Ulrike Theusner | |
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Born | 1982 (age 41–42)
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany |
Nationality | German |
Education | Bauhaus University, Weimar |
Known for | Drawing, Printmaking |
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.
My work ranges between painting, etching and drawing. I´m focused on large sized ink drawing and Drawing series. Ink on paper is radical – it forces me to decide quickly and allows me to use vivid expressive lines without the possibility of return. [1]
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. [2]
The « Best of all possible worlds » – Leibniz formula published in 1710 is Ulrike Theusner starting point for a reflection on our living conditions and our living together. What are we missing in the best of all possible worlds? Can we live without utopias - political, social, economic or environmental? What about our self-image in the best of all possible worlds?
The exhibition is part of the commemoration of the revolutions of February and September 1917 in Russia. It includes works by the following artists: The Blue Noses, Carlfriedrich Claus, Fritz Duda, Alwin Eckert, Erich Enge, Hubertus Giebe, Moritz Götze, Wasja Götze, Norbert Hinterberger, Via Lewandowsky, Martin Maleschka, Florian Merkel, Olaf Nicolai, Haralampi G. Oroschakoff, Osmar Osten, A.R.Penck, Uwe Pfeifer, Ulrich Polster, Julian Röder, Ulrike Theusner, TMOMMA, Sergej Voronzow, Norbert Wagenbrett, Brigitte Waldach, Willy Wolff, Axel Wunsch, Silvio Zesch, ZIP
Ulrike Theusner and Jazz-Minh Moore met in 2010 in New York. They founded the collective "GutBox" and presented under this label several exhibitions in the United States. "Promised Land" is their first cooperation in Europe. Like "The Gasping Society" - another series of Ulrike Theusner presented in parallel at the Anger museum in Erfurt (Germany), "The Promised Land" focuses on the loss of benchmarks, the drift of justice towards self-righteousness and to the perdition of people in a complex system. Jazz-Minh Moore says, «This body of work begins with a series of paintings juxtaposing an abandoned American diner with the new multi-billion-dollar «Biospheres» currently under construction in Seattle. The America of our grandparents’ generation is being abandoned for new, high-tech or exotic options. Many people have been left behind. This is not new news, but it has become magnified with our recent (2017) election. »
Rose-Maria Gropp reports in the Kunstmarkt pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) of April 12, 2019: ... "New Position" at the Eigen + Art gallery: Ulrike Theusner paints soul out of the body, with pastel bright colors on paper (from 1,200 euros); the entire booth was sold during the first hours of preview. [24]
Ulrike Theusner | |
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Born | 1982 (age 41–42)
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany |
Nationality | German |
Education | Bauhaus University, Weimar |
Known for | Drawing, Printmaking |
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.
My work ranges between painting, etching and drawing. I´m focused on large sized ink drawing and Drawing series. Ink on paper is radical – it forces me to decide quickly and allows me to use vivid expressive lines without the possibility of return. [1]
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. [2]
The « Best of all possible worlds » – Leibniz formula published in 1710 is Ulrike Theusner starting point for a reflection on our living conditions and our living together. What are we missing in the best of all possible worlds? Can we live without utopias - political, social, economic or environmental? What about our self-image in the best of all possible worlds?
The exhibition is part of the commemoration of the revolutions of February and September 1917 in Russia. It includes works by the following artists: The Blue Noses, Carlfriedrich Claus, Fritz Duda, Alwin Eckert, Erich Enge, Hubertus Giebe, Moritz Götze, Wasja Götze, Norbert Hinterberger, Via Lewandowsky, Martin Maleschka, Florian Merkel, Olaf Nicolai, Haralampi G. Oroschakoff, Osmar Osten, A.R.Penck, Uwe Pfeifer, Ulrich Polster, Julian Röder, Ulrike Theusner, TMOMMA, Sergej Voronzow, Norbert Wagenbrett, Brigitte Waldach, Willy Wolff, Axel Wunsch, Silvio Zesch, ZIP
Ulrike Theusner and Jazz-Minh Moore met in 2010 in New York. They founded the collective "GutBox" and presented under this label several exhibitions in the United States. "Promised Land" is their first cooperation in Europe. Like "The Gasping Society" - another series of Ulrike Theusner presented in parallel at the Anger museum in Erfurt (Germany), "The Promised Land" focuses on the loss of benchmarks, the drift of justice towards self-righteousness and to the perdition of people in a complex system. Jazz-Minh Moore says, «This body of work begins with a series of paintings juxtaposing an abandoned American diner with the new multi-billion-dollar «Biospheres» currently under construction in Seattle. The America of our grandparents’ generation is being abandoned for new, high-tech or exotic options. Many people have been left behind. This is not new news, but it has become magnified with our recent (2017) election. »
Rose-Maria Gropp reports in the Kunstmarkt pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.) of April 12, 2019: ... "New Position" at the Eigen + Art gallery: Ulrike Theusner paints soul out of the body, with pastel bright colors on paper (from 1,200 euros); the entire booth was sold during the first hours of preview. [24]