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Mutatoes

The Mutato-Archive is a collection of non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables, displaying a dazzling variety of forms, colours and textures, that only reveal themselves when lawfully enforced standards cease to exist. The complete absence of botanical anomalies in our supermarkets has caused us to regard the consistency of produce presented there as natural. Produce has become a highly designed, monotonous product. We have forgotten, and in many cases never experienced, the way fruits, roots, and vegetables can actually look. The Mutato-Project serves to document, preserve and promote these last survivors of biological variety.

2006 - Present / digital photographs / dimensions variable / continuously growing
   
The works of Berlin artist Uli Westphal are closely related to Biology and its classification-systems, but set emphasis on different subject matters. For example, instead of showing the genealogy of elephants, he visualizes the development of their depictions. The works stand in a dialog between culture and science. He poses questions on how nature is perceived, depicted and understood in these different contexts. His works derive from collections, simulations, animations and classification-systems. These are based on actual, existing, natural phenomena, but they tell most of all about the development of human conceptions of nature.
   

Uli Westphal

1980 born in Bochum, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2008 Master of Art / Art in Kontext
2005-2008 Study at the Institute for Art in Context, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
2004 Bachelor of Arts
2002 Study at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, USA
2000-2004 Study at the Aki – Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Enschede, Netherlands
1999-2000 Civil Service, Schwester-Godoleva-Haus, Heek, Germany

Grants

2009 Genealogien, Phyletisches Museum, Jena, Germany
2009 Mutatoes - KK Outlet, London, UK
2005 Subterrania - Kruithuisje, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
2002 Arche Noah - Stationbuilding, Baltimore, USA
2001 Leviathan - former Sporthall, Ahaus, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Criteria - Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
2009 Re-Creation - Artists and the Animal Kingdom - St Andrews Museum, St Andrews, Scotland
2008-2009 Museumsbauhütte - Museum der Dinge, Berlin
2008 Vijversburg 6 - Sculpture-Park Vijversburg, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2008 Aus dem Kontext - Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
2008 Palm Fiction - Palmkernölspeicher, Stralau, Berlin, Germany
2008 Ist das ein Frosch ? - tmp.deluxe - temporary space for art & media, Berlin, Germany
2008 The More Things Change... (BEFF 5 - 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival), Thailand
2008 POV - KLUBB Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2007 Mutatoes - Markt am Kollwitzplatz, Berlin, Germany ( solo )
2006 Ball of Fame - former Vitra Design Museum, Berlin, Germany
2005 Via II + Guestlecture - Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
2005 Via I - Quidian Art Center, Quanzhou, China
2005 Destillaat VII - Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2004 Tupajumi International - Kaapelitehdas( Cablefactory ), Helsinki, Finland
2004 Gog-Bot Media Art Festival - Enschede, Netherlands
2004 Aki 2004 – Academy for Fine Arts and Design, Enschede, Netherlands
2004 O Sole Mio - Kloster Bentlage, Bentlage, Germany
2002 Shaped Places - Kloster Bentlage, Bentlage, Germany
2001 Textour - Berkelkraftwerk, Vreden, Germany
2000 Magic Theater - former Laundromat, Zwolle, Netherlands

Bibliography

Publications:

2009 KRUMME SACHEN, Welt am Sonntag, May 24th 2009
2009 DIE ÄRA DER KRUMMEN DINGE BEGINNT, Berliner Morgenpost, May 24th 2009
2009 A SHORT GUIDE TO THE MUSEUM OF SUPERNATURAL HISTORY, Travlogue, Issue Two: Tactical Objects - Spring 2009 Berlin
2008 NATURE: INSPIRATION FOR ART & DESIGN, Fabiola Reyes, Monsa, ISBN: 9788496823358
2008 SUPERNOVAS, ffw>>mag! N°8, Sao Paulo
2008 LEGUMES MUTANTES, Joana Amaral Cardoso, Publico, Lisbon, 26.01.2008
2007 ODD BODS, Wonderland Magazine (October 2007), London, UK
2007 GERMAN ARTIST ROCKS DESIGN BLOGS WITH MUTANT VEGETABLES, Deutsche Welle
2004 ILLUMINATING THE LACK OF LIGHT, In: SUBJECT, K. Cooper, T. Kimura,
Dutch Art Institute
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Own Publications:
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2008 RETROZOOLOGY
2005 LA CHUCARACHA
2004 CHIMAERAMA
2004 1:33
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Exhibition Catalogs:

2009 GENEALOGIEN - Exhibition Guide ( front / back )
2009 CRITERIA
2008 MUSEUMSBAUHÜTTE
2008 PALM FICTION – CONTEMPORARY ART IN TEMPORARY SPACE
2008 VIJVERSBURG VI – KORT IS DE TIJD, EN ONHERROEPELIJK
2008 AUS DEM KONTEXT
2007 HET KRUITHUISJE – VAN HAEFTENPARK
2006 BALL OF FAME
2004 AKI 2004
2004 OSOLEMIO
2002 SHAPED PLACES
   

Uli Westphal

Kuglerstrasse

uliwestphal@gmail.com
www.uliwestphal.com
   



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