Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's (*1938) interest since the early 1980s has been in border landscapes, transit sites, and relics of surviving cultures. She photographs cult and cultural sites in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, but above all the visible and invisible borders of these continents and regions. The multi-part photo series taken there, mostly in black and white, are testimonies to vanished landscapes, past political systems, dissolving cultural circles and disappearing societies. With ethnological curiosity and an archaeological eye, her photographs, on the borderline between documentary and political photography, between conceptual art and an enlightenment approach, provide a view of the blurred edges and interfaces of our present between globalized everyday life and its blind spots.
On the basis of 13 series, the exhibition offers the first overall institutional overview of the artistic development and range of the Berlin-born and Düsseldorf-based photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg over the past 30 years.
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