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