Ulla von Brandenburg is a German artist born in 1974 in Karlsruhe and settled in Paris since 2005. After training in stage design in Karlsruhe and a brief foray into the theatre world, she trained at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. Her work is characterized by the diversity of supports and mediums (installations, films, watercolors, murals, collages, performances...) responding to each other and which she stages according to the exhibition spaces. With a perfect mastery of the codes of scenography, nourished by literature, art history and architecture but also by psychoanalysis, spiritualism and magic, she borrows as much from esoteric rituals and popular ceremonies as from the mechanisms and codes of theatre to explore the construction of our social structures. Masks, costumes, sets and props from different popular traditions allow her to symbolically transgress norms and hierarchies by subtly blending reality and appearances in theatrical productions.
Internationally recognized, her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at the RMCA in Serignan (2019), the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2018), the Musée Jenisch Vevey in Switzerland (2018), the Kunstmuseum in Bonn (2018), the Perez Art Museum in Miami (2016) and the Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Louis (2016). Her works are part of prestigious collections such as the Tate Modern in London, the Mamco in Geneva, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Mudam in Luxembourg. She is represented by the Art:Concept gallery in Paris, the Pilar Corrias gallery in London, the Produzentengalerie in Hamburg and the Meyer Riegger gallery in Karlsruhe.
She is currently preparing a solo exhibition that will be presented at the Palais de Tokyo from February 21st to May 17th, 2020.
Yoann Gourmel is a curator at the Palais de Tokyo. He also has an independent curatorial practice, speaks regularly at art schools and writes for various magazines and publications. At the Palais de Tokyo, he has notably organized the group exhibitions Encore un jour banane pour le poisson-rêve, 2018 and Sous le regard de machines plein d'amour et de grâce, 2017 and the solo exhibitions of Julien Creuzet, 2019; Massinissa Selmani, 2018 and Taloi Havini, 2017. He coordinated the curatorial team at the Palais de Tokyo for the 15th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Là où les eaux se mêlent, 2019.
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