Laura Bruce
Raabestrasse 6
10405 Berlin, Germany
laurathebruce@yahoo.com
Education
1995-97 MFA in Sculpture:
The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
1980-83 BFA in Painting: State University of New York at New Paltz,
New York
1980 Foundation Courses: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
seit 1990 lives and works in Berlin
1995-1999 lived and worked in London
Residencies, Grants, Prizes
2003 Residency, Art
Omi, New York, USA
Catalog grant of the Berlin Senate of Art and Culture
2002 Work grant for Film and Video, Berlin
2001 Residency "Die Höge", Högenhausen
2000 Work grant Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin
1998 Residency Focal Point Digital Workroom, Southend-on-Sea,
England
1995 Work grant Stiftungs Luftbrückendank, Berlin, Germany
Other Education and Experience
1998-99 Guest lecturer
at Kingsway College, London: Neue Media
1997-98 Assistant Guest lecturer at The Slade School of Fine Art:
Malerei
1998 Guest lecturer at Exeter College, Department of Fine Art:
Bildhauerei
"Peer" founded with Dave Beech, a forum for artist video
screenings in galleries (first event "32 Elm Street",
at Camerawork, London, April 1998)
1978-80 Studied music (voice) at Glassboro State College, New
Jersey
One Person Exhibitions (selection)
2002 Grasslands,
Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY
"Jane's Dilemma", Büro für Kunst, Dresden
(Faltblatt)
2001 The Rainy Season, Sparwasser, Berlin (Faltblatt)
2000 Maryanne by the Water, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin
1997 Rare Birds Il, Phillips Building, London
1996 Rare Birds I, Galerie Voxxx,Chemnitz
Body: Function, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
1994 Made in Berlin, mit MK Kähne, Galerie Parzival, Berlin
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2003 Superumbau, Hoyerswerda,
Germany
"Expand", Volkart Stiftung, Winterthur, Switzerland
"Art Cubicle", Projektraum Mathias Kampl, Berlin
"La Nuit de la Video", Strasbourg, France
"Wheelin'", Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (travels to
Frankfurt, LA, London, Wien)
2002 "Stardust Deluxe", Lisa Lounge, Berlin
"Wachsernde Identitäten", Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
"Over the Moon", Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin
"Private Affairs", Kunsthaus Dresden (Catalog)
"Thin Skin", AXA Gallery (Catalog), New York, curated
by ICI NY, (travels to Arizona, Texas, Amsterdam)
"Video Festival", Next Museum for Contemporary Art,
Detroit, Michigan, USA
2001 "Videotree", Florence, Italy
"What's Wrong?", Trade Apartment, London
"Kunst+Brief", Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin (Catalog)
"If we were Kings", Adlershof, KMZ, Berlin, Adlershof
"Berlin_London_2001", ICA, London
2000 "The Old News", PS 122, New York
"no vacancies", Angelika Richter with Galerie Barbara
Thumm, Berlin (CD Rom)
"John, I'm only Dancing...' part 2, The Collective Gallery,
Edinburgh, Scotland
Non Plus Ultra, F M Schwarz, Köln
We're not in Kansas Anymore, Poplar Baths, London
John, I'm Only Dancing..., Margaret Harvey Gallery, University
of Hertfordshire, St. Albans, England
1999 "3. Forum International Junger Kunst", Postfuhramt,
Berlin
StreamTV, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Wer bin ich, und wenn ja wieviele?, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin
Edinburgh Film and Video Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Video Soup, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1997 Home Ideals, with FAT, Theberton Street, London
Time Piece, Video Festival, Tramway, Glasgow
1995 Erinnerte Gegenwart, Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden
1994 Kunst-Recycling, Galerie Autogen, Dresden
Falterliebe, "Einschritt", Festspielhaus Hellerau,
Dresden
Videos
2003 "I Love
Paris", single channel video, color, sound
2002 "Domestic Blur", three channel video installation,
color, sound
"Measuring Millimeters", single channel video, color,
sound
2001 "Slow the Gallop", five channel video installation,
color, sound
"Pink Always Confuses Me", single channel video, color,
sound
"The Snowflake and Bubble Dance", single channel video,
color, sound
"Brushwood House Drama", single channel video, color,
sound
"Jane's" Sofa", single channel video, color,
sound
2000 "Maryanne by the Water", three channel video installation,
color, sound
1999 "The House that Jack Built, three channel video installation,
color, sound
Bibliography
2002 Article, "Kleiner
Abwasch in Zwickau: eine Küchenrevolution", Katje Uhlemann,
Freie Presse, 4.12.02; Faltblatt, Laura Bruce, Büro für
Kunst, Dresden; Catalog, "Private Affairs", Kunsthaus
Dresden
Catalog, "Thin Skin", Independent Curators International,
New York City, New York; Catalog, "Wachsernde Identitäten",
Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; Article, Jens Bisky, Wachs noch einmal,
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1/2 Juni; Article, Susanne Altmann,
"Sensation Intimität", Tageszeitung, 3 April; Article,
Susanne Altmann, "Feenland ist Abgebrannt?", Dresdener
Zeitschrift, March; Review, Lisa Werner-Art, "Video, Videound
Alltag", Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten, 22 March
Review, "Doppelausstellung privater Affairen, Dresdener Stadtteil
Zeitung, March ; article, Klara Wallner, "mittendrin und
andersartig", Magazine Friedrichstraße, 1/01
2001 Kunstbrief 2000, Dokumention, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin
Review, Angelika Richter, "Die Hochzeitsbetrachterin",
www.blitzreview.com
2000 Review, Christian Glöde, "Good Losties", www.blitzreview.com;
Review, Jürgen Kisters, "Verlangen nach dem Höchsten",
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Nr 132, 8 Juni; Review, Sally O'Reilly,
"We're not in Kansas Anymore", www.londonart.co.uk,
May 2000; Review, Oliver Koerner, "Loved Ones", Tageszeitung,
7 March; Review, Mirko Driller, "Der schwebende Großvater",
Berliner Morgenpost, 3 March
Faltblatt, Maryanne by the Water, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin
1999 "...ab geht die Post", Dokumentationscatalog, Aktions
Galerie, Berlin; Kunstbrief 1999, Dokumention, Galerie im Parkhaus,
Berlin
1997 Dokumentation, The Slade Journal, Volume 1
Dokumentation, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Festspielhaus Hellerau,
Dresden; Review, Juergen Otten, "So Rätselhaft Banal",
Berliner Zeitung, 20-21 July; Article, Jens Pepper, "Seltsame
Wesen in Chemnitzer Voxxx", Freie Presse, 9 July; Dokumentation,
"Kunst-Recycling - Materielsammlung", Galerie Autogen,
Dresden
1995 Catalog, "Erinnerte Gegenwart", Galerie Rähnitzgasse,
Dresden
1994 Review, Heinz Weissflog, "Auf der Suche nach Ursprünglichem",
Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten, 28 March; Article "BewahrenZerstörenUmpflügen?",
Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten, 17 November