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 H a r a l d    V    U c c e l l o

Painter filmmaker lifeartist installations

Lives & works in Barcelona

Screenings (selection)

Artist in Focus Harald Vogl_UnderDox filmfestival, München 2022
KUBSants_Harald Vogl_Super8 movies retrospective, Barcelona 2020
Leo Kuelbs Collection_Online Screening, Obvious Surprise 2020
MoMA_New York City 2017-2018
Leo Kuelbs Collection_New York 2017
Leo Kuelbs_Fata Morgana, Berlin 2017
Espai Mental Vital de Cardedeu_Barcelona 2013
Regenbogen Kino_Berlin 2013
Matt's Gallery at Dilston Grove_TAPS, London 2010
Club Ampere_NeonSchatten, München 2009 
Loop-festival_Hotel Amister, Barcelona 2008
H20 Gallery_Video Alboom, Barcelona 2007

Loop-festival_Kunsthaus 414, Barcelona 2005
CC San Agustí/Sala Kaleidoscopi_InterFragmentos, Barcelona 2004
CCCB_ Barcelona 2003
History of Contemporary Art_University of Barcelona 2002
Filmrauschpalast_Berlin 1990
Musée Guimet_Paris 1990
Centre Pompidou_Magiciens de la terre, Paris 1989
BAD Museum_New York City 1986
Toulouse Lautrec Institut_Hamburg 1985
Maxim Kino_München 1985
Filmmuseum_München 1984
Millenium_New York City 1984
Squat Theater_New York City 1983
Collective Cinema_New York 1982
Fun Gallery_New York 1981
Super 8 Filmfestival_Montreal 1980
Werkstattkino_München 1979
KunstForum_Schwärmer, Stuttgart 1979
Kunsthochschule_Gefährliche Inseln, Hamburg 1978
Filmmuseum_München 1976
Anthology Film Archives_New York City 1975
Galeria Spolezenska_Warsawa 1975

Exhibitions (selection)

S-P-A-C-E gallery_Barcelona 2021
H2O Gallery_Barcelona 2021
KUBSants_Barcelona 2020
KUBSants_Barcelona 2019
Ajuntament de Alea_Barcelona 2019
KUBSants_Barcelona 2016
Sammlung Hermann Locher_Tettnang 2015
KUBSants_Barcelona 2014
H20 Gallery_Barcelona 2011
Fondation Estrée_Ropraz 2010
Galerie Studio im Hochhaus_Berlin 2009
H20 Gallery_Barcelona 2007
Museo de la Inmigratión_Buenos Aires 2006
El Cabildo_Cordoba/Ar 2006
H20 Gallery_Barcelona 2005
CC Ateneu Fort Pienc_Barcelona 2004
Punt Multimedia_Barcelona 2003
Galería Soller_Mallorca 2002
KUBSants_Barcelona 2001
Galerie im Torschloss_Tettnang 1998
Galerie im Torschloss_Tettnang 1993
Palazzo de la Torre_Greve in Chianti 1992
Galerie Kasten_Mannheim 1990
Galerie Pfefferle_München 1989
Galerie Abriss_Hamburg 1989
Galerie Jacqueline Boulanger_Paris 1989
Heinz Holtmann Gallery_Köln 1988
Eric Hoffman Gallery_Amsterdam 1988
Barbara Braathen Gallery_New York 1982 
Contemporary Art Gallery_München 1975

Group Shows (selection)

Convent San Agustí_Covid 19 World Congress, Barcelona 2020
Galerie H.Bossert_Köln 2009
KUB Sants_Barcelona 2008
CCB Barceloneta_Barcelona 2007
COAC_Barcelona 2005
Coleman Projects Gallery_Today´s the Day, London 2005
Punt Multimedia_Barcelona 2003
Punt Multimedia_Barcelona 2002
Espacio 13_Barcelona 2001
KUB Sants_Barcelona 2000
Studio Sepp Berlinger_Wien 1993
Galeria Hirmer_Greve in Chianti 1992
Le Ventre de la Baleine_Paris 1991
Usine Ephemère_Paris 1988
Eric Hoffmann Gallery_Amsterdam 1988

