Biography

2016

Caribbean Queer Visualities

2016

Échos imprévues

Turning Tide

Artists: Alexandre Arrechea, Charles Campbell, Tony Capellan, Renée Cox, Florine Demosthene, Jean-ulrick Désert, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Gilles Elie-dit-cosaque, Carlos Estevez , Joëlle Ferly, Eddy Firmin Dit Ano , Guy Gabon, Scherezade Garcia ,joscelyn Gardner , Jean-marc Hunt, Kirl, Jean-françois Manicom, Joël Nankin , Ricardo Ozier Lafontaine , Bruno Pedurand , Audrey Phibel , Marcel Pinas, François Piquet, Marielle Plaisir, Kelly Sinnapah Mary , Philippe Thomarel, Philibert Yrius.

2016

Enacting the Text : Performing with Words

exhibiting a hand rendered manuscript: "Full Independence Speech  Delivered by the Prime Minister (Patrice Lumumba) of the New Nation of Congo on 30 June 1960", 2015  46 cm x 64cm each (four panels/signed and embossed) Edition of Five work on vellum paper.
Artists: Maria Alós, Josefina Báez, Paco Cao, Papo Colo, Billy X. Curmano, Irina Danilova, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Lesley Dill, Coco Fusco, Beatrice Glow, Alicia Grullón, Guerilla Girls, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Alison Knowles, LuLu LoLo, Linda Mary Montano, Pat Oleszko, Pedro Pietri, Praxis (Brainard and Delia Carey), Quintin Rivera-Toro, Jack Smith, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Cecilia Vicuña, and Martha Wilson.

2016

FITE/ Rebels

Festival international des Textiles Extraordinaires

Exhibited: Les Toiles de Jouy/Thailand (Digitally printed textile)

2016

The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse -

On Divinity, Parallel- and Supra-realities or the Exorcisement of Witchery

Exhibited "Terra Nova Afrikæ 新非洲"(2016). Artists: Georges Adéagbo, Atis Rezistans (Henrike Naumann, Bastian Hagedorn & Guerly Laurent), Sammy Baloji, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Haris Epaminonda, Em'kal Eyongakpa, Louis Henderson, Ayrson Heráclito, Dil Humphrey-Umezulike, Patricia Kaersenhout, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Vladimir Lucien, Marco Montiel-Soto, Emeka Ogboh, Priscila Rezende, Nassim Rouchiche, Georges Senga, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Andrew Tshabangu and Minnette Vári

2015

Radical Presence

Black Performance In Contemporary Art

2015

Between History and the Body

Exhibited: The Passion (2006). Artists: Elia Alba, Firelei Baez, Nick Cave, Jean Ulrick Désert, Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Brendan Fernandes, Jeffrey Gibson, Shaun Leonardo, Ana Mendieta, Paul Anthony Smith, Chungpo Tsering and Saya Woolfalk

2015

From Within and Without :

The History of Haitian Photography

2014

HAITI

Deux siècles de création artistique (Two Centuries of Artistic Creation)

2014

Dak'Art

The 14th Dakar Biennale

Exhibited: Les battements des ailes des papillons peuvent déclencher des tornades (The flapping wings of butterflies can generate great storms) from the BlackOut series (2014), & Secretum – i am so much in love w/u (2014)

2014

Radical Presence:

Black Performance In Contemporary Art

Exhibited: Negerhosen2000/Travel Albums

2013

Labor Berlin12: Drifting

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert , Bani Abidi , Haluk Atalayman, Sarnath Banerjee , Dante Busquets, Antonio Catelani , Miles Chalcraft , Pauline Curnier Jardin, Radek Dabrowski ,  Hege Dons Samset , Esra Ersen, Robert Fenz , Miguel Ángel Fernández, Flatform , Andy Graydon , Verena Grimm, Elin Jakobsdóttir, Nadia Kaabi-Linke , Bouchra Khalili, Rajkamal Kahlon, Debra Kate, Anastasia Khoroshilova , Kristina Leko , Sladjan Nedeljkovic , Warren Neidich , Nghia Nuyen, Tímea Anita Oravecz , Tanja Ostojić, Anu Pennanen , Stéphane Querrec , Mark Sadler , Adania Shibli , David Smithson, Charles Stankievech, Michael Stevenson , Vassilea Stylianidou , Norio Takasugi, Diego Toledo , Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan

