Ulrike Rosenbach
Ulrike Rosenbach (born 1943) is an international video works artist from Germany. According to the Dutch Art Institute,[1] Rosenbach works with videotapes, installations and performances. She was one of the first artists from Germany to use video for experiments with electronic images. Her videotapes critique the traditional representation of women and help formulate the identity of women from a feminist perspective.
Biography
Ulrike Rosenbach was born in 1943 in Bad Salzdetfurth in Hildesheim, Germany. Rosenbach underwent training as a sculptor at the Dusseldorf Academy of Fine Arts from 1964 to 1970. Rosenbach began working professionally in 1971 when she created her first video work. Rosenbach taught feminist art and media art at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. Rosenbach returned to Germany and founded the School for Creative Feminism in Cologne. In 1972, she started to use video to document her life. In her films she shows patterns of female identity and strategies of self-determination. In 1977 and 1987 Rosenbach participated in the documentary in Kassel. In 1989 Rosenbach became a professor of New Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saarbruken, Germany. In July 2007 she retired from the university and began working as a freelance artist in the Cologne-Bonn area and in the Saarland. Since November 2012 Rosenbach has been the president and the first chairman of the German arts association GEDOK.
Awards and recognition
- 1977 Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists[2]
- 1996 Art Prize of the Saarland
- 2004 Gabriele Munter Prize
- 2011 Artists Award of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 2012 Rhenish art prize for her life's work
References
- ↑ "Ulrike Rosenbach" Dutch Art Institute School For Research. Web. 27 October 2014.
- ↑ "5o Jahre Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen". Kunst aus NRW. Staatskanzlei des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Archived from the original on 3 August 2008. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
- "Ulrike Rosenbach". Re.act Feminism. Web. 27 October 2014.
- Press release dated 15 October 2011 of the Ministry of Family, Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- "Home performance for Amazone: Ulrike Rosenbach in Düsseldorf". FAZ. 17 July 2010. Page 35.
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