Floating Food, Exhibition view Foyer , Photo: Arwed Messmer © Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Floating Food, Ceiling projection over wave bed: Waterways, Exhibition view, Photo: Arwed Messmer © Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Floating Food, With loans from the Goetz Collection, Munich, and the Collection Ulrike Ottinger, "Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen," Berlin , Altar – Guestbook of Religions, Exhibition view , Photo: Arwed Messmer © Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Floating Food, Exhibition view Foyer , Photo: Arwed Messmer © Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Floating Food, Exhibition view Foyer, Photo: Arwed Messmer © Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Exhibition

Ulrike Ottinger: Floating Food

Wed, Sep 7–Sun, Oct 30, 2011
Thu, Sep 8, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Sep 9, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Sep 10, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sun, Sep 11, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Mon, Sep 12, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Wed, Sep 14, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Thu, Sep 15, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Sep 16, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Sep 17, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sun, Sep 18, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Mon, Sep 19, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Wed, Sep 21, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Sep 23, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Sep 24, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sun, Sep 25, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Mon, Sep 26, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Wed, Sep 28, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Sep 30, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Oct 1, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sun, Oct 2, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Mon, Oct 3, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Wed, Oct 5, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Thu, Oct 6, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Oct 7, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Oct 8, 2011
11 am–7 pm
until 20:00 h
Sun, Oct 9, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Mon, Oct 10, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Wed, Oct 12, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Thu, Oct 13, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Oct 14, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Oct 15, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sun, Oct 16, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Mon, Oct 17, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Wed, Oct 19, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Thu, Oct 20, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Oct 21, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Oct 22, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sun, Oct 23, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Mon, Oct 24, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Wed, Oct 26, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Thu, Oct 27, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Fri, Oct 28, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sat, Oct 29, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Sun, Oct 30, 2011
11 am–7 pm
Ulrike Ottinger, Under Snow (Film, 2011), © Ulrike Ottinger

It’s an exhibition that transforms the entire Haus der Kulturen der Welt into a cosmos of imagery. Ulrike Ottinger, the filmmaker, photographer and collector of worlds, is arranging a comprehensive collage covering four decades of her creative work: “Water and food are elementary necessities for humanity. So where should we even begin to understand these things that meander through all areas of our physical and psychological lives? It has always been my artistic principle to adapt myself to these things, and to join the flow of their nature and their primordial conditions.“

Her copious exhibition runs the gamut from antiquity to modernity, along waterways and through fictitious and real worlds: it begins in the foyer, where a water basin, based on the Cisterna Basilica in Istanbul, playfully alludes to maritime trade between Asia and Europe. By presenting sequences from her films such as “Taiga“, “Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia“ or “China: Die Künste – Der Alltag“ (“China: The Arts, The People”), Ulrike Ottinger lends plasticity to the triad of water, food and ritual. Still and moving images take us on a journey through cookshops, harbors, markets and temples, to the Mongolian slaughter ritual and Mexican sacrificial altars.

Her allegorical installations project landscapes full of sensuality, with mythical creatures and figures from an artist who will be honored with the Hannah Höch Prize this year.

  • Ulrike Ottinger, born in Constance, has earned international renown, mainly with her films. She worked as freelance artist in Paris from 1962 to 1968, exhibiting in the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, among others, and attending lectures on art history, religious sciences and ethnology under Claude Lévi-Strauss, Louis Althusser and Pierre Bourdieu at the Sorbonne. From the very beginning of her artistic career, Ulrike Ottinger also specialized in photography. Her work has been exhibited at major art shows such as the Biennale di Venezia, documenta and the Berlin Biennale. She has also had individual exhibitions and retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid.

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  • „Floating Food“ is part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks 2011.
    The Asia-Pacific Weeks are kindly supported by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt is responsible for conceiving and coordinating the cultural program of the Asia-Pacific-Weeks Berlin 2011.

    Asien-Pazifik-Wochen Berlin        Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin DKLB

    The exhibition „Floating Food“ and the world première of “Unter Schnee” (“Under Snow”) are funded by

    Hauptstadtkulturfonds