*1985, Frankfurt, Germany
info at lillylulay.de
Current research
"The media with which we produce and consume the most images today is the smartphone. It is an interface or a junction between the private and the public sphere. The world comes to us through a small screen in our pockets − and through this digital frame, we show ourselves to the world. Yet as we interact with our touchscreens, we never physically touch the objects, people and places we perceive. In order to point on this discrepancy my works combine objects with various material and haptic qualities. Based on image material from the online and the offline world I create fragmentary, semi-transparent and double sided images. My works invite the beholder to take a look beyond the rectangular surfaces with which screens and photo prints confront us. They address questions of (in)visibility and (in)transparency within the new economy and culture of smartphone photography.“
Education
2020 guest student at HfG Karlsruhe, Germany
department of artificial intelligence and media philosophy
2014 Diploma with juries mention
University of Art and Design Offenbach, Germany
Fine Art Photography: Prof. Martin Liebscher
Sculpture: Prof. Wolfgang Luy
Media Sociology: Prof. Dr. Marc Ries
The Facebook profile picture as a contemporary form of photographic portraiture
2008 - 2009 École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France
Bio
Born 1985 in Frankfurt, Lilly Lulay studied photography, sculpture and media sociology in Germany and France. Her works examine photography as a cultural tool that forms an integral part of daily life. Perfectly aware of todays overproduction of images Lulay uses own and other peoples photographs as "raw material". Applying a variety of techniques, that range from laser cutting to embroidery, from installation to collage Lulay turns photographs into palpable objects. With her work she investigates on the influence that photographic media have (had) on social behavior and mechanisms of individual and collective perception. Since 2017 she investigates 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 economical structures linked to smartphone photography.
For her photo based works Lilly Lulay won several prizes and scholarships as: 2022 AMA Artists Meet Archive, Photoszene Cologne, 2022 Ifa exhibition funding, 2021 Casa Planas research residency, Palma de Mallorca, 2019 Stiftung Kunstfonds grant, 2018 Foam Talents programe, 2017 Olympus recommended fellowship in cooperation with Foam Amsterdam, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, 2015 IEPA residency grant, 2013 Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt scholarship and 2012 Deutsche Börse-HfG Offenbach photography prize. Lulay’s works form part of private and public collections such as George Eastman Museum Rochester, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Frankfurt, Art Collection DZ Bank Frankfurt, Art Vontobal, Zurich as well as Artothèques in Pessac, Pau and Limoge, France. Her works have been shown in these institutions as well as at Aperture New York, Die Ecke Santiago de Chile, Ballarat Foto Biennale Australia, Beaconsfield London, Foam Next Door Amsterdam, Festival Circulations Paris, Benaki Museum Athens and Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt and other venues.
Awards Scholarships Residencies
2024 T3 Festival research residency, Tokyo
2022 AMA Artists Meet Archive, Rheinisches Bildarchiv / Fotoszene, Cologne
2022 Ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, exhibition funding, Sarasota
2021 Casa Planas Archive - Goethe Institut Barcelona, research residency, Palma de Mallorca
2020 Leyendecker residency, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2019 working grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2018 - 2019 Foam Talents Programme, Amsterdam
2017 - 2018 Olympus recommended scholarship, in collaboration with Foam Amsterdam/ Deichtorhallen Hamburg / FFF Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
2018 Karl Schmidt-Rottluff fellowship (finalist)
2017 Dieecke Haus residency, Santiago de Chile
2016 IEPA residency, Hendaye
2015 catalogue grant, Kulturamt Frankfurt
2015 Galeri/MIZ residency, Istanbul
2014 Pix Virginia shortlist, Paris
2013 scholarship Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt
2012 Deutsche Börse and HfG Offenbach photo award
Talks/ Lectures
2023 artist talk: Lilly Lulay and Roland Meyer, Ghosts in the Archive. On Machine Vision and Classification Work, AMA Cologne
2022 lecture for students of Prof. Steffen Siegel Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen as part of AMA Artist Meets Archive, Cologne
2022 artist talk: Lilly Lulay, Susa Templin and Christoph Schütte, Kunststiftung DZ Bank Frankfurt
2022 artist talk: Digitalität und Raum, Katarína Dubovská,Lilly Lulay, Christina Leber, Guardini Stiftung, Berlin
2022 lecture: News from The Archive, Next Festival, Cologne
2022 panel talk: Metadata Revealed, Ringling Museum, Sarasota FL
Publications
2022 METADATA, Rethinking Photography in the 21st Century, Ringling Museum, Scala publishing, ISBN9781785513756
2021 Art au Centre 2019-2021, Mouvement Sans Titre asbl, Liège, 2021
2020 ANALOG TOTAL. FOTOGRAFIE HEUTE, Grassi Museum Leipzip, Kettler Verlag
2019 Tate: The Photography Ideas Book, Lorna Yabsley, Illex Press, ISBN 9781781577516
2019 XL Photography 6, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Kehrer, ISBN 978-3-86828-910-7
2019 Foam Talents Magazine, EAN 8710966455234-00052
2019 New Vision of Debris, Photon Center of Photography
2019 New Vision of Debris, Photon Center of Photography, Ljubljana
2018 Collage, Fotogalerie Wien, ISBN: 978-3-902725-44-8
2018 recommended, Deichtorhallen, Foam, FFF, Olympus Germany
2018 Farbraumwelten Schufa Kunstsammlung, ISBN: 978-3-00-058906-5
2017 Out of Office, MKK Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, ISBN: 978-3-939855-51-4
2017 On Traces and Tides, Lilly Lulay, Basis FFM/Nekatoenea residency ISBN: 978-3-9812487-4-6 2016
2016 A Matter of Memory, George Eastmann Museum, Rochester NY, ISBN: 9780935398182
2016 Mindscapes, Lilly Lulay, Revolver publishing, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-95763-346-0
2016 Circulation(s), festival of young european photography, Bec en l‘ air, Paris, ISBN 978-2-36744-092-7 2015
2015 Contemporary Photography from North-Western Europe, Fondazione Fotografia di Modena
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
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