Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz

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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz (born 1972 in Lausanne and 1963 in Berlin) are a Berlin-based artist duo who have worked together since 2006. They produce film installations that revisit recent and past material (a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance), with a particular focus on a critical history of the photographic and moving image itself. [1]

The duo works with performance to create embodiments which are able to conflate different times and they often create illegitimate collaborations – partly fictitious, partly cross-temporal. Their work To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, In Recognition of their Desperation (2013) is based on the eponymous 1970 score by avant-garde feminist composer Pauline Oliveros, filmed in Funkhaus Nalepastraße, the former GDR Radio studios in Berlin, and featuring performances from the musicians Ray Aggs, Peaches, Catriona Shaw, Verity Susman, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, and William Wheeler. The work had its premiere exhibition as part of their solo show Patriarchal Poetry at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, in Autumn 2013 [2] and was shown at Museum of Modern Art, New York, in a special event with the artists, Oliveros and Gregg Bordowitz [3] in May 2014. In I Want they stage a meeting between punk poet Kathy Acker, artist Sharon Hayes, and transgender- and prison-abolitionist activist Chelsea Manning, who, in 2010, channeled classified information about the war in Iraq to WikiLeaks. The performers in their films are choreographers, dancers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about performance, the meaning of visibility since early modernity, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance. Recent retrospectives and solo exhibitions have included Improvisation télépathique, at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018; Everybody talks about the weather... we don't at Participant Inc., New York, 2017; Loving, Repeating, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2015; Portrait of an Eye, Kunstalle Zürich, Zürich, 2015; Aftershow, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2013; Toxic Play in Two Acts, South London Gallery, 2012; Contagieux! Rapports contre la normalité, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, 2011.

In 2019 Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz were invited to represent Switzerland at the 58th Venice Biennale.

In 2022 and 2023, the duo's installation "El cristal es mi piel" was featured in Madrid's Palacio de Cristal. [4]

Their work has been written about by writers and critics including André Lepecki, [5] Gregg Bordowitz, [2] Antke Engel [6] and Mathias Danbolt. [7] Their catalogues include Telepathic Improvisation, published by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2018, I Want, published by Sternberg Press, 2015; [8] Aftershow, published by Sternberg Press, 2014, [9] and Temporal Drag, published by Hatje Cantz in 2011. [10]

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz are represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, and Marcelle Alix, Paris.

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  1. ↑ "Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz - Statement, Biography". boudry-lorenz.de. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  2. 1 2 "Badischer-Kunstverein Programm Vorschau". badischer-kunstverein.de. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  3. ↑ "MoMA | An Evening with Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz with Gregg Bordowitz and Pauline Oliveros". moma.org. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  4. ↑ "Prensa - Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz. El cristal es mi piel". www.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved 2023-04-02.
  5. ↑ Lepecki, André (2017). The telepathic drive: the event horizon: the protest: the resistant movement (PDF). Houston: CAMH Houston.
  6. ↑ "Queer Temporalities and the Chronopolitics of Transtemporal Drag | e-flux". e-flux.com. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  7. ↑ "Mathias Danbolt » Publications". mathiasdanbolt.com. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
  8. ↑ Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz : I want. Lorenz, Renate,, Kunsthalle Zürich,, Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, England). Berlin. 2016. ISBN   978-3956792359. OCLC   958481742.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ↑ Aftershow : Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz. Casser, Anja., Boudry, Pauline., Lorenz, Renate., Badischer Kunstverein. Berlin: Sternberg Press. 2014. ISBN   9783956790492. OCLC   900721606.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ↑ "Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz | Contemporary Art | Hatje Cantz". hatjecantz.de. Retrieved 2014-07-26.
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