Category: COLLECTION OF WORKS

VHS video 12 minutes (English), 1990 A DVD edited by Rainer Nelissen was produced in 2009. Trailer 5:30 minutes Work­shops – a collec­tion of works: Dance Video Work­shop: Control 1991 Dance Video Work­shop: Secret Spaces 1991 Bochum Work­shop – Uniform, Status Symbol and Ideal 2007 Unnat­ural Conse­quences (work in progress) 2014- In the evening the girls make creative use of the […]

Trilogy – a collec­tion of works: Trilogy: Lilith Trilogy: Passion Play Trilogy: Song of Songs The Trilogy is a collec­tion of video works completed during Tanya Ury’s final year of the BA HONS in Fine Art course at Exeter College of Art and Design (now Plymouth Univer­sity), and which were presented at her degree show in 1988. Price of each […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted, H 56 cm x B 77 cm (Edition of 7) Insur­ance value 2,000 Euro Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL). The filmed process of Tanya Ury’s body art embroi­dery and […]

A white neon sign (12415 cm) Insur­ance price 3,000 Euros (Edition 5) Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim Barbie and Klaus Jacob’s Ladder Swastikas and Stars wrestle­with­y­ourangel neonazi Blind Spot Red Hot Pokers Tran­scending the Ladder Jack the Ladder The logo refers […]

Of the many work­shops that Tanya Ury has given, most were presen­ta­tions of her work or lectures — some were work­shops, espe­cially prepared for the occa­sion. Work­shops – a collec­tion of works: Dance Video Work­shop: Control 1991 Dance Video Work­shop: Secret Spaces 1991 Bochum Work­shop — Uniform, Status Symbol and Ideal 2007 Unnat­ural Conse­quences (work in progress) 2014– Presen­ta­tion 1992 False […]

Poem, English, unpub­lished This short love poem is a humorous but passionate string of word fore­play oriented around oral and aural desire, culi­nary, with a sensed jazz rhythm beat. *** Ury has also created other artworks that might be consid­ered visual poetry. Moving Message 1992, incor­po­rates an LED sign displaying the words: you are why; Sonata in […]

Poem (English), unpub­lished wish, a Haiku on S & M In its style and inten­tion the concrete poetry is a collec­tion of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is impro­vised and written down imme­di­ately — in essence it is auto­matic writing. Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be regarded as​“concrete” […]

I chose the Boss story to engage with, although many other German compa­nies prof­ited during the war years by exploita­tion, because Boss was a clothing manu­fac­turer; the idea that a costume doesn’t just provide a protec­tive layer but can also be a form of disguise, intrigued me. Hugo Ferdi­nand Boss made gentlemen’s suits in Metzingen, Germany until 1931. Later, […]

Video-instal­la­­tion with live perfor­mance reading. A DVD (42 minutes) of the poem layout with an unsyn­chro­nised double voice sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2012 (image format 4:3) – trailer 2 minutes. Infor­ma­tion Poems, design Recording 1 Tanya Ury, Recording 2 Jules Desgoutte Video edit Mirco Sanftleben Text editor Amin Farzanefar The live concert​“CrissCross/​Anamnesis #10“, by the composer […]

Infor­ma­tion Concept: Tanya Ury Work­shops – a collec­tion of works: Dance Video Work­shop: Control 1991 Dance Video Work­shop: Secret Spaces 1991 Bochum Work­shop – Uniform, Status Symbol and Ideal 2007 Unnat­ural Conse­quences (work in progress) 2014– Take a piece of paper; draw a face; fold the paper over to conceal the face – only a neck can now be seen; pass […]

This poem in German and English is, in the main, a list of hand­picked words that begin with the prefix​“un”. In its style and inten­tion the concrete poetry is a collec­tion of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is impro­vised and written down imme­di­ately — in essence it […]

Video-instal­la­­tion and some printed concrete poetry The poetry series two toned was written directly after the toned poems that were set to music with sound effects by Kasander Nilist; the title, amongst other things, also refers to the term​“tone poems”. A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orches­tral music in a single contin­uous section […]

Lo-band U‑matic video, 12 minutes, English A DVD with German subti­tles edited by Rainer Nelissen was produced in 2009, German trans­la­tion, Tanya Ury & Amin Farzanefar. Price of each DVD: 50 Euros Trailer 2:20 minutes Trilogy – a collec­tion of works: Trilogy: Lilith Trilogy: Passion Play Trilogy: Song of Songs To the love poetry of the Song of Solomon, Song of Songs […]

Lo-band U‑matic video, 10 minutes, English A DVD with German subti­tles edited by Rainer Nelissen was produced in 2009, German trans­la­tion, Tanya Ury & Amin Farzanefar. Price of each DVD: 50 Euros Trailer 2:20 minutes Trilogy – a collec­tion of works: Trilogy: Lilith Trilogy: Passion Play Trilogy: Song of Songs With Passion Play Ury attempts to recon­cile contrasting char­ac­ter­is­tics of the​“femi­nine”, […]

