ANGELA BULLOCH / Texte zur Kunst

'Texte zur Kunst' is a bilingual internationally recognised art magazine that publishes contributions by leading writers on contemporary art and culture. Founded in Cologne in 1990 by Stefan Germer and Isabelle Graw, it has been based in Berlin since 2000. Alongside groundbreaking essays, the quarterly magazine offers interviews, roundtable discussions, and comprehensive reviews on art, film, music, fashion, art history, theory, and cultural politics.
 
Additionally, each issue release is accompanied by exclusive editions by internationally renowned artists, who generously support the magazine by producing unique works for the magazine. For this edition of 'Texte zur Kunst', Angela Bulloch came up with an edition that refers concretely to our new issue: her "Generic English Edition" is an almost identical version of the paired issue but in a computer-generated English translation. 

Angela Bulloch was born 1966 in Rainy River, Ontario, Canada. She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and currently lives and works in Berlin. In 1997, Bulloch was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 2005 for the Berlin-based Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst. In 2011, she received the Vattenfall Contemporary Art Prize, Berlin, as well as the Art Prize of the city of Wolfsburg.

Angela Bulloch's work spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns and rules, as well as her preoccupation with the history of shapes and human interaction. The 'Pixel Boxes' have become her most familiar work: Initially fabricated in beech wood with a glass front screen, their softly changing and pulsing colours distill and abstract complex visual patterns into simple shifting monochromes.