Ina Wudtke

Biography

The curator of the exhibition STRUT YOUR STUFF

Ina Wudtke, born 1968, is an artist, curator, author and dj. She studied art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg with Bernhard Johannes Blume a. o. Since 1998 she lives and works in Berlin. She curated several international exhibitions: (as a member of Ort des Gegen e.V.) with Brigitte Kölle “Annette Wehrmann: Gehirn und Geld“, Hamburger Kunsthalle/ Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg 2012; “Ask Yo Mama“, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna 2011. With Dieter Lesage she curated BLACK SOUND WHITE CUBE (Kunstquartier Bethanien / Studio 1, Berlin 2011) and wrote the eponymous book “Black Sound White Cube“ (Vienna, Löcker Verlag, 2010).

Ina Wudtke's video Swing Lesson refers to Adrian Piper's Funk Lessons. For Swing Lesson Wudtke invited the dancer Sophie Monheim to create a lindy hop choreography for her electronic swing song The Fine Art of Living. On Ina Wudtke's aka DJ T-INA Darling's Berlin dj night Swing im Clärchens Ballhaus Monheim teaches this choreography to the audience. In her electro swing tune The Fine Art of Living, Wudtke is singing about gentrification in Berlin. Black dance becomes a tool for a collective action against gentrification. The video Swing Lesson is a new work and will be premiered in the exhibition STRUT YOUR STUFF.