Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (born 1938) is a German photographer and artist known for the conceptual series (mostly black and white) photographs. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Schulz-Dornburg received the 2016 AIMIA AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario and in 2018 won the Catalogue of the Year award at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards for The Land In Between. Old Masters like Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres coexist with works by some of today's most fascinating modern artists including Gerhard Richter, Chuck Close, and Bridget Riley.
Life and work
Schulz-Dornburg was born in Berlin in 1938. Between 1959 and 1960 she studied at the Institut für Bildjournalismus in Munich. From 1980 onward, she traveled within Europe, Asia and the Near East.
Publications
Architectures of Waiting. Bonn: Goethe-Institut, 2006. With a text by J.Thorn-Prikker. Reprinted edition. Walther Koenig, 2014. . English and German language text. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern, London. Some Works. Edited and with text by Wolfgang Scheppe. . English and German language text. Box containing objects and materials. Edition of 1500 copies. The Land in Between. London: Mack, 2018. English edition. . German edition, . Yerevan 1996/1997. London: Mack, 2019. English edition. . Zone Grise. London: Mack, 2019. French language edition and addition to The Land in Between. . Bugis Houses, Celebes. London: Mack, 2021. . With an essay by Sirtjo Koolhof.
Awards
2018: Catalogue of the Year award, Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Paris for The Land In Between. 2016: AIMIA AGO Photography Prize from the Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibitions
1975 Vorhänge am Markusplatz in Venedig mit Katharina Sattler, Gallery Heiner Friedrich, Munich; Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany 1976 Palace Pier, Brighton with Katharina Sattler, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Museum, Krefeld, Germany 1979 Ansichten von Pagan with F. Rudolf Knubel; German Commission for UNESCO, Bonn; Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany 1984-1981 Der Tigris des alten Mesopotamien mit F. Rudolf Knubel, Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop; Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien, Austria; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany 1999-1992 Weizen, in: Gen-Welten, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; in: Naturale Reality, Ludwigforum, Aachen; Museum der Brotkultur, Ulm, Germany 1997-1992 Sonnenstand, Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany 2000 Borderscapes, Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany 2001 Transitsites, Neuhoff Gallery, New York, Gallery Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany 2002 Transit Orte, Gallery Werner Klein, Cologne, Germany 2002 Der 45. Längengrad, Gallery Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany 2004-2002 Across the territories, Galeria Casa Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexiko; Centro Fotogràfico Alvares Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexiko; IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain 2004 Memoryscapes, Gallery Werner Klein, Cologne 2006 Wüste am 45. Längengrad, Kunst-Station St. Peter (Cologne), Germany 2006-2004 Architekturen des Wartens, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Gallery Elke Dröscher, Hamburg; Gallery AEDES West, Berlin 2006 PAGAN Zeit aus Stein, Gallery Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany 2006 Irak. Vanished landscapes, Gallery Heike Curtze, Berlin 2007 Photographs, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany 2008 presencia y ausencia, Fundación BBK, Bilbao 2008 Objectivités - La photographie à Düsseldorf (Gruppenausstellung), Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC 2008 Photographie, Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Düsseldorf 2008 Luz de la Fotografía. Silencio de la Arquitectura, Auditorio de San Francisco, Ávila 2008 Tongkonan, Alang and the House without smoke, Aedes am Pfefferberg, Berlin 2009 Sonnestand, Tristan Hoare/Wilmotte, London 2018 The Land In-between: Photographs from 1980 to 2012, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, April–September 2018 Zone Grise/The Land in Between, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, December 2019 - February 2020
Collections
Schulz-Dornburg's work is held in the following public collections: the J. Paul Getty Museum,