Barbara Lüdde's work deals with marginalized subjects in distinction from and turning towards the majority society. In elaborate drawings – made with ink on paper – Lüdde captures moments in the discovery of identity and gender, the urge to belong satisfied through habits of consumption and the urge to deviate. Barbara Lüdde is mostly presenting fiktive, often single and format filling figures, which depict in filigree details sub- and pop-cultural codes: clothes, poses, accessories, hairstyles, tattoos and patches which cue to the subject‘s identity. In bricolage manner, a diverse assemblage of cultural references come together to form a new whole. Barbara Lüdde explores the emergence of the "self" in the midst of the capitalist world order – between appropriation and alienation, between inner and outer powers that constantly play on individuals. The figures come across fearlessly strong and original, but at second glance deeply fragile, torn between pressures.
Barbara Lüdde's practice consists mainly of figurative drawing, but also of installation, animation, object and sound.
Vita
Lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin
2022 – 2023 Guest lecturer (Drawing) at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel
2021 – 2023 Guest lecturer (Drawing in Fine Arts) at HAW Hamburg
2021 Part of Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
2020 Guest lecturer at Bauhaus Universität Weimar
2018 Master of Arts
2015 Bachelor of Arts
Since 2010 Studies in Hamburg
2006 – 2009 Studies in Braunschweig
1985 Born in Weimar, GDR
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming and Current
09.12.2023 Ornament und Verbrechen (Lage Egal, Berlin)
Jan. 2024 Group Exhibition Food – She BAM! (Franz Flemming Str. 9, D-04179 Leipzig)
Solo and Duo
2023 YouMeMeYou (Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg)
2022 1999 oder Ich Hasse Jungs (aus meiner Klasse 7b) (Kunsthalle Ost, Leipzig)
2021 Kissing Without Penetration (She BAM!, Leipzig Spinnerei)
2020 S T R U K T U R (Feinkunst Krüger Hamburg) with Moshtari Hilal
2020 I Don't Want It In My Body (NYG|West, Leipzig) with Corrina Goutos
2019 I kissed a Punk and I liked it, I hope my Nazi friends don't mind it (Galerie Gemüse, Hamburg)
2019 ZORN (Raum linksrechts, Hamburg)
2019 I Don't Want It In My Body (Âme Nue, Hamburg) with Corrina Goutos
2018 Sad Money Toys II (Zur Klappe, Berlin)
2018 Sad Money Toys (Âme Nue, Hamburg)
2017 Lonely Crowd (Studio 45, Hamburg)
2015 In the Picture: Gwaendo (Gent, Belgium)
2014 Corecass Record Release Night (Westwerk Leipzig)
Fairs
2023 Art Düsseldorf with Thomas Rehbein Galerie
2022 Swab on Paper, curated section of Swab Art Fair (Barcelona)
2022 Paper Positions (Hamburg)
Group (selection)
2023 Kunstpreis des Chateu Bleu, Hamburg
2023 25 Jahre Feinkunst Krüger (Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg)
2023 "Our Piece of Punk" at The F*word (Museum Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg)
2022 Wall of Sound (Lage Egal, Berlin)
2022 To the end of the year (Galerie Tammen, Berlin)
2022 On Paper (Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln)
2022 Sports Illustrated (Arsenal Contemporary Art, 214 Bowery, 10012 New York)
2022 All the world’s a stage (Studio Hanniball, Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin)
2022 Tonbildpostkarten (Künstlerhaus Factory, Wien)
2022 IMAGE FETICHE (Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden)
2022 JUBILEE X – One Decade of frontviews (HAUNT, Berlin)
2022 Inside Draftwomen III (Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg)
2022 CRUSH (Feld+Haus, Berlin – curated by Alana Lake and frontviews, organized by Finnland Institut)
2021 Staycation (Catinca Tabacaru Gallery and Sandwich Gallery in Bucharest – curated by CTG Collective, supported by Goethe-Insitut Bucuresti)
2021 Mutual Matters, (Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Sammlung Haubrok, Fahrgemeinschaft Berlin)
2021 DOSIS II (IFZ, Leipzig)
2021 MUTUAL FRAGMENTS (basis, Frankfurt am Main)
2020 Weltpremiere Tonbildpostkartenserie (Charim Galerie, Wien)
2020 Inside Draftswomen (Galerie 21, Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg)
2020 Die Welt ist Ganz (Galerie Melike Bilir, Hamburg)
2020 ART OFF (Westwerk, Hamburg)
2019 Hands & Pants 7 (Faultline Artspace, Oakland)
2019 Don't Wake Daddy XIV (Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg)
2018 Monsters of Drawing (Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg)
2018 Die neue Mona Lisa (Galerie Melike Bilir, Hamburg)
2017 Don't Wake Daddy XII (Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg)
2017 Blumen am Arsch der Hölle (Shedhalle, Tübingen)
Workshops
2022 Drawing Workshop – Lifesize portrait, HAW Hamburg
2022 Drawing Workshop, Class Bonvicini at UDK Berlin
Residencies, Prices and Scholarships
2023 Shortlist Ulla and Ebergard Jung Foundation Prize 2023
2023 Nominated for Casa Baldi, Olevano Romano, Italy
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR Scholarchip, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2021 Selected for Modul D, Deutscher Künstlerbund
2021 NEUSTART KULTUR Scholarchip, Stiftung Kulturwerk, VG Bild-Kunst
2021 Staycation Symposium, Bukarest
2021 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
2020 Funding Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, »Kunst kennt keinen Shutdown«
2020 Residence at Künstlerhaus Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg
Public Collections
2023 Collection Graphics and Poster, Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen
2022 Graphic collection, Stadtmuseum Berlin
Publications, Editions & Artist Books
1999 oder Ich Hasse Jungs (aus meiner Klasse 7b) (Catalogue/Zine, Design by Hagen Tanneberger, 2022)
Zeitgeister (Catalogue, Goldrausch Künstlerinnen, Design by Fabian Bremer, 2021)
Lithography for Tabor Presse Berlin (Grafik-Kalender 2022)
Greyscale App (App, 2020)
Someone, Somewhere, Soon (One track Vinyl-postcard, together with CORECASS, Vinylograph, 2020)
Missy Magazine (Magazine, 2020)
I Don't Want It In My Body (Catalogue-Zine, Design by Studio Othertypes, 2019)
Sad Money Toys (Catalogue-Zine, Design by Patrick Mariathasan, 2018)
Our Piece of Punk (Book, Co-Publisher, Ventil Verlag, 2018)
Kunst in der Börse (Catalogue, 2016)
Reeper Reeper II (Catalogue, 2014)
Bologna Children's Book Fair (Catalogue, 2012)
Press & Interviews
CRUSH at thelittlequeerreview 03/22
Staycation at KUBAPARIS 22
CYTE Magazin #8/21
Goldrausch Künstlerinnen 21
Und dann kam Punk 04/21
Heliumtalk 10/18
Joia Magazine 08/18
OX fanzine 07/18
PAGE Online 07/18
Neues Deutschland 03/18
deutschlandfunk 03/18
Gallery Affiliation
She BAM!, Leipzig
