Born 1942, in Constance, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Bildnis einer Trinkerin, Arsenal Open Air, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany
2024
Ulrike Ottinger: 25 Filme: Screening the Archive, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Ulrike Ottinger Filmretrospektive, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2023
ULRIKE OTTINGER – LA VIE QUOTIDIENNE, Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel
GEISTER • GÖTTER • SCHAMANEN – Kult und Magie im Himalaya GALERIE DOGON, Berlin, Germany
2022
Ulrike Ottinger – Retrospektive, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria
Cosmos Ottinger – Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Ulrike Ottinger. Countdown, Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Germany
Stadt Land Bild, Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany
Zusammenspiel: Tabea Blmenschein – Ulrike Ottinger, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2021
DocLisboa – Books of Images, Fundação Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal
MONGOLIA – MEXICO – EUROPA, Hans-Thoma-Kunstmuseum, Bernau, Germany
Journée d’un G.I., Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Ulrike Ottinger – Balade, Institut Français, Berlin, Germany
2020
Ulrike Ottinger – Paris Calligrammes, Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris, France
2019
Defiant Muses – Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s, LaM Lille Metropole, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France (toured to Museo Reina Sofía afterwards)
Paris Calligrammes – A Landscape of Memory by Ulrike Ottinger, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Ulrike Ottinger, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, USA
Ulrike Ottinger: Madame X – Eine absolute Herrscherin, Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, Switzerland
2018
Still Moving – The Films and Photographs of Ulrike Ottinger, The Hunterian, Glasgow, UK
2017
China. The Arts – The People, NTU Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore
2016
Ulrike Ottinger, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Cáceres, Spain
2014
Das Neue im Alten das Alte im Neuen, Johanna Breede Photokunst, Berlin, Germany
2013
Ulrike Ottinger – Weltbilder, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2012
Ulrike Ottinger – Fotografin und Sammlerin, Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin, Germany
Ulrike Ottinger, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Ulrike Ottinger, Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2011
Floating Food, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
2024
GROW IT, SHOW IT!, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
La Traversée des apparences, Musée Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2023
7 TODSÜNDEN, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Wandel & Krise. Kunst in Konstanz 1965-1985, Städtische Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz, Germany
In first Person Plural, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
EMOP:Touch. Politiken der Berührungen, Amtsalon Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2022
Widerständige Musen – Delphine Seyrig und die Feministischen Videokollektive im Frankreich der 1970er- und 1980er-Jahre, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
New Anatomies, Galerie Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin, Germany
Modebilder – Kunstkleider, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2020
SHE-BAM POW POP WIZZ! – The Amazons of Pop, MAMAC, Nice, France; Kiel, German; Graz, Austria
2018
I’m a Believer, Städtische Galerie Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
2016
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau – eine Hommage, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Streamlines – Oceans, Global Trade and Migration, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Weltreise: Forster – Humboldt – Chamisso – Ottinger, State library, Berlin, Germany
2014
Burning Down the House, 10. Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea
Queer Outlaw Cinema, Toronto International Film Festival Bell Lightbox, Canada
2012
Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