2013

Photo Op

The Ubiquity of Photography

Artists: Zoë Baldinger - Hugo Bastidas - Dawoud Bey - Till R. D. Cremer - Elizabeth Demaray - Jean-Ulrick Désert - Brigitte Denck - Christine Denck - Jane Katharina di Renzo - Christoffer Calmer - Sibylle Hofter - Patrick Jolley - Justin Kimball - Oli Knoth - Andreas Koch - Martin Lau - Wenfeng Liao - Matthias Mayer - Julia Muenstermann - Paul Perschke - Felix Schneeweiss - c.e.shore - Maria Silvano - Andre Smits - Bruce Spear - Edouard Steinhauer - Markus Wirthmann - Alexander Weiss - YounHee Yang - Christina Zück

2013

Exotik 2013

Artists include Andreas Dettloff, Veronika Radulovic, Amrit Chusuwan...

2013

Wahala

On Representation, Authenticity, Expectations and Other Inflated Concepts

Artists: William Cordova, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Yoel Diaz Vazquez, Köken Ergun, Alex Martinis Roe, Katrin Ströbel, Emeka Udemba

2013

Radical Presence NYC

Artists include: Wayne Hodge, Coco Fusco, Derrick Adams, Terry Adkins, Papo Colo, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Theaster Gates, Maren Hassinger, Wayne Hodge, Satch Hoyt, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kalup Linzy, Dave McKenzie, Jayson Musson, Senga Nengudi, Tameka Jean Norris, Lorraine O’Grady, Clifford Owens, Benjamin Patterson, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper (*withdrawn), William Pope.L, Rammellzee, Sur Rodney (Sur), Dread Scott, Xaviera Simmons, Danny Tisdale, Carrie Mae Weems

2013

BIAC Biennale internationale d'art contemporain

"Parcours in situ" (Site-specific public art commissioned work) Director: Johanna Auguiac-Célénice (Parcours in situ), Curators: Holly Bynoe (Martinique pavillion), Tumelo Mosaka (International pavillion)

PARCOURS IN SITU /FORT DE FRANCE: *Place Abbé Grégoire / Terres Sainville : *Jean­Ulrick Désert, Amour, Colère, Folie.
Place de la cascade / Trénelle­Citron : Jean­Marc Bullet, Sculpture échaffaudage. Bibliothèque Schoelcher / Fort­de­France Centre : Carlos Estevez,  Place Monseigneur Romero / Fort­de­France Centre : Kenor, fresque. la Savane / Fort­de­France Centre : Hervé Beuze, Pansées positives et Henri Tauliaut : Environnement Interactif et Minimaliste. Entrée de la ville, Bd Alfassa & pont Bd Attuly / Fort­de­France Centre : L'Atlas, installation. Mur du collège Julia Nicolas / Fort­de­France Centre : L'Atlas, fresque. Escaliers ­rue Amareuse / Dillon : Thierry Alet
PARCOURS IN SITU /SAINT PIERRE: Ruines de l'Eglise du fort : Hervé Beuze, Corps Rouge. Ruines de l’angle Victor Hugo ­ rue Petit Versailles : Inès Tolentino, Souffle. Vestiges du théâtre : Bruno Sentier, Le cri du Pélican. Ruines du kiosque derrière le marché : Jack Beng­Thi, Césairium
PARCOURS IN SITU / TROIS ILETS: Entrée de la ville des Trois-Ilets : REMED, fresque. Musée de la Pagerie : Inès Tolentino, Le Royaume de ce monde. Rond­point de l’entrée du bourg : Karine Taïlamé. Petite place Débarcadère: Jorge Pineda, Balançoires, Poids, Mots d'Aimé Césaire. Mur du Centre culture Khokho René­Corail : Xän et Oshea, fresque. Musée de la canne: Marc Marie­Joseph, Dôme Sanctuaire

2012

Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?

Contemporary Art From the Caribbean

Artists: Ryan Oduber, Joscelyn Gardner, Sheena Rose, Oswaldo Macia .Costa Rica: Edgar León,  Alexandre Arreachea Carlos Garaicoa Yaima Carrazana Ana Mendieta (†),  David Bade Tirzo Martha Tony Monsanto , Marcos Lora Read Jorge Pineda Limber Vilorio,  Bruno Pedurand, Hew Locke, Mario Benjamin, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Edouard Duval Carrié, Marvin Bartley, Renée Cox, Leasho Johnson, Ebony G. Patterson, Jean Francois Boclé, David Damoison. Panama: Jhafis Quintero Gonzales, Jonathan Harker/ Donna Conlon,  Pepón Osorio, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Michael McMillan, Remy Jungerman, Charl Landvreugd, Marcel Pinas.

