Laura Bruce
1959 born in
East Orange, New Jersey,
United States
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Education
1995-97 MFA sculpture: The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK; 1980-83 BFA painting: State University of New York at New Paltz, New York; 1980 Foundation Courses: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York; 1995-99 lived and worked in London
Grants
2012 Losito Kunstpreis; 2010 Projektstipendium/project grant Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenheiten/Senate for Cultural Activities, Berlin; 2009 Residency, Schloss Balmoral, Germany 2008 Workshop-Stipendium, Künstlerhäuser Worpswede; Käthe Dorsch Project Grant 2004 catalog grant, Kunstfonds, Germany; residency, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany; 2003 Käthe Dorsch Foundation Grant, Berlin; residency, Art Omi, New York, USA; catalog grant Berlin Senate for Cultural Activities; 2002 work grant for Film und Video, Berlin; 2001 residency, “Die Höge”, Högenhausen; 2000 work grant Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2011, Steady, Vattenfall Foundation, Berlin; Whippersnapper, Fahnemann Projects, Berlin, 2008, The Hunt, fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berin; 2007 Night Twist, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig; 2006 Landowners, Galerie Pankow, Berlin; 2005 Big Sky, Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger, Wiesbaden 2004 The Wide, Büro für Kunst, Dresden, Germany (catalog), 1-100 in Four Rooms, The Tankhalle, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Wiepersdorf 2003 Domestic Blur, Floating IP, Manchester, UK; 2002 Grasslands, Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY; Jane’s Dilemma, Büro für Kunst, Dresden (brochure); 2001 The Rainy Season, Sparwasser, Berlin; 2000 Maryanne by the Water, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
2014 „Vanity Case“, Galerie Amel Bourbouina, Berlin; „Painting Was a Lady“, WK, NYC; „A Line is a Line is a Line“ , Galerie Pankow, Berlin; „SOLO II“, Ozean, Berlin; „Paperworlds“ Me Collectors Room, Berlin; „Latent“ Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin, „Criss-Cross“, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin; „Brennpunkt“, Galerie Forum Amalienpark, Berlin"Gossip," Trafo Center of Contemporary Art, Stettin; "paperworlds," me collectors room Berlin;
2013 „On Paper,“ Eigen & Art LAB, Berlin; „Die Kunst der Zeichnung“, Kunstverein Ingelheim; „BERLINER SALON / PART II,” Kunsthaus Meiningen; „Darkness, Baby;“ Schaufenster, Berlin; „The Pleasure House is about to Burn Down,“ Galerie Jaap Sleper, Utrecht, Holland; „Ganz im Vorübergehen“ Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart; “Hinter den Dingen”, Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt
2012 Biennial of Drawing, Kunstverein Eislingen; Kühllabor, Krakau Ebene, Austria; "I Wish This Was a Song" Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, 2011 On Paper, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin; Synecdoche, Galerie Amel Bourounia, Berlin; Discover and Escape, Orth, Offenbach; Outdoor Excursions, Burlington Contemporary Arts, Vermont; 2010 Fokus Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland; "Drawings II," Fahnemann Projects, Berlin; "Reading Room #4 – FUKT MAGAZINE ," Nomas Foundation, Rome; “Awake Forever in a Sweet Unrest,” Cream Contemporary, Berlin; “City Beats,” curated by Berit Fischer, BankArt, Yokahama, Japan; “km 500 2,” Kunsthalle Mainz (cat.); “Blend,” Arp Museum, Rehmagen; “Pollyfizzyboisterous Seas,” Galerie Hartwich, Sellin auf Rügen; Fokus Lodz Biennale 2010, Lodz, Poland
2009 “The Carnival Within,” curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Uferhallen, Berlin; “City Beats,” curated by Berit Fischer, Dorsky Gallery, NY 2008 “City Beats,” curated by Berit Fischer, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; Linie08, DINA4 Galerie, Muenchen; Menschen und Orte, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz
2007 “American Beauty”, Galerie Baer, Dresden
2006 “Even the Drawers are Winners”, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin
2005 “Schönheit, Der Sprung im Spiegel”, Städtische Galerie Traunstein 2004 Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger, Weisbaden, Germany; “Size Does Matter”, eyewash@ Boreas Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; “The Medium is the Tedium”, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh;
2003 “Pierogi Flatfiles“, Carlsbad Museum, New Mexico; “Expand“, Volkart Stiftung, Winterthur, Switzerland (catalog) (travels to Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen); “Art Cubicle“, Projektraum Mathias Kampl, Berlin; “Wheeling“, curated by Marcus Sendlinger, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (travels Post Gallery, LA; Cell Project Space, London);