Lo-band U‑matic video, 9 minutes, English (GB) A DVD with German subti­tles edited by Rainer Nelissen was produced in 2009, German trans­la­tion, Tanya Ury & Amin Farzanefar. Price of each DVD: 50 Euros Trailer 2:10 minutes Trilogy – a collec­tion of works: Trilogy: Lilith Trilogy: Passion Play Trilogy: Song of Songs An inter­pre­ta­tion of a Talmudic story: myth­ical Lilith, the first woman, was […]

Tanya Ury & Kasander Nilist 2011 – 2013 From 2011 on, Tanya Ury started recording 12 of the more tradi­tional poems to be found in her poetry series in a working part­ner­ship with Kasander Nilist (double bass, sound and mix). These toned poems are: Artemis 2:05 minutes (from oral call 20, poem 2011, music & sound mix 2012) cells 40 seconds (from cross […]

Article The​‘ladder of heaven’ of John Klimakos, 12th Century, Alchemy and Mysti­cism, Alexander Roob, Taschen Books 1997 Heav­enly ladder of St. John of Sinai, John Klimakos, 12th Century, Tempera on Wood, Monastery of St. Catherine — Mount Sinai Tanya Ury’s article written in English enti­tled Tran­scending the Ladder about the devel­op­ment and research for her project Jacob’s Ladder […]

Perfor­mance in English, docu­mented on video Trailer 5 minutes 10 seconds A DVD compi­la­tion of all the​“Avant-Garde Dating” trailers with German subti­tles, 40 minutes was put together 2009 2007 (27.9. – 3.10) Zucchini was an impromptu short story related by Tanya Ury to her guests in the gallery, after they had consumed a cour­gette curry prepared by the artist at her […]

Virtual sound real­i­ties by Tanya Ury GB/​D Tell Tale Cassettes for Walkman (English only) Edit Tanya Ury German trans­la­tion Tanya Ury and Amin Farzanefar 2004 1. The Sunbed: 9 minutes 2. Mind over Matter — For the Consci­en­tious Driver: 11:28 minutes 3. Lie and Learn (English/​German): 5 minutes Trailer 5 minutes German trans­la­tion Tanya Ury and Amin Farzanefar 2004, recorded in German […]

A 4 Monitor video instal­la­tion 3 moni­tors displaying English subti­tles, one extra with surveil­lance camera Super 8 film edited on lo-band Umatic video, 7 minutes 9 seconds, repeated 8 times for a 1‑hour auto rewind tape This video instal­la­tion was made at Sheffield Hallam Univer­sity during the Colin Walker Fellow­ship in Fine Art, a year’s teaching resi­dency, (GB) A docu­men­ta­tion of Play in […]

13 perfumed glass-framed photos with text, 5076 cm (4.5 square metres) Edition of 7 Cata­logue ISBN 3980435423, 10 Euro The photo series was produced as digital compositing version for projec­tion with sound­track (English: 11:15 minutes, trailer 1:27 minutes and German: 13:30 minutes, trailer 1:33 minutes) in 2009, digital processing: Ingolf Pink, edit Mirco Sanftleben – Pixel 2 Motion, Cologne (D) The Senses […]

A split-screen DVD (English and German versions: 34 minutes) edited by Mirco Sanftleben, pixel2motion was produced in 2009 – orig­inal mate­rial lo band Umatic from Hi8 source 1991. Trailer 4 minutes. Concept, perfor­mance: Tanya Ury Inti­macy, the split screen video and touch screen pieces combine mate­rial filmed in 1991 with written text cita­tions taken from​“Intimité” (Inti­macy) 1939 […]

The Senses: Play in Camera (sense of sight) The Senses: Play it by Ear & An Ear for You (sense of sound) The Senses: Ô d’Oriane (sense of smell) The Senses: Zucchini (sense of taste) The Senses: Inti­macy (sense of touch) The Senses is a collec­tion of works completed over 16 years. With video and audio record­ings, a live film element, projected photog­raphy, as well […]

Carpenter & Ury 2007 Perfor­mance docu­mented on video, English, 1 hour Trailer: 4 minutes 50 seconds A DVD compi­la­tion of all the​“Avant-Garde Dating” trailers with German subti­tles, 40 minutes was put together 2009 2007 (3.10) The Danaids is a collab­o­ra­tive work by Carpenter and Ury, conceived and performed during the​”Avant-Garde Dating” week, 27.9. – 3.10.2007, for Art Forum, The New Life […]

Video-instal­la­­tion A DVD (4:50:00 minutes) of the poem layout with voice-over sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2013 (image format 4:3) Infor­ma­tion Poetry, design & recording Tanya Ury Video edit Mirco Sanftleben Correc­tion of German parts Amin Farzanefar In a similar manner to her other poetry series Tanya Ury’s taste of space is written off the cuff, what­ever comes […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (1m x 1m). The image is of a board game Snakes and Ladders, with an English text around the edges: 1996 Jacob’s Ladder — a Cyber­sexual Parable Tanya Ury (D) Insur­ance value 2,500 Euros Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim […]

