JULIKA RUDELIUS
Soft Intrusion
Opening: March 20, 2010 7:00 p.m.
Duration: 21.03. - 25.04.2010
The videos and photographs of Julika Rudelius (b. Cologne,
1968) concern themes that range from patterns of social behavior and
prejudices to role clichés, identity, and cultural hegemony.
Rudelius sees art as a form of social expression, as a communicative
tool to draw attention to seemingly trivial observations of everyday
life and at the same time to reveal their socially complex features.
The exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Stiftung presents, for the first
time in Germany, a large retrospective by the artist, who lives in
Amsterdam and New York. Julika Rudelius will present her latest video,
Dressage, 2009. In it, the artist presents a scenario characterized by
young girls between the ages of ten and twelve from New
York’s high society. At once rapt and completely
self-confident, these almost artificial-seeming wunderkinder in Chanel
outfits move in a world filled with mobile phones, stylists, and VIP
personalities. In a rousing finale, the anonymous-looking setting in
which they are filmed is dissected with brutish elegance.
Julika Rudelius was shown previously at the Ursula Blickle Stiftung,
represented by the video Train, 2001, in the exhibition Dark Spring,
curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Liam Gillick in 2002.
