Jean-Ulrick Désert
Jean-Ulrick Désert (b. 1960, Port-au-Prince) is a Haitian–born conceptual and visual artist based in Berlin Germany. Désert’s artworks vary in form: public billboards, actions, paintings, site-specific sculpture, video and art objects. They emerge from a tradition of conceptual work engaged with social and cultural practices.
Well known for “NH2K,” his provocative “Burqa Project,” and his poetic “Goddess Projects,” Désert has said his practice may be characterized as visualizing “conspicuous invisibility.”
He has exhibited widely at venues including the Grand Palais in France; the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum of Harlem and Walker Art Center in the USA; the Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Bunkier Sztuki in Poland; the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Savvy Contemporary in Germany, and in galleries and public venues in the Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Ghent, Brussels, Dakar, and Havana Biennials.
He is the recipient of awards, public commissions, and private philanthropy, including LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council U.S., the Villa Waldberta–Munich, Kulturstiftung der Länder (Germany), and Cité des Arts (France). He received his bachelor of arts at Cooper Union and masters in architecture at Columbia University (New York), and has been an invited lecturer and critic at universities in the United States (Princeton, Yale, Columbia), Germany (Humboldt University), and France (École supérieure des Beaux-Arts). He previously advised and taught for Trans Art Institute (New York).
Désert was selected by Minister of Culture as the solo artist to represent the Haiti pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019)
From the WiDiMibaWi Art Prize 2022/23 Jury:
Jean-Ulrick Désert’s body of work is impressive in its breadth and ingenuity. His decades-long work in Germany has made and shaped spaces for crucial questions and practices. Before most of us have begun working in the city of Berlin, Jean-Ulrick was already here and doing the work without which most of us would not be able to do our own work. We acknowledge his ongoing practice and body of work with this award.
Complex and multi-layered, the way his works nest particular locations, events, and histories within the cosmic and the cosmic within the earthly and everyday, highlights the philosophical and poetical depth of Désert’s approach to artmaking and traverses an incredible number of registers: from the political to the spiritual, and from tragedy to comedy. Désert figuratively pokes, prodes and tickles the grotesque characters he plays on screen and in public places to provoke lingering affective responses to Black experiences in Europe.
This award goes to Jean-Ulrick Désert for his deep engagement with his social/cultural practices. His work has the power to activate the viewer in engaging ways, to connect and reveal intertwined histories. His concern around digital technologies brings to the surface the complex nature of the entanglement of politics with society.
Déserts practice, be it site-specific public installation or museum display, enters into dialogue with surrounding cultural traditions, poignantly commenting on the social relations the artist observes around him. Désert has shown an admirable dedication to research, whilst at the same time demonstrating a deeply personal investment in his projects. His practice, which stretches several decades, is continuously relevant in its examination of identities and identity politics, of gender and race.
biographie en français :
Né à Port-au-Prince, Haïti, le plasticien Jean-Ulrick Désert est diplômé en architecture du Cooper Union et de la Columbia University à New York. Il vit et travaille à Berlin depuis 2002 après des années à Paris.
Conférencier et critique, Désert a été invité dans des universités telles que Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Humboldt et l'École supérieure des Beaux-Arts à Paris. Il enseigne depuis 2013 à la Trans Art Institute (basée à New York).
L'art de Jean-Ulrick Désert s'étend sur plusieurs média et méthodes.
Son oeuvre conceptuelle engage les pratiques sociales et culturelles. Elle est réalisée sous diverses formes : panneaux « billboard », performances, tableaux, sculptures en situ dans l'éspace public, vidéos et objets. Connu pour son « Negerhosen2000 » et pour son « Projet Burqa » (de 2002), Désert associe souvent les iconographies culturelles et la métaphore historique pour perturber, modifier et déplacer les signifiants pré-supposés du public. Il explique sa démarche artistique comme la visualisation de « l'invisibilité ostentatoire ».
Depuis les années 1990, Désert expose son oeuvre en Europe, aux États-Unis et dans la Caraïbe : au Brooklyn Museum, à la Cité Internationale des Arts à Paris, au NGBK à Berlin, dans des galeries commerciales et dans des espaces publics à la Havane, en Martinique, à Munich, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Gand et à Bruxelles.
Solo Shows
2023
Jean-Ulrick Désert Wi Di Mimba Wi Art Prize Retrospective
Part 1
Savvy Contemporary, BerlinJean-Ulrick Désert Wi Di Mimba Wi Art Prize Retrospective
Part 2
Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland2021
Palimpsest Read Between the Signs
Jean-Ulrick Désert / Ciara Phillips
After the Butcher, Berlin2019
Haiti Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale / Caribbean Salon
G. Bouchotte, Curator for Haiti Ministers of Culture and Foreign Affairs / Caribbean Intitative Basel / LightboxGroup, Navy Officers Club, VeniceUnfinished Histories No.4
Klosterruine Franziskanerkirche, Berlin2018
Jean-Ulrick Désert
S12 Studio, 401 Broadway, New York.Caryl Ivrisse-Crochemar
2015
Belgian Soliloquy
Platform 102, Brussels BelgiumCurated by gallery director Odie Rynell Cash
Exhibited: Full Independence Speech Delivered by the Prime Minister (Patrice Lumumba) of the New Nation of Congo (4 panels) , Léopold Louis-Philippe Marie Victor de Saxe-Cobourg / Sky above Bruxelles 50°51'N / 4°21'E 9 April 1835 01:30CET (6 panels), The Constellation of Aries and its Surrounding Stars, Leopoldville (Kinshasa) 12:00 WAT 30 June 1960, Boules du ciel (The Paris edition) a limited-edition offset (crushed) poster of The Goddess Constellations / Sky Above Port-au-prince Haiti 12 January 2010, 21:53 UTC