"The Goddess Constellations / Sky Above Haiti 12January2010, 21:53UTC"

2012

Radical Presence:

Black Performance In Contemporary Art

Artists: Derrick Adams, Terry Adkins, Papo Colo, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Theaster Gates, Maren Hassinger, Wayne Hodge, Satch Hoyt, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kalup Linzy, Dave McKenzie, Jayson Musson, Senga Nengudi, Tameka Jean Norris, Lorraine O’Grady, Clifford Owens, Benjamin Patterson, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper (*withdrawn), William Pope.L, Rammellzee, Sur Rodney (Sur), Dread Scott, Xaviera Simmons, Danny Tisdale, Carrie Mae Weems

2011

Bauen Wohnen Denken

Building Dwelling Thinking

Artists: Marcus Ahlers, Seo young Chang, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Patrick Jambon, Anna Kostreva, Rebecca Loyche, Lucy A. Roberts, Paula Ross, Gerard Smulevich. Curated by kate hers and Thomas Arnold
The Goddess Constellations / Fragment Nr.1, Paris 5AM 12 April 1975, 2011
Negerhosen2000 / The Travel Albums, SmartLoft Selection, 2007

2011

Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Ewan Atkinson, Nicole Awai, LaVaughn Belle Lillian Blades, Terry Boddie, Holly Bynoe, Santiago Cal, Charles Campbell, Keisha Castello John Cox, Blue Curry, Richard Fung Joscelyn, Gardner Marlon, Griffith Abigail Hadeed, Nadia Huggins, Sri Irodikromo, Marlon James, Patricia Kaersenhout, Roshini Kempadoo, Jaime Lee Loy Hew Locke, Pauline Marcelle Kishan Munroe Nikolai Noel Ebony G. Patterson Marcel Pinas, Dhiradj Ramsamoedj Sheena Rose Oneika Russell Heino Schmid, Philip Thomas, Rodell Warner, Tonya Wiles, Natalie Wood.

Supported by the World Bank Art Program in partnership with the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Caribbean Community Secretariat, part of the

ABOUT CHANGE emerging artists’ program. Curated by Christopher Cozier and Tatiana Flores. * Catalogue (pdf)

"TROPHIES / Paint-by-Number Series" (on Secretary General of the U.N. Kofi Annan)

2011

Making Mirrors

of body and gaze

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Dave Ball & Oliver Walker, Sonia Barrett, Danielle Daude, Farida Heuck, Wayne Hodge, Wolfram Kastner, Rajkamal Kahlon, Philip Metz, Manuela Ritz, Serfiraz Vural & Pasquale Rotter. Curated by Sandrine Micosse-Aikins and Metanationale. *Catalogue
"The Goddess Constellations / 5:00.12.4.1975.48°51N2°21E", 2011

2010

Urban Memories

48 Stunden Neukölln

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Rosa mesa, Prinz Gholam, André Piontek & Judith Siegmund, Sencer Vardarman, Simone Zaugg. Curated by Maria Linares and Dr.Martin Steffens, director Kulturnetzwerk-Neukölln for 48 Stunden Neukölln 2010 *Catalogue
"Der Paukenschlag" (Die Trommel)

2010

FIRST SERVICE / Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, D-L Alvarez, Jon Campbell, Amir Fattal, Grit Hachmeister, Dennis Kuhlow, Sophie von Stillfried, Sascha Weidner. 

2009

10Th Havana Biennial

Integration & Resistence in the Global Age

Curatorial team: José Manuel Noceda, Margarita González, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Ibis Hernández Abascal, Margarita Sánchez Prieto, José Fernández Portal, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda. 
"The Goddess Project / Shrine of the Divine Negress No.1"
Representing Germany/Haiti with underwriting from IFA/Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. Stuttgart, TA Projects Berlin, Culture France Paris

2009

Komet Preußen (Comet Prussia)

Artists:  Jean-Ulrick Desért, Solveig Karen Bolduan, Genia Chef, Bernhard Heisig, Ter Hell, Edward Lucie-Smith, Klaus Vogelgesang. Curated by Pascual Jordan / Mirko Friewald directors
"Guten Morgen Preußen" Cyantotype series (Good Morning Prussia) 

