Ursula Biemann

Ursula Biemann studied art and critical theory in Mexico at the School of Visual Arts (BFA) and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York (1988). Both her art and her curatorial practice relate to the representation of minorities and the treatment of gender issues in the media and post-urban areas such as the North American-Mexican border or Istanbul. These include the following art projects: “Global Food,” a collaborative study on Knorr soup culture; “Border Project,” ongoing research on the North American-Mexican border; the collaborative publication “Zwischenräume-Interspacios” with Latin American women in Zurich; and “Kültür,” an urban project for the Istanbul Biennial in 1997. Biemann was curator at the Shedhalle Zurich from 1995 to 1998: foreign services in postcolonial locations; “Kültur” and “Just Watch,” a symposium on representation politics in electronic media. Her latest publication: “been there and back to nowhere,” about gender in cross-border locations, b_books Berlin 2000. Videos: “performing the border,” about the position of gender in the global electronic industry, 1999, and “Writing Desire,” about female sexuality and the marriage market in cyberspace, 2000.