Deep History

Harald Victor Uccello was born 1953 in Wien. He grew up in Wien & then in Zug, in Oberägri, in Stuttgart, in Graz, back in Wien & finally in München.
There, from late 1970 to early 1973 he learned photography with John Jensen from San Francisco working in the advertising-agency Klages & Partner.
1972 he published his first book with short texts called ich möchte in einem atomkrieg sterben (I wanna die in a nuclear war).
John Jensen encouraged HVU to return to study & so he started to attend evening classes of marketing in the Werbefachliches Institut.
From autumn 1973 to early 1978 he studied painting at the Kunstakademie München with the painter Günter Fruhtrunk
In the same time he studied filmhistory with Enno Patalas at the Filmmuseum im Stadtmuseum & with Helmut Färber at the Hochschule für Film & Fernsehen.
Although he actually wanted to learn how to paint figures due to the influences at artschool & the München art scene his work turns more & more abstract very fast culminating in monochrome white paintings from late 1974 to early 1976.
In early 1974 he founded the Contemporary Art Gallery in Elisabethstrasse 3 (Schwabing) where he starts showing the works of a few friends as well as his own.
The movies: Between 1975 and 1987, after having done various sketches without sound, for example Neusiedl & Warschawa- City of Songs he realized 20 sound-movies- twelfe of them feature length- in Super 8 & the last one in video, mostly in colaboration, especially with Bibiena Houwer, Joan Waltemath, Tom Wright, Seth Tillett & Andrew Bergen.
Kean, Manfred, Chris, Dangerous Islands, Worthless, Für Opa, Dear Jimmy, You, I, Enthusiasts, Mono, Anabelle, Henny, Only You, O.K. Today Tomorrow, Measure Taken, Seventy Rolls to Rome, Güle Güle, Candide in The Americas.
Many of these movies are deconstructions of plays & novels yet the documentary element takes an equally important role.
Harald V. Uccello considered these Super 8 sound-movies immaterial paintings & he projected them, all originals, regularly in film clubs, cinemas, galleries, museums & other public spaces.
From 1976 to 1980 he collaborates in action-, music-, painting-, scriptwriting- & directing- projects, does camerawork, stagedesign- & acting jobs with Sepp Berlinger, Raimund Deckert, Gioia Meller Marcovicz, Mike Patzelt, Robert Knon, Charly Heil, Georg Koch, Gisela Stelly, Eric Mitchell, James Nares, Garry Indiana, Lynn Davis, D.M.Marcovicz Bontjes van Beek, S.Szczesny, Hermann Nitsch & others.
Between 1977 & 1979 he collaborated on several theatre-, opera- & film-productions of Werner Schroeter.
From 1980 until 1987 H.V. Uccello lived in Manhattan & for some time also in Hamburg & Berlin.
In early 1988 after a four-month trip to Nepal, where he shot & co-directed together with Franz Cristoph Giercke the video Loxin. Initiation of a Young Shaman, H.V.U. moved to Paris.
He decides to finally concentrate on figurative painting. He works in deserted factories with other painters from all over the world in studios at the Montmartre, Buttes Chaumont (Usine ephemere) & in the outskirts of Paris first near Metros-station Robespierre & finally in Pantin (Le ventre de la baleine).
Soon upon arrival in Paris he meets Maï T Segura at the Centre Pompidou, where Loxin is screened in the exhibition Les Magiciens de la Terre.
Besides their individual art activities Maï T  Segura & Harald V Uccello immediately collaborate on Life Art and photo-actions.
In summer 1992 they move to the Toscana & they have their first exhibition together with photography & paintings in 1993.
From summer 1994 until autumn 1999 they live and work in the Penedes region, where they also cultivate a biological vegetable-, fruit- & flower garden.
Since the beginning of 2000 MTS & HVU live in Barcelona.
In 2001 they start to publish the cyber magazine www. fotyart.org.
FoTyArT becomes also the name of their production association.
From to 2003 on MTS & HVU curate & organize various group shows with digital art as well as Life Art festivals & create/produce a cycle of videos about the Born district for InterFragmentos an exhibition of the collective m.a.p.a., winning the first prize of Art-Creation awarded by the CC St.Agusti in Barcelona in 2004.