Anna Uddenberg
Through the feedback loop of consumerist culture, Anna Uddenberg investigates how body culture, spirituality, and self-staging are intertwined with the mediation and production of subjectivity by new technologies and circulation forms. Her practice integrates approaches to gender theory while acting as a space for reflecting on taste and class, appropriation and sexuality, pushing these questions into new material territories. Based on Judith Butler’s idea of performing gender as a rehearsed act, Uddenberg’s work continues to confront feminine identity in consumer culture and to explore performativity, by using sculpture and performance as visual platforms. The use of automobile skeletal structures and other utilitarian structures in her latest abstract and figurative works refer to the concept of comfort zone and proxies for architecture. The “furnituresque” outlook is a result of multiple rearrangements of everyday objects and materials, which, through the works are set in a new dialogue with one another. These rearrangements combine alien and familiar, as they ultimately suggest a re-evaluation of existing normalities.
Anna Uddenberg, born 1982 in Stockholm, Sweden, lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo and group exhibitions with the artist have taken place at Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles (2019, solo); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2019, solo); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2019); Powerlong Museum, Shanghai (2019); 14. Fellbach Trienniale (2019); the 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana (2019); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2019); Migros Museum, Zürich (2019); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2018); Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (solo; 2018); nGbK, Berlin (2018); Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitaine, Sète (2018); Splendid Cleaners, New York (2018); Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); Evoluon, Eindhoven (2018); Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen (2018) House of Gaga Mexico City (2017); Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017); Kiasma–Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2017); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017), Kamel Mennour, Paris (2017) and at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2017). Her work is part of the collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kiasma Museum, Helsinki; Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Boros Collection, Berlin; Ståhl Collection, Norrköping; K11 Foundation, Shanghai; and Zabludowicz Collection, London.
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CLIMBER (HOMEWRECKER), 2020
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CLIMBER (Pierced Rosebud), 2020
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MONT BLANC, 2020
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Silver Edge I (in collaboration with Juan Alvear), 2020
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FOCUS (Padded Purpose), 2019
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Precarious Patricia, 2019
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Privé (grab-handle-face-sitting-bar), 2019
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Privé (nude thong spoiler), 2019
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Psychotropic Lounge (I), 2019
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Psychotropic Lounge (II), 2019
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Disconnect (airplane mode), 2018
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FOCUS #2 (pussy padding), 2018
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Cozy Stabilization Unit, 2017
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Cuddle Clamp, 2017
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Death Drop, 2017
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Free Fall, 2017
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Pockets Obese, 2017
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Savage #3 (camo cozy sock), 2017
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Savage #4 (quilt queen), 2017
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Savage #5 (cozy crutch), 2017
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Savage #6 (dirty raver), 2017
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Savage #7 (zero g), 2017
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Sisterunit on Fly, 2017
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Journey of Self Discovery, 2016
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Transit Mode - Abenteuer, 2014–16, TM, 2016
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Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Lady Unique #2, 2016
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Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Lady Unique #3, 2016
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Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Swirl, 2016
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Transit Mode – Abenteuer, 2014–16, Lady Unique, 2015
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Tribal Tramp Stamp #2 + #3, 2015
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Booty Dummy Demo, 2013
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ANNA UDDENBERG
exhibition view, Privé, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 2019 -
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exhibition view, Privé, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 2019 -
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exhibition view, Privé, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 2019
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exhibition view, Power Play, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 2019 -
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exhibition view, Power Play, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 2019 -
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exhibition view, Power Play, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 2019
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exhibition view, Power Play, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 2019 -
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exhibition view, Power Play, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 2019 -
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exhibtion view, Anna Uddenberg at KALEIDOSCOPE, Spazio Maiocchi, Milano, 2018
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exhibition view, Sante Par Aqua, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, 2017 -
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exhibition view, Sante Par Aqua, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, 2017 -
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exhibition view, Sante Par Aqua, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, 2017
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exihibition view, PEOPLE, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, 2018 -
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exhibition view, Pelvic Trust, House of Gaga, 2017 -
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exhibition view, Pelvic Trust, House of Gaga, 2017
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Booty Dummy Demo, 2013
styrofoam, glass fiber, aqua resin, bar stools, rotating lamps, mirrors
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exhibition view, ARS17 - Hello World!,Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2017 -
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exhibition view, ARS17 - Hello World!,Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2017
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9. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst / 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2016
Transit Mode - Abenteuer, 2014–16
photo: Timo Ohler
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ANNA UDDENBERG
9. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst / 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2016
Journey of Self Discovery, 2016
photo: Timo Ohler
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SHOWROOM EXTENDED
GUAN XIAO, ANNA UDDENBERG 10 March - 9 May 2020 -
SANTE PAR AQUA
ANNA UDDENBERG 4 November 2017 - 13 January 2018 -
RITES DE PASSAGE
GCC, DANIEL KELLER, KATJA NOVITSKOVA, AVERY SINGER, SLAVS AND TATARS, ANNA UDDENBERG 8 December 2016 - 27 January 2017 -
CHATSUBO
MATHIS GASSER, STUART MIDDLETON, EBECHO MUSLIMOVA, ANNA UDDENBERG, ISSY WOOD 1 July - 13 August 2016
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Anna Uddenberg's sculptures rethink female identity in consumer culture
Bea Windsor, Dazed Digital, June 2018 -
Anna Uddenberg's Perverted Performative Sculpture
Emily McDermott, Vulture, December 2018 -
The New Breed Of Artist Exploring Society's Digital Consciousness
Rachel Falconer, Frieze Online, November 2018 -
In Celebration Of Owning Things
Chris Reitz, Texte Zur Kunst: You Might Also Like, June 2020 -
Savage Space, Anna Uddenberg's heterotopic forms
David Andrew Tasman, Flash Art
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Artissima
Turin (IT) 31 October - 3 November 2019 -
Art Berlin
Berlin (DE) 12 - 15 September 2019 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 11 - 16 June 2019 -
Art Cologne
Cologne (DE) 11 - 14 April 2019 -
Art Berlin
Berlin (DE) 27 - 30 September 2018 -
Art Basel
Basel (CH) 14 - 17 June 2018 -
Art Cologne
Cologne (DE) 19 - 22 April 2018 -
Art Basel Hong Kong
Hong Kong (CN) 29 - 31 March 2018 -
Frieze | Focus
London (GB) 4 - 8 October 2017