2013
Amour Colère Folie (Love Anger Madness)
A Temporary Monument to Resistance
BIAC Biennale internationale d'art Contemporain Martinique, Fort-de-France Martinique, French West-IndiesJohanna Auguiac-Célénice
1.Biennial of Martinique Public-art commission at Place de L'Abbé Grégoire (aka Terres Sainville)
2010
The Goddess Project
Shrine of the Divine Negress No.1
Dada Post Gallery, Berlin (Germany)with artist Paula Ross, Co-ordinated by Howard McCalebb
2006
Postkarten von meinen Lieben
(Postcards from my Loves)
Public Art billboard installation commission, Munich(Germany) Selected by the Baureferat (Building Department) Muenchen and QUIVID (The public-art program of Munich)
The Passion
Stadtmuseum-MünchenStadtmuseum-München (Museum of the City of Munich) Munich (Germany) in conjunction with the official cultural events of the FIFA World Soccer Cup 2006 "Ein Spiel/viele Welten" (One Game/Many worlds) Coordinated by Patricia Müller of the Haupstadtmünchen-Kulturreferat (Munich Municipal Council of Art),
2005
Das Burqa Projekt
An den Grenzen meiner Träume begegnete ich dem Geist meines Doppelgängers
Installation in the Liftarchiv of the Kreisverwaltungsreferat-München (Munich Bureau of Immigration)A Lobby Project-space vitrine created by Szuper Gallery (Susanne Clausen, Pawlo Kerestey), Munich (Germany) Coordinated by artist Pia Lanzinger and historian Angela Koch
2004
Métamorphoses Sublimes
Apartman Projesi, Istanbul (Turkey)LOCK YOUR MIND exhibition series, Coordinated by artist Stephan Kurr (SOX36, Berlin) and writer Tunel Asmalimescit Beyoglu (Istanbul)
The White Man Project
BRUCE – Brave New Art Foundation, RotterdamArtist in Residence-Project #14 Solo Exhibition Selected by Project-space directors Hester Chen and Sebastiaan Bockhorst,
Jn.Ulrick Désert
Kunstverein-Wolfsburg, WolfsburgCoordinated by Kunstverein director Dr. Justin Hoffmann and Associate curator Anne Kersten
2002
The BURQA Project
On The Borders Of My Dreams I Encountered My Double's Ghost
The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York (USA)Selected by directors Moukhtar Kochache, Erin Donnelly, Ruth J. Abram,
POINT OF ENTRIE exhibition series commemorating one year anniversary of 9/11
Das Burqa Projekt
An den Grenzen meiner Träume begegnete ich dem Geist meines Doppelgängers
SOX36 Das Schaufenster, Berlin (Germany)Coordninated by curator-artists Naomi Potter (CA), Stephan Kurr (DE)
2001
NHK2
Aktionsforum, Praterinsel-Munich (Germany)Large-scale site-specific solo-installation in Aktionsforum Kantine/Dining-hall, in conjunction with BLONDINCHEN UND BRÄUNCHEN, WEIß WEIß BIN AUCH ICH by Curator Rafael von Uslar and Erno Vroonen, director AF
Group Shows
2022
LOVE? eine Werkstat
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum— Kulturen der Welt, Köln2019
Dear John “In-visible Realness: 50 Jahre nach Stonewall”
PS120 BerlinVolto Santo “Works on Paper”
Éspace d’art Contemporain 14°N 61°W, Fort-de-France Martinique, French West-IndiesNegerhosen2000 (video slideshow) “Dis/location: Mapping Black Europe”
the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey City University Center for the Arts, Jersey City, NJ U.S.Still Life With Flowers «Dust Specks of the Sea»
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), MiamiStill Life With Flowers “Dust Specks of the Sea”
Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York NYThe Waters of Kiskeya / Quisqueya—«Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago» #4
Portland Museum, Portland, Maine U.S.The Waters of Kiskeya / Quisqueya “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago” #5,
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Delaware U.S.
GLORIA, BLING (videos) “Dimension: 2 Venetian Scole”
(Scuola di S anta Maria e di S an Cristoforo dei Mercantii & Scuola del Santissimo Crocifisso), Venice (re-scheduled to Venice Architecture Biennale 2020)2018
Jean-Ulrick Désert Multiples “Sans titre / Untitled”
Éspace d’art Contemporain 14°N 61°W, Fort-de-France Martinique, French West-Indies.The Waters of Kiskeya / Quisqueya “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago”
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York and also The Patricia & P hillip Frost Art Museum, MiamiGLORIA “Self-destruction Poetry, Instinct #5”
The Village, LGBTQ Center, Berlin2017
The Waters of Kiskeya / Quisqueya “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago”
Pacific Standard Time, A Getty Foundation Initiative, MoLAA Los AngelesThe Passion “L’invisibilité Ostentatoire”
Fondacion Clément, Martinique French West Indies.Director Florent Plasse, Curator Giscard Bouchotte
NovaTerraAfrikæ, Negerhosen2000, Toiles de Jouy, Tea Céline, Lumumba, “New Region of The World”
Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków
2016
Caribbean Queer Visualities
Golden Thread Gallery (GTG) Belfast Northern IrelandCurated by David Scott (Small Axe Journal), Erica James (Yale University), Nijah Cunningham
Échos imprévues
Turning Tide
Mémorial ACTe Museum Guadeloupe French West IndiesCurated by Johanna Auguiac-Célénice and Tumelo Mosaka
Artists: Alexandre Arrechea, Charles Campbell, Tony Capellan, Renée Cox, Florine Demosthene, Jean-ulrick Désert, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Gilles Elie-dit-cosaque, Carlos Estevez , Joëlle Ferly, Eddy Firmin Dit Ano , Guy Gabon, Scherezade Garcia ,joscelyn Gardner , Jean-marc Hunt, Kirl, Jean-françois Manicom, Joël Nankin , Ricardo Ozier Lafontaine , Bruno Pedurand , Audrey Phibel , Marcel Pinas, François Piquet, Marielle Plaisir, Kelly Sinnapah Mary , Philippe Thomarel, Philibert Yrius.
Enacting the Text : Performing with Words
The Center for Book Arts, New York NY USACurated by artist Nicolás Dumit Estevez
exhibiting a hand rendered manuscript: "Full Independence Speech Delivered by the Prime Minister (Patrice Lumumba) of the New Nation of Congo on 30 June 1960", 2015 46 cm x 64cm each (four panels/signed and embossed) Edition of Five work on vellum paper.
