Ulrike Mohr *1970 is a visual artist based in Berlin (DE). She works with the concept of matter, space and time. Mohr's artistic approach uses processes of transformation of materials such as charcoal, influenced by complex research, traditional knowledge and chance. We are now at a turning point where the most serious consequences of human activity - such as the climate crisis, loss of biodiversity and ecological destruction - are becoming unstoppable and unmistakable. The future habitability of the planet therefore requires new forms of cooperation.
Ulrike Mohr will talk about her own artistic approach and concrete utopia: Charcoal is in a stable state of almost pure carbon: detached from the organic cycle, infinitely durable, fragile and "withdrawn" from time. Her position as a sculptor is the result of a process-oriented approach to contextual materials, which Ulrike Mohr transforms into temporal dimensions, experiments and drawings in space.
In recent years the burning of charcoal has become a central instrument in her work. Mohr's work is characterised by revealing relationships between the present and the past, aesthetics and science.
She participated in numerous international solo and group exhibitions and biennials. Ulrike Mohr is the editor of the book series ANTHRAKOTHEK, published by The Green Box Verlag in Berlin. Since 2015 she has been curating and organising the interdisciplinary collaborative project WECHSELRAUM. Mohr is currently Artist in Residence at the Nordic Artist’ Centre Dale (NO) and teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts.