Ulrike Möntmann

Ulrike Möntmann is an artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and Vienna. In her work she focuses on social processes in exceptional situations — the starting point of her artistic practice and research. Since 1997 she has developed and carried out collaborative projects with detained drug-addicted women (e.g., Lücke, 1997–1999; Kollektion Gefängnis Kleidung, 1999–2001), which have become the basis for her Outcast Registration: a gender-specific observation of extreme aspects of European societies. Since 2004 she has been engaged on the long-term project THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE (TBDWBAJ), an audiovisual portrait of women drug addicts in European prisons (D, NL, CH, A, HR), which consists of organizations, registrations, diagrams and statistics, words and languages, several series of “talking” porcelain Baby Dolls, interventions in public spaces, analyses, propositions, and expositions (e.g., Kunsthalle Wien). TBDWBAJ has been funded by the Austrian Science Fund’s program for artistic research (PEEK) since 2013.

Besides lecturing at several art academies in the Netherlands Ulrike Möntmann is a regular guest lecturer in Vienna, Zurich, Siegen, and other places. She is currently working on her PhD at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, supervised by Peter Weibel (art and media theory) and Ruth Sonderegger (philosophy, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). Ulrike Möntmann studied sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and visual communication at the FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.

Contact

Office Hours: by Appointment

Phone: +31-6-24632084
Email: info[a]ulrikemontmann.nl

Ulrike Möntmanns Web-Site

Ulrike Möntmann, Outcast Registration | Diagram 5: Bezugsperson Aufenthalt (Significant other Place of Residence), the Netherlands, 2012.

Ulrike Möntmann, Outcast Registration | Diagramm 5: Bezugsperson Aufenthalt (Significant other Place of Residence), the Netherlands, 2012 www.thisbabydollwillbeajunkie.com

Project realisation THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE [TBDWBAJ]

2008, Pozega, Woman´s State Prison (Ženska Kaznionica) HR
2007, Bern, Women´s State Prison (Anstalten Hindelbank) CH
2007, Vienna, Drug Addict Penitentiary (Justizanstalt Favoriten) A
2006, Zeist, Drug Release Clinics (ARTA) NL
2005, Unna, Long Term Drug Rehabilitation Centre (LÜSA) D
2000/03, Vechta, Woman´s State Prison (Justizvollzugsanstalt für Frauen Niedersachsen) D
Exhibitions and research presentation in Art Institutions and Museums [TBDWBAJ]

2015, School of Creative Media / City University, Hong Kong CHN
2013, MAK Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna A
2009, Vienna, Kunsthalle wien and Kubus EXPORT A
2009, Zagreb, SC Gallery and NGO B.a.B.e. HR
2008, Leeuwarden, Museum Princessehof and Fries Museum NL
2007, Amsterdam, Art Project Space W139, by Paradiso & Skor NL
2005, Unna, LÜSA Long Term Drug Rehabilitation Centre D
2003, Milano, Salone Internationale del Mobile I
Andere Projekte: Konzepte und Produktion (Auswahl)

since 2010, Komplizinnentreffen – interdisciplinary expert meetings on international level (e.g. psychology, psychiatry, art, art history, philosophy, social science)

2010, Inside OUT concept to introduce MDHG Medico social Service for Drug Addicts, Amsterdam, NL

2007, EssSchleuse Food sluice concept Intervention within a European city, Amsterdam, NL

2002 – 2005, JUGEND WOHN ZIMMER Youth Living Room – workshop with girls in State Women´s Prison, Vechta D

2002 – 2003, DUTCH SOUVENIR project EKWC, NL ’s Hertogenbosch, NL

2002, COLLECTION PRISON WEAR2 Project / production in 6 German locations (prison, therapy, street)

2000 – 2001, COLLECTION PRISON WEAR1 Realisation in cooperation with 8 imprisoned women, Vechta D; Exhibitions: County Court NL Amsterdam, Het Glazen Huis Amstelpark, A Public Space, AFK; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, NL Amsterdam

1999, HEART CORE Cooperation of 6 students of Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL, and 8 inmates of Men´s Prison Oslebshausen, D

1997 – 2001, PROJECT LÜCKE Women´s State Prison, Vechta, D; Exhibitions: Women´s State Prison Vechta D, Jewish Historic Museum Amsterdam, NL, City Hall Bremen, D, State Government Building Hannover, D
Publications

THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE. Report of an Art and Research Project on Addiction and Spaces of Violence. Introduction by Peter Weibel. Published by Edition: Angewandte, De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston, 2018. ISBN 978-3-11-054625-5

http://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:34478

Elke Bippus and Ulrike Möntmann,“Ausgesetztes Leben — Ausgesetzte leben”. In: T:G\10, Ästhetik der Existenz. Lebensformen im Widerstreit, edited by Elke Bippus, Jörg Huber, and Roberto Nigro, 211–243. Zurich: Edition Voldemeer, AMBRA | V, 2013.

TBDWBAJ, Publication Drop Off & Expert Meeting, Vienna, 2009.

Collectie Gevangenis Kleding / Kollektion Gefängnis Kleidung, project publication. Amsterdam: Zuideramstel district, 2001.

Projekt Lücke, project publication. Amsterdam: JVA Vechta, 1999.
Publications on Ulrike Möntmann’s Work

Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, and Romana Schuler (eds.), Contemporary Code — Artistic Research. Vienna: University of Applied Arts, 2015.

Out of the Box: 10 Fragen an künstlerische Forschung, exhibition catalog, MAK — Museum of Applied Arts and University of Applied Arts Vienna, 85–97, 2014.

Elke Bippus, Poiesis des Forschens: Reflexionen des Forschungsprojekts TBDWBAJ,

Phänomenotechniken in den visuellen Künsten, lecture, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, 2013.

Elke Bippus, “Forschung als Poetologie des Wissens”, Wiener Zeitung, 2013.

Hanne Seitz, “The Unsolicited Gift: On Artistic Intervention in Public.” In: In the Mode of Giving, edited by Ingrid Hentschel, Una H. Moehrke, and Klaus Hoffman, 88–102. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2011.

Hanne Seitz, “Kunst als soziale Herausforderung. Zur Praxis künstlerischer Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum.” In: Initiative Soziokultur: Diskurse. Konzepte. Praxis, edited by Bettina Messner and Michael Wrentschur, 69–89. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2010.

Hanne Seitz, “Temporäre Komplizenschaften: Künstlerische Intervention im sozialen Raum.” In: Konglomerationen – Produktion von Sicherheiten im Alltag. Theorien und Forschungsskizzen, edited by Maria A. Wolf, Bernhard Rathmayr, and Helga Peskoller, 181–199. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009.

Hanne Seitz, “Ulrike Möntmann’s European Outcast Projekt.” Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, 127 IV (2009): 78–80.

Gijs Frieling, “Love Is Like Oxygen.” Exhibition catalog. Amsterdam: W139, 2007.