Vernissage: 16.05. 2025, 19:00
Metalmporph-Performace 20:30
Ausstellung: 16.05. – 28.06. 2025
Öffnungszeiten: Do. und Fr. 16:00 – 19:00, Sa. 14:00 – 17:00
Workshop: 17. – 18.05. 2025, 10:00 bis 18:00
Anmeldungen: zinefest@kulturbuero-bremen.de
Ort: Raum404, Nicolaistrasse 34/36, 20195 Bremen
Genau wie Iggy Pop in dem ikonischen Song „Search and Destroy“ der Stooges ist Lula ein rasender Gepard mit einem Herz aus Napalm, eine entlaufene Tochter der nuklearen UHU-Bombe. Suchend und Zerstörend ist sie eine obsessive Sammlerin, eine bibliophile Sängerin und notorische Bilderstürmerin. Ihr turbulentes Leben und ihre künstlerische Karriere lassen sich nur mit der animalischen Bühnenpräsenz von Iggy vergleichen. Für Lula ist die Welt eine Bühne und ein Spielplatz. Genau wie David Lynchs Lula es schon sagte: Wild at Heart and Weird on Top. Die Ausstellung im Raum404 ist ein dynamisches Schaufenster ihrer gegen-kulturellen Veröffentlichungspraktiken und ihrer Arbeit als Collagekünstlerin: Zusammengehalten von einer dicken und klebrigen Schicht UHU-Kleber erwarten euch Zines, C.U.M. und eine kräftige Dosis PUNK.
Passend zu ihrer chaotischen und dynamischen DIY-Welt wird die Ausstellung von (Musik-)Performances, Workshops und Vorträgen begleitet, die von der Künstlerin selbst sorgfältig kuratiert werden.
She ain’t got no home, but works from both The Hague (NL) and Berlin (DE).
www.lulavalletta.com
@lulavalletta
Gefördert von Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung und dem Seantor für Kultur so wie dem Ortsamt Mitte / östliche Vorstadt
Just like Iggy in the Stooges’ iconic song ‘Search and Destroy’ Lula is a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm, a runaway daughter of the nuclear UHU-bomb. The one who searches and destroys, she is an obsessive collector, a bibliophile pur sang and a notorious iconoclast. Her turbulent life and artistic career can only be compared to Iggy’s animalistic stage presence. The world to Lula is a stage and a playground. Exactly like David Lynch’s Lula said it before: Wild at Heart and Weird on Top. The exhibition at Raum404 is a dynamic showcase of both her countercultural publishing practices as well as her work as a collage artist: all held together by a thick and sticky layer of UHU glue. Expect zines, C.U.M. and a heavy dose of PUNK.
Fitting in with her chaotic and dynamic DIY world the exhibition will be accompanied with (music)performances, workshops and lectures, carefully curated by the artist herself.
Bio:
Lula Valletta (1991) is a cut-up artist, freelance curator and bibliophile, stuck in purgatory. She has a long standing history in DIY publishing and printmaking. In Portuguese her name means Squid and like a squid she shares its many tentacles being active in all sorts of fields within the arts. Desperate of being born about 75 years too late, she tries to pick up where the hobbyhorses of the avant-garde left off; rejecting the logic, reason and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality and anti-bourgeois protest. She has been cutting and pasting since kindergarten and has been a GlueHead ever since. Together with underdog poet Mr. Pelham she forms the cut-up collective Arpsianism. She gave the world the C.U.M. (Cut-Up Manifesto) and strongly believes that collage is the basis of all art and creation. Specimens of her collage art have been self-published in a series of booklets; an agglomeration of collages into blobs and misprints. Bur-Rose is the umbrella for all things published by Lula Valletta. The zines and tape releases on her label Bur-Rose reflect her own artistic practice and interest; from cult to punk subculture, collage, noise, surrealism and other chaos; if she likes it, she’ll publish it. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and beyond. She even goes beyond the beyond by manifesting her tendencies as a curator of art exhibitions and festivals throughout Europe – mainly focusing on the art of collage – as well as co-founding HOK; a nomadic underground art space. And under the name Mitraillette she presents a monthly underground radio nonsense program at Radio Tonka. To top this list of bragging off she is the initiator and director of The Hague’s very own artbook festival The Other Book.
She ain’t got no home, but works from both The Hague (NL) and Berlin (DE) as a basis of operations.