Ulrike Grossarth

 
Ulrike Grossarth (born 1952 in Oberhausen, Germany, lives and works in Dresden and Berlin) she studied Artistic Dance at the Else Lang-Schule, Cologne (1969–72), and at Folkwang University (1972–74). In 1974 and 1975, she attended the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden. In 1980, she set up the Essen branch of the Free International University initiated by Joseph Beuys. Grossarth has been professor of Expanded Concepts of Art / Mixed Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden since 1998. In 2009, she received the Käthe Kollwitz Award of the Berlin Academy of Arts.

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Ulrike Grossarth - Were I Made of Matter, I Would Color / Wäre ich von Stoff, ich würde mich färben
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the evolution of Ulrike Gossarth's practice, with a particular emphasis on her training as a dancer in the 1970s, to draw connections between the early years with her sculptural settings and actions and her most recent work, which engages with history more generally.


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