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03.10.2022-06.07.2023

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  • Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht
  • Thomas Arnolds
  • Rozbeh Asmani
  • Cornelia Baltes
  • Alfredo Barsuglia
  • Hubert Becker
  • Hans Bischoffshausen
  • Brandy Brandstätter
  • Karl Brandstätter
  • Julius Brauckmann
  • Ulu Braun
  • Edward Burtynsky
  • Christopher Bucklow
  • Sandi Červek
  • Caroline Wells Chandler
  • Sandro Chia
  • Natalie Czech
  • Violet Dennison
  • Ines Doujak
  • Lutz Driessen
  • Sophie Dvořák
  • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout
  • Simon Edmondson
  • Cédric Eisenring
  • Jan Paul Evers
  • Lino Fiorito
  • Christian Flora
  • Dietmar Franz
  • Christian Freudenberger
  • Jakob Gasteiger
  • Michela Ghisetti
  • Antonio Girbés
  • Bruno Gironcoli
  • Gernot Gleiss
  • Dorothee Golz
  • Franz Grabmayr
  • Ernst Gradischnig
  • Vivian Greven
  • Jochem Hendricks
  • Giselbert Hoke
  • Andy Holtin
  • Bernadette Huber
  • Pedro Jardim de Mattos
  • Eva Jospin
  • Soli Kiani
  • Peter Klare
  • Jakob Lena Knebl
  • Cornelius Kolig
  • Arnulf Komposch
  • Suse Krawagna
  • Eric Kressnig
  • Robert Kunec
  • Alina Kunitsyna
  • Hans Kupelwieser
  • Ulrich Lamsfuß
  • Margaret Lansink
  • Tina Lechner
  • Jens Liebchen
  • Axel Lieber
  • Mevlana Lipp
  • Peter Lohmeyer
  • Gerhard Lojen
  • Constantin Luser
  • Joel Meyerowitz
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Jürgen Münzer
  • Loredana Nemes
  • Ferdinand Neumüller
  • Arnold Odermatt
  • Hans Op de Beeck
  • Bernd Oppl
  • Aitor Ortiz
  • Olga Pedan
  • Ulrich Pester
  • Peter Pongratz
  • Arnold Pöschl
  • Hannes Rader
  • Damir Radović
  • Fabian Ramirez
  • Thomas Rentmeister
  • Markus Riebe
  • Megan Rooney
  • Evan Roth
  • Robert Schad
  • Julia Scher
  • Stefanie Seufert
  • Eva Schlegel
  • Toni Schmale
  • Ralph Schuster
  • Jon Shelton
  • Hayley Aviva Silverman
  • Tracey Snelling
  • Paul Spendier
  • Nina Rike Springer
  • Laura Stadtegger
  • Esther Stocker
  • Vincent Tavenne
  • Oman Valentin
  • Anna Virnich
  • Wolfgang Walkensteiner
  • Ina Weber
  • Clemens Wolf
Spirits Spirits Ulu Braun, Spirits, 2020
, Mixed media and collage on paper, 200 x 150 cm
Kollitsch collection

In Ulu Braun’s versatile oeuvre, collages are a recurring element, not just in objects and paintings, but also in installations, films, and video art. In fact, his video collages have given rise to a new genre. In conjunction with painting, Ulu Braun creates constructed realities through layered and overlapping designs, which also make room for the absurd and the impossible besides accommodating real props and symbols. As in fantasy worlds, the concepts of time and space seem to have been abolished through the close juxtaposition of a wide range of motifs, allowing for the coexistence of idyllic scenes and disturbing details.

U-Speer (Detail) U-Speer (Detail) Ulu Braun, U-Speer (Detail), 2016
, acrylic, plastic, wood, ribbon, 202 x 5.5 x 7.5 cm
Kollitsch collection
MX (Detail) MX (Detail) Ulu Braun, MX (detail), 2011
, acrylic, plastic, coffee beans, 30 x 15 x 15 cm
Kollitsch Collection
Plankton (Detail) Plankton (Detail) Ulu Braun, Plankton (detail), 2016
, various materials, 39 x 50 x 30 cm
Kollitsch collection

Ulu Braun, a “critical new romantic” (Hajo Schiff, taz, 2010), creates new worlds in his collages. His main medium is film/video. In his wall-sized projections, imaginary cameras fly through bizarre virtual worlds reminiscent of video games, within which numerous little minidramas take place. Yet what initially seems like an artificial paradise is consistently disturbed by various distressing details, so that anything idyllic is always offset by something disastrous.
Braun’s specific objects appear to have their origins in these virtual worlds. His Plankton shows a chimera of chicks and an oily prawn tail on some blood-soaked pumice stones: innocent cuteness vs. brutal reality – an image which clearly creates associations with environmental pollution and genetic engineering.

— Felix Kucher

Cadavres Exquis Vivants - Schwarzenegger Cadavres Exquis Vivants - Schwarzenegger Ulu Braun, Cadavres Exquis Vivants - Schwarzenegger, 2012
, video, 2.52 minutes, HD, colour, sound, loop
Kollitsch collection

Working with Roland Rauschmeier (‘BitteBitteJaJa’ together), in the series Cadavres Exquis Vivants Ulu Braun transfers the term ‘Cadavre Exquis’ to his video art, a method of surrealism in which several people create a text or drawing at random without knowing what the other person has created beforehand. The video collages based on them feature brief, repetitive, animated portraits of famous people constructed from various picture fragments. They appear in an absurdly composed, lively physical image placed within a surreal context in which they are deprived of their celebrity symbolism and yet at the same time are reduced to this.

Braun Ulu, Jungle Braun Ulu, Jungle Ulu Braun, Jungle, 2009
, Mixed techniques and collage on paper, 110 x 227 cm
Kollitsch Collection
Braun Ulu, Tröstersittich Braun Ulu, Tröstersittich Ulu Braun, Tröstersittich, 2009
, Mixed techniques and collage on MDF, 50 x 40 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Collage techniques are a significant component in the artistic works of Ulu Braun, both in his video art and his objects. Here he combines unrelated everyday objects such as foods, sports equipment, dolls, animals’ heads and other objects made from a range of materials to form wonderful arrangements with surrealist tones. His ‘objets trouvés’ are sourced from the themes of nature/anti-nature, colonialism, primal sculpture and archaic gestures.

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