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Micha Ullman
Artist's Name: Micha Ullman
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1939
Nationality: IL
City: Stuttgart

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In 1995 Micha Ullman finished his installation Bibliothek (library) in the center of Berlin , ever since this piece has developed to a world-famous memorial that commemorates the May 1933 Nazi book burning. Here as well as in his new installation UNTEN the sculptor Ullman operates with the moment of void and invisibility and a 'spatiality that is created within the mind'. He arranges rusty metal-sculptures on the floor, open forms that have a slant of a 32degree angle and are filled with loose sand. Sand and rust become a unity of red pigment. The sculptures represent a tilted table, chairs and glasses thrown on the floor, but they are only partially visible over the floor-level. The artist talks about the emergence of the tip of the iceberg, the catastrophe prior to the destruction is not visible anymore. Ullman is interested in dualisms such as light and shadow, the released and the vanished, the inside and the outside. He brings these opposites in harmony within the chosen material: the interior of the sculpture becomes the outer surface, the three-dimensionality seems flat, rust and sand no longer differentiate in their colour. Corresponding to the large-scale work, there are ten single and one quadripartite drawing, showing chair, table and glass. 'Painted with sand', they are endued with their own Gestus and have their own autonomy. Micha Ullman, scholarship holder 1989 of DAAD, Berlin and participant of documenta 8 (1987) and documenta IX (1992) will celebrate his 70's birthday in October 2009. On this occasion Matthias Flügge and Alexander Ochs will edit the celebration publication VON EINER WAND ZUR ANDEREN with contributions from Amnon Barzel, Monika Grütters, Wulf Herzogenrath , Jan Hoet , Cora Hölzl, Jean-Baptiste Joly, Thomas Lackmann, Sr. Maria Pietra Löbl, Friedrich Meschede , Christhard-Georg Neubert, Chris Newman, Volker Rattemeyer , Joachim Sartorius, André Schmitz, Christian Schneegass, Klaus Staeck, Angelika Stepken , the editors themselves et al. for the artist. The book will be published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg. Micha Ullman recently received the Israel-Prize for his lifework, it is the highest honor given by the State of Israel. The exhibition UNTEN will be opened with a welcome speech by André Schmitz, Staatssekretär für Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Senatskanzlei Berlin . (Alexander Ochs, Berlin )

important exhibitions from Micha Ullman

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Sands of Time: The Work of Micha Ullman The Israel Museum Jerusalem IL 21.06.2011
Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis 2010 Micha Ullman: Bergwerk Lindenau-Museum Altenburg Altenburg DE 11.09.2011
Micha Ullman Guardini Galerie Berlin DE 01.10.2009
The first Haifa Mediterranean Biennale of contemporary art. Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv Tel Aviv IL 18.02.2010
Unten Alexander Ochs Berlin DE 25.09.2009
HomeLessHome Museum on the Seam Jerusalem IL 21.01.2010
aus/gezeichnet/zeichnen Akademie der Künste - Pariser Platz Berlin DE 10.01.2010
Die Neuen Hebräer. 100 Jahre Kunst in Israel Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin DE 20.05.2005
Place for the Self Apexart Curatorial and Residency Program New York US 13.10.2004
After Images Weserburg - Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen DE 27.06.2004

Galleries representing
Micha Ullman:

Cora Hölzl closed
Givon Art Gallery, Tel Aviv

Collections representing
Micha Ullman

Museum Morsbroich
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Palazzo delle Papesse
Tate Britain
The Israel Museum