PINA BAUSCH SEEN BY URSULA KAUFMANN

Exhibition: 5 February – 25 September 2020

"I apply to my photography Pina Bausch’s most quoted statement: I’m not interested in how people move but what moves them. (…) They must still move me when looking at them even a long time later."

Ursula Kaufmann, born in 1946 in Essen, is specialized in dance and stage photography. She documents the work of Pina Bausch since 1984 in many international exhibitions and publications.

"I first met Pina Bausch in 1975 on the occasion of the piece Le Sacre du Printemps. I was so captivated that I am still fascinated by Pina Bausch and the Dance Theatre today. It is amazing that even when photographing rare pieces again they have almost nothing of their topicality-issues as equality, loneliness of couples with each other, the misfortune of the abandoned."

"The most interesting and greatest thing for me was always dance. Because to capture human movement has something magical about it. You cannot anticipate what is coming next."

The exhibition is a tribute to Pina Bausch and takes place in the contemporary and modern exhibition space for photography of the Goethe-Institut.

Catalogue: PINA BAUSCH und das Tanztheater Wuppertal. Edition Panorama, 2014. Bilingual in German and English.

More information: www.ursulakaufmann.de