Ursula Biemann

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Ursula Biemann (born September 8, 1955 in Küsnacht , Switzerland ) is a Swiss video artist , curator and author . In her work she deals with questions of the mobility of people, resources and the consequences of global warming .

Life

Biemann grew up near Zurich. She completed her artistic training in Boston, Mexico and New York, where she studied with the art historian Benjamin Buchloh , among others . In 1986 she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the School for Visual Arts, New York. She then participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP) in New York.

From 1995 to 1998 she was director and curator of the Shedhalle Zurich . She taught from 2000 to 2003 at the University of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva and from 2002 to 2014 taught and researched at the Institute for Theory of the Zurich University of the Arts . In 2009 Biemann was awarded the Prix ​​Meret Oppenheim and in 2018 the Prix ​​Thun for Art and Ethics .

She is a member of the international media and artistic research project World of Matter , which deals with the complex ecologies of materials (e.g. water, oil, cotton).

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Forest Law

In her film Forest Law from 2014, which she made in collaboration with the Brazilian artist Paulo Tavares, Biemann deals in detail with the consequences of the oil and mining industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest , following the indigenous people of Sarayacu , who successfully opposed the have sued planned oil production. The work negotiates legal, ecological, cosmological and scientific dimensions of global warming and the Anthropocene . The book Der Naturvertrag by Michel Serres is an important reference for this video work .

Filmography

  • 1999: Performing the Border
  • 2000: Writing Desire
  • 2001: Remote Sensing
  • 2003: Europlex
  • 2004: Contained Mobility
  • 2005: Black Sea Files
  • 2006-2009: Sahara Chronicle
  • 2009: X-Mission
  • 2012: Egyption Chemistry
  • 2013: Deep Weather
  • 2014: Forest Law
  • 2015: Subatlantic
  • 2016: Twenty one Percent
  • 2018: Acoustic Ocean

Publications (selection)

Catalogs

  • Ursula Biemann: Mission Reports - Artistic Practice in the Field - Video Works 1998-2008 , Arnolfini Gallery, 2008, ISBN 978-0907738916 .
  • Ursula Biemann Mission Reports Artistic practice in the field. Video works 1999–2011 , Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011, ISBN 978-3869843049 .

As editor

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile on World of Matter. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b biography on the personal website. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Biography on SIK ISEA. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  4. ↑ World of Matter website. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Information about work on the personal website. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Information on video work. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Biemann, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss video artist, curator and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Küsnacht , Switzerland