Ulrike Rosenbach

Ulrike Rosenbach (2013)

Ulrike Rosenbach (* 1943 in Bad Salzdetfurth near Hildesheim ) is a German artist and art professor. She is one of the first artists to use video art as a medium for artistic expression.

Life

From 1964 to 1970 she trained as a sculptor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy a . a. with Professors Norbert Kricke and Joseph Beuys , whose master class she became. In 1970 she passed her first state examination in the field of art education , two years later the second, which was followed by her employment as a teacher in the school. Around the same time she started working as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf . In 1971 she went public with her first video works , performances and art actions, her first gallery exhibitions followed. Together with Klaus vom Bruch and Marcel Odenbach , she formed the ATV producer group in the 1970s .

In 1973/74 Ulrike Rosenbach appeared in New York City with the performance Isolation is transparent . In the years 1975/1976 a teaching position for feminist art and media art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (California) / LA followed. After returning to Germany, she first lived and worked as a freelance artist in Cologne , where she founded a school for creative feminism . In 1977 and 1987 she took part in the documenta in Kassel . This was followed by teaching assignments and visiting professorships at a number of European institutes. a. at the Berlin University of the Arts , the Cologne Werkschulen , the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the University of Utrecht . Work trips and stays took her to Italy , Canada , the USA , Australia and Asia .

In 1989 Rosenbach received a professorship for new artistic media at the Saar College of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken , where she was rector from 1990–1993. In July 2007 she retired from the university. Today she lives and works as a freelance artist in the greater Cologne / Bonn area . From 2012 to 2018 Rosenbach was President of the German Association of Women Artists GEDOK. Rosenbach has been a member of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) since 2016 .

Your videos may be a. in the collections of the video forum of the nbk, Berlin, as well as in the archive of the imai foundation - inter media art institute , Düsseldorf.

Awards / prizes

1977 award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists
1996 Saarland Art Prize , most important Saarland culture prize
2001 August Macke Medal from the City of Bonn
2004 Gabriele Münter Prize
2011 award for women artists of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1972 Ernst Gallery (Hanover)
1980 Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam)
1981 Stampa Gallery (Basel)
1983 Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston)
1984 Magers Gallery (Bonn)
1985 Oldenburg Art Association
1986 Meier-Hahn Gallery (Düsseldorf)
1989 Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)
1990 Saarbrücken City Gallery
1993 March Gallery (Stuttgart)
1995 White Room (Hamburg)
1997 Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn), Heilbronn Art Association , Arolsen Castle Museum (Bad Arolsen)
1998 Old Town Hall (Göttingen) , Kunsthaus Erfurt
1999 Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , State Museum Schwerin
2001 Eutin water tower
2002 March Gallery (Stuttgart), Bellevue Hall (Wiesbaden), Women's Museum (Bonn)
2003 Gal.ARTintern (Cologne)
2004 DA2 Domus Artium 2002 (Salamanca, Span.)
2005 Kunsthalle Bremen
2006 Pixelgallery (Budapest)
2007 Modern Gallery (Saarbrücken)
2010 Gallery Meier-Hahn (Düsseldorf)
2014 Ulrike Rosenbach: Female energy exchange , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn

Group exhibitions (selection)

1978 Deutscher Künstlerbund : 26th annual exhibition in Berlin. Abstraction of space. , New National Gallery , Berlin
1989 37th DKB annual exhibition: review. View. , Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel.
2012 pictures against the dark. Video art from the imai archive at KIT , Kunst im Tunnel , Düsseldorf
2015 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s. Works from the Verbund collection, Vienna , Hamburger Kunsthalle .
2017 WOMAN. Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection , MUMOK , Vienna.
2017–2018 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection, Vienna . Center for Art and Media , Karlsruhe, DE.
2019 Feminist Avant-garde / Art of the 1970s SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna , The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.

Literature (selection)

Renate Berger : Between life and death. To the mother image with Niki de St. Phalle, Ulrike Rosenbach, Mary Kelly and Annegret Soltau. In: Renate Möhrmann (Ed.): Verklärt, Verkitscht, Forgotten, The mother as an aesthetic figure ', Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-476-01302-2 , pp. 354–371.
Ulrike Rosenbach. [Exhibition catalog Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 28 - May 11, 1980]. Amsterdam: self-rel. d. Museums, 1980. 34 p., Numerous. Ill.
Ulrike Rosenbach: Traces of the Holy in Art Today II. [Exhibition catalog Ludwig Collection]. Aachen: self-rel. Ludwig Collection, 1986. 48 p. With numerous. partly in color.
Artist monograph Ulrike Rosenbach. Munich: Weltkunst & Bruckmann, 1989. 16 p., 21 color illustrations (Ed. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art)
Ulrike Rosenbach: Paths to Media Art 1969 to 2004. Ed .: G. Glüher. Cologne: Wienand, 2005. 239 p. With fig.
Ulrike Rosenbach - figure / nature. Ed .: Ralph Melcher . Contribution by Klaus Honnef , Ralph Melcher, Mona Stocker. [Exhibition catalog Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken.] Heidelberg: Kehrer, 2007. 151 pp., 90 predominantly color images. ISBN 978-3-933257-59-8
Ulrike Rotermund: Metamorphoses in Inner Spaces. Video and performance works by the artist Ulrike Rosenbach. Göttingen: Göttinger Universitätsverlag, 2012. 500 p. ISBN 978-3-86395-051-4 online version (PDF; 11.4 MB)
Angela Thomas Jankowski : Ulrike Rosenbach . In: You. Die Zeitschrift der Kultur 41 (No. 1, 1981), n.p.