born East Orange, New Jersey; in
Berlin since 1990
1995-97 MFA sculpture: The Slade School of Fine Art,
London, UK
1980-83 BFA painting: State University of New York at New
Paltz, New York
1980 studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New
York
1985-1989 travels
through Africa
1995-99 in London
2008 founded the concept band Dangerpony, lead
singer
Awards, Residencies, and
Grants
2015 Residency Aschersleben Summer
Studios
2012 Losito Kunstpreis
2010 project grant Senate for Cultural Activities,
Berlin
2009 residency Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad
Ems
2008 residency workshop, Künstlerhaüser
Worpswede; Käthe Dorsch Projektstipendium/project Grant
2004 catalog grant, Kunstfond, Bonn; catalog grant,
Senate for Cultural Activities, Berlin; residency Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
2003 Käthe Dorsch Foundation project grant, Berlin;
/residency Art Omi, New York, USA
Teaching
2012- Art educator Otto Hahn Gesamtschule,
Berlin
2016 Summer Academy Bremerhaven
2015 Akademie der Malerei
Berlin; Neo Rauch Stiftung Workshops 2015
2013 European Academic Exchange Summer Academy (studio
practice)
2011 Summer Academy Dresden,
drawing; Summer Academy Leipzig, drawing
2010 Guest lecturer
Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin
2004 Guest lecturer Dresden
Akademie der Künste (sculpture)
1999 Honorary lecturer Slade School of Fine
Arts; Guest lecturer Exeter College of Art and Design
Public art works
2015 “De Septentrione ad Austrum”
permanent public art work in the Bestehorn Building,
Aschersleben for the city of Aschersleben
oil pastel on wall primed with green school board
paint
1000 x 600 cm
Solo Shows (selection)
2024 (upcoming) "Falling Upward", Galerie Parterre,
Berlin (cat.)
2020 "onlyness", Bark Galerie Berlin
2018 "To Kiss or Kill“, Galerie Rompone, Cologne
(cat.)
2016 New works, Alexander Ochs Private @ paperpositions,
Berlin
2015 Love and Other Machines, New Art Projects,
London; BRUCE SILL, with Heidi Sill, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2011 Augenweide, Vattenfall Foundation,
Berlin; Whippersnapper, Fahnemann Projects, Berlin (cat.)
2010 Holy Rollers with Hannah Dougherty The Forgotten
Bar, Berlin
2008 The Hunt, fruehsorge contemporary drawings
(cat.)
2007 Night Twist, Delikatessenhaus,
Leipzig
2006 Landowners, Galerie Pankow, Berlin
(cat.)
2005 Big Sky, Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger,
Wiesbaden
2004 The Wide, Büro für Kunst, Dresden
(cat.)
Gruppenaustellungen (Auswahl) / Group Exhibitions
(selection)
2024 Aus dem Koffer, Galerie Nord, Berlin
2022 "Über die Zeichnung hinaus – Zeitgenössische Zeichnung in Berlin" (Beyond Drawing – Contemporary Drawing in
Berlin), Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Zitadelle Berlin, curated by Mattias Beckmann and Katja Puder; "ausgespielt", Kunstverein Bahnitz, Germany; "Druck nur auf die Klinke", Jaegerschere, Wiepersdorf,
Germany; "6 aus 60" (6 of 60), Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin; "Höhes Weis, tiefes Schwarz und manchmal rot" (Bright White, Deep Black and sometimes White); Galerie VdBK, Berlin; "Feel Free", Scotty,
Berlin, curated by Lisa Junghans; "Momente der Erzähling / Narrative Moments", Galerie VdBK, Berlin;
2021 "Die Freiheit frei zu sein", Kunstverein Bahnitz, Bahnitz, Germany; "Behind the Scenes of Hidden Tracks",
Schaufenster, Berlin; Waterworld, Galerie Hartwich, Rügen, Germany
2020 "Figure Up," BcmA, Berlin; "Cold Turkey," GLUE, Berlin
2019 "Works on Paper from the Collection of Rudolf Zwirner" Villa Grisabach, Berlin; "Inspiration Meisterwerk”, Museum
Villa Rot, Burgrieden Rot; InterINTIMES Autoportrait, Galerie Lachenmann, curated by Hansa Wisskirchen
2018 “Stadt-Land-Fluss”, Museum Boppard (Kurfürstliche Burg), Boppard, Germany; “Mind the Gap”,
Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose, Lieberose, Germany; Baustellenfest, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; “Wer
hat Angst vor Schwarz Rot Gold?, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin; “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2017 "Striche, Kreise, Landschaft, Preise", Schaufenster
Berlin „Transcience“, UppsalaKonstnärsklubb, Uppsala, „surf“, Galerie Hartwich, Rügen; small things:good things, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin; “Wir nennen es Arbeit” Galleria Opere
Scelte, Turin
2016 “Remix”, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin; „Passion. Fan Behavior ad Art“, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, „Passion. Fan
