Ursula Neugebauer

Ursula Neugebauer (born December 13, 1960 in Hamm / Westphalia ) is a German artist .

Life

Ursula Neugebauer studied fine arts at the Art Academy in Münster - here she was a master class student of Timm Ulrichs - as well as literary studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms University . Neugebauer briefly taught as a student instructor and then worked as an art therapist at the Münster University Hospital . From 1999 to 2002 she was a lecturer in the architecture department at the Technical University of Berlin . Since 2003 she has been teaching fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Works

As an artist, she works at the interface between installation, object, space and media. Her works represent step-by-step transformations of everyday life and everyday objects that are as analytical as they are precise. In this way, it allows the viewer not only to perceive the world and reality with sharpened senses, but also to experience the consolation of art against the often unspeakable nature of existence - a function of the aesthetic that Nietzsche and Adorno pointed out.

The dialectics of presence and absence as well as forgetting and remembering play a major role in her work. It runs in different forms as a constant through her oeuvre from “disappearing” (1999) and “Briefe” (2001) to “zu Tisch” (2011) and the video “... the greatest happiness imaginable” (2010 ), a work on the mathematician Grigori Perelman . In “Disappear” the theme takes shape in a simple and emphatic way in the form of a series of mirrors. Depending on the direction of reception, they let the viewer's image stand out or step back sharply. The work “at the table”, which Ursula Neugebauer developed as an installation , performance and video , is a work of memory and remembrance in which the viewer is actively involved.

The character of a “memorial during her lifetime” (Michael Stoeber) is also inscribed in her hair drawings “figur”, in which she forms portraits from human hair. An example of process art that she started with in 1996 and included Muslim women covering their hair in 2007. The resulting film “Hair” in 2008 illuminates the phenomenon of religiously motivated veiling as an expression of the presence and absence, the identity and integrity of the female body: the covering cloth appears here as a metaphor of inanimate life.

Her series of works “Nachlass” (2003), in which she photographed the death room of those who have passed away, also combines the characteristics of the portrait with a work of memory. Neugebauer caused a sensation with her expansive installation "tour en l'air" (1997/98), repeatedly shown in exhibitions, in which she animated red ball gowns in a "ballet without ballerinas" (based on a text by Manfred Schneckenburger in the exhibition catalog). An electric motor and a timer ensure that they wake up again and again to a passionate dance, only to collapse afterwards, exhausted.

Ursula Neugebauer is a member of the German Association of Artists . She lives in Berlin.

Exhibitions (selection since 2003)

• 2003: Turning, circling, rotating, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg; Heidenheim Art Museum; Ahlen Art Museum; Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
• 2004: Cum Grano Salis, Bentlage Monastery; with an open end, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Ingolstadt Art Association
• 2005: body - body - space. The body in contemporary dance and in contemporary sculpture. Glaskasten Sculpture Museum , Marl; Ursula Neugebauer, Gallery of the City of Remscheid; Memoria! - 7 positions, Gravenhorst monastery
• 2006: A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu - colors. Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen , Magdeburg
• 2007: Body Face Soul, Leopold Museum Vienna; Asia - Europe Mediations, Poznań Museum; Ursula Neugebauer, Grafschaft Bentheim Art Association , Neuenhaus ; Ursula Neugebauer, Werkstadt Graz
• 2008: Aktinos-Mai-Photographs, les festivals français de photographies, Quimper; European Attitude, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; Was Bleibt, DG, German Society for Christian Art , Munich; Necessary discourse on Hysteria, The Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec
• 2009: Ursula Neugebauer, House of Architecture and Werkstadt Graz; Seeking constructive concrete structura 2., Museum Vasarely, Budapest; close up, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
• 2010: Gabriele Münter Prize, Martin Gropius Bau , Berlin; fashionable art - fashion in art, Art Raum Riehen, Basel; The west shines, Kunstmuseum Bonn
• 2011: In good company, Detmold Castle; At the table, Werksadt Graz; What machines dream of, Ars Electronica , VW Automobil Forum Unter den Linden Berlin, breeze breeze, Osaka; Poetry of Motion, Ars Electronica, breeze breeze, Osaka
• 2013: Sagittarius A, Bad Salzdetfurth Art Association, Foundation Art Building Schlosshof Bodenburg

Prizes and awards (selection)

• 1990: Graduate scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1991: Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn

Studio gallery, sponsorship award from the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association

• 1992–93: Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
• 1998: Travel grant from the Elisabeth Montag Foundation, Dresden
• 1999: Scholarship from the Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse Unna
• 2001: Barkenhoff scholarship, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
• 2004: Female artist award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for sculpture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "N" / Ursula Neugebauer (accessed on November 24, 2015)

literature

• Ursula Neugebauer. Tour en l'air. With texts by Ursula Franke, Martin Henatsch and Sigrun Brunsiek. Art Association & Foundation Sprinhornhof, 1998.
• Ursula Neugebauer. Estate. Text by Matthias Reichelt. Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, 2003, ISBN 3-9808214-5-5 .
• Ursula Neugebauer. Driven out of the skin. Texts by Manfred Schneckenburger, Michael Stoeber , Jan Boecker, Martin Henatsch, Ferdinand Ullrich and Matthias Reichelt. Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, 2005, ISBN 3-937390-69-3 .
• Kunstforum, Matthias Reichelt: Ursula Neugebauer, From the covering of the erotic to the eroticism of the covering. In: Kunstforum International . 184, 2007, p. 320.
• Uwe Gellner, Annegret Laabs: Ursula Neugebauer. Hover. In: Annegret Laabs, Uwe Gellner (eds.): A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu - colors. Kerber Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86678-060-6 .
• Hajo Eickhoff: Ursula Neugebauer. Traces of Disappearance - The Aesthetics of Remaining. In: Wolfgang Jean Stock (Ed.): What remains. Gallery of the DG German Society for Christian Art. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-932322-28-0 .
• Astrid Mayerle: Ursula Neugebauer. In: Stefan Berg (Ed.): The west shines. Art Museum Bonn. Kerber Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86678-432-1 .
• Ursula Neugebauer. En face, Kurfürstenstrasse, Berlin. Kettler, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-480-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ursula Neugebauer in the catalog of the German National Library
• werkstadt.at