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Ulu Braun: St. Mickeyland

Cartoon image of Skeleton sitting at a table decorating a cake

image credit: Still from Ulu Braun’s St.Mickey,, 2023.  Courtesy of the artist.

September 6 – December 14, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, September 6 from 7-10PM

Welcome to St. Mickeyland! In painting-like tableaus, a landscape inhabited by cartoon and media icons is displayed. The assembled characters are in search of meaning in life, reflecting on their creation in the honeypot of capital. While Snow White learns stand-up paddling, Winnie the Pooh gives birth to a descendant, adding a dash of humanity to the fictional shell.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ulu Braun was born in Schongau, Germany, and works and lives in Berlin and Lieksa. From 1996 to 2005, he studied painting and experimental film at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Film University Babelsberg. Since 1997, Ulu Braun has been using the medium of video to explore the field between the visual arts and auteur cinema.

His artworks have been exhibited in institutions such as KW Berlin, Centre Pompidou Paris, Hirshhorn Museum Washington D.C., Kunstmuseum Bonn, Shedhalle Zürich, MARTa Herford, Museo de Reina Sofia Madrid, Berlinische Galerie, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Kassler Kunstverein, Mercosul Biennial (with Ykon), Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, Athens Biennale (with Ykon), and Kunsthalle Wien.

His films have been screened at festivals including Berlinale, IFF Rotterdam, Sarajevo Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Guanajuato IFF Mexico, Ann Arbor FF, EMAF, 25 FPS Zagreb, and Videoart at Midnight.

Ulu Braun has received numerous accolades, including the Kunstfonds working grant (2011), the German Short Film Award (2013), the Berlin Art Prize (2014), Best German Film – Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2017), Arte Shortfilm Award (2017), Hans & Charlotte Krull working grant (2018), nomination for European Film Award (2018), nomination for German Film Critics Award (2018), nomination for German Shortfilm Award (2021), artist-in-residence at Villa Aurora – Los Angeles (2021), Best Film at Animation Avantgarde – Vienna Shorts (2024) and Prix VIDEOFORMES (2025)