2002 “Stardust Deluxe“, Lisa Lounge, Berlin; “Wachsernde Identitäten”, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; "Over the Moon", Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin; “Private Affairs”, Kunsthaus Dresden (catalog); “Thin Skin”, AXA Gallery (catalog), New York, curated by ICI NY, (travels until 2004 to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands; International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, McAllen, TX ; Chicago Cultural Center, IL; Boise Art Museum, ID Texas,) 2001 “What’s Wrong?”, Trade Apartment, London; Kunst+Brief”, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin (catalog); “If we were Kings”, Adlershof, KMZ, Berlin, Adlershof; “Berlin_London_2001”, ICA, London
2000 “The Old News”, PS 122, New York; “no vacancies”, curated by Angelika Richter and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (CD Rom); “John, I’m only Dancing...’ part 2, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Non Plus Ultra, F M Schwarz, Köln; We’re not in Kansas Anymore, Poplar Baths, London; John, I’m Only Dancing..., Margaret Harvey Gallery, University of Hertfordshire, St. Albans, England
Projects
"I Wish This Was A Song" and "The Dangerpony Project" with Loushy Art and Projects, Tel Aviv
Dangerpony Concerts:
2013 Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2012 “I Wish This Was A Song”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; “Missklang,” West Germany, Berlin
2010 Picture disk vinyl release, West Germany, Berlin
2009 “The Carnival Within,” Uferhallen, Berlin
Collections
Berlinische Galerie, Video Forum NBK, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Vattenfall Foundation, Kunstsammlung des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz, and private collections in Europe and abroad
Bibliography
2013 Catalog „ungesehen und ungehört: Künstler reagieren auf die Sammlung Prinzhorn“, Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg; Catalog „Die Kunst der Zeichnung“, Kunstverein Essenheim / Altes Rathaus Ingelheim.; 2012 Catalog "I Wish This Was a Song" Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; Catalog "Biennial of Drawing", Kunstverein Eislingen
2011 "Laura Bruce," Fahnemann Projects 2010 Catalog “Laura Bruce: The Castle Drawings”; ”Helmut Germer and Thomas Neeser, The First Dimension (Basel: Birkhauser, 2010),
2009 Catalog “The Carnival Within,” Uferhallen, Berlin; Catalog “Fully Booked,” Hotel Beethoven, Bonn; Catalog “Was ist dass?” espace artcore/JTM Gallery, Paris
2008 Catalog, “The Hunt” fruehsorge contemporary drawings
2007 “Drunk on Dreams,” FUKT Magazine and exhibition catalog; Review, “Grüne Propheten im Heiligen Zorn,” Leipziger Volkszeitung, 22 May
2006 “The Animation Issue,” FUKT Magazin; Catalog, “Landowners,” Galerie Pankow; “Über das Schwarzweiss Zeichnerischer Selbstbestimmung” (“The Black and White of Drawn Self Determination”) 2005 Review, “Endlich glücklich sitzen”, Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, 22. März; Wiesbadener Kurier, Review “Buschlicnger: Arbeiten von Laura Bruce”, 26 März 2004 Catalog “Laura Bruce” Texts by Mark Gisbourne, Uta Grundman, Jan Verwoert; article, “Laura Bruce - The Wide”, Sächsiche Zeitung, PLUSZ, 22 April; article, “The hidden beauty of everyday objects we take for granted”, Scotland on Sunday, 29 Feb; article, “Mind your Language”, The Scotsman, 16 March; article, The List, issue 489; article, The Big Issue, issue 465; 2003 interview, Metro Newspaper, Manchester, 14 Nov; 2002 BBC Open University Television Program on Contemporary Video Art written and narrated by Dave Beech; article, "Kleiner Abwasch in Zwickau: eine Küchenrevolution", Katje Uhlemann, Freie Presse, 4.12.02; brochure, Laura Bruce, Büro für Kunst, Dresden; catalog, “Private Affairs”, Kunsthaus Dresden; catalog, “Thin Skin”, Independent Curators International, New York City, New York; catalog, “Wachsernde Identitäten”, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; article, Jens Bisky, Wachs noch einmal, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1/2 June; article, Susanne Altmann, “Sensation Intimität”, Tageszeitung, 3 April; article, Susanne Altmann, “Feenland ist Abgebrannt?”, Dresdener Zeitschrift, March; review, Lisa Werner-Art, “Video, Video...und Alltag”, Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten, 22 March; review, “Doppelausstellung privater Affairen, Dresdener Stadtteil Zeitung, March; article, Klara Wallner, "mittendrin und andersartig", Magazine Friedrichstraße, 1/01; 2001 Kunstbrief 2000, Dokumention, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin; review, Angelika Richter, “Die Hochzeitsbetrachterin”, www.blitzreview.com; 2000 review, Christian Glöde, “Good Losties”, www.blitzreview.com; review, Jürgen Kisters, “Verlangen nach dem Höchsten”, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Nr 132, 8 June; review, Sally O’Reilly, “We’re not in Kansas Anymore”, www.londonart.co.uk, May; review, Oliver Koerner, “Loved Ones”, Tageszeitung, 7 March; review, Mirko Driller, “Der schwebende Großvater”, Berliner Morgenpost, 3 March; brochure, Maryanne by the Water, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin; 1999 “...ab geht die Post”, documentation, Aktions Galerie, Berlin; Kunstbrief 1999, documention, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin; 1997 documentation, The Slade Journal, Volume 1
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