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  • Thomas Arnolds
  • Cornelia Baltes
  • Brandy Brandstätter
  • Ulu Braun
  • Sandi Červek
  • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout
  • Jan Paul Evers
  • Lino Fiorito
  • Christian Freudenberger
  • Antonio Girbés
  • Gernot Gleiss
  • Dorothee Golz
  • Jochem Hendricks
  • Andy Holtin
  • Pedro Jardim de Mattos
  • Robert Kunec
  • Alina Kunitsyna
  • Ulrich Lamsfuß
  • Tina Lechner
  • Gerhard Lojen
  • Constantin Luser
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Ulrich Pester
  • Damir Radović
  • Evan Roth
  • Robert Schad
  • Jon Shelton
  • Nina Rike Springer
  • Vincent Tavenne
  • Oman Valentin
  • Ina Weber
© Ulu Braun © Ulu Braun Ulu Braun, U-Speer (Detail), 2016
, acrylic, plastic, wood, ribbon, 202 x 5.5 x 7.5 cm
Kollitsch collection
© Ulu Braun © Ulu Braun Ulu Braun, MX (detail), 2011
, acrylic, plastic, coffee beans, 30 x 15 x 15 cm
Kollitsch Collection
© Ulu Braun © Ulu Braun 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

© Ulu Braun © Ulu Braun 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.

— Magdalena Koschat

© Ulu Braun © Ulu Braun Ulu Braun, Cadavres Exquis Vivants - Loyola, 2010
, Video, 2.37 minutes, HD, colour, sound, loop
Courtesy of krupic kersting galerie II kuk, Cologne

In collaboration with Roland Rauschmeier (with whom he created BitteBitteJaJa), in theCadavres Exquis Vivants(living, exquisite corpses) series Ulu Braun transfers the “Cadavre Exquis” concept into his video art, a method developed in surrealism whereby several persons allow a text or a drawing to be created by chance without having any knowledge of the part previously created by the other person. The video collages based on this concept show brief, repeated, animated portraits of significant figures, constructed from a wide variety of pictorial fragments. These are part of a bizarre setting that is reminiscent of fairy tales, science fiction and dream worlds, and can be read as socio-critical “poetic dramas of everyday life”.

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