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portrait

Ulu Braun lives and works in Berlin.

1976 born in Schongau, Germany
1996-2000 studies of Painting and Experimental film at University for Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, Meisterklasse C. L. Attersee and W. Herzig
1999 scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2000-2006 studied Film at the University for Film and Television in Potsdam, Germany
2007 DAAD grant for artistic experience in Finland
since 1997 collaboration with Roland Seidel under the pseudonym BitteBitteJaJa (“BBJJ”)

Solo Exhibitions

2007 Spotlight Ulu Braun, Media Art Friesland, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  Deutsche Afrikanische Demokratie, Germankunst, Hamburg, Germany (BBJJ)
  Fear your dreams, Galerie koal, Berlin, Germany
  Tiki Taka, Galleria Huuto!, Helsinki, Finland (BBJJ)
2006 Der moderne arme Poet, Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany
  Pestzeit = Reisezeit, Galerie Kunstransmitter, Munich, Germany
  Videos by Ulu Braun, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2004 Fantastic days, Galleria Huuto!, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Imagined Cities, Skaftfell, Seydisfjördur, Iceland

Group Exhibitions

2007 Come together, Galerie koal, Berlin, Germany
  Videonale Selection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  Made in Berlin ... and in The Hague, Cookie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Sterne aus dem Videopalast, curated by S. Seipel, Galierie NoD, Prag, Czech Rep.
  Eine Woche in der Sonne, Botnik Studios, Hamburgsund, Sweden
  Open Playground, curated by Marcuy Graf, Siemens Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
  Videonale11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  Strictly Berlin, Media Art from Berlin, Galerie der Künste, Berlin
  18. Bundeswettbewerb, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn
2006 4th International Media Art Biennale Seoul, Kit-Show, Kumho Museum of Art, Korea
  40jahrevideokunst.de – was fehlt? Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany
  Behind the Mascera, with Tellervo Kalleinen, CableFactory, Helsinki, Finland
  Eastern Alliance, National Museum for Contemporary Arts, Bucharest, Romania
  Wonderland, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Australia
  Videonale Selection, Dorottya Gallery, Ernstmuseum, Budapest, Hungary
  Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Moldavia
  Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  Die Ritter der Tafelrunde, Passagegalerie, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria
  Freies Fernsehen, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
  Museum Mile Festival, Goethe Institut, New York, USA
  Contemporary Drawings, Rauma Art Museum, Finland
  Hotel-B, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Künstlerbücher, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria

Screenings (selection)

2007 Rencontres Internationales, Paris
(and 2008 in Madrid and Berlin)
  29th Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier, France
  25 FPS, International Experimental Videofestival, Zagreb, Croatia
  6th Kansk International Video Festival, Kansk, Russia
  25th Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy
  8th International Film Festival, Seoul
  Suomi Videoart Selection, Titanic Gallery, Turku, Finland
  53rd Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
  20th European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück, Germany
  29th Festival Internationale du Court Métrage, „ ...Le Court Métrage Allemand“, Clermont Ferrand, France
2006 10th Ismailia International Filmfestival, Egypt8th Tinklai International Short Film Festival, Lithuania
  EXiS 2006, Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul, Korea
  Probelauf 12, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany
  22nd International Shortfilm Festival, Hamburg, Germany
  52nd Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Loop Pool, Oberhausen, Germany
  Visual Verbal_1, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey
  16th International Video Festival Bochum, Germany
2005 Academy of Fine Arts, Screening and Discussion, Austria
  Exground, 18th Independent Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany
  53nd Berlinale, German Boulevard / presented by AG-Kurzfilm, Germany
  Expression en Corto, International Film Festival, Mexico
2004 Kyoto International Film Festival, Kyoto, Japan
  Films and Videos by Ulu Braun, Goethe Institut, Helsinki, Finland
  3rd Kansk International Video Festival, Kansk, Russia
  Videoscreening, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
  23rd Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy

Awards

2007 DAAD grant
  Best film and best student film, Blue Sea Filmfestival, Rauma, Finland
2006 Best experimental film, 10th Ismailia International Filmfestival, Egypt
2005 Special Mentioned, Achtung Berlin, New Berlin Film Award, Germany
2004 Best experimental film, 23rd Asolo ArtfilmFestival, Italy
  Artist in Residence, Tuulensuu Art Center, Finland
2002 Public award, GARAGE Media Art Festival, Stralsund, Germany
  Artist in Residence, Skaftfell, Seydisfjördur, Iceland
  Special Mentioned, 12th International Videofestival Bochum, Germany
2001 1st Award for video installation PULS, Vattenfall Medi Facade, Berlin, Germany