Ursula Kreutz

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Ursula Kreutz (born September 24, 1969 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German artist . She is best known for her photographic picture boxes and installations on topics of personal and collective memory.

Life

Ursula Kreutz was born in 1969 in Bergisch Gladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia and comes from a famous family of artists. The mother Ingrid Gisela Kreutz (née Räderscheidt) was a handicraft teacher. The great-grandfather Anton Räderscheidt , a famous German painter of the New Objectivity, was friends with Max Ernst and August Sander , among others . Great-grandmother Marta Hegemann was part of the Cologne avant-garde in the 1920s .

From 1995 to 1996 Ursula Kreutz studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Professor Ben Willikens . In the years 1996 to 1997, stays and trips to Israel , Italy and Switzerland followed . She then continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Professors Hanns Herpich , Ottmar Hörl and Georg Winter . She graduated in 2003 from Professor Georg Winter, class “Art and Public Space”, with distinction and as a master class student.

Ursula Kreutz has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Fürth near Nuremberg since 2003 .

From 2007 to the beginning of 2015 she was a member of the Nuremberg artist group Der Kreis , and since 2014 she has been a member of the German Association of Artists .

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The starting point for Ursula Kreutz's artistic work is on the one hand intensive, interdisciplinary and experimental research into the possibilities of the medium of photography and on the other hand the overarching theme of memory as a questioning of perception, the world and reality. During her studies in Nuremberg, she first developed an original process with the work "Memory Boxes" from 1998, which still characterizes her art today: On the basis of computer-designed, photo-printed transparent fabrics with a slight moiré effect and calculated blurring cause, she designs picture boxes through to installations and entire rooms in the room. The transparency of the material and the duplication of the motifs result in cross-fades that are transformed into a multi-layered projection surface. By changing the viewer's point of view, several images are created at the same time, so that the appearance and disappearance of the image motif encourage discussion of existential questions.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • 2011 post exile, staged documentation, installations
  • 2010 exile, multimedia performance with installation
  • 2010 fiat lux, installation
  • 2009 oktaportrait, series of 24 portraits based on a photographic process developed by the artist
  • 2008 self-development, walk-in room installation with picture boxes
  • 2008 no man's land, installation with pillow-like picture objects
  • 2007 re: blick, multi-part temporary installation for St. Egidien, Nuremberg
  • 2006 elliptical sketches, wall installation with variable dimensions from 21 elliptical picture boxes
  • 2001 three-color past, installation with variable dimensions from 70 picture boxes
  • 1998 memory boxes, wall installation of 16 picture boxes

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 post_exil, staged documentation, Zumikon art and culture house, Nuremberg
  • 2009 oktaportrait - work in progress, Galerie Kunstraum Sutter-Kress, Erlangen
  • 2009 self-development I, Sigismund Chapel in the Thone-Dittmer-Palais Regensburg
  • Remembering 2008, Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach, Wolframs-Eschenbach
  • 2007 re: blick, room installation in St. Egidien, Nuremberg
  • 2007 short stories, art gallery fürth , Fürth (Bavaria)
  • 2006 trans, debut exhibition, Kunsthaus Nürnberg
  • 2006 kairominiaturen, Eva Schickler - office for utopias in the studio u. Galeriehaus Marianne and Hansfried Defet , Nuremberg
  • 2005 ueberneu, Galerie Kunstraum Sutter-Kress, Erlangen
  • 2005 il vento mi ..., Blue Night, multimedia installation, Nuremberg, with Alfonso Costanza and Alexander von Prümmer
  • 2003 demorfo, Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo, Sicily

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010 37 degrees, artist symposium of the artist group der Kreis eV with international guests, Nuremberg
  • 2009 I AM ART- Works on the subject of portraits, curated by Eva Schickler , Kunstverein Kohlenhof eV, Nuremberg
  • 2008 Thoughts on the revolution, exhibition process, Universal Cube, spinning mill site, Leipzig
  • 2008 Great Art Exhibition Halle, Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle (Saale)
  • 2007 24, Galerie Kunstraum Sutter-Kress, Erlangen
  • 2007 Greetings from Utopia, Eva Schickler - Büro für Utopien, Galeriehaus Marianne and Hansfried Defet , Nuremberg
  • 2006 neuspan, Kreisgalerie at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
  • 2004 Word and picture, Recontres de Molsheim, France
  • 2002 Lively and timeless, Danner exhibition, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2001 Multiple Choice, Art Association Nuremberg - Albrecht Dürer Society, Nuremberg (class Ottmar Hörl )

Quotes from and about Ursula Kreutz

  • For me photography has the quality of fixing the moment. I am interested in doubling and multiplying this two-dimensional level and thus creating a multi-dimensional, self-describing space. Ursula Kreutz
  • The intimacy of Ursula Kreutz's sculptures is due to a sharp visual intelligence and the unironic brokenness of the place. Where is memory located? What space does memory occupy? - Who can tell? It is less important for the artist to answer this question than it is perhaps for us. It is more about translating the question into a visual medium.

Thomas Eller ; Artist, former editor-in-chief of artnet , 2006

  • The constant appearance and disappearance of the images is funny in a dialectical way, as if Ursula Kreutz wanted to parody Hegel's aesthetics through the visual execution. Namely, that defines art as an appearance that always has to make something disappear.

Kurt Jauslin, Erlanger Nachrichten 2006

Publications (selection)

  • Ursula Kreutz. meta.; published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2013; with texts by Ecke Bonk , Thomas Eller and an interview with Dr. Dunja Schneider, ISBN 978-3-86984-402-2
  • Art Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten 2010, exhibition catalog, Nuremberg 2010
  • Art Prize of the Nürnberger Nachrichten 2009, exhibition catalog, Nuremberg 2009
  • Gaby Franger (ed.): Threads of fate, stories in the fabric of violence, hope and survival. Exhibition catalog. Museum Women's Culture Regional-International, Women in One World eV, Center for International Women's Research and Intercultural Exchange eV, Nuremberg 2009, ISBN 3-935225-04-0
  • Kunst Halle eV (ed.): Great Art Exhibition Halle, Exhibition Catalog, Halle 2008
  • Short Stories, Städtische Kunst Galerie Fürth, Fürth 2007
  • Ursula Kreutz. Super Nova, Galerie Kunstraum Sutter-Kress, Erlangen 2006
  • Thomas Eller , corner of Bonk and Dr. Dunja Schneider: Ursula Kreutz. Trans. Works 2004–2006, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art, on the occasion of the debut exhibition at the Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2006, ISBN 3-936300-28-3
  • Lively and timeless, Danner Prize 2002, Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg, Arnoldsche, ISBN 3-89790-177-3

Web links

http://www.ursula-kreutz.de/

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "K" / Ursula Kreutz (accessed on September 28, 2015)
  2. ↑ Space for art and nature: AIR project grant 2011 ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.raum-fuer-kunst-und-natur.de
personal data
SURNAME Kreutz, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach