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Ulf Aminde works as an artist and filmmaker. His productions often engage with public space — and are frequently shown there too.

 

He understands filmmaking as a social practice rooted in collective interaction and ongoing negotiation.

 

Many of his works focus on collective learning environments, or even initiate them. They are based on close collaboration with the participants and shaped by experimental settings.

 

His recent works concentrate on commemoration as a practice. In this context, he seeks to make the political structures that shape places of remembrance visible and transparent, and to transform them by focusing on the perspectives of those directly affected.

 

He is currently co-developing, together with survivors, solidarity initiatives, and experts, a film-based and, through the use of Augmented Reality, also participatory monument in memory of the racist attacks carried out by the terrorist NSU network in Probsteigasse and Keupstraße in Cologne, Germany.

 

Aminde increasingly describes his practice, especially through projects like this, as a form of infrastructure art — one that aims to build social, institutional, and technological frameworks to sustain artistic, commemorative, and participatory processes over the long term.

 

Ulf Aminde is also Professor of Performative Spaces at the weissensee school of art berlin, where he initiated in 2016 the *foundationClass for artists who have fled their home countries.

 

His exhibitions include the 4th Berlin Biennale, Havana Biennale, KW Berlin, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlinische Galerie, NGBK Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, MARTa Herford, Steirischer Herbst, Schirn Frankfurt, Kästner Gesellschaft Hannover, MoCA Taipei, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Staatstheater Mannheim, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, and Galerie Tanja Wagner.

 

He was nominated for the Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Artist Award, dedicated to the ideals of democracy and anti-fascism, in 2017; for the Nam June Paik Award in 2014; and he won the Autoren und Produzentenpreis Junges Theater Bremen in 2006 and the Helmut-Thoma-Prize in 2003.

 

He studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin with Lothar Baumgarten, graduating in 2004.

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