Artist Statement
I realise surfaces that function as screens reflecting modern people's hidden wishes and desires through use of erotically laden imagery. Surfaces made of tightly drawn tights function as screens on to which pictures from everyday media, modern building materials, photocopies and transparencies are projected, portraying interactive situations familiar as part of city dwellers' lives: fantastic stories chockfull of eroticism, sexuality and passion. In my “Potsdam sinnlich“ (Sensual Potsdam), I dressed a heroic stone sculpture in a colonnade, a remnant of the old palace in Potsdam, in red nylon underpants. The use of such a modern fabric transformed the classical beauty of the figure through the addition of erotic attributes taken from consumer culture. A focus of my photographic work, including photo-collages, is how modern urban space is re-defined by large-scale advertisements. I combine photographs of city dwellers in their urban environment on a wall which is in then direct dialogue with the exhibition space itself. Large objects show the considerable influence the advertising industry has on us all in consumer society, and this makes that influence tangible. In my “Hellersdorf ist eine Reise wert“ (Hellersdorf is worth visiting) project, I dealt with issues in the Hellersdorf district of Berlin. I roamed the streets and squares with a camera like a tourist would, experiencing different spaces there, and then photographed these places. The resulting slides of high-rise housing estates, and those who dwell therein, were used to realise an installation. Within the framework of 48-Stunden Neukölln, a shop window will be transformed into a video installation. In The Body Communal- "Neukölln buzzes as it lures you", shifts in perspective playfully bring the diversity of the Karl-Marx-Straße past and present, together.
Artists Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
Surname: Brüll
Name: Michaele
Date of birth: 1962
Place of birth: Aachen / Germany
Nationality: Germany
Artistic Education
2006 - 2008 Postgraduate MA, “Art in Context”, at the University of the Arts, Berlin / Germany
1991 - 1995 Art College Ottersberg / Germany
1989 - 1991 Paul-Pollock-School of Creative and Visual Arts, Freiburg / Germany
1987 - 1988 Free School of Art, Stuttgart / Germany
Memberships Society of Female Artists and Art Sponsors, GEDOK, Berlin / Germany
BBK, Organisation of Creative and Visual Artists, Berlin / Germany
Berliner Pool, Berlin / Germany
A Selection Of Solo (S) And Group (G) Exhibitions – Germany / France / Switzerland
2011 Pohl - Position - artists stage a street, Gallery Pohl,Berlin (G)
2010 “Not Just The Body, But”,Concentart Berlin, Berlin (G)
The Body Communal - “Neukölln buzzes as it lures you”,
48 Stunden Neukölln,Berlin (G)
2009 Unbeschreiblich weiblich, Gedok Hamburg,Hamburg (G)
2007 Sensing the street, Kooperation with Art in Context (UDK) and
Humboldt University,Saalbau Gallery, Museum Mitte, Kreuzberg Museum (G)
2006 SummerGroupShow,Gallery Open,Berlin (G)
Match of the day, Galerie Körnerpark, Berlin (G)
2005 Undressed,Gallery Saalbau, Berlin (S)
Sonycenter Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (G)
Arte e´Vita, New art in old culture - Art in public space, Potsdam (G)
Love-Londonart, Oxo-Tower-Gallery, London (G)
2004 Basell-Art Awards, Polyolefine and Kunstverein, Wesseling/Bonn (G)
Regionale 04, Municipal Gallery Stapflehus, Weil a. Rhein (G)
Gallery Temporaire, work in a public space -
supported by Europe Union, Berlin (G)
Eyes to the fingertips, Gedok, Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin (G)
2003 Faithfulness Pays it´s Way, Gallery Cryptical Concepts, Berlin (S)
Above and Below Board, Otto-Nagel-Gallery, Berlin (S)
Z-Zeitgenössisch, Young Art in KPM, Berlin (G)
multiple joy, Gallery Foth, Freiburg (G)
2002 Fantastic-Elastic, Foth-Gallery, Freiburg (S)
„1st. Choise“, Gallery-forum for female artists, Gedok, Karlsruhe (S)
Regionale 03, Urbanität, Projectroom M 54,
Performance: concert with a bang, Basel/Sitzerland (G)
Gedok-Dessin, Free Line, Musée des Beaux Arts, Mulhouse, France (G)
2001 „1st. Choice“, Municipal Gallery Schwarzes Kloster, Freiburg (S)
„Bildschönes“, Markgräfler Museum, Müllheim-Baden (G)
„Zeit-Schnitt“ / time-cut, Municipal Gallery, Karlsruhe (G)
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