2009

Kreyol Factory

des artistes interrogent les identités créoles

(Kreyol Factory– Artists Interrogate Creole Identities)
Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Allora Jennifer & Calzadilla Guillermo, Alet Thierry,  Lyle Ashton Harris, Jean-François Boclé, Alex Burke, Renee Cox, Thierry Fontaine, Pepón Osorio, Marcel Pinas, Patrick Vilaire, Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Tony Capellan, Bruno Peinado.  Supervising curator Yolande Bacot
"Negerhosen2000"

2009

Save Berlin

in Partnership with Ex-Berliner Magazine
 Coordinated by Daniel Borden
"The Invisible(Berlin)Wall"

2009

Signs Taken For Wonders

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Kader Attia, Julien Friedler, Jeffrey Gibson, Xaviera Simmons, and Carrie Mae Weems.  Curated by Isolde Brielmaier
Trophies / Paint-by-Number series (on Secretary General Kofi Annan)

2009

Re/Positioning

Critical Whiteness / Perspectives Of Color

Coordninated by Sandrine Micosse Aikins and Meta-Nationale
http://www.whitelessons.blogspot.com

2008

Infinite Island

Contemporary Caribbean Art

Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Hew Locke, Christopher Cozier, Anna-lee Davis, Marcel Pinos, Satch Hoyt, Nicole Awai
First major survey-exhibition of Caribbean-diaspora art, Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Associate Curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum.
The Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Exhibition Fund and the Barbara and Richard Debs Exhibition Fund. Generous support is contributed by the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the American Center Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding is contributed by the Friends of Brooklyn Museum, the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and the Consulate General of the Netherlands. The accompanying catalogue is supported by a Brooklyn Museum publications endowment established by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
"Negerhosen2000 / The Travel Albums"
"The Burqa Project: On the Borders of My Dreams I Encountered My Double's Ghost"

2008

Democracy And Violence

Drawings and collages

2008

Glück gehabt

Kunst im Untergrund

Artists: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Julia Baier, Martina Becker, BEWEGUNG NURR und Florian Göpfert, Roland Boden, Heike Bollig, Susanne Britz, Dante Busquets, Martin Conrads/Anna Mándoki, Ilse Deberle, Manfred Eichhorn, Moritz Frei, Rolf Giegold, Alexandra Gneissl, Adrian Göllner, Sebastian Gräfe, Massoud Graf-Hachempour, Caroline von Grone, Irène Hug, Karen Irmer, Karl Heinz Jeron, Lilo Cornelia Karsten, Katja Klein, Kirsten Klöckner, Carsten Kummer, Victor López, Eva-Christina Meier, Connie Mendoza, Claudia Mucha, Barbara Müller, Leo de Munk, Piotr Nathan, Hester Oerlemans, Felix Pestemer, Heiko Pfreundt, Nik Pitton, Ingrid Schütz, Christian Sievers , Hein Spellmann, Bernd Trasberger, Urban Plant Research, Sylvia Winkler/Stephan Köperl, Gloria Zein

A Project by NGBK, financed by Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Kunst im Stadtraum, Berlin, and supported by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) and Wall AG. 

2008

Quivid 08

Kommission für Kunst am Bau und im öffentlichen Raum

Wettbewerbsgewinner und Realisierungen 2005-2008, Underwritten by the Baureferat-München
Installation photo-documentation

2007

Die Tür Für Eine Andere Zukunft Aufmachen

Open Doors for an Alternative Future

Annual small-works exhibiton organized by Gallery director Uwe Jonas
"Negerhosen2000 / Travel albums" [A5 Study]

2006

Sexwork: Art Myth Reality

Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert (US/DE), Patrick Angus (US), Amos Badertscher (US), J. Jackie Baier (DE), Cristiano Berti (IT), Bianca Bodau (DE), Ursula Biemann (CH), Viviana Bravo Botta (CL/DE), Jose Luis Cuevas (MX), Antje Engelmann (DE), Stefanie Gaus (DE), Ditte Haarløv-Johnsen (DK), Birgit Hein (DE), Gabriele Horndasch (DE), Karin Jurschick (DE), diekönigin (AT), Natalie Kriwy (F/DE), Ane Lan (NO), BuBu de la Madeleine (JP), Anna Nizio (PL/DE), Eva Maria Ocherbauer (AT/DE), Beate Passow (DE), Anja Planišček (SL), Tadej Pogačar (SL), Clara S. Rueprich (DE), Tejal Shah, Dr.Floy, Natasha Mendonca and Sumathi (F, IN), Judith Siegmund (DE), Alberto Simon (BR/DE), Ulrike Solbrig (DE), Itziar Bilbao Urrutia (ES/GB), Social Impact (AT), Borjana Ventzislavova (BG/AT), Rommelo Yu (PH/DE), Yoshiko Shimada (JP), Gloria Zein (DE). Curator team: Stéphane Bauer, Boris von Brauchitsch, Katharina Kaiser, Maika Leffers, Jörg Leidig, Judith Siegmund, Ulrike Solbrig. Catalogue
"Codex Testimoniorum Amoris / The Book of the Witnesses of Love -or- The collected Accounts of the Emptoris and their Scortæ"
 "Les Toiles de Jouy / Thailand and Mail-order-brides" (catalogue cover)

