Dr. URSULA M. LÜCKE

Artist & Cultural Historian

eco-fair, hydrophil, queer
since 1978


NEWS

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MARIA'S WORLD DRIVE or Conception of Mary  2021/22

Listen to the radio programme: HERE
Exhibition: 08.12.2021 - 02.02.2022 in the Donaugarten Linz, in Alt-Urfahr
With the LichtKunstObjekt MARIA's WELTFAHRT, the artist Ursula Maria Lücke transforms the Donaugarten in Linz Urfahr into a temporary Marienplatz.
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Luecke_Ambiv_Vulva

Ambivalent in_visibilities of the vulva - historical and queer

Lecture at: KRAWALL AKADEMIE - Protest Lab for International Women's Day, in cooperation with Oona Valarie Serbest | Rebekka Hochreiterin, University of Art and Design Linz, 14.12.2023
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SCHATZKUNST (new Treasure Art)

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MEDUSA BEHEADED PERSEUS or Salute to Cellini

900 yellow gold (recy.), ebony, 2022
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Luecke_Arschtritt

MRS D. KICKS MR M. IN THE ASS

900 yellow gold (recy.), renaturalised Elbe ceramic, 2022
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Luecke_Augenblick

MOMENT

925 silver (recy.), 2009
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Luecke_MaterialGirl

MATERIAL GIRL

Mix Media, 2013/21
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Luecke_Maedchengehtschwimmen

GIRL GOES SWIMMING

900 yellow gold (recy.), renaturalised Elbe glass, 2009
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SCIVIAS

Fine silver (recy.), paint/enamel, ebony, 2020
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Luecke_Wellen1-4_WeiWei

WAVE WEIWEI 1-4

925 Silber (recy.), 750 Gelbgold (recy.), 2009
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Luecke_Korallenminne

CORAL MINNE

925 silver (con.), coral (con.), 2007
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Luecke_Wir_waren_nicht

WE HAVE NOT BEEN TO THE DOCTOR

900 yellow gold (recy.), renat. Elbe glass, 2009
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Luecke_AfricanWoman

AFRICAN WOMAN

925 silver, 2007
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Luecke_HandfreundInnen

HAND-FRIENDS

925 silver (recy.), 2004
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Luecke_Fisterillo

FISTERILLO

925 silver (recy.), rosewood, pearl, cast resin, photocopy, 2003
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Luecke_Fernfahrerschutzengel

ZENTRIFURIE

925 silver (recy.), 2007
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Luecke_Seehuend*in

SEADOG*

Acrylic glass, 2016
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Luecke_Familienwappen

FAMILY COAT OF ARMS

900 yellow gold, 925 silver (recy.), renaturated Elbe ceramics, 2009
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Luecke_Osborna

OSBORNA

Ebony, 925 silver (con.), 2009
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VACATED

900 yellow gold (recy.), renaturalised Elbe glass, 2009
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AVOCET

Steel wire, Fimo, acrylic paint, 2016
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SCHMUCKKUNST (Jewellery Art)

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FROSCHBROSCH

Brooch, 900 yellow gold (conv.), 2013
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Luecke_Abbia

ABBIA

Brooch, 900 yellow gold (conv.), Abbia, 2011
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Luecke_Fliege

FLIEGE / FLY

Brooch, 585 yellow, red, green gold (conv.), 2 labradorite cabochons, 1997
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Luecke_Elle_Chante

ELLE CHANTE DE BONHEUR

Ring, 585 red gold (recy.), brown diamonds, 2007
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Luecke_Ellens-Boat

ELLEN's BOAT

Ring, 925 silver (recy.), amber, 2006
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Luecke_Gloria-Cameroun

GLORIA's CAMEROUN

Ring, 900 yellow gold (con.), 2011
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Luecke_Tereschkowa

TERESCHKOWA

Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2009
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Luecke_CarePaket

CARE-PAKET

Photocopy, cast resin, 925 silver (recy.), ebony, 2014
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Luecke_PeacefullyFree

PEACEFULLY FREE

Ring, 750 yellow gold (recy.), 2014
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CULTURAL HISTORY / IMAGE SCIENCE

Luecke_Katalog_metamorphosen

EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
metamorphosen in miniatur

fine queer art in gold und silver
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Luecke_Giesserei-Praxis

INVESTMENT CASTING PROCESS from the idea to the sculpture

Das besondere Gussteil: online
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Luecke_modernity

MODERNITY, SOCIALISM, AND THE VISUAL ARTS

A six-day ship conference
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SCIVIAS - KNOW THE WAYS

The vulva between deification and oblivion
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Luecke_Watt_Ankerw

ALL CLEAR TO BOARD!

Changing gender relations in museums with art
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Luecke_Kreuzstein_Musikyan

CROSS-STONE & RELIQUARY CHEST

PhD at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg
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ECO-FAIR

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ECO-FAIR for gold and gemstones?

