Ulf Aminde- learning from big mistakes

Ulf Aminde- learning from big mistakes
September 9 - October 29, 2011
opening: 9. September 2011, 6 – 9 pm


GALERIE TANJA WAGNER
Pohlstrasse 64 10785 Berlin



Encounters are precondition and starting point for Ulf Aminde’s works. For his performances, videos, installations, and photographs Aminde is seeking out people who are living on the street, in social facilities, are clients in big furnishing stores, are in prison or in their own home. For them and with them he is scetching out settings, that function as the base for success or failure of further events. It is uncertain what exactly will happen and the agreement is that everybody is equally opening up to the unexpected.


Aminde’s new video piece Judith shows a woman confronted with two dramatic scenes of her own life. They are staged in collaboration with her, based on her own biographical writings. Young actors are acting the scenes while she is watching, noticing, intervening and comenting. The camera focuses on her and opens up a dialogue between the viewer, the actors, and her, the protagonist, which creates a possible confrontation with the traumatas of our lifes.


Bildet Banden (Form Gangs) is a performative happening which evolved out of a collaboration with the artist group Wilderers from the Diakonie Himmelsthür in Hildesheim. Extensive, colourfull banners were made and carried through the city by the artist group while Aminde was filming. The video projection is embedded in images, films stills of people and protagonists from other works by Aminde. The procession becomes a gesture of his process of working:
The works only evolve when the encounter of artist and protagonist are mutually hitting a desire. They are documenting the expectations and wishes towards the other with an intrinsical radicality. This dynamic is not yet finished with each work, it is passed onto the viewer and awakes equally an ambivilant oscillation between voyeurism and empathy. Thus, forms of social life are made visible in which questions of the group and identity arise. Aminde is not taken himself out of the process, but examines his position self-critically.


Parallel to the exhibition Ulf Aminde’s artist book miserere is published by argobooks.
Judith was kindly supported by Hebbel am Ufer HAU / X. Wohnungen, Bildet Banden with the kind support of Diakonie Himmelsthür, Hildesheim.


Ulf Aminde, born 1969 in Stuttgart, lives and works in Berlin.
His works was presented in the following solo exhibitions and theatre productions:
the hidden chapters of my lost insistence, Kunstverein Arnsberg (2010); Sehstück Volksbühne, Berlin, Softskill Nationaltheater Mannheim (2009), Ruhe und Ordnung Jet, Berlin (2008); Strasse ist Strasse und keine Konzeptkunst Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (2007); Survival of the Fittest, Kunstverein Wolfsburg (2005).
Selected group exhibitions: Selected Artists NGBK, Berlin (2011), Urbi et Orbi Museum Paço des Artes, São Paolo, Un/Mögliche Gemeinschaft Shedhalle, Zurich, Playing the City Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; 89/09 Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2009); Under Influence Kunsthaus Dresden, zwischen zwei Toden ZKM Karlsruhe, Gehen/Bleiben Kunstmuseum Bonn, Wege aus der Kunst Lothringer13, Munich (2007). Von Mäusen und Menschen 4. Berlin Biennale (2006). Scènes de vie Centre Culturel de Suisse, Paris (2005).


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