LILLY LULAY
ES Nacida en 1985 en Frankfurt, Lilly Lulay estudió fotografía, escultura y sociología de los medios en Alemania y Francia. Sus obras examinan la fotografía como una herramienta cultural que forma una parte integral de la vida cotidiana. Consciente de la sobreproducción actual de imágenes, Lulay utiliza fotografías propias y de otras personas como “materia prima”. Aplicando una variedad de técnicas que van desde el corte láser hasta el bordado, desde la instalación hasta el collage, Lulay transforma las fotografías en objetos tangibles. A través de su trabajo investiga la influencia que los medios fotográficos tienen (o han tenido) en el comportamiento social y en los mecanismos de percepción individual y colectiva. Desde 2017, estudia el smartphone como herramienta fotográfica, que ha cambiado significativamente las funciones y apariencias de la fotografía. En sus proyectos de medios mixtos explora las estructuras sociales, técnicas y económicas vinculadas a la fotografía con smartphone.
EN Born in 1985 in Frankfurt, Lilly Lulay studied photography, sculpture, and media sociology in Germany and France. Her work examines photography as a cultural tool that is an integral part of daily life. Fully aware of today’s overproduction of images, Lulay uses her own and others’ photographs as “raw material.” Employing a variety of techniques—from laser cutting to embroidery, and from installation to collage—she transforms photographs into tangible objects. Through her work, she investigates the influence photographic media have (or have had) on social behavior and the mechanisms of individual and collective perception. Since 2017, she has focused on the smartphone as a photographic tool, which has significantly changed the functions and appearances of photography. In her mixed-media projects, she explores the social, technical, and economic structures connected to smartphone photography.
I see photography not only as medium of artistic expression but first and foremost understand and question it as a technique integrated in our everyday life. Therefore, in many of my projects I use private photographs that I find in analogue and virtual archives. I am interested in understanding social processes linked to photographic media, more than in producing photographs myself. An image can be fixed on paper, projected through slides or visualized on screens, each era has its own photographic techniques and ways to use it. With my work I research photography as a cultural tool that structures perception, behaviour and memory on collective and individual levels.
My working process can be described as manual post-production that aims to turn photographs into palpable objects. By cutting, collaging, layering or installing photographs in space I tend to overcome the flat, two dimensional surface to which photographs and screens confront us.
Lilly Lulay
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
George Eastman Museum, USA
Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy
FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Vontobel, Zurich, Switzerland
Frac-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
DZ Bank Kunststiftung, Frankfurt, Germany
Art Collection DZ Privatbank, Nürnberg, Germany
Schufa Art Collection, Wiesbaden, Germany
Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
Europäisches Patentamt, München, Germany
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Archipel #1, Photo Brussels Festival, Contretype Brussels, Belgium
The Leyendecker Legacy: 16 436 Days After, Galeria Leyendecker Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Future Now, FORMAT International Photography Festival, LCB Depot, Leicester, UK
Thread. On embroidery as resistance and healing, Verwey Museum, Netherlands
ARCO Madrid, Galeria Leyendecker, Madrid, Spain
ARCO Lisboa, Galeria Leyendecker, Lisboa, Portugal
here we are + gallery weekend Berlin, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
We Are Happy Here, in A Happy House, la Gaya Scienza, France
Stadt der Fotografinnen, Frankfurt 1844 – 2024, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
2023
Ghosts@Work, Artist Meets Archive, Fotoszene Festival, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Lilly Lulay, Kuckei + Kuckei, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
In Your Head or In The Cloud, with Franzisa Kneidl Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt, Germany (duo)
SchlagLicht, Stiftung Kunstforum, Berlin, Germany
Link Up, T3 Photo Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Inside Me, Fundación Mapfre, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
BEN, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
2022
A Journey Through The Clouds, Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (solo)