Kurzgeschichte Englisch/​Deutsch, nicht veröf­fentlichtJanuar 1994 — Januar 2003 Englische Version: Night and Day, Über­set­zung aus dem Englis­chen Tanya Ury und Rolf Steiner Als Diavor­lesung mit 50 Dias In mehreren ihrer Arbeiten hat Tanya Ury den Namen Hermè oder Herme angenommen (her & me, also Sie & ich): Hermeneu­ro­tisch – Eine Werk­serie: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (Photo­serie mit 15 Kurzgeschichten) Brücken Bauen […]

Work in Progress Since November 1992, Tanya Ury has been collecting her hair, from natural hair loss daily, and saving it in small plastic sachets (90mm x 115mm), with a hand­written date label. Previ­ously, some of these bags were sewn together by her, to make large plastic sheets resem­bling​“shower curtains”, one curtain each year, for the […]

10 photographs sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (63cm x 94.5cm), Deià, Mallorca, no. 3 – 10 1996, no. 1 – 2 1999 Insur­ance value 2,000 Euros Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim Barbie and Klaus Jacob’s Ladder Swastikas and Stars wrestle­with­y­ourangel neonazi Blind Spot Red Hot Pokers Tran­scending the […]

A short story English/​German 2000-April 2003 (unpub­lished), after​“Das Mädchen mit der Eidechse” (The Girl with the Lizard) from​“Liebesfluchten”(Flights of Love) by Bern­hard Schlink. German trans­la­tion Stech­mücke Tanya Ury & Rolf Steiner Both versions published on the Bet Debora confer­ence Website (2003), December 2006 As a slide reading with 31 slides of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s art In […]

A series of wooden-framed photographs, each: upright format W 38.13 x H 42 cm, land­scape format B 51,63 x H 28 cm (Edition of 7) Concept Tanya Ury Camera: Tanya Ury Digital processing: Claudia Stasch and Ingolf Pink Insur­ance value: each picture 1,000 Euros Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Humanities […]

Photo series with English text 17 photos Sealed onto Forex sheets, plex­i­glass and clip-framed 1999 – 2000 8 photographs 30.345.1 cm 8 photographs 2045.1 cm (English text) 1 photo­graph 9.514.8 cm (title) Edition of seven Edition of seven: 8 photographs 60.690.2 cm 8 photographs 4090.2 cm 1 photo­graph 1929.6 cm Sonata in Sea is presented as a room instal­la­tion, where a CD of Suzanne Brad­bury may […]

A photo­graph H 66 x B 77 (Edition 7), offset print lami­nated and lami­nated on the rear side with 3mm Dibond Infor­ma­tion Concept and photog­raphy: Tanya Ury Digital image processing: Ingolf Pink shower proof is an artist’s impres­sion of the Hair Shirt Army in the vault of EL-DE-Haus, the Nazi Docu­men­ta­tion Centre, Cologne (D), produced before the installation […]

A photo­graph, lami­nated and backed with 3mm Dibond, H 45 x W 30.5 cm (Edition of 7) Insur­ance value 1,000 Euros Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL) In the summer of 2006 Hugo Boss produced a new […]

A perfor­mance video (D) 52 minutes, Analogue Beta SP, PAL 4:3 2005 Trailer 3.30 Minutes Insur­ance value DVD: 200 €uro Close-up video images show Ury’s right-hand stitching the word​“Boss” into the palm of her left-hand; the thin sewing needle, threaded with fine black cotton, does not incur any bleeding. Röslein Sprach… the video title (trans.: […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (63cm x 94.5cm) Zurich Insur­ance value 2,000 Euros This photo­graph is a portrait of Margit Széchényi in her Fortuna Antique Galerie, Zurich. She is holding up a Roman brooch piece from the 2nd — 4th Century BC. The orna­ment, found in the Balkan area is a swastika design that denoted good fortune. Jacob’s Ladder – […]

Right of Return photo­graph (1.141.14 metres) Insur­ance price 1000 Euros Right of Return 2 digi­tally hand­written texts in English and German, each: H 33 x B 100cm Insur­ance price 2000 Euros Right of Return comprises of the red-tinted photo­graph of a news­paper article:​“Israel​‘is sealing off Jerusalem Arabs’ ” Guardian Inter­na­tional 8 – 14.4.2005, concerning the contentious polit­ical situ­a­tion in Jerusalem; 2 digitally […]

Video (English) 34 mins 2003 Beta SP, PAL 4:3 Docu­men­ta­tion of a perfor­mance with Rolf Steiner Hochbunker Cologne-Ehren­feld (D) 9.11.2002 2005 Trailer 6 Minutes Price DVD: 50 Euros Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim Barbie and Klaus Jacob’s Ladder Swastikas and Stars wrestle­with­y­ourangel neonazi Blind Spot […]

[ Français ] A series of art works: consisting of photographs, objects and digi­tally hand­written texts, dedi­cated to Ela Ury Right of Return Pomegrenade – Occu­pying the Terri­to­ries Beelze­bu­larin Calving Trouble Edition of 7 DVD 200 Euros A DVD projec­tion of image and sound, English Version 33 minutes, German Version 40 minutes, has also been produced. Promised Land: Beelze­bu­larin was […]

