Ulrike Ottinger

In her film work, Ulrike Ottinger doesn´t proceed from dialogue. Rather she places found and produced images at the center of her work, developing the scripts out of these. Preceding is a research process, the accruement of a visual past exhibitions which later forms the film´s image resource and to a certain extent becomes an important component of the final script.

Kunst-Werke are exhibiting an extensive selection from the past exhibitions of photographs of Ulrike Ottinger. The chosen works arose alongside several film projects, fiction as well as documentary films. Ulrike Ottinger´s fictional films and documentaries resist simple narrative patterns. They are brilliant mosaics of film architecture, costume, sound, props and a highly individual conception of role. Under early influence, Ulrike Ottinger developed a visual language which constitues an individual aesthetic cosmos against a background of 20th century art trends.

Ulrike Ottinger