Artists: Maria Alós, Josefina Báez, Paco Cao, Papo Colo, Billy X. Curmano, Irina Danilova, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Lesley Dill, Coco Fusco, Beatrice Glow, Alicia Grullón, Guerilla Girls, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Alison Knowles, LuLu LoLo, Linda Mary Montano, Pat Oleszko, Pedro Pietri, Praxis (Brainard and Delia Carey), Quintin Rivera-Toro, Jack Smith, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Cecilia Vicuña, and Martha Wilson.
FITE/ Rebels
Festival international des Textiles Extraordinaires
Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand. FranceCurated by Christine Athenor (Commissaire général FITE) director of HS_Projets and Christine Bouilloc, director of the Musée Bargoin
Exhibited: Les Toiles de Jouy/Thailand (Digitally printed textile)
The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse -
On Divinity, Parallel- and Supra-realities or the Exorcisement of Witchery
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin GermanyCurated by Dr.Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Dr.Elena Agudio
Exhibited "Terra Nova Afrikæ 新非洲"(2016). Artists: Georges Adéagbo, Atis Rezistans (Henrike Naumann, Bastian Hagedorn & Guerly Laurent), Sammy Baloji, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Haris Epaminonda, Em'kal Eyongakpa, Louis Henderson, Ayrson Heráclito, Dil Humphrey-Umezulike, Patricia Kaersenhout, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Vladimir Lucien, Marco Montiel-Soto, Emeka Ogboh, Priscila Rezende, Nassim Rouchiche, Georges Senga, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Andrew Tshabangu and Minnette Vári
The Burqa Project—On The Borders Of My Dreams I Encountered My Double’s Ghost” “L’Islam c’est aussi notre histoire
Galerie Vanderborgh and The Museum of Europe, Brussels2015
Radical Presence
Black Performance In Contemporary Art
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA USACurated by Valerie Cassel Oliver (CAMH)
ISBN-10: 1933619384 & ISBN-13: 978-1933619385
Between History and the Body
The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation/The 8th Floor, New York NY USACurated by Artistic Director Sara Reisman and George Bolster with Anjuli Nanda
Exhibited: The Passion (2006). Artists: Elia Alba, Firelei Baez, Nick Cave, Jean Ulrick Désert, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Brendan Fernandes, Jeffrey Gibson, Shaun Leonardo, Ana Mendieta, Paul Anthony Smith, Chungpo Tsering and Saya Woolfalk
From Within and Without :
The History of Haitian Photography
The NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale Florida USAEdouard Duval-Carrié
The History of Haitian Photography ISBN-10: 0990506347 & ISBN-13: 978-0990506348
2014
HAITI
Deux siècles de création artistique (Two Centuries of Artistic Creation)
Le Grand Palais – la Réunion des musées nationaux , Paris FranceRegine Cuzin (Association OCEA, Organisation et Conception d'Événements Artistiques, Paris) and Mireille Peridon Jerôme (Ateliers Jérôme, galerie d'art et centre d'animation culturelle 1985, Port-au-Prince)
ISBN-10: 2711861597 ISBN-13: 978-2711861590
Dak'Art
The 14th Dakar Biennale
Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain de Dakar, Dakar SenegalElise Atangana, Abdelkader Damani Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
Exhibited: Les battements des ailes des papillons peuvent déclencher des tornades (The flapping wings of butterflies can generate great storms) from the BlackOut series (2014), & Secretum – i am so much in love w/u (2014)
Radical Presence:
Black Performance In Contemporary Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota USAValerie Cassel Oliver (CAMH)
Exhibited: Negerhosen2000/Travel Albums
2013
Wahala
On Representation, Authenticity, Expectations and Other Inflated Concepts
Curated by "To Whom It May Concern" (Dr. Bonaventure Ndikung, Dr. Elena Agudio, Saskia Köbschall).Artists: William Cordova, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Yoel Diaz Vazquez, Köken Ergun, Alex Martinis Roe, Katrin Ströbel, Emeka Udemba
Radical Presence NYC
Studio Museum in Harlem & Grey Art Gallery of New York University, New York, USAInitiated by CAMH Senior Curator, Valerie Cassel Oliver
ISBN-10: 1933619384 & ISBN-13: 978-1933619385
Artists include: Wayne Hodge, Coco Fusco, Derrick Adams, Terry Adkins, Papo Colo, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Theaster Gates, Maren Hassinger, Wayne Hodge, Satch Hoyt, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kalup Linzy, Dave McKenzie, Jayson Musson, Senga Nengudi, Tameka Jean Norris, Lorraine O’Grady, Clifford Owens, Benjamin Patterson, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper (*withdrawn), William Pope.L, Rammellzee, Sur Rodney (Sur), Dread Scott, Xaviera Simmons, Danny Tisdale, Carrie Mae Weems
BIAC Biennale internationale d'art contemporain
"Parcours in situ" (Site-specific public art commissioned work) Director: Johanna Auguiac-Célénice (Parcours in situ), Curators: Holly Bynoe (Martinique pavillion), Tumelo Mosaka (International pavillion)
PARCOURS IN SITU /FORT DE FRANCE: *Place Abbé Grégoire / Terres Sainville : *JeanUlrick Désert, Amour, Colère, Folie.
Place de la cascade / TrénelleCitron : JeanMarc Bullet, Sculpture échaffaudage. Bibliothèque Schoelcher / FortdeFrance Centre : Carlos Estevez, Place Monseigneur Romero / FortdeFrance Centre : Kenor, fresque. la Savane / FortdeFrance Centre : Hervé Beuze, Pansées positives et Henri Tauliaut : Environnement Interactif et Minimaliste. Entrée de la ville, Bd Alfassa & pont Bd Attuly / FortdeFrance Centre : L'Atlas, installation. Mur du collège Julia Nicolas / FortdeFrance Centre : L'Atlas, fresque. Escaliers rue Amareuse / Dillon : Thierry Alet
PARCOURS IN SITU /SAINT PIERRE: Ruines de l'Eglise du fort : Hervé Beuze, Corps Rouge. Ruines de l’angle Victor Hugo rue Petit Versailles : Inès Tolentino, Souffle. Vestiges du théâtre : Bruno Sentier, Le cri du Pélican. Ruines du kiosque derrière le marché : Jack BengThi, Césairium
PARCOURS IN SITU / TROIS ILETS: Entrée de la ville des Trois-Ilets : REMED, fresque. Musée de la Pagerie : Inès Tolentino, Le Royaume de ce monde. Rondpoint de l’entrée du bourg : Karine Taïlamé. Petite place Débarcadère: Jorge Pineda, Balançoires, Poids, Mots d'Aimé Césaire. Mur du Centre culture Khokho RenéCorail : Xän et Oshea, fresque. Musée de la canne: Marc MarieJoseph, Dôme Sanctuaire
Labor Berlin12: Drifting
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin GermanyCurated by Valerie Smith (HKW Director), with the assistance of Magdalena Wiener, Kirsten Einfeldt, Alexandra Engel, Syelle Hase, Vu Huoang, Sonja Oehler, Pia Thilmann, Daniela Wolf, Johanna Zinecker.
