Ursula Reuter Christiansen (b. 1943 in Trier) is a sculptor and painter most active in Denmark. A lively figure in the 1970s feminist movement, her work continues to be marked by her strong political commitment. The female figure is central to her practice, whether it takes the form of painting, poetry, film or sculpture. In Reuter Chriatiansen’s work, the image space and the physical space are intertwined turning her whole ouevre into a performative ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’. She says about herself: ‘I am my pictures – my pictures are me’.
‘I am my pictures – my pictures are me’, which is Ursula Reuter Christiansen’s first larger exhibition in Norway, is produced together with Kristiansand Kunsthall and in close collaboration with visual artist Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen, Reuter Christiansen’s youngest son.
Ursula Reuter Christiansen, graduated from the Akademie der Künste in Düsseldorf under Professor Joseph Beuys in 1969. She was married to the Danish composer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008), and in 1970 they moved to Askeby on the Danish island of Møn, where Ursula Reuter Christiansen continues to live and work.
Reuter Christiansen was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HfBK) 1992-96 and professor of painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1997- 2006. She represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2001 together with Henning Christiansen. In recent years, Reuter Christiansen has exhibited at Kunsthal Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense (2000), MOCA, Los Angelses (2007), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2016), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 2018, Leipzig Kunstmuseum, 2019, Gallery SABSAY Copenhagen 2019 and The Box Gallery, Los Angeles 2019. In 2011, Ursula Reuter Christiansen was awarded the Eckersberg Medal for her achievements.
