Lilly Lulay was born in Frankfurt in 1985. From 2005 – 2014 she studied at the University of Art and Design – Hfg Offenbach and the École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France. She lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.

Grants and Awards

  • 2022
    • AMA Artists Meet Archive, Rheinisches Bildarchiv Fotoszene Cologne, Germany

    • Ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, exhibition funding, Sarasota, FL

  • 2021
    • Casa Planas Archive, research residency, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

  • 2019
    • Fellowship of Kunstfonds Bonn

  • 2017
    • Olympus recommended scholarship, FFF Fotografie Forum Frankfurt / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Foam Amsterdam

  • 2016
    • IEPA residency, Hendaye, France

  • 2015
    • Galeri/MIZ, residency, Istanbul

  • 2015
    • catalogue grant, Kulturamt Frankfurt

  • 2014
    • Prix Virginia shortlist

  • 2013
    • scholarship Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt

  • 2012
    • Deutsche Börse and HFG photo award

Solo Shows

  • 2022
    • Deconstructive Narrative, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York, NY

    • Lilly Lulay, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

  • 2021
    • Feature Extraction – Photography as Raw Data, Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, Germany

    • Artifacts From The Age Of Acceleration, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany

  • 2020
    • Artifacts from the Age of Acceleration, Koninklijke Akademie Beeldende Kunst d'Audenaerde, Oudenaarde, Belgium

    • Lilly Lulay, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

  • 2019
    • Cut out worlds. An Investigation on Photographic Infrastructures, Die Ecke, Providencia, Santiago, Chile

  • 2018
    • Accept Terms and Conditions, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany

  • 2016
    • Delving into visual strata, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

    • Upload Yourself, Warte für Kunst, Kassel, Germany

    • Collect, Structure & Map, Basis project space, Frankfurt, Germany

  • 2014
    • Indistance, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

  • 2013
    • Lichtbilder, Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany

    • Morceaux Choisis, gallery Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France

  • 2011
    • Mindscapes, gallery Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France

Group Shows

  • 2022
    • Phänomen Großmann trifft auf künstlerische Fotografie, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany

    • Passagen, Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

    • metadata – Rethinking Photography in the 21st Century, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

  • 2021
    • Analog Total. Fotografie heute, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany

    • Biennale de L'image Tangible, Oblique Nuage, Paris, France

  • 2020
    • Variantes Asimétricas, Fundación Mapfre, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

    • New Formations, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA

  • 2019
    • FOAM Talents, Deutsche Börse, The Cube Frankfurt, Germany

    • Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2019, Ballarat, Australia

    • FOAM Talents, Beaconsfield Gallery London, UK

    • Alptraum, La estacion gallery, Chihuahua, Mexico

    • FOAM Talents, Red Hook Labs New York, USA

    • Wie wohnen die Leute? Mit dem Stadtlabor durch die Ernst-May-Siedlungen, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany

  • 2018
    • Out of Office. Büro-Kunst oder