Video-instal­la­­tion and some printed concrete poetry Pomes Penyeach” was the title of James Joyce’s thir­­teen-poem collec­tion, written over a twenty-year period (190424). The title is a play on​“poems” and​“pommes” (the French word for apples) which are here offered at​“a penny each” in either currency. It was the custom for Irish trades­people of the time […]

Pomegrenade photo­graph (H 68 x B 100 cm) Insur­ance price 1000 Euros Pomegrenade 2 digi­tally hand­written texts in English and German (2 x (H 100 x B 81cm)) Insur­ance price 2000 Euros Pomegrenade consists of a photo­graph of red-stained hands, de-pulped pome­gran­ates and red-stained white linen; also to be seen are the 2 digi­tally hand­written texts in red and black, in the form […]

(in 34 time) 2003 15 A4 sheets of English verse (unpub­lished), hand­written in mirror form, framed in light wooden frames. (Hand mirror is provided.) Insur­ance price 1000 Euros The Poker Poems are by and large about an imag­ined inter­ac­tion between the dictator Adolf Hitler and the philoso­pher Ludwig Wittgen­stein. It is possible that they knew each other in […]

Like half dimen­sional poems 2009 – 2011 cement 2011, weißer neger (white nigger) 2011 and concrete party 2011, oral call (the title suggesting the oracle) is prose poetry, written in English and German. In style and sense these are concrete poems, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, misun­der­stood conver­sa­tion and misread text, which, reflect the daily life and […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted, height 64 cm x width 85 cm (edition of 7) (Edition of 7: height 32 cm x width 42,5 cm) Insur­ance value 2,000 Euros Concept Tanya Ury Camera David Janecek Digital image processing Claudia Stasch Double Portraits — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 Franco and Elke J. 2002 lesser is me more or less 2003 Your Rules 2004 […]

A video docu­men­ta­tion (8.21 minutes) of the half dimen­sional poems presen­ta­tion in the Kunst­palast Düssel­dorf 24.2.2011, with on a mat appear — and impro­vised poetry in WP8 Düssel­dorf 12.3.2011, was filmed, edited and produced by Maxi­m­ilian Hoffs. An audio CD docu­men­ta­tion of Roland Graeter’s free impro­vised Music Marathon # 194 (cello/​voice) — 36,5 minutes, encore 3:65 minutes, featuring Tanya Ury (on a mat […]

A blue neon sign (5915 cm) Insur­ance price 2,500 Euro Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim Barbie and Klaus Jacob’s Ladder Swastikas and Stars wrestle­with­y­ourangel neonazi Blind Spot Red Hot Pokers Tran­scending the Ladder Jack the Ladder This neon sign makes light of, […]

LED display sign with holo­grams of texts, English and German, 1992 The 12, A4 holo­grams of texts have been framed together in steel frames, in three rows of four, 83cm x 78 cm The LED displays a moving message with various combi­na­tions of the three words YOU ARE WHY. The dictum YOU ARE WHY, not only poses the […]

Poem, English, unpub­lished This short poem about the end of love describes a night of love in words evoking the Goddess Fortuna but also in terms of a meal consumed too quickly. Word-fore-play — Recipe for Love no thyme though there was no thyme it was mint to be to be quite candied in no thyme I knew no thyme to rue you took my […]

Video-instal­la­­tion Infor­ma­tion Poetry, design & recording Tanya Ury Video edit Mirco Sanftleben Correc­tion of German parts Amin Farzanefar A DVD (? minutes) of the poem layout with voice-over sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2015 (image format 4:3) *** magical reality is yet another poetry series written off the cuff — the thir­teenth in a series, commenced in 2009 with […]

These poems take up the thread where the half dimen­sional poems, cement and on a mat appear leave off. In style and sense they are concrete poems, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, which reflect the daily life and tempera­ment of the artist. Distinc­tively, this poetry is impro­vised and written in real-time. Tanya Ury’s written poetry may […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (MDF), height 64 cm x width 86,64 cm (edition of 7) (Edition of 7: height 32? cm x width 45? cm) Insur­ance Value 2,000 Euros lesser is me more or less features the artist Tanya Ury to the right of the picture, sitting in three-quarter view. Digi­tally incor­po­rated into the photo­graph and facing her to […]

Video-instal­la­­tion and some printed concrete poetry 2011, Ury created visual images of 17 concrete poems, to be presented online and as print versions (23.532.45 cm), digital image processing Mirco Sanftleben, two of these poems being femi­ninity and femi­nini­a­tion, the rest being part of the series cement, weißer neger (white nigger), concrete party & oral call, cross […]

A video projec­tion (German) onto the floor 16.30 minutes Analogue Beta SP, PAL 4:3 1996 The English voice over is a text by Ury of the same title Price DVD: 50 Euros Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim Barbie and Klaus Jacob’s Ladder Swastikas and Stars wrestlewithyourangel […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (6394.5cm), Deià, Mallorca Insur­ance value 2,000 Euros Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim Barbie and Klaus Jacob’s Ladder Swastikas and Stars wrestle­with­y­ourangel neonazi Blind Spot Red Hot Pokers Tran­scending the Ladder Jack the Ladder In […]