Deconstructive Narrative, Lilly Lulay and Antony Cairns, Sous les Etoiles, New York, USA (duo)
Durchblick. Lilly Lulay und Susa Templin, Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany (duo)
Metadata; Rethinking Photography from the 21st Century, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, USA
Passagen, Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Phänomen Großmann, trifft auf Fotografie, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
2021
Features Extraction, Photography as Raw Data, Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
Artifacts from the Age of Acceleration, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Berlin Digital Panopticon, Art Au Centre, Liège, Germany (solo)
Biennale de l‘image tangible, Oblique Nuage, Paris, France
Analog Total, Fotografie Heute, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany
2020
Distorted View, Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (solo)
Variantes Asimétricas, Fundación Mapfre, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Solitary Confinement, Desk For Contemporary Art Brussels, Belgium (online)
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2020, Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Budapest Fotofestival, Austrian Kultural Forum, Budapest, Hungary
New Formations, Catherine Edelman, Chicago, USA
Arco Madrid, Leyendecker, Madrid, Spain
2019
Cut out Worlds, An Investigation on Photographic Infrastructures, Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile (solo)
Foam Talents: Foam Next Door, Amsterdam Netherlands
Beaconsfield, London, United Kingdom
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt Germany
Red Hook Labs, New York USA
Nullpunkt der Orientierung, DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Paris Photo, Kuckei + Kuckei, Paris, France
Alptraum, La estacion, Chihuahua, Mexico
Wie wohnen die Leute? Ernst May, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
A New Vision of Debris, Photon, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Delirious Cities, Aperture, New York, USA
Ballarat Foto Biennale, Ballarat, Australia
2018
Accept Terms and Conditions, Kuckei+ Kuckei, Berlin (solo)
Olympus Recommended, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Olympus Recommended, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Open House, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff fellowship finalists, Alte Münze Berlin
L’Artothèque et le FRAC au Musée, Guéret
Art Brussels, Kuckei+ Kuckei, Brussels
Videoformes 2018, Maison de la Culture, Clermont-Ferrand
Fragments of Belief, Kuckei+ Kuckei, Berlin
Out of Office II, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen
2017
Studio Visit, Die Ecke Haus residency, Santiago de Chile (solo)
Art Miami, Kuckei+Kuckei, Miami
basis.aperçu, Goethe Institut, Paris
COLLAGE I – Methode, Fotogalerie, Wien
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens
Out of Office, MKK Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
La photographie contemporaine allemande, Goethe Institut, Bordeaux
Triple Chance, korrekt, Frankfurt
Even my mum can make a book #6, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam
Arco, Kuckei+Kuckei, Madrid
Belong anywhere, Acud, Berlin
Plat(t)form 2017, Fotomuseum Winterthur
2016
On Traces and Tides, IEPA#1, Basis, Frankfurt (solo)
Delving into visual strata, gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin (solo)
Recomposing the city, galerie du Second jeudi, Bayonne (solo)
Upload Yourself, Warte für Kunst, Kassel (solo)
Collect, Structure & Map, Basis project space, Frankfurt (solo)
A Matter of Memory, George Eastman Museum, Rochester NY
Second Hands, gallery binôme, Paris
Persistance, la MIX, Mourenx
Circulation(s), Festival of Young European Photography, 104, Paris
À Dessein, gallery binôme, Paris
2015
Fotografia Contemporanea dall’Europa nord-occidentale, Fondazione Fotografia Modena
Interdisciplinary, Galeri/MIZ, Istanbul
Reframe Memory, Benaki Museum, Athens
RAY 2015, OFFM public art panels, Frankfurt
Alptraum (Nightmare),Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal
Amigdala, Tart gallery, Zürich
2014
Indistance, Kuckei & Kuckei, Berlin (solo)
Nouvelles Aquisitions, Artothèque de Pessac
FdJT, curated by Roos Gortzak, Offenbach
Unseen Amsterdam, gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Amsterdam
Even my mom can make a book 4#, Project Room, Berlin
Les dérivés de la photographie, Artothèque de Pessac/Frac Aquitaine
2013
Lichtbilder, Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim (solo)
Morceaux Choisis, Ilka Bree, Bordeaux (solo)
House of Vetti, Koenig and Clinton, New York
Paris Photo, Kuckei + Kuckei, Paris
All Hands Manöver, Kunstverein Speyer
Ausgezeichnet, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Eschborn