Ursula Damm
Ursula Damm (born July 14, 1960 in Boppard ) is a German sculptor, mixed media artist and professor for designing media environments at the Bauhaus University Weimar .
Life
Damm studied from 1981 to 1989 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where she was a student of Günther Uecker . From 1995 to 1998 he studied at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne . In 1998 she was awarded the Spiridon Neven DuMont Prize for her artistic achievements. From 2001 to 2004 she worked for Valie Export at the Art Academy for Media Cologne. Since 2008 she has held the professorship for the design of media environments (GMU) at the Bauhaus University Weimar .
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Damm's early work includes sculptures made of wire mesh, earth, and fabric. Since 1989 she has been creating installations in which she processes texts, photos and videos.
Ursula Damm has been presented at exhibitions since 1985. This included solo exhibitions in the Goethehaus New York (1992) and on the fountain wall of the Kunstsammlung NRW K20 (2005). She has participated in numerous festivals and international exhibitions, including Ars Electronica 1999, Cyberarts 2006, Sensing Place (HEK Basel, 2012), Translife Triennale 2011 (NAMOC Beijing) and SOFT CONTROL: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious (Maribor, Slovenia) . Ursula Damm has received grants from the Cité des Arts Paris and from institutions in Marseille, Milan, New York, Helsinki and Rotterdam. In 2014 she was a visiting artist in the visual arts department of UCSD San Diego. Her work can be found in the permanent exhibitions of the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz , the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the HEK in Basel (Switzerland).
In 2016 she was involved in the design of the newly opened Schadowstraße subway station in Düsseldorf. For this purpose she created the interactive installation »Turnstile«. Movements of passers-by in front of the subway station are recorded with a video camera, graphically abstracted and displayed on an LED projection surface within the station.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1992: Goethehaus New York
- 1993: Ursula Damm. RaumMuster , Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (with catalog)
- 2005: Ursula Damm: Period , fountain wall of the art collection NRW K20 (with catalog)
- 2019: Shared Habitats , MO Museum Vilnius (exhibition of the professorship)
Group exhibitions
- 1990: Treibhaus 5 , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf (with Stephan von Wiese's catalog )
- 1999: Ars Electronica
- 2006: CyberArts
- 2006: ECHO. New Media - Old Masters , Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne
literature
- Renate Puvogel: Damm, Ursula . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 24, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22764-7 , p. 33.
- Nicole Vennemann: The test environment period / Timescape (51 ° 13.66 North, 6 ° 46.523 East / 51 ° 13.66 North, 6 ° 46.523 East) by Ursula Damm. In: Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Tassilo Tesche (Ed.): LaborARTorium, research in the thinking space between science and art. Transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-2969-3 , pp. 97-102 ( online ).
Web links
- Ursula Damm on kunstaspekte.de
- Ursula Damm on the transmediale website
- Ursula Damm on the website of the Bauhaus University Weimar (English)
- Homepage of the professorship
- Homepage of the artist
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Renate Puvogel: Damm, Ursula . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 24, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22764-7 , p. 33.
- ^ Spiridon-Neven-DuMont-Preis Kulturpreise.de. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ^ Art in the underground station: Professor Ursula Damm designs the Düsseldorf station. uni-weimar.de. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
- ↑ Shared Habitats. May 4, 2019 - July 22, 2019 . Retrieved July 14, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dam, Ursula |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boppard |