The polit­i­cally provoca­tive histor­ical and contem­po­rary images and texts are an ensemble of photographs, video, neon signs, news­paper cuttings and other mate­rial, collated together by the artist Tanya Ury in Germany and Mallorca over a period of six years. The title​‘Jacob’s Ladder’ refers to Jacob of the Old Testa­ment. The closing event to Tanya Ury’s […]

21 photo series in a ladder-shape 3,5 metres high, C‑prints mounted on Forex and sealed, glass and clip frame: 7 photos 2740 cm, 14 photos 4050 cm, edition of 7 Insur­ance value 3,000 Euros The photo series Jack the Ladder is also avail­able in a smaller version: 14 Photos 1318 cm, 7 Photos 1913 cm, edition of 7. A series of 12 […]

4 sides of English verse (unpub­lished) This short poem takes up the thread where the half dimen­sional poems, cement and on a mat appear leave off. In style and sense it is a concrete poem, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, which reflect the daily life and tempera­ment of the artist. In detail it contains a conglom­erate of song, […]

Two photo­graphic portraits of Peter Zadek (D) 15.7.2000 (10067 cm, digital Pigment print FineArt, lami­nated with 3mm Dibond, satin lami­nate), as illus­tra­tion to Holding the Baby. a short story, English/​German March 2002, German trans­la­tion Tanya Ury and Rolf Steiner Tanya Ury’s short story Holding the Baby was published in German with two portrait of Peter Zadek […]

2013 – 2014 The poetry series hero of your own saga continues in the same vain as other series that Tanya Ury has contrived, with lines written off the cuff, mostly absurd, sporad­i­cally tradi­tional and with some images, that is, text as poetry. The form, as with several others of the series, remains a construc­tion of 28 poems, […]

1.10.2005 Gold ring with inscrip­tion In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me): Hermeneu­rotic — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (photo series with 15 short stories) Building Bridges 2001 (short story) Between the Lines or The Three Rs 2001 (short story) Holding the Baby 2002 (2 photographs and […]

A photo­graph height 31.5 cm x width 23.5 cm (edition of 7) Insur­ance value of each photo 700 Euros Concept Tanya Ury Digital image processing Ingolf Pink In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me): Hermeneu­rotic — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (photo series with 15 short stories) Building Bridges 2001 (short story) Between […]

60 glass-framed photos, including 15 hand­written English texts (Tanya Ury), 15 hand­written German texts (trans­la­tion: Alix Brand & Tanya Ury) Edition of seven: No.1 — No. 60: 4263 cm, No. 61: 5075 cm (mounted and sealed under plex­i­glass) (Edition of seven: No.1 — No. 60: 84126 cm, No.61: 100150 cm) Cata­logue, Korridor Verlag 2001 (D) ISBN 3980218945 An audio CD […]

Work in Progress Book Collec­tions by Tanya Ury In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me): Hermeneu­rotic — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (photo series with 15 short stories) Building Bridges 2001 (short story) Between the Lines or The Three Rs 2001 (short story) Holding the Baby 2002 (2 […]

A photo­graph height 31.5 cm x width 23.5 cm (edition of 7) Insur­ance value 700 Euros In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me): Hermeneu­rotic — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (photo series with 15 short stories) Building Bridges 2001 (short story) Between the Lines or The Three Rs 2001 (short story) Holding […]

A photo­graph height 31,5 cm x width 23,5 cm (edition of 7) Scan for x cm Insur­ance value 700 Euros In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me): Hermeneu­rotic — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (photo series with 15 short stories) Building Bridges 2001 (short story) Between the Lines or The Three Rs 2001 […]

Dedi­cated to Alan Xmas 2009 — New Year 2011 Video-instal­la­­tion with live perfor­mance reading. A power point presen­ta­tion of the poem layout was created in 2011 — also a DVD (36:08 minutes) with sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2011 – trailer half dimen­sional poems no.15, 1:25 minutes. For the première in the Kunst­palast Düssel­dorf 24.2.2011 Ury played back the video-instal­la­­tion and […]

1989 – 2010 The photo­graph semi detached & the half dimen­sional poems no. 1 combine to create a record cover (31.2 cm width x 31.3 height) commis­sioned for a group exhi­bi­tion of 25 Jens-Uwe Beyer record covers cele­brating 10 years of kjubh Kunstverein e.V. (Art Centre), at the Kölnis­cher Kunstverein (Cologne Art Centre) (D) 10th July 2010. semi detached is a photo­graph taken in Alfred Unger’s […]

19 Men’s coats (German) size 56 Insur­ance price 30,000 Euros Arti­cles of clothing made of small plastic bags sewn together; each bag (90mm x 115mm) contains a date label and sample of the artist’s hair from 1993 – 2013. The orig­inal Hair Shirt is fash­ioned after a leather Luft­waffe coat design and bears simi­lar­i­ties to the Hugo Boss leather coat, winter […]

Man’s coat (German) size 56 Insur­ance value 1,500 Euros Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL) An article of clothing made of small plastic bags sewn together; each bag (90mm x 115mm) contains a date label […]

