Ulla Nolden is an artist, writer and gardener.
She investigates the fragile beauty found at the margins of everyday reality.
Her tools are digital technology, photography and written words.
She lives in London and Düsseldorf.

PUBLICATIONS
• ‘Perception is Cultural – An Ode to Moss’, essay in issue 11 of WTLF, August 2022 [read]
• ‘Worthless Seeds’, essay in issue 8 of the Young Propagators Zine, April 2022

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
• PURE MOVEMENTS, Centrum [contemporary art space], Berlin, May 2017
• PURE MOVEMENT 2 & 3, window project, Gazelli Art House, London, Dec 2015 – Jan 2016

GROUP EXHIBITIONS  &  SCREENINGS
• WINDOW PROJECT 2012-18, Gazelli Art House, London, August 2018
• ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL, Athens, May 2017
• CAIRO VIDEO FESTIVAL, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, February 2017
• FUTURE FEST, London, Sept 2016
• DIGITAL CANVAS, Adiacenze, Bologna, July 2016
• FILM STRIPPING, Centrum [contemporary art space], Berlin, June 2016
• DIGITAL CANVAS, ikonoTV, Berlin, May 2016
• DIGITAL CANVAS, Industry City Art Gallery, New York, Apr 2016
• SOUND / IMAGE, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, Nov – Dec 2015
• EXCEPT/ON, Goldsmiths, London, Sep 2015
• FUTURE GRAPHICS, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Sep 2014
• TESTSIGNAL, Hotel Elephant, London, Sep 2014

AWARDS
• FUTURE FEST ART PRIZE, FutureFest and s[edition], Sept 2016
• DIGITAL CANVAS, ikono.TV, Mar 2016
• WINDOW PROJECT AWARD, Gazelli Art House, Winter 2015/6

PRESS
Lomelosia, interview, June 2022 [read]
• Berlin Art Link, article by Julianne Cordray, May 2017 [read]
• FLOORR Magazine, Issue 3, interview, Apr 2016 [read]

EDUCATION

RHS Level 2 Principles of Horticulture
Royal Horticultural Society, 2021 – 2022

MA Computational Arts

Goldsmiths College, University of London, with distinction, 2013 – 2015

BA Media Production Design
University of the Arts London, with first-class honours, 1991 – 1995

Visual Communication
University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, 1989 – 1991


EXPERIENCE

Writer
since 2019

Digital artist & photographer
since 1989

Gardener

since 1971


CONTACT

ulla at nolden dot com