Amelie von Wulffen

Amelie von Wulffen was born in Breitenbrunn/Oberpfalz (DE) in 1966. She studied at the Munich Academy of Art (1987–94), and has lived since 1994 in Berlin. 2006–2011 she taught representational painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

In her collages, drawings, photographic cross-fadings, paintings on canvas and comic strips, Amelie von Wulffen deals with biographical research and reconstruction. Traumatic spaces, ruins and mementos extend an imaginary grid between the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the American actor John Travolta, Old Masters such as Goya or van Gogh and her own everyday life, the autobiographical experience always confirming the historical dimension.

Solo exhibitions: 2014 Am kühlen Tisch, Galerie Gio Marconi, Milan. 2013 This is how it happened II, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna. Am kühlen Tisch, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (DE). 2012 Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (USA). 2011 This is how it happened, Alex Zachary and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.

Group exhibitions: 2014 The human voice, Kunstverein, Munich (DE). 2013 Painting forever! Keilrahmen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Homes & Gardens, Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery, Los Angeles. Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris. A Top-hat, a Monocle, and a Butterfly, établissement d’en face, Brussels. 2012 Malerei in Fotografie. Strategien der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt (DE).

Publications
Sophie von Olfers, Bart van der Heide (ed.), Am kühlen Tisch, Koenig Books, London 2014.

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (ed.), Amelie von Wulffen, exh. cat. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen 2012.

Amelie von Wulffen. This is how it happened, exh. cat. Alex Zachary und Greene Naftali Gallery New York, Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2011.

Stefan Bidner (ed.), Bitte keine heiße Asche einwerfen, exh. cat. Kunstraum Innsbruck, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010.

Philipp Kaiser, Rita Kersting (ed.), Amelie von Wulffen, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2005.

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