Catalog ISBN 978 3 94 01 8
Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert , Bani Abidi , Haluk Atalayman, Sarnath Banerjee , Dante Busquets, Antonio Catelani , Miles Chalcraft , Pauline Curnier Jardin, Radek Dabrowski , Hege Dons Samset , Esra Ersen, Robert Fenz , Miguel Ángel Fernández, Flatform , Andy Graydon , Verena Grimm, Elin Jakobsdóttir, Nadia Kaabi-Linke , Bouchra Khalili, Rajkamal Kahlon, Debra Kate, Anastasia Khoroshilova , Kristina Leko , Sladjan Nedeljkovic , Warren Neidich , Nghia Nuyen, Tímea Anita Oravecz , Tanja Ostojić, Anu Pennanen , Stéphane Querrec , Mark Sadler , Adania Shibli , David Smithson, Charles Stankievech, Michael Stevenson , Vassilea Stylianidou , Norio Takasugi, Diego Toledo , Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan
Photo Op
The Ubiquity of Photography
Dada Post Gallery , Berlin-Reinikendorf GermanyCurated by Howard McCalebb
Artists: Zoë Baldinger - Hugo Bastidas - Dawoud Bey - Till R. D. Cremer - Elizabeth Demaray - Jean-Ulrick Désert - Brigitte Denck - Christine Denck - Jane Katharina di Renzo - Christoffer Calmer - Sibylle Hofter - Patrick Jolley - Justin Kimball - Oli Knoth - Andreas Koch - Martin Lau - Wenfeng Liao - Matthias Mayer - Julia Muenstermann - Paul Perschke - Felix Schneeweiss - c.e.shore - Maria Silvano - Andre Smits - Bruce Spear - Edouard Steinhauer - Markus Wirthmann - Alexander Weiss - YounHee Yang - Christina Zück
Exotik 2013
Silpakorn Art Lab, Bangkok / Nakhon PathomThailand & Galerie Nord Berlin-Moabit, Germany.Curated and organized by artists Alfred Banze/Christine Falk (Thailand)
Artists include Andreas Dettloff, Veronika Radulovic, Amrit Chusuwan...
2012
Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?
Contemporary Art From the Caribbean
Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort , The NetherlandsCurated by Nancy Hoffman
Artists: Ryan Oduber, Joscelyn Gardner, Sheena Rose, Oswaldo Macia .Costa Rica: Edgar León, Alexandre Arreachea Carlos Garaicoa Yaima Carrazana Ana Mendieta (†), David Bade Tirzo Martha Tony Monsanto , Marcos Lora Read Jorge Pineda Limber Vilorio, Bruno Pedurand, Hew Locke, Mario Benjamin, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Edouard Duval Carrié, Marvin Bartley, Renée Cox, Leasho Johnson, Ebony G. Patterson, Jean Francois Boclé, David Damoison. Panama: Jhafis Quintero Gonzales, Jonathan Harker/ Donna Conlon, Pepón Osorio, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Michael McMillan, Remy Jungerman, Charl Landvreugd, Marcel Pinas.
"The Goddess Constellations / Sky Above Haiti 12January2010, 21:53UTC"
Radical Presence:
Black Performance In Contemporary Art
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas USAValerie Cassel Oliver (CAMH Senior Curator)
ISBN-10: 1933619384 & ISBN-13: 978-1933619385
Artists: Derrick Adams, Terry Adkins, Papo Colo, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Theaster Gates, Maren Hassinger, Wayne Hodge, Satch Hoyt, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kalup Linzy, Dave McKenzie, Jayson Musson, Senga Nengudi, Tameka Jean Norris, Lorraine O’Grady, Clifford Owens, Benjamin Patterson, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper (*withdrawn), William Pope.L, Rammellzee, Sur Rodney (Sur), Dread Scott, Xaviera Simmons, Danny Tisdale, Carrie Mae Weems
2011
Making Mirrors
of body and gaze
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V.(NGBK), Berlin (Germany)Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Dave Ball & Oliver Walker, Sonia Barrett, Danielle Daude, Farida Heuck, Wayne Hodge, Wolfram Kastner, Rajkamal Kahlon, Philip Metz, Manuela Ritz, Serfiraz Vural & Pasquale Rotter. Curated by Sandrine Micosse-Aikins and Metanationale. *Catalogue
"The Goddess Constellations / 5:00.12.4.1975.48°51N2°21E", 2011
Bauen Wohnen Denken
Building Dwelling Thinking
SmartLoft Berlin Germany.Artists: Marcus Ahlers, Seo young Chang, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Patrick Jambon, Anna Kostreva, Rebecca Loyche, Lucy A. Roberts, Paula Ross, Gerard Smulevich. Curated by kate hers and Thomas Arnold
The Goddess Constellations / Fragment Nr.1, Paris 5AM 12 April 1975, 2011
Negerhosen2000 / The Travel Albums, SmartLoft Selection, 2007
Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC (USA)Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Ewan Atkinson, Nicole Awai, LaVaughn Belle Lillian Blades, Terry Boddie, Holly Bynoe, Santiago Cal, Charles Campbell, Keisha Castello John Cox, Blue Curry, Richard Fung Joscelyn, Gardner Marlon, Griffith Abigail Hadeed, Nadia Huggins, Sri Irodikromo, Marlon James, Patricia Kaersenhout, Roshini Kempadoo, Jaime Lee Loy Hew Locke, Pauline Marcelle Kishan Munroe Nikolai Noel Ebony G. Patterson Marcel Pinas, Dhiradj Ramsamoedj Sheena Rose Oneika Russell Heino Schmid, Philip Thomas, Rodell Warner, Tonya Wiles, Natalie Wood.