2005

Living For The City

Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert,

"The ABCs of My Private Life" ("L'ABCdaire de ma vie privée"), "Negerhosen2000"

2005

Über Schönheit

About Beauty

Web Component Exhibition  : http://www.ueber-beauty.com
Curator-director Shaheen Merali, 
Jean-Ulrick Désert Artistic Sampler Dossier 

2005

Xenopolis

Of The Fascination and Marginalization of The Other

Original German title: XENOPOLIS/ Von der Faszination und Ausgrenzung des Fremden
Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Henrik Oelson, Pia Lanzinger, Tamiko Thiel, Oliver Ressler, esra Ersen, martin Krenn,Tanja Ostojic, Schleuser.net (Farida Heuk, Ralf Hofman, Manuela Unverdoben), Ina Wudtke, Nika Spalinger, Szuper Gallery (Susanne Clausen & Pawlo Kerestey)
Intiated and curated by Pia Lanzinger, Andrea Naica-Loebell and (author/historian) Angela Koch. Catalogue-brochure and Book(Angela Koch)
Generously funded by the Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat & The Villa Waldberta am Starnberg See 
"Codex Testimoniorum Amoris / The Book of the Witnesses of Love -or- The collected Accounts of the Emptoris and their Scortæ"

2004

Veni Vidi Video II

artists:

"Suicidal Meditations of My Own Death / Woolworth Building"

2004

Anatomically Correct

Initiated and curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa
"Die Hosen r'unter lassen "

2004

Zeichnung

Artists: 
Intitated by museum curators Jörg Leidig and Wolgang Thiese, 
"Les Toiles de Jouy" (Thailand Gay Tourism series)

2003

Subversiv

Sieben fotografische Positionen aus Berlin

Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Ingo Taubhorn, Andeas Fux, Henning von Berg

2003

War

Pop-up gallery initiated by Paulus Fugers & Hans Booy (Tulip Enterprises) of Kunstraum Richard Sorge (Berlin)
"Suicidal Meditations Of My Own Death "

2001

Bloninchen Und Bräunchen

Weiss Weiss bin auch ich

Initiated by Curator Rafael von Uslar
With the generous underwriting of Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat. Book-catalogue (Blondies & Brownies, weiß weiß bin auch ich / Multiculturalism and Racism in the Old and the New World, edited by Irmtrud Wojak & Rafael von Uslar)
"Negerhosen2000" Bierdeckel/Beer-coaster mocksups/studies and Bar/Kneipe pop-ups
"Negerhosen2000" Kantine/restaurant site specific solo-installation

2001

Surrender

I Want To Give You My Devotion

Artists:  jean-Ulrick Désert, Joseph Beuys, Mark Dion, Katharina Fritsch, Paul Glazer, Candida Höfer, John Waters, Salome, Marcus Weber, Anny Ötztürk, Marcel Odenbach, Geoffrey Hendricks, Bernhard Joahannes Blume, Cary S. Leibowitz, Leroy 'King of Art'.
Guest Curator Rafael von Uslar (Germany) 
"Surrender, La Main / a Project for Belgium"  
"Surrender, Le Chapelet (The Rosary)"

2000

Vier Kunstvlaai 4 Art Fair

"Pillar" in collaboration with artist Ingrid Jejina

2000

Blondies And Brownies

Aspects of Multiculturalism and Racism at the End of the Century

Artists include: Jean-Ulrick Désert, Bas Meerman, Lorraine O'Grady..

2000

Stadt München Biennial (Amsterdam)

Pop-up gallery initiated and curated by Simon Ferdinando 
"The Hip Decadence of Reductive Glamour"

2000

Sur la thème de Paris

l'Exposition de la Maison, organized by founder-director Simone Brunau, 
"Interior Lives / La vie Parisienne du Duke & Duchess de Windsor"
"Negerhosen2000 / Post Cards From GERMANIA"