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 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
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)
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)
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