Ulrike Hein

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Ulrike Hein (born January 17, 1960 in Neuenbürg , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German sculptress and performance artist .

Life

Ulrike Hein was born in Neuenbürg near Pforzheim in 1960 . After her journeyman's examination as a gardener in Freudenstadt, she studied from 1984 to 1991 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Professor Jürgen Brodwolf , who was professor for sculpture from 1982 to 1994. From 1991 to 1993 Ulrike Hein received a studio grant from the state of Baden-Württemberg, and in 1992 a grant from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation . In 1993 she was awarded the Friedrich Vordemberge grant from the City of Cologne. Her partner at the time was the sculptor Gunter Demnig (born October 27, 1947 ) , who was particularly known for the Stolpersteine . In 1995 Ulrike Hein received a scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . After a serious illness, she moved from Cologne to Baiersbronn in 2003 . She has lived in Tübingen since 2004 .

Artistic creation

The central theme of her work is the energy she dealt with using different materials such as steel, natural stone and, in particular, felt. Ulrike Hein often integrated objects from everyday life into her installations, objects and performances. The table installation “Closed Circuit” (1993) makes her artistic intention clear. An electric pulse of 7000 volts from an electric fence energizer was sent at one-second intervals through an oval lead rail set in the top of a beech wood table. The physical energy of the table was transferred directly to the viewer through touch. The table as a place of encounter and community becomes a metaphor for a spiritual, energetic dialogue and thus unites those gathered around it on an invisible, transcendental level. The circuit symbolizes a spiritual exchange of ideas. Ulrike Hein dealt in her socially critical work with changing aggregates and energetic processes. The result is works such as "Drehung" (1992) or the installation "Das Pneuma-Paris '95" made in Paris. The central objects in this category include a. also nine consecration basins, which form a group of works under the title “re: energy” (1993/94). Based on Joseph Beuys' expanded concept of energy, Ulrike Hein covered the consecration basins, which had been detached from their originally ritual context, with gray felt. Known as a heat and energy store, felt is also a carrier of historically significant quotes and thus a spiritual source of strength.

Manfred Schneckenburger attested the works of Ulrike Hein a dangerous disquiet despite their reduced, calm form . The large-scale installation “Verbotene Dinge” (1999), a collection of the most varied of felt weapons, contrary to their textile, trivializing appearance, triggers a feeling of discomfort. Ulrike Hein was last devoted to a retrospective entitled #Killing Filz in 2009 at the Forum for Contemporary Art in Schloss Neuenbürg . The exhibition concept included setting up a media communication platform. The visitor was asked to translate the impulse for action emanating from the work - in the spirit of Beuys - directly into a text and to communicate with the outside world.

Awards / grants

  • 1988 Academy Award for Fine Arts from the Federal Ministry of Education and Science
  • 1989 Prize for Fine Arts from the Federal Ministry for Education and Science

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009 #Killing Filz - Retrospective Ulrike Hein, Forum for Contemporary Art, Neuenbürg Castle
  • 1998 Ulrike Hein, Forbidden Objects, Art Association Ingolstadt
  • 1997 Ulm Art Foundation PRO ARTE
  • 1996 Retour de Paris, Institut Français, Stuttgart
  • 1994 Scholarship exhibition of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
  • 1994 House of the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
  • 1993 Artothek Cologne
  • 1989 Fellbach City Gallery
  • 1989 Stuttgart Art Institute

Exhibition participation (selection)

  • 2001 Felt - Art, Crafts and Design, German Textile Museum Krefeld, State Museum for Prehistory Dresden
  • 2000 Felt - Art, Crafts and Design, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
  • 1997 'LUST FOR FEAR' Symposium Eickelborn, Forensic Psychiatry Eickelborn, UnterbezirksDaDa, Vordemberge scholarship holders, Stapelhaus Cologne, CHAMPION, Waterfront West, City Art Gallery, Leeds / Great Britain
  • 1996 Marchtaler Fenster 1996, Obermarchtal monastery, metal sculpture symposium Metzingen
  • 1995 KölnKunst 4, Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne, 12th International Biennale of small sculpture, Murska Sobota / Slovenia, In-apparent realities, Bad Krozingen
  • 1995/1996 Scharfer Blick, Deutscher Künstlerbund in Bonn 1995/96, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
  • 1994 Eight Groups - Eight Rooms, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
  • 1993 Bex & Arts, Bex (Switzerland), grant recipients of the City of Cologne, Stapelhaus Cologne, Recall Byblos, Muzejski Galerijski Zagreb / ​​Croatia, Symposium Umspannwerk Singen
  • 1992 5th Fellbach Triennial, small sculpture, Wilhelm- Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
  • 1991 Daimler Symposium, Stuttgart; 7 days under mountain supervision, Teutoburgia colliery , Herne
  • 1990 Symposium Krimpenbachalm, Tyrol; Contemporary art gallery Ferdinand Maier, Kitzbühel
  • 1989 art students exhibit, Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken, Kunstverein Kassel, Freiburg, Cologne
  • 1988 drawing, Kunstverein Ulm ; Sculpture Symposium Weingarten

Literature (selection)

  • Jacqueline Maltzahn-Redling: #Killing felt. Retrospective Ulrike Hein. Karlsruhe 2009, ISBN 978-3-937345-38-3 .
  • Katharina Thomas (ed.): Felt. Arts, crafts and design. Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-89790-157-9 .
  • Ulrike Hein, Prohibited Items. Exhibition catalog. Art Association Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt 1998
  • Deutscher Künstlerbund (Ed.): Sharp View - The German Artists Association in Bonn 1995 . Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-929283-09-3 .
  • Martin Hentschel: Eight Groups - Eight Rooms. Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 1995.
  • Werner Meyer: Retour de Paris. Stuttgart 1995
  • Symposium Umspannwerk Singen, class Brodwolf. Catalog. 2 volumes. Sing 1993.

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ Jacqueline Maltzahn-Redling: #Killing Filz, Ulrike Hein retrospective. Karlsruhe 2009, p. 5.
  2. ↑ Barbara Strieder: Symposium Umspannwerk Singen, Singen 1993, p. 132.
  3. ↑ During a performance in 1992 in the Lehmbruck Museum, the artist demonstrated the energetic effect and the creation of a sculpture using a rotating steel disk as an example.
  4. ↑ Manfred Schneckenburger in his laudation, given in Cologne on June 9, 1993.
personal data
SURNAME Hein, Ulrike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenbürg , Baden-Württemberg