{"id":15884,"date":"2026-01-08T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=15884"},"modified":"2026-01-08T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:15:45","slug":"exhibition-ursula-schulz-dornburg-some-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=15884","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Ursula Schulz-Dornburg – Some Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Foto\/Industria 2025: Home<\/strong>
\nPresented by the MAST Foundation<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
\n7 November \u2013 14 December 2025<\/p>\n

The German photographer Ursula Schulz-Dornburg<\/a><\/span> (* 1938 in Berlin) studied photojournalism after frequenting courses of ethnology in Munich. Both disciplines as well as the artistic exchange with renown artists with focus on Land Art and conceptual art entered into her oeuvre. During her career, she undertook many journeys and visited various regions, which were not always easy to access. The exhibition \u201cSome Homes<\/a><\/span>\u201d presented seven series shot from the 1960s to the early 2000s. A good review of her work.<\/p>\n

In 1969, Schulz-Dornburg visited adventure playgrounds in Amsterdam. The resulting series was published as book under the title \u201cAbenteuerspielpl\u00e4tze: ein Pl\u00e4doyer f\u00fcr wilde Spiele\u201d. \u201cHuts, Temples, Castles\u201d shows several of the children\u2019s constructions, which became temporary homes for them. Other series feature more long-term solutions.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholderAn example is the series “Bosphorus” from 1978. Here she documented historical wooden villas (yal\u0131s), located at both shores of the strait between the Asian and European part of Istanbul. The main part of these villas was built in the second half of the 19th century, others were constructed around the First World War. Originally, it was a summer colony for officials, ministers and diplomates from the Ottoman Empire or owned by Greek merchants or Armenian bankers. After decades of decay until the 1990s these villas are now restored in a contemporary sense. Therefore, Schulz-Dornburg\u2019s photos show the morbid charm of a bygone wealth.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_1_placeholderIn the 1980s, Schulz-Dornburg went to the Indonesian island Sulawesi. On the southwestern peninsula, she photographed the houses of Bugis farmers. Build of wood and bamboo, they are suspended between ground and sky, to avoid flooding from the rice fields. Even though the houses have similar structures, the design varies, depending on the social and economic conditions of the inhabitants.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\"\"<\/a>Also in the 1980s, she visited the Iraqi marshlands. Here, Schulz-Dornburg had the possibility to document the buildings there, just before the drainage of these swampy areas. In 1989\/90, she travelled 15 kilometres along the Georgian-Azerbaijanian border, to visit the Caves of Gareja. It was the moment after the removal of the Soviet military in October 1988 and the revival of monastery life in 1991. Despite conflicts with the now Georgian government, the historic monastery, founded in the 6th century, is once again active.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_3_placeholderOn the way to another shooting in 1992, Schulz-Dornburg discovered strange metal structures. Confused, but fascinated she took photos. The scenery looks like a dismantled city, where giants played with the buildings and turned them upside down. In an interview with Julian Heynen about this series \u201cKronstadt\u201d from 2002 she said that she doesn\u2019t want to reveal the origin of these contemporary ruins to not disenchant the impressions.<\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\"\"<\/a>A conclusive video of a conversation with Peter Kammerer, professor of Sociology at the University of Urbino recounts her last project from 2012. It features the nuclear test site of Semipalatinsk in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. From 1949 to 1963 the Soviet Union tested their nuclear weapons here in the atmosphere, later subterranean. The buildings had been constructed to measure the destructive energy of the bombs. After the depart of the Soviets in 1991, the remains were plundered to leave only the naked structures, which underlines the ghostly surreal impression. This experience of the dangerous devasting potential of mankind led Schulz-Dornburg to not undertake any further projects.<\/p>\n

This closes the circle from the first hopeful observation of children playing to the expression of destruction. However, in between there were many hopeful and documenting projects, which allow the observer to discover unknown, perhaps mystical, but in part bygone worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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