Supported by the World Bank Art Program in partnership with the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Caribbean Community Secretariat, part of the
ABOUT CHANGE emerging artists’ program. Curated by Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores. * Catalogue (pdf)
"TROPHIES / Paint-by-Number Series" (on Secretary General of the U.N. Kofi Annan)
2010
FIRST SERVICE / Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst
Schwules-Museum, Berlin (Germany)Curators Jörg Leidig and Ulrich Dörfer (Galerie Dörrie Priest, Hamburg-Berlin)
Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, D-L Alvarez, Jon Campbell, Amir Fattal, Grit Hachmeister, Dennis Kuhlow, Sophie von Stillfried, Sascha Weidner.
Urban Memories
48 Stunden Neukölln
Altes Museum Neukölln, Berlin (Germany)Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Rosa mesa, Prinz Gholam, André Piontek & Judith Siegmund, Sencer Vardarman, Simone Zaugg. Curated by Maria Linares and Dr.Martin Steffens, director Kulturnetzwerk-Neukölln for 48 Stunden Neukölln 2010 *Catalogue
"Der Paukenschlag" (Die Trommel)
2009
Save Berlin
Stadtbad-Wedding Berlin (Germany)in Partnership with Ex-Berliner Magazine
Coordinated by Daniel Borden
"The Invisible(Berlin)Wall"
Signs Taken For Wonders
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (USA)Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Kader Attia, Julien Friedler, Jeffrey Gibson, Xaviera Simmons, and Carrie Mae Weems. Curated by Isolde Brielmaier
Trophies / Paint-by-Number series (on Secretary General Kofi Annan)
Re/Positioning
Critical Whiteness / Perspectives Of Color
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (Germany)Coordninated by Sandrine Micosse Aikins and Meta-Nationale
http://www.whitelessons.blogspot.com
10Th Havana Biennial
Integration & Resistence in the Global Age
Los Cabañas K., Havana (Cuba)Curatorial team: José Manuel Noceda, Margarita González, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Ibis Hernández Abascal, Margarita Sánchez Prieto, José Fernández Portal, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda.
"The Goddess Project / Shrine of the Divine Negress No.1"
Representing Germany/Haiti with underwriting from IFA/Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Stuttgart, TA Projects Berlin, Culture France Paris
Komet Preußen (Comet Prussia)
Werkstattgalerie, Berlin GermanyArtists: Jean-Ulrick Desért, Solveig Karen Bolduan, Genia Chef, Bernhard Heisig, Ter Hell, Edward Lucie-Smith, Klaus Vogelgesang. Curated by Pascual Jordan / Mirko Friewald directors
"Guten Morgen Preußen" Cyantotype series (Good Morning Prussia)
Kreyol Factory
des artistes interrogent les identités créoles
La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (France)(Kreyol Factory– Artists Interrogate Creole Identities)
Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Allora Jennifer & Calzadilla Guillermo, Alet Thierry, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jean-François Boclé, Alex Burke, Renee Cox, Thierry Fontaine, Pepón Osorio, Marcel Pinas, Patrick Vilaire, Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Tony Capellan, Bruno Peinado. Supervising curator Yolande Bacot
"Negerhosen2000"
2008
Quivid 08
Kommission für Kunst am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum
Halle des Technischen Rathauses, Munich (Germany)Wettbewerbsgewinner und Realisierungen 2005-2008, Underwritten by the Baureferat-München
Installation photo-documentation
Infinite Island
Contemporary Caribbean Art
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (USA)
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Hew Locke, Christopher Cozier, Anna-lee Davis, Marcel Pinos, Satch Hoyt, Nicole Awai
First major survey-exhibition of Caribbean-diaspora art, Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum.
The Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Exhibition Fund and the Barbara and Richard Debs Exhibition Fund. Generous support is contributed by the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the American Center Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding is contributed by the Friends of Brooklyn Museum, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and the Consulate General of the Netherlands. The accompanying catalogue is supported by a Brooklyn Museum publications endowment established by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
"Negerhosen2000 / The Travel Albums"
"The Burqa Project: On the Borders of My Dreams I Encountered My Double's Ghost"
Democracy And Violence
Werkstattgalerie Berlin (Germany)Drawings and collages
Glück gehabt
Kunst im Untergrund
Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Kunst im Stadtraum, BerlinArtists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Julia Baier, Martina Becker, BEWEGUNG NURR und Florian Göpfert, Roland Boden, Heike Bollig, Susanne Britz, Dante Busquets, Martin Conrads/Anna Mándoki, Ilse Deberle, Manfred Eichhorn, Moritz Frei, Rolf Giegold, Alexandra Gneissl, Adrian Göllner, Sebastian Gräfe, Massoud Graf-Hachempour, Caroline von Grone, Irène Hug, Karen Irmer, Karl Heinz Jeron, Lilo Cornelia Karsten, Katja Klein, Kirsten Klöckner, Carsten Kummer, Victor López, Eva-Christina Meier, Connie Mendoza, Claudia Mucha, Barbara Müller, Leo de Munk, Piotr Nathan, Hester Oerlemans, Felix Pestemer, Heiko Pfreundt, Nik Pitton, Ingrid Schütz, Christian Sievers , Hein Spellmann, Bernd Trasberger, Urban Plant Research, Sylvia Winkler/Stephan Köperl, Gloria Zein
A Project by NGBK, financed by Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Kunst im Stadtraum, Berlin, and supported by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) and Wall AG.
