Ulrike Theusner
Ulrike Theusner( born 1982 in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany) is a german artist working primarily in drawing and printmaking. She studied at École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts à la Villa Arson in Nice, France and graduated in 2008 from Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Amongst others, her work was exhibited in groupshows at Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nice, Neues Museum Weimar and several solo shows in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt, Toulouse, Paris and Shanghai. She lives and works between Weimar and Berlin.
Works
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Her luscious watercolors, ink drawings and oil paintings are juicy with pictorial depth and detail while her characters burst and bubble with energy. Yet, despite these surface delights, her content is serious, dark and timely. Theusner’s images recall Goya’s grotesqueries and Otto Dix’s brutally seductive social caricature. Many of her characters wear historical costume, like ghosts staging a play, but she also directs sharp attention towards today’s political and social inequalities. Using wit and beauty, her work highlights contemporary culture’s poisonous absurdity and underlying moments of horror.[1] |
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Exhibitions Solo
- 2013 The New York Diaries, Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt
- 2013 Secret Society, Chvalrous Cantaloup Commune , Shanghai
- 2012 Limbo Express, Y Gallery New York
- 2012 Gravures, Galerie Le Majorat Toulouse
- 2011 Nitro Circus, Galerie Pierrick Touchefeu, Seaux, Paris
- 2011 Weird Feelings, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt
- 2011 Galerie Majorat, Villeneuve-Toulouse
- 2010 Ten Seconds of Fame, Galerie Wagner und Partner, Berlin
- 2010 East Of Eden, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt
- 2009 'Showroom Galerie Soardi, Nizza
- 2008 The Waste Land, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Exhibitions Group
- 2015 Alterity, The Lodge Gallery New York
- 2015 Printmaking Symposium, Tapetenwerk Leipzig
- 2014 Des Grands Yeux Morts, Galerie Dukan Leipzig
- 2014 Les Fleurs du Mal, The Lodge Gallery New York
- 2014 Hotspot, Treize Paris
- 2014 Fremde, Bauhaus Museum, Haus am Horn Weimar
- 2013 Le jardin souterrain, Station Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris
- 2012 The Double Dirty Dozen, Freight&Volume, New York
- 2012 Stippvisite, Neues Museum Weimar
- 2011 Gratwanderung, Bauhaus Museum Weimar
- 2011 IMPULSE, Aando Fine Arts Berlin
- 2011 Almost transparent blue, Y Gallery, New York
- 2010 Koschatzky Kunstpreis, MUMOK, Albertina Vienna
- 2010 Chroma, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
- 2010 First Exhibition, EKE Studio, Brooklyn, New York
- 2010 European Contemporary Print Triennial 2010, Toulouse
- 2009 Visite, Kunstverein Speyer
- 2009 Traits Noir, Musée des Beaux Arts Nizza
- 2007 UMAM, Nouvelle Biennale , Union mediterranéenne pour l´art moderne , Nice
- 2006 Ne pas toucher le contur, Galerie d´essai, Villa Arson , Nice
Awards
- 2013 IGG Graphic Award
- 2011 Work Fellowship Bildende Kunst „Art Regio“
- 2010 1. Price of European Contemporary Print Triennial Toulouse
References
External links
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