The work of Ulrike Ottinger fits well into the Goetz Collection for many different reasons. There are not only striking similarities between the biographies of the artist and the collector, but Ottinger's work, her films and photographic tableaux, relate in meaningful ways to the works by other artists in Ingvild Goetz's collection. As children both Ottinger and Goetz suffered the hardships of the Second World War and its outcome. Mainly as a result of the war, they both moved around a lot at a young age. Later Ottinger felt attracted to real nomads in far away places, as told in Johanna D'arc of Mongolia, 1989, a travelogue that charts the adventures of some Western women who are abducted from the Trans-Siberian Railway by a renegade band of Mongolian females. Ottinger commented: “The nomadic life is a very turbulent one; constant change brings new impulses with it and the longing isn't for peace and quiet. It wants to entertain and to be entertained.”(1) [...]

Chris Dercon

(1) Stationenkino, in: Bildarchive, exh. cat. and ed. Kunst-Werke, Berlin 2001.

Catalogue excerpt
fast forward 2. The Power of Motion
Media Art Sammlung Goetz
Editors: Ingvild Goetz and Stephan Urbaschek
Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2010

Ulrike Ottinger, Prater, 2007
1-Kanal-35mm Film , Farbe, Ton
Edition 25 (+ 2 a. p.) 104'  Die Sensenfrau