Arti­cles (in German & English) and a power point presen­ta­tion, radio and TV inter­views Archive – a collec­tion of works Archive Fever Fury Conscience archive burn out 2011 – 2014 German version: Tanya Ury and Amin Farzanefar, editor: Amin Farzanefar Need­less to say, when treat­ment was so frequent, there could be no ques­tion of proper docu­men­ta­tion or assess­ment of the therapy; […]

A short story English/​German (unpub­lished) June-August 2003 German trans­la­tion Nimm das Leben in die Hand Tanya Ury and Amin Farzanefar (unpub­lished) As slide reading with 37 slides from Tanya Ury’s child­hood In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me): Hermeneu­rotic — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 (photo series […]

cunt prints – a collec­tion of works: Blue Danaé 1 & 2 1998 cunt prints 2013 georgy girl 2016 fanny fans (work in progress) georgy girl: 2 series of 10 gouache body prints on paper – each sheet 100100 cm Series 1: 15 prints, gouache colours: cadmium red hue, purple magenta and cobalt green deep on water­colour paper (natural white, […]

Ury & Carpenter 2007 — 08 Video/​performance English 1 hour Trailer: Laurel Carpenter’s Story: John Bloom, 5 minutes 8 seconds Trailer: Tanya Ury’s story: Colin, the ashram, 5 minutes 20 seconds A DVD compi­la­tion of all the​“Avant-Garde Dating” trailers with German subti­tles, 40 minutes was put together 2009 2007 (30.9) Orig­inal concept Tanya Ury’s, devel­oped and performed by Laurel Jay Carpenter and Tanya […]

Video-perfor­­mance (English/​German) 2:05 hours and short version 16 minutes vimeo​.com/​7662688 (Adobe flash player update free under Google) Price & insur­ance value 100 Euros Fury is a dele­gated perfor­mance video, as part of Tanja Ostojic’s project Misplaced Women?, about the loss of the Ury/​Unger family archive with the collapse of the Histor­ical Archives in Cologne, on 3rd March 2009, and, filmed […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (MDF), (63cm x 94.5cm) Insur­ance value 2,000 Euros This double-profile-portrait combines the image of a Spanish 25 peseta coin from 1957 and a cutting from a German maga­zine in 1994. On the left, into the cheek of General Franco’s face, a swastika has been carved. Oppo­site Fran­cisco is the photo­graphic image of Elke J. […]

Typed computer version 2007, German poem 2011 Etching (29 cm width x 37 cm height, framed: 43 cm width x 51 cm height) and poem, English and German version, unpub­lished Poster: height 85 cm x width 60 cm 2011, Ury created visual images of 17 concrete poems, to be presented online and as print versions (23.532.45 cm), digital image processing Mirco Sanftleben, two of these […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted, (56cm x 94.5cm) Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden Univer­sity, Insti­tute for Cultural Disci­plines (NL) The photo­graph combines a German news­paper article (2000) on Hugo Boss the fashion concern and its origins […]

Hand-folded fans made from prints of Tanya Ury’s cunt prints for an instal­la­tion of fans hung from the ceiling on light threads cunt prints: 2 series of gouache body prints on paper – 30 sheets 2432 cm Series 1: 15 prints, gouache colours: medium yellow, leaf green, red orange, blue lake, bril­liant red, on water­colour paper […]

This is a concrete poem in English, written for the artist’s niece Elà. In its style and inten­tion the concrete poetry is a collec­tion of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is impro­vised and written down imme­di­ately — in essence it is auto­matic writing. Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (MDF), height 64 cm x width 101,6 cm (edition of 7) (Edition of 7: height 32 cm x width 50,8 cm) Insur­ance value 2,000 Euros Concept Tanya Ury Camera David Janecek Digital image processing Claudia Stasch Double Portraits — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 Franco and Elke J. 2002 lesser is me more or less 2003 Your Rules 2004 […]

Over the years a few photo­graphic double portraits have tran­spired as part of Ury’s oeuvre. These have been assem­bled in diverse manner – the exten­sive Photo and Text series Hermes Insensed, points to a close inter­weaving of her personal and artistic life: she asked friends and colleagues to greet one another with a​“hand kiss”, to court […]

A photo­graph sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (MDF), height 96 cm x width 64 cm (edition of 7) (Edition of 7: height 48 cm x width 32 cm)) Insur­ance value 2,000 Euro Concept Tanya Ury Camera David Janecek Digital image processing Claudia Stasch Double Portraits — a collec­tion of works: Hermes Insensed 2000 – 2001 Franco and Elke J. 2002 lesser is me more or less 2003 Your Rules 2004 […]

Umatic video projec­tion 6 minutes, 1990 With video monitor Instal­la­tion, 12 minutes This piece was commis­sioned by chore­o­g­ra­pher Jacque­line Rose. A split-screen DVD (13 minutes) incor­po­rating the video projec­tion and the monitor instal­la­tion, edited by Rainer Nelissen was produced in 2009. Trailer 7 minutes Work­shops – a collec­tion of works: Dance Video Work­shop: Control 1991 Dance Video Work­shop: Secret Spaces 1991 Bochum Workshop […]

cunt prints – a collec­tion of works: Blue Danaé 1 & 2 1998 cunt prints 2013 georgy girl 2016 fanny fans (work in progress) cunt prints: 2 series of gouache body prints on paper – 30 sheets 2432 cm Series 1: 15 prints, gouache colours: medium yellow, leaf green, red orange, blue lake, bril­liant red, on water­colour paper (natural white, […]

cunt prints – a collec­tion of works: Blue Danaé 1 & 2 1998 cunt prints 2013 georgy girl 2016 fanny fans (work in progress) cunt prints: 2 series of gouache body prints on paper – 30 sheets 2432 cm Series 1: 15 prints, gouache colours: medium yellow, leaf green, red orange, blue lake, bril­liant red, on water­colour paper (natural white, […]

2011-12-14 — 2012-04-18 Video-instal­la­­tion and some printed concrete poetry 2011, Ury created visual images of 17 concrete poems, to be presented online and as print versions (23.532.45 cm), digital image processing Mirco Sanftleben, two of these poems being femi­ninity and femi­nini­a­tion, the rest being part of the series cement, weißer neger (white nigger), concrete party & oral call, […]

27.5.2011 – 2011-08 – 16 Like half dimen­sional poems 2009 – 2011 cement 2011 and weißer neger (white nigger), concrete party is prose poetry, written in English and German. In style and sense these are concrete poems, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, misun­der­stood conver­sa­tion and misread text, which, reflect the daily life and tempera­ment of the Jewish artist. This edition, like […]

concrete 47 images (edition 7): A4, height 85 cm x width 60 cm Height 31.5 cm x width 23.5 cm (edition 7) A ca. 6‑hour compi­la­tion loop of the following poetry video pieces, with text as audio perfor­mance and visual concrete poetry by Tanya Ury has been put together for screening on a mac mini: 1. half dimen­sional poems 2009 – 2011, edit 2011, […]

Perfor­mance docu­mented on video, English, 1 hour Trailer 5 minutes A DVD compi­la­tion of all the​“Avant-Garde Dating” trailers with German subti­tles, 40 minutes was put together 2009 2007 (29.9) Orig­inal concept Tanya Ury’s, devel­oped and performed by Laurel Jay Carpenter and Tanya Ury, during the​”Avant-Garde Dating” week, 27.9. – 3.10.2007, for Art Forum, The New Life Shop Art Gallery, […]

Video-instal­la­­tion A DVD (36:42 minutes) of the poem layout with voice-over sound­track for projec­tion was created in 2011 (image format 4:3) – trailer cement no. 16, 1:02 minutes. These poems take up the thread where the half dimen­sional poems leave off. In style and sense they are concrete poems, a collec­tion of jumbled abstract thoughts, misun­der­stood conver­sa­tion and misread […]

Ark photo­graph (H 68 x B 100 cm) Insur­ance price 1000 Euros Calving trouble 2 digi­tally hand­written texts in English and German, each: H 28 x B 100 cm Insur­ance price 2000 Euros Calving trouble is composed of Ark a photo­graph of Swan Vesta match­boxes digi­tally altered to show, not one but two swans on the lids, repre­senting the two cherubim on the […]

A short story English/​German German trans­la­tion Brücken Bauen Tanya Ury and Rolf Steiner 2003 Published in English with 3 Photos by Sylvia Ury ca. 1958 in the cata­logue to the exhi­bi­tion Termini Tech­nici, Salon Verlag, 2001 Cologne ISBN 3897701502 (D) In several of her works Tanya Ury has adopted the name of Hermè or Herme (her & me): […]

Perfor­mances docu­mented on video, 1: 2 minutes 45 seconds & 2: 6 minutes A DVD compi­la­tion of all the​“Avant-Garde Dating” trailers with German subti­tles, 40 minutes was put together 2009 2007 (27.9: 2 ½ minutes & 1.10: 6 minutes) Orig­inal concept Tanya Ury’s, devel­oped and performed by Laurel Jay Carpenter and Tanya Ury during the​”Avant-Garde Dating” week for Art Forum, 27.9. – 3.10.2008, The […]

2 photographs, red and orange, sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted photo­graph H 46,3 cm x B 30 cm (Edition of 7) (Format 20,513) As T‑shirt: logo H 20 cm x 30 cm, White short-sleeved Price 500 Euro Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candi­date at Leiden University, […]

Video 42 minutes, German Betakam SP, colour (D) Work­shops – a collec­tion of works: Dance Video Work­shop: Control 1991 Dance Video Work­shop: Secret Spaces 1991 Bochum Work­shop – Uniform, Status Symbol and Ideal 2007 Unnat­ural Conse­quences (work in progress) 2014- We are born with a genetic code that we can’t change. But with our dress code we can either […]

2 photographs sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted (MDF) Blue Danaé 1 (close-up) 3449 cm Blue Danaé 1 & 2 4261 cm Edition of 7 Camera Doris Frohnapfel Insur­ance value Blue Danaé 1 – (nega­tive no. 17) 1,000 Euros Blue Danaé 2 – (nega­tive no. 12) 1,500 Euros 2015 Blue Danaé 1, 3523.5 cm (edition of 7), […]

Video projec­tion (German), 18.10 minutes Analogue Beta SP, PAL 4:3 Price 200 Euros Video­cas­sette (VHS copy) or DVD Jacob’s Ladder – a collec­tion of works: Roman Svastika Tantric Snakes and Ladders Jacob’s Ladder – a Cyber­sexual Parable Franco and Elke J. Fashion Victim Barbie and Klaus Jacob’s Ladder Swastikas and Stars wrestle­with­y­ourangel neonazi Blind Spot Red Hot Pokers Tran­scending the Ladder Jack the […]

A short story (English) for Rolf Steiner’s: Die weite Welt (The Wide World) (unpub­lished). Revised German version Amin Farzanefar 2011 German trans­la­tion Tanya Ury and Rolf Steiner 2003 (unpub­lished) Ury’s text has been photo­copied onto four trans­parent plastic sheets, stapled together and placed over Steiner’s text. Between Barcelona (unpub­lished), an addi­tional version of the short […]

[ Français ] Beelze­bu­larin photo­graph (H 1.20 x B 200 cm) Insur­ance price 1000 Euros Beelze­bu­larin 2 digi­tally hand­written texts in English and German, each: H 60 x B 100 cm Insur­ance price 2000 Euros Beelze­bu­larin is a photo­graph­ical portrait of Tanya Ury dressed as the biblical Bezalel ben Uri (Bezalel son of Uri), the artist who constructed the holy objects for Moses’ […]

Repro­duc­tions of 15 Hugo Boss post­cards of 1998 – 99 winter fashion, and repro­duc­tions of 4 post­cards with illus­tra­tions of Spanish soldiers and their sweet­hearts from the 1960’s (or 70’s) are sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted. Since 2010, Tanya Ury has been working on the research project Who’s Boss – Empire’s New Clothes, as PhD. in Human­i­ties candidate […]

Avant-Garde Dating and The Change – Looking Back in Art and Life on Matters of the Body (Intro­duc­tory Talk) 2007 (27.9. – 3.10) Tanya Ury’s new work in the collab­o­ra­tive context with Laurel Jay Carpenter (Website: laureljay​.com) during the​”Avant-Garde Dating” week at Art Forum, The New Life Shop Art Gallery, Choriner Strasse 85, Berlin (D). Avant­garde Dating an […]

A DVD compi­la­tion of all the​“Avant-Garde Dating” trailers with German subti­tles, 40 minutes was put together 2009 Avant-Garde-Dating – a collec­tion of works: The Danaids Zucchini Game & Match Climacter Broken Glass 1 & 2 Avant-Garde Dating – Intro­duc­tory Talk Tanya Ury’s new work in the collab­o­ra­tive context with Laurel Jay Carpenter during the​”Avant-Garde Dating” week at Art Forum, […]

A series of 9 photographs, each 6090 cm (edition of 7), FineArt-Bond – digital pigment print, lami­na­tion 3mm Dibond lami­nate Insur­ance value of each photo 2000 Euros Insur­ance value of each A4 print, digital pigment print — classic on 190 gram satin paper: 400 Euros (edition of 7) Artistic Freedom No. 2, as A4 print in 5 port­fo­lios, for sale with other […]

Web site: www​.tanyaury​.com A photo­series of four: 1. Art Prize 1996 2. Art Prize 1998 3. Art Prize 2000 4. Art Prize 2002 4 photographs sealed under plex­i­glass and mounted Photographs: H 55 cm x B 122.5 cm (Edition of 7) (Edition of 7: H 45 cm x B 100 cm) Format: 1 x 2.227 Insur­ance value Each picture 2,500 €uro (x4 = 10,000 €uro) Since […]

Photo­graph, size 4530.5 cm (21.515 cm) Edition of 7 Archive – a collction of works Archive Fever Fury Conscience archive burn out 2011 – 2014 For Sigmund Freud himself, the destruc­tion drive is no longer a debat­able hypoth­esis. Even if this spec­u­la­tion never takes the form of a fixed thesis, even if it is never posited, it is another name for Ananke, […]

A video docu­men­ta­tion of the perfor­mance concert archive burn out, filmed and edited by Freya Hatten­berger on 10th April in the Nazi Docu­men­ta­tion Centre, Cologne, with​“Suspended Beliefs”, poetry and textwith impro­vised music: Tanya Ury (voice), Gernot Bogumil (trumpet), Kasander Nilist (double bass), Hans Salz (percus­sion), can be seen here: Docu­men­ta­tion: 46:06 minutes: vimeo​.com/​112831445 Trailer: 6:51 minutes: vimeo​.com/​112828403 […]

In 1999, a year after the death of her mother Sylvia in London, and after long consid­er­a­tion, and family discus­sion, in which the London Leo Baeck Insti­tute, a Jewish archive, was also thought to be an appro­priate loca­tion to house the personal effects of the Ury/​Unger archive, Tanya Ury entrusted the family archive to the Histor­ical Archives […]

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