Behavior and Art“ Stadtgalerie Kiel, “Moment und Dauer”, Galerie Parterre, Berlin (cat.), “Spektrum 2”, Galerie Eigenheim, Berlin
2015 „Paperworlds“, Museum Buchheim, Buchheim; „Passion. Fan Behavior and Art“, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and
Kunsthaus Nuremberg; „Wir kommen auf den Hund” Kupferstichkabinett Berlin; „Du sollst dir kein Bild machen“, kuratiert von Alexander Ochs, Berliner Dome, Berlin; „Landscape 3.0“, Galerie Alte Schule,
Ahrenshoop
2014 „Vanity Case“, Galerie Amel Bourbouina, Berlin; „Painting Was a Lady“, WK, NYC; „A Line is a Line is a Line“,
Galerie Pankow, Berlin; „SOLO II“, Ozean, Berlin; „Paperworlds“ Me Collectors Room, Berlin; „Latent“ Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin, „Criss-Cross“, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin; „Brennpunkt“, Galerie
Forum Amalienpark, Berlin
2013 „On Paper,“ Eigen & Art LAB, Berlin; „Die Kunst der Zeichnung“, Kunstverein Ingelheim; „BERLINER SALON / PART
II,” Kunsthaus Meiningen; „Darkness, Baby;“ Schaufenster, Berlin; „The Pleasure House is about to Burn Down,“ Galerie Jaap Sleper, Utrecht, Holland; „Ganz im Vorübergehen“ Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart;
“Hinter den Dingen”,Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt
2012 “I Wish this Was a Song”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; (cat.)„Dies ist die Nacht, die tausend Tagen
Trotz kann sagen“, C & K unterwegs, zu Gast in der Guardini Galerie, Berlin; “Northeast of Heaven” Galerie Hartwich, Sellin auf Rügen, Germany; “Drawing Biennale”, Kunstverein Eislingen, Germany
(cat.); Regionale 12, “Kühllabor”, Krakau Ebene, Austria (cat.)
2011 “Synecdoche”, Galerie Amel Bourouina, Berlin; “On Paper”, Fahnemann Projects Berlin; “Discover and Escape”, Orth,
Offenbach; ”Outdoor Excursions” Burlington Center of the Arts, Burlington, Vermont; “The Visitation,” Galerie Hartwich, Sellin auf Rügen
2010 “Balmoral Blend”, Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandseck; “Drawing II”, Fahnemann Projects, Berlin; “Awake Forever in a
Sweet Unrest”, Cream Contemporary, Berlin; “City Beats”, curated by Berit Fischer, BankArt, Yokahama, Japan; “km 500 2”, Kunsthalle Mainz (cat.); “Pollyfizzyboisterous Seas”, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin
auf Rügen; Fokus Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland
2010 "Reading Room #4 – FUKT MAGAZINE", Nomas Foundation, Rome
2009 “Was ist das?” espace artcore/JTM Gallery, Paris, curated by Johannes, Klaus und Franzisca Sperling, “Fully
Booked”, Beethoven Hotel, Bonn (cat.); “Hortus Apertus,” Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany (cat.); “Facebook,” Galerie fruehsorge contemporary drawings Berlin and Galerie DINA4, München, Berlin
(cat.); “The Carnival Within”, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Uferhallen, Berlin (cat.); “City Beats”, curated by Berit Fischer, Dorsky Gallery, NY
2008 “City Beat”, curated by Berit Fischer, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai; “Linien08”, Galerie DINA4, Munich; “The Berliners +
Oåne” Loushy & Peter Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel; “Menschen und Orte”, Kunstverein Konstanz
2007 Drunk on Dreams”, fruehsorge contemporary drawings; “American Beauty”, Galerie Baer, Dresd
2006 “Even the Drawers are Winners”, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin
2005 “Schönheit, Der Sprung im Spiegel”, Städtische Galerie, Traunstein
2004 “Size Does Matter”, eyewash@ Boreas Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; “The Medium is the Tedium”, The Collective
Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 “Pierogi Flatfiles“, Carlsbad Museum, New Mexico; “Expand“, Volkart Stiftung, Winterthur,
Switzerland (catalog); “Art Cubicle“, Projektraum Mathias Kampl, Berlin; “Wheeling“, curated by Marcus Sendlinger, Galerie Jette Rudolph,
Berlin (travels Post Gallery, LA; Cell Project Space, London)
2002 “Stardust Deluxe“, Lisa Lounge, Berlin; “Wachsernde Identitäten”, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; "Over the Moon",
Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin; “Private Affairs”, Kunsthaus Dresden (catalog); “Thin Skin”, AXA Gallery (catalog), New York, curated by ICI NY, (travels until 2004 to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands; International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, McAllen, TX; Chicago Cultural Center, IL; Boise Art Museum, ID