2007
Die Tür Für Eine Andere Zukunft Aufmachen
Open Doors for an Alternative Future
Neues Problem Galerie, Berlin-Mitte (Germany)Annual small-works exhibiton organized by Gallery director Uwe Jonas
"Negerhosen2000 / Travel albums" [A5 Study]
2006
Sexwork: Art Myth Reality
NGBK Berlin, Haus am Kleinpark & Kunstraum Bethanien, BerlinArtists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert (US/DE), Patrick Angus (US), Amos Badertscher (US), J. Jackie Baier (DE), Cristiano Berti (IT), Bianca Bodau (DE), Ursula Biemann (CH), Viviana Bravo Botta (CL/DE), Jose Luis Cuevas (MX), Antje Engelmann (DE), Stefanie Gaus (DE), Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen (DK), Birgit Hein (DE), Gabriele Horndasch (DE), Karin Jurschick (DE), diekönigin (AT), Natalie Kriwy (F/DE), Ane Lan (NO), BuBu de la Madeleine (JP), Anna Nizio (PL/DE), Eva Maria Ocherbauer (AT/DE), Beate Passow (DE), Anja Planišček (SL), Tadej Pogačar (SL), Clara S. Rueprich (DE), Tejal Shah, Dr.Floy, Natasha Mendonca and Sumathi (F, IN), Judith Siegmund (DE), Alberto Simon (BR/DE), Ulrike Solbrig (DE), Itziar Bilbao Urrutia (ES/GB), Social Impact (AT), Borjana Ventzislavova (BG/AT), Rommelo Yu (PH/DE), Yoshiko Shimada (JP), Gloria Zein (DE). Curator team: Stéphane Bauer, Boris von Brauchitsch, Katharina Kaiser, Maika Leffers, Jörg Leidig, Judith Siegmund, Ulrike Solbrig. Catalogue
"Codex Testimoniorum Amoris / The Book of the Witnesses of Love -or- The collected Accounts of the Emptoris and their Scortæ"
"Les Toiles de Jouy / Thailand and Mail-order-brides" (catalogue cover)
2005
Living For The City
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (USA)Curated by Isolde Brielmaier (Vassar) and Trevor Schoonmaker (Duke University) initiating BICA-(The Brooklyn Institute of Contemporary Art)
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert,
"The ABCs of My Private Life" ("L'ABCdaire de ma vie privée"), "Negerhosen2000"
Über Schönheit
About Beauty
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin-Tiergarten (Germany)Web Component Exhibition : http://www.ueber-beauty.com
Curator-director Shaheen Merali,
Jean-Ulrick Désert Artistic Sampler Dossier
Xenopolis
Of The Fascination and Marginalization of The Other
Rathausgalerie München, Munich (Germany)Original German title: XENOPOLIS/ Von der Faszination und Ausgrenzung des Fremden
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Henrik Oelson, Pia Lanzinger, Tamiko Thiel, Oliver Ressler, esra Ersen, martin Krenn,Tanja Ostojic, Schleuser.net (Farida Heuk, Ralf Hofman, Manuela Unverdoben), Ina Wudtke, Nika Spalinger, Szuper Gallery (Susanne Clausen & Pawlo Kerestey)
Intiated and curated by Pia Lanzinger, Andrea Naica-Loebell and (author/historian) Angela Koch. Catalogue-brochure and Book(Angela Koch)
Generously funded by the Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat & The Villa Waldberta am Starnberg See
"Codex Testimoniorum Amoris / The Book of the Witnesses of Love -or- The collected Accounts of the Emptoris and their Scortæ"
2004
Zeichnung
The Schwules Museum, Berlin (Germany)Artists:
Intitated by museum curators Jörg Leidig and Wolgang Thiese,
"Les Toiles de Jouy" (Thailand Gay Tourism series)
Veni Vidi Video II
Studio Museum Harlem, New York (USA)Curator Christine Young Kim
artists:
"Suicidal Meditations of My Own Death / Woolworth Building"
Anatomically Correct
473 Broadway Gallery, New York (USA)Initiated and curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa
"Die Hosen r'unter lassen "
2003
War
Apotheke Mitte Kunstausstellung, Berlin (Germany)Pop-up gallery initiated by Paulus Fugers & Hans Booy (Tulip Enterprises) of Kunstraum Richard Sorge (Berlin)
"Suicidal Meditations Of My Own Death "
Subversiv
Sieben fotografische Positionen aus Berlin
Kunst(B)handlung Ausstellungsraum, Munich (Germany)Organized by artist Rinaldo Hopf
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Ingo Taubhorn, Andeas Fux, Henning von Berg
2001
Surrender
I Want To Give You My Devotion
Aeroplastics Damasquine Contemporary Arts Gallery, Brussels (Belgium)Artists: jean-Ulrick Désert, Joseph Beuys, Mark Dion, Katharina Fritsch, Paul Glazer, Candida Höfer, John Waters, Salome, Marcus Weber, Anny Ötztürk, Marcel Odenbach, Geoffrey Hendricks, Bernhard Joahannes Blume, Cary S. Leibowitz, Leroy 'King of Art'.
Guest Curator Rafael von Uslar (Germany)
"Surrender, La Main / a Project for Belgium"
"Surrender, Le Chapelet (The Rosary)"
Bloninchen Und Bräunchen
Weiss Weiss bin auch ich
Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich (Germany)Initiated by Curator Rafael von Uslar
With the generous underwriting of Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat. Book-catalogue (Blondies & Brownies, weiß weiß bin auch ich / Multiculturalism and Racism in the Old and the New World, edited by Irmtrud Wojak & Rafael von Uslar)
"Negerhosen2000" Bierdeckel/Beer-coaster mocksups/studies and Bar/Kneipe pop-ups
"Negerhosen2000" Kantine/restaurant site specific solo-installation
2000
Sur la thème de Paris
Galerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)l'Exposition de la Maison, organized by founder-director Simone Brunau,
"Interior Lives / La vie Parisienne du Duke & Duchess de Windsor"
"Negerhosen2000 / Post Cards From GERMANIA"
Vier Kunstvlaai 4 Art Fair
Jim Beard Gallery and Projects, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)"Pillar" in collaboration with artist Ingrid Jejina
Blondies And Brownies
Aspects of Multiculturalism and Racism at the End of the Century
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)Curator Rafael von Uslar
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Bas Meerman, Lorraine O'Grady..