Yes! I offer unique pieces made from eco-fair traded gold, silver or recycled precious metals. The following precious metal concepts are possible: washed gold alloys, certified Fairtrade alloys (FLOCERT), recycled alloys, "family gold" (natural separation: preservation of the identity of metals).
My stone dealers supply certified gemstones and diamonds from socially responsible and environmentally friendly extraction with transparent supply chains.


ABOUT

Dr. Ursula M. Lücke is an artist, cultural historian/image scientist and performer. She lives and works in Linz (A) and Hamburg (D).
At the age of 16 she went into apprenticeship and became a goldsmith's apprentice. The standard works of goldsmith technique and art by Erhard Brepohl showed her the way to technical precision and artistic originality.
She studied art and ecology in applied cultural sciences (University of Lüneburg) and received her PhD from Leuphana University (supervision: Elize Bisanz, Karl Clausberg) with Cross-Stone and reliquary chest.

Her works are art-based research and research-based art - queer miniatures and participatory artworks made of eco-fair precious metal and hydrophilic visual studies. Fields of work: New Treasure Art, jewelery art, Wunderkammer, water culture, water ecology, mermaid*, fishtail, sculpture, postcolonial, museum, jellyfish, diorama, seal*, captain*, ship conference and aquatic spaces, such as Elbe, Emscher, Danube, Harle, North Sea, Oder, Baltic Sea, Vltava, Black Sea, South China Sea....

Exhibition venues and cooperation partners* (selection): German Harbour Museum - SHMH, Residenzmuseum Celle, Linz Kultur, FIFTITU%, Kunsthalle Linz, German Sielhafenmuseum in Carolinensiel, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Kunstarchiv Beeskow, MS Bleichen - Hafenmuseum, Deutscher Pressevertrieb, bildwechsel, Krischke-Atelier, little gallery, cemetery of Christianskirche, Art-Store St. Pauli,...


ARTIST STATEMENT

Dr. Ursula M. Lücke is an artist, cultural historian/image scientist and performer.
With her scientific-artistic theories and practices, she cultivates a perception that breaks with standards and categories and enables change as a humorous-irritating act. She focuses on New Treasure ArtSchatzkunst* (treasure art), Wunderkammer and water lust.

Lücke works across media and transdisciplinarily, innovatively combining science, material and value, art-craft and concept, lecture and lecture-performance, monstrosity and ineffable femininity, and curation and creation.

Lücke's work is understood as an act of self-assertion - provocative, liberating, overcoming outdated role models and is an aesthetic conception of life. They are statements that reveal power relations and criticise traditionally gender-specific attributions of certain techniques, materials and themes.

It is about a reformulation of freedoms in dealing with the body and materials, the expanded concept of art (Joseph Beuys) and the recognition of SchmuckKunst (jewellery art) and Schatzkunst* (treasure art) as an art genre in their own right - demanded and fulfilled by Veronika Schwarzinger / Verena Formanek (Galerie V&V) and Inge Asenbaum (Galerie am Graben) as early as the 1980s**. Lücke's work is in this tradition. However, it takes up current avant-garde positions with queer-feminist and ecological perspectives as well as with regard to the use of materials in her New Treasure Art.

Her oeuvre is about the definition of identity. New Treasure ArtSchatzkunst and SchmuckKunst is a tool for communication between the wearer/viewer and the environment. The precious materials gold and silver in high alloys (900 gold, 925 silver) are used conceptually to create precious objects. Lücke counters the motto "Never again gold!" of the 1970s with the concept that all materials represent capitalism, colonialism and exploitation. What matters is the social, ecological and political conditions under which they are mined or recycled. Gold contains in high potency what is negotiated with every T-shirt: the (in)responsible use of resources, people, the environment/world and waters.

In her work, eco is concept - the material is recycled in avant-garde practice: in works of New Treasure Art, performances and texts. This concerns the deliberate reuse of 'Nazi gold' for works with queer bodies, as well as the use of mass-produced items of male-dominated model-making in H0 = 1:87 scale. It also concerns the artificial found objects (objet trouvé) whose use value has been washed away, as well as the recycling of ancient themes with role reversal. The concept of the New Treasure Art thus combines the use of technology, art, science and traditional craftsmanship at the highest level.

* Dirk Syndram was director of the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden and coined the term Schatzkunst (treasure art) for works of art by goldsmiths in cabinet of curiosities (Kunst- und Wunderkammer) of the Renaissance and Baroque periods - cf. Dirk Syndram, Schatzkunst der Renaissance und des Barock : das Grüne Gewölbe zu Dresden, Deutscher Kunstverl., München 2004.
** cf. Ursula Guttmann etal. (Hg.), Mit Eigensinn*, Schmuck aus Österreich. Künstlerinnen im Fokus, arnoldsche Art Publishers, Stuttgart 2022.


CONTACT

Dr. Ursula M. Lücke
A - 4040 Linz
Austria

Appointment by telephone or e-mail
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