Texas)
2001 “What’s Wrong?”, Trade Apartment, London; “Kunst+Brief”, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin (cat.); “If We Were Kings”,
Adlershof, KMZ, Berlin, Adlershof; “Berlin_London_2001”, ICA, London
2000 “The Old News”, PS 122, New York (curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ); “no vacancies”, curated by Angelika
Richter and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (CD Rom); “John, I’m only Dancing...’ part 2, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; “Non Plus Ultra”, F M Schwarz, Cologne (curated by Gregory Volk
and Sabine Russ)
Dangerpony Concerts
(selection)
2016 KGB Sounds, Heimathafen Berlin
2014 Podewil, Berlin im Rahmen der Europäische Monat der
Photographie
2013 Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2012 “I Wish This
Was A Song”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; “Missklang,” West Germany, Berlin
2010 Picture disk vinyl release, West Germany,
Berlin
2009 “The Carnival Within,” Uferhallen,
Berlin
Öffentliche Sammlungen / Public
Collections
Artothek, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,
Berlin
Kupferstich Kabinett, Berlin
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Landessammlung Rheinland Pfalz, Mainz
Vattenfall Foundation, Berlin
Bibliografie / Bibliography (Auswahl /
selection)
2018 Exhibition catalog,
"Rohkunstbau 2019"; “First Proof — Bomb’s Literary Supplement”, BOMB Magazine, NY, issue 142 Winer 2017-2018; Portfolio Laura Bruce, BOMB Magazine, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/portfolio-80/ ; Catalog “To Kiss or Kill” Galerie Rompone,
Cologne, Catalog “Sound That Cloud Make”, Artloft and Alexander Ochs Berlin
2017 Interview mit Julia Rosenbaum, Independent
Collectors, https://independent-collectors.com/interviews/laura-bruce/
2016 Exhibition catalog “Moment und Dauer”, Galerie
Parterre, Berlin; Catalog “What We Do For Love”, Studio Barbara Krimm, Little Krimminals
2015 Catalog „Wir kommen auf den Hund“
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin; „Passion. Fan Behavior and Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2014 Catalog „A Line is a Line is a Line“, Galerie
Pankow, Berlin
2013 Catalog „ungesehen und ungehört: Künstler reagieren
auf die Sammlung Prinzhorn“, Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg; Catalog „Die Kunst der Zeichnung“, Kunstverein Essenheim / Altes Rathaus Ingelheim.
2012 Catalog “I Wish This Was A Song”, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; Catalog “Zeichnungbiennale”; Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen, Germany 2011 Catalog “Whippersnapper!!” Galerie Fahnemann / Fahnemann Projects, Berlin; exhibition
catalog “Outdoor Excursions,” BCA, Burlington, Vermont
2010 Catalog “Laura Bruce: The Castle Drawings”; Helmut
Germer and Thomas Neeser, The First Dimension (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010)
2009 Exhibition catalog “The Carnival Within,”
Uferhallen, Berlin; Exhibition catalog “Fully Booked,” Hotel Beethoven, Bonn; Exhibition catalog “Was ist dass?” espace artcore/JTM Gallery, Paris
2008 Catalog, “The Hunt” fruehsorge contemporary
drawings
2007 “Drunk on Dreams,” FUKT Magazine and exhibition
catalog; Review, “Grüne Propheten im Heiligen Zorn,” Leipziger Volkszeitung, 22 May
2006 “The Animation Issue,” FUKT Magazin; Katalog,
“Landowners,” Galerie Pankow
2005 Review, “Endlich glücklich sitzen”, Frankfurter
Algemeine Zeitung, 22. March; Wiesbadener Kurier, Review “Buschlinger: Arbeiten von Laura Bruce”, 26 March
2004 Catalog, “Laura Bruce”; article, “Laura Bruce - The
Wide”, Sächsiche Zeitung, PLUSZ, 22 April; article, “The hidden beauty of everyday objects we take for granted”, Scotland on Sunday, 29 Feb; article, “Mind your Language”, The Scotsman, 16 March;
article, The List, issue 489; article, The Big Issue, issue 465
2003 interview, Metro Newspaper, Manchester, 14
Nov
2002 BBC Open University Television Program on
Contemporary Video Art written and narrated by Dave Beech; article; brochure, Laura Bruce, Büro für Kunst, Dresden; catalog, “Private Affairs”, Kunsthaus Dresden; catalog, “Thin Skin”, Independent
Curators International, New York City, New York; catalog, “Wachsernde Identitäten”, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; article, Jens Bisky, Wachs noch einmal, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1/2 June; article, Susanne
Altmann, “Sensation Intimität”, Tageszeitung, 3 April
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