Stadt München Biennial (Amsterdam)
Gallery Stadt München, Hotel Winston Amsterdam , Amsterdam (The Netherlands)Pop-up gallery initiated and curated by Simon Ferdinando
"The Hip Decadence of Reductive Glamour"
Lectures & Teaching
2010
The Invisible /The works of Jn.Ulrick Désert
École supérieur des beaux arts, Paris (France)in conjunction with the graduate studio in Performance Art, Professor Tania Brugerra studio
The Invisible /The works of Jn.Ulrick Désert
University of Lille, Lille (France)in conjunction with their study of Stuart Halls "Identités et Cultures, politiques des cultural studies" 2007 Éditions Amsterdam. Monsieur Marco dell' Omodarme, adjunct professor
The Invisible/Das Unsichtbare
Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany)American Studies Program's W.E.B. duBois Lecture Series Summer 2010
2009
White Lessons
Neue Geselleschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin (Germany)in conjunction with the Re-Positionierung Lecture series, For youtube video-links included see: www.whitelessons.blogspot.com
2006
Neither here nor there
the works of Jn.Ulrick Désert)
Union College, New York (USA)on the invitation of art-historian and curator Prof. Lorraine Cox
Jn.Ulrick Désert, A multi-media practice
California College of Artsin conversation with Prof.Jerry Philogen (American Studies Department Dickinson College), California College of Arts, San Francisco CA.(USA) Prof.Mabel Wilson, director
1997
The Post Mortem Re-Construction of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture NYas part of the collaborative lecture: "Don't Make Me Read You: Practice, Desire, Metaphysics" with Mabel Wilson (Columbia University), Yolanda Daniels (Columbia University), Todd Antony Palmer, Eugene Harris
The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Lecture Series, New York (USA)
Grants Awards & Residencies
2022
Wi Di Mimba Wi AKB Stiftung Inaugural Comission Art Prize
Savvy Contemporary, BerlinFalkenrot Art Prize
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin2021
Kulturfonds Grant, Bonn
2016
Emily Harvey Foundation
Artist in Residence
2015
Villa Waldberta
Landeshauptstadt München KulturreferatThree month residency and Grant, Feldafing (Germany)
Pilot Projekt Gropiusstadt
Artist in Residence Program, Berlin (Germany)
2010
Kulturstiftung der Länder
Work and Research Grant/ Cité International des Arts, Paris (France)
2009
Künstlerhäuser-Worpsewede
Artist residency Werkstattsstipendium/Workhop-grant and Martin Kausche Atelier, Worpswede in Lower Saxony (Germany)
2008
Kunst am Bau Commission
Landeshaupstadt München Baureferat/ Quivid & Department of City Construction, Munich (Germany)
2006
Pilot Projekt Gropiusstadt
Artist in Residence Program, Berlin (Germany
Villa Waldberta
Stadtmuseum Muenchen & Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat, One month residency, and Grant Feldafing (Germany)
2004
Brave New Art Foundation
BRUCE Gallery - Brave New Art FoundationArtist in Residence Project #14
One month Artist residency and Grant, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Residency Program
The Woolworth Building StudiosSix month Studio and Grant, New York (USA)
2002
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council & The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum« Point of Entry » Grant and Exhibition, New York (USA)
2001
Cité Internationale des Arts
Cité Internationale des Arts: Artist in Residence Fellowship Grant,
One year artist residency, Studio underwritten by Ministère des Affaires Étrangères & Raoul Ricci Fondation, Paris (France)
Bibliographie
2022
An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art
the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New YorkEdited by Anjuli Nanda Diamond,
Co-edited by George Bolster and Sara Reisman,
The Passion, p. 30–31 ISBN: 978-3-7774-3756-9
2019
Queer!? Visual Arts In Europe
Anton Anthonissen & Evert van Straaten
2019 Waanders Uitgevers Zwolle publisher
ISBN 978-94-6262-085-8
May You Live In Interesting Times
(58th Venice Biennale Catalogue, Participating Countries vol., p. 74–75)
La Biennale
Arte 2019 ISBN 978-88-98727-30-8
2017
Featured Artist Caribbean Beat (Caribbean Airline Magazine)
“Jean-Ulrick Désert: look and look again | Closeup” by Andre Bagoo
May 2019 Issue
Featured Artist Harper’s Bazaar
“Mój Niemiecki Manhattan”
Dec/Jan 2017/18, p. 64–67.
2014
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century
Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists
Edited by David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Associate Editor Karen C. C. Dalton, 368 pages, 224 color.
Publisher: Belknap Press (first edition), 2014: Harvard
University Press and the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute
at the Hutchins Center for African and African American
Research.
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), “Diaspora All Up in the Mix: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Mapping Fragmented Archaeologies,”
Dr. Jerry Philogene PhDHaïti—Deux siècles de création artistique
Haïti—Deux siècles de création artistique,
Grand Palais Paris FR, Pg.204–209, Editors Régine Cuzin and
Mireille Peridon Jerome, ISBN-10: 2711861597
2013
Meditations on Traveling Diasporically
Jean-Ulrick Désert and Negerhosen2000
Jerry Philogene, "Meditations on Traveling Diasporically: Jean-Ulrick Désert and Negerhosen2000"
Radical History Review Winter 2013 2013(115): 184-193; doi:10.1215/01636545-1724769
2010
Understanding Art
Lois Fichner-Rathus/ College of NJ, Understanding Art (Ninth Edition), p.22, plates 22-7, Wadsworth Cenage Learning 2010, 2007 Boston MA
ISBN 13 : 978-0-495-56929-9 ISBN-10 : 0-495-56929-1
Critical Whiteness/Perspectives of Color
Re/Positionierung - Critical Whiteness/Perspectives of Color, text from White-lessons lecture by jean-Ulrick Désert, NGBK Verlag/Publisher Berlin Germany, Anticipated publishing date 2010
2007
Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art
Tumelo Musaka/ Annie Paul/ Nicollette Ramirez, Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, p.100-105, Co-publication by The Brooklyn Museum & Philip-Wilson 2007 New York & London, ISBN 085667641 1 EAN 97808566777 641 3
Politiques des Cultural Studies
Stuart Hall, Identités and cultures. Politiques des Cultural Studies, Translated from the English by Christophe Jaquand, Series initiated by Maxime Cervulle, Cover Art by Jean-Ulrick Désert :
Negerhosen 2000 (2001-2007), Éditions Amsterdam 2007 Paris ISBN 978-2-915547-43-62007
Sexwork - Kunst Mythos Realität: Art Myth Reality
Boris von Brauchitsch, Sexwork - Kunst Mythos Realität: Art Myth Reality, Cover Artwork by Jean-Ulrick Désert : Les Toiles de Jouy-Thailand (2004), Éditions Kehrer Verlag für Kunst, Kultur und Fotografie, 2007 Heidelberg, ISBN-10: 3939583170/ ISBN-13: 978-3939583172
Une Journée haïtienne
Forward by Edouard Maunick
Thomas Spear (Editor), Une Journée haïtienne, Forward by Edouard Maunick, Cover Artwork : Jean-Ulrick Désert Rara des Jacobins (2007), Co-publication by Mémoire d'encrier & Présence africaine 2007 Montreal-Paris, ISBN 978-2-923153-84-1 & ISBN 978-2-7087-0784-9
Art actuel des caraïbes-confluences and émergence
Jean-Pierre Frimbois, Art actuel des caraïbes-confluences and émergence, p.80-85, Art Actuel #52/ Septembre-Octobre 2007 Paris
2006
Looking to Read
Trevor Schoonmaker Deborah Grant and Jean-Ulrick Désert: Looking to Read p. 7-9 in the exhibition catalogue Fine Print, Isolde Brielmaier-Editor and Co-publication of the Ramapo College of New Jersey & Ramsey Press 2006 New Jersey
Strangeness and Alterity and the Potential of Tolerance in the Self
Angela Koch, In Tolerable between-construction of Strangeness and Alterity and the Potential of Tolerance in the Self, using the example of The Burqa-Project by Jn.Ulrick Désert : Dangerous Crossings : The Grammar of Tolerance- editors-Farida Heuck/ Ralf Homann/ Pia Lanzinger, German and English p.166-178, Publisher Verlag Silke Schreiber 2006 Munich, ISBN: 3-88960-087-5
2005
Non-Documenatry burqa pictures on the internet
Pekka Rantanen (University of Tampere, Finland), Non-Documenatry burqa pictures on the internet / Ambivalence and the politics of representation International Journal of Cultural Studies, Sage Publications 2005 London/ Thousand Oaks CA/ New Dehli, Volume 8(3):829-351 DOI:10.1177/1367877905055681
Time Out New York
Ranjani Gopalarathinam, Fit for Kings (BICA), Time Out New York Jul 28-Aug 3, 2005
SüddeutscheZeitung SZ Extra Austellungen & Literatur
Tania Baar, Suche Ehemann mit EU-Pass «Xenopolis»-eine Ausstellung in der Rathausgalerie erzählt von der Faszination und Ausgenzung des Fremden : SüddeutscheZeitung SZ Extra Austellungen & Literatur #108, 18.05.2005 p.9
Faszination und Ausgrenzung Die Ausstellung Xenopolis
Cornelia Gockel, Faszination und Ausgrenzung Die Ausstellung «Xenopolis» erzählt vom Umgang mit Fremden : SüddeutscheZeitung #109, 13.05.2005 p.37 (B35)
2004
Migrating Identity- Transmission Reconstruction
Editeurs-Sonja Beijering/ Simon Ferdinando/ Renée Ridgway Migrating Identity- Transmission Reconstruction, catalogue d'éxposition , Éditions SEB Foundation 2004 Pays Bas , p.104 ISBN: 90-8546-022-0
Goethe-Zitat auf Bierdeckeln
Hans-Adelbert Karweik, Goethe-Zitat auf Bierdeckeln Wolfsburgurger Nachrichten 17.September 2004, p.33
Lebkuchenherzen im Kunstverein
Neue Austellung von Jn.Ulrick Désert- Burqa Projekt Wolfsburger Allgemeine 17.Sep'04 p.21
Kunst:100.000 Bierdeckel mit Literatur
Arbeiten von Jn.Ulrick Désert Wolfsburger Allgemeine 18.Sep.2004 p.25
SOX36 Kunstforum International
Matthias Reichelt die Geschichte des SOX36 Kunstforum International Bd.170 Mai-Juni 2004 p.263-265 Ruppichteroth Germany & Éditions TZ-Verlag
The First Fist is the Deepest
Jörg Sundermeier, The First Fist is the Deepest TAZ (Tages Zeitung) 03.03.2004 p.25 Berlin Germany
2002
SOX36 Programm 2000-2002
Stephan Kurr/Naomi Potter SOX36 Programm 2000-2002 Schauram in Kreuzberg, caralogue de les installations, Éditions Enrich Weiß Verlag 2002 Bamberg Germany, ISBN 3-9285 82 7
Was war los in München 1950-2000
Andrea Naica-Loebell, Was war los in München 1950-2000, p.131, Éditions Sutton Verlag GmbH 2002 Erfurt ISBN 3-89702-439-X
2001
Blondies and Brownies weiß weiß bin ich auch ich
Éditions Klartext 2001 Essen Germany (190 pages)ISBN 3-89861 000 4
Rafael von Uslar & Irmtrud Wojak-éditeurs Blondies and Brownies weiß weiß bin ich auch ich, Catalogue d'éxposition, Allemand-Anglais, ,
Blondies and Brownies/Aktionsforum
Dr.Justin Hoffmann, Blondies and Brownies/Aktionsforum Praterinsel-Wurzelkeller, Springerin, Bd.VII Heft2, 2001, p.75/76 Autriche
2000
NHK2
Ein ungewöhnliches Kunstprojekt in München
Bernd Müller, NHK2/Ein ungewöhnliches Kunstprojekt in München, in: Sergej München 03.2001, p.40 Germany
1997
Queer Space
Gordon Brent Ingram/ Anne-Marie Bouthillette/ Yolanda Randter-éditeurs Queers in Space, essai principal par Jean-Ulrick Désert Queer Space p.16-25, Éditions Bay Press 1997 Seattle Washington USA