From Paris to Berlin and Back: Ulrike Ottinger’s ‘Paris Calligrammes”

Galerie Eric Mouchet in Paris will be exhibiting Ulrike Ottinger in October 2020.Paris Calligrammes is an exhibition in which Ulrike Ottinger paints a portrait of Paris as she discovered it when she moved there in 1962: a multi-ethnic megalopolis and a society grappling with the Algerian war, imperialism American and decolonization. At the same time, Fritz Picard’s Calligrammes bookstore sees a mid-European intelligentsia thrown onto the roads by two world wars. The paintings Ulrike Ottinger made then and the documentary she shot in 2019 formed the basis of the exhibition dedicated to her at HKW Berlin last summer.

The exhibition takes place October 8 to 31, 2020. A screening on October 6 (location to be confirmed) of the film Paris Calligrammes which was presented at the Berlinale this year and who won the award for best German documentary 2020. Publisher Hatje Cantz is printing the second edition of the book Paris Calligrammes.‘Paris Calligrammes’ premiered at the Berlinale 2020. The Berlinale also awarded its filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger with the Camera Award with the attribution that…