Following her performance project with us in 2016, Ulla von Brandenburg is the first artist in our new series of limited edition artworks, launched as part of our tenth anniversary.
‘Carnival I-III' and ‘Bear Tamer I-IV’ are a series seven unique paper cut outs, made by von Brandenburg especially for The Common Guild. The works reference von Brandenburg’s interest in carnival celebrations and fairground activities as a form of social transgression.
The cut outs are made by hand using found paper, a technique that she has used in a number of other works.
Dimensions (unframed): 34 x 46.8cm
These works are also available framed (see images below). Please allow two weeks for framing.
Please contact [email protected] for more information about the work.
Ulla von Brandenburg (b. Karlsruhe, Germany, 1974) lives and works in Paris. She presented ‘Sink Down Mountain, Rise Up Valley’ with The Common Guild in 2016 and ‘Neue Alte Welt’ in 2011.
Recent solo exhibitions include Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Power Plant, Toronto; La Fonderie Darling, Montréal; and ACCA, Melbourne (all 2016); Performa, New York; Kasseler Kunsteverein, Kassel; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (all 2015); MAMCO, Geneva; Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover (both 2014); Secession, Vienna; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg; and Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv (all 2013). Upcoming solo exhibitions include Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (both 2019) and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2018).
Recent group exhibitions include Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2015); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); 19th Biennale of Sydney: ‘You Imagine What You Desire’, Sydney (2014); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2013); ‘Making Worlds’, 53rd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale (2009); Yokohamma Triennale 2008; Biennale Jerusalem 2008; Performa 07, New York (2007); ‘The World as a Stage’, Tate Modern (2007), and ‘Against Time’, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2007).
