Prof. Ursula Bertram
Ursula Bertram, artist and professor at TU Dortmund University until 2018, is a committed lateral thinker with a pioneering spirit, known for her public art projects in national and international spaces. Her interests focus on artistic thought and action as a space for intermedia processes and as a motor and seismograph for work and economic processes. She works as a lateral thinker between disciplines and constructs parallel worlds to companies (Zeitarbeit I-VII, Präzisionsfabrik I, II).
Her research focuses on the transfer of art, or more precisely the transfer of artistic thinking into non-artistic fields such as business and science. In 2007, together with the Büro für Innovationsforschung BfI, she founded the model project "Center for Art Transfer" with the [ID]factory as a teaching and development space for non-linear, artistic thinking.
Professorship at the FH Mainz (1992-94), professorship at the Institute for Art and Material Culture at the University of Dortmund 1994-2018, specializing in sculpture and interdisciplinary work, visiting professorships in the USA 1998 and Venezuela 2002.
Academic self-administration: Member of the Senate 2012-2016, Faculty Council 2008-2012, Institute Director 2007-2009
Lives and works in Mainz and Quimper/France.