Ursula Schulz-Dornburg

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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Born1938 (age 85–86)
Berlin, Germany
OccupationPhotographer
Known forConceptual photography

Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938) is a German photographer and artist known for the conceptual series (mostly black and white) photographs. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.[1]

Schulz-Dornburg received the 2016 AIMIA AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario[2] and in 2018 won the Catalogue of the Year award at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards for The Land In Between. Old Masters like Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres coexist with works by some of today's most fascinating modern artists including Gerhard Richter, Chuck Close, and Bridget Riley.

Life and work[edit]

Schulz-Dornburg was born in Berlin in 1938. Between 1959 and 1960 she studied at the Institut für Bildjournalismus in Munich.[1] From 1980 onward, she traveled within Europe, Asia and the Near East.

Publications[edit]

  • Architectures of Waiting. Bonn: Goethe-Institut, 2006. With a text by J.Thorn-Prikker.
    • Reprinted edition. Walther Koenig, 2014. ISBN 9783863356743. English and German language text. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern, London.
  • Some Works. Edited and with text by Wolfgang Scheppe. ISBN 978-3-7757-3779-1. English and German language text. Box containing objects and materials. Edition of 1500 copies.
  • The Land in Between. London: Mack, 2018. English edition. ISBN 978-1-912339-10-5. German edition, ISBN 978-1-912339-15-0.
  • Yerevan 1996/1997. London: Mack, 2019. English edition. ISBN 978-1-912339-49-5.
  • Zone Grise. London: Mack, 2019. French language edition and addition to The Land in Between. ISBN 978-1-912339-52-5.
  • Bugis Houses, Celebes. London: Mack, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913620-33-2. With an essay by Sirtjo Koolhof.[3]

Awards[edit]

Exhibitions[edit]

  • 1975 Vorhänge am Markusplatz in Venedig mit Katharina Sattler, Gallery Heiner Friedrich, Munich; Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 1976 Palace Pier, Brighton with Katharina Sattler, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld, Germany
  • 1979 Ansichten von Pagan with F. Rudolf Knubel; German Commission for UNESCO, Bonn; Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 1984-1981 Der Tigris des alten Mesopotamien mit F. Rudolf Knubel, Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien, Austria; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
  • 1999-1992 Weizen, in: Gen-Welten, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; in: Naturale Reality, Ludwigforum, Aachen; Museum der Brotkultur, Ulm, Germany
  • 1997-1992 Sonnenstand, Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2000 Borderscapes, Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2001 Transitsites, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 2002 Transit Orte, Gallery Werner Klein, Cologne, Germany
  • 2002 Der 45. Längengrad, Gallery Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
  • 2004-2002 Across the territories, Galeria Casa Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexiko; Centro Fotogràfico Alvares Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexiko; IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
  • 2004 Memoryscapes, Gallery Werner Klein, Cologne
  • 2006 Wüste am 45. Längengrad, Kunst-Station St. Peter (Cologne), Germany
  • 2006-2004 Architekturen des Wartens, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Gallery Elke Dröscher, Hamburg; Gallery AEDES West, Berlin
  • 2006 PAGAN Zeit aus Stein, Gallery Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
  • 2006 Irak. Vanished landscapes, Gallery Heike Curtze, Berlin
  • 2007 Photographs, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany
  • 2008 presencia y ausencia, Fundación BBK, Bilbao
  • 2008 Objectivités - La photographie à Düsseldorf (Gruppenausstellung), Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC
  • 2008 Photographie, Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Düsseldorf
  • 2008 Luz de la Fotografía. Silencio de la Arquitectura, Auditorio de San Francisco, Ávila
  • 2008 Tongkonan, Alang and the House without smoke, Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin
  • 2009 Sonnestand, Tristan Hoare/Wilmotte, London[5]
  • 2018 The Land In-between: Photographs from 1980 to 2012, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, April–September 2018[6]
  • Zone Grise/The Land in Between, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, December 2019 - February 2020 [7]

Collections[edit]

Schulz-Dornburg's work is held in the following public collections:

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Jobey, Liz. "Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: photographing the architecture of the past". Financial Times. Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  2. ^ a b Collins, Leah (30 November 2016). "And the AIMIA AGO Photography Prize winner is..." CBC. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  3. ^ "Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's photos keep bygone eras alive". DW.COM. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  4. ^ "Winners announced for the 2018 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards – British Journal of Photography". www.bjp-online.com. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  5. ^ "Sonnenstand - Tristan Hoare". Tristan Hoare. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  6. ^ "Ursula Schulz-Dornburg". Städel Museum. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  7. ^ "Ursula Schulz-Dornburg". MEP. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  8. ^ "Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (German, born 1938) (Getty Museum)". J. Paul Getty Museum. Retrieved 2018-09-20.

External links[edit]

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