival of the fittest , Kunstverein Wolfsburg
2009: Peace and order , Argobooks, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812552-7-0
2011: miserere , Argobooks, Berlin 2011, with a text by Felix Ensslin , ISBN 978-3-942700-15-3

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personal data
SURNAME	Aminde, Ulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German installation artist, filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH	1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart