Jutta Burkhardt

Jutta Burkhardt studied stage and costume design with Herbert Kapplmüller at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. During her studies, she already worked as an assistant stage designer at the Munich Residenztheater, the Berliner Ensemble, the Stuttgart State Theatre and the Vienna Burgtheater. Her thinking was characterised by a free-artistic, interdisciplinary approach. After graduating in 1996, she developed spatial and video concepts for various theatres in Germany, Austria and Italy.

As a visual artist, she has also been represented in numerous exhibitions. Her work has been honoured with awards from the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation, the GEDOK, the City of Munich and the State of Bavaria, among others.

With a cheerful disposition and biting wit, she explored in the tradition of the surrealists how hybrid reality is in everyday life, including role assignments, phenomena of the unconscious, pseudo-scientific evolutions and physical taboos. She has never restricted herself to one medium alone, but drawing, photography and video art, as well as spatial illusion wallpaper installations, form a focal point in her work.

For the exhibition ‘Desperate Housewives?’, which toured cultural institutions throughout Germany, she designed a fashion collection of cleaning utensils and staged them and herself in lascivious situations for advertising teaser-like videos. She developed spatial installations from her ink drawings, such as in the 2019 exhibition ‘The Big Sleep’ at Haus der Kunst Munich. Most recently, her works were shown in the solo exhibition ‘hinterland’ (2020) at the Artothek Munich, and she was also included in the exhibitions ‘Reset?!’ (2021) at the Kunstmuseum Ahlen and in ‘Paradise Lost Gendershift’ (2021) at the Diözesanmuseum Freising. In 2022 she died of cancer. She is represented by Galerie BELLEPARAIS, Munich.