URSULA REUTER CHRISTIANSENPOETISKE DRAGTER08- 20.11.1974

Galerie S:t Petri
S:t Petri Kyrkogata 5, Fack 7, 22101 Lund, Sweden — Tel. 046-14 78 00

Ursula Reuter shows paintings for the first time in Sweden
at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from November 8 to 20. She paints primarily images concerning the woman and the worker. “Both woman and worker must be liberated. Both, bowed under slavery, must reach out to one another and make a new language accessible to us.” (Saint-Simon)

Ursula Reuter was born in 1943 in Trier, Germany. For four years, from 1965 to 1969, she attended the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts under the direction of Joseph Beuys. In 1965 she left Germany and settled in Denmark, where, as a woman, one could work more freely than in Germany.

Ursula Reuter believes that the artist can influence our “shared consciousness” through images and symbols and through actions that, guided by the unconscious, can work towards a more humane and liberated direction. Thus she often “illustrates” poems — among others, by the Danish poet Eske K. Mathiesen — by identifying with the person described in the poem and giving it form through poetic dress. In this way she pays tribute to the underprivileged — the court jester, the gypsy girl, the worker.

Three women often reappear in her paintings — Rosa Luxemburg, Klara Zetkin, and Alexandra Kollontai — either together or separately. At the Lund exhibition, a portrait of Lenin with the Småland forests behind him will also be shown. This image originated after a stay in Småland in the summer of 1974. “One day Lenin sat by one of those stone fences and freed the Swedish serfs from their stone enclosures!”

Besides painting, Ursula Reuter also works with film. Her latest, “The Redeemer,” was shown at the International Film Festival for Young Filmmakers in Berlin in June 1974. The film is a musical legend about woman’s oppression and emancipation. Ursula Reuter’s husband Henning Christiansen composed the music for the film.

Last year, Ursula Reuter collaborated with Lene Adler Petersen and Elisabeth Therkelsen on the film “Three Women and a Pig.” She has also participated in the collective film “The Research.” At present, she is working on a radio program about, among others, Rosa Luxemburg.

The exhibition is open on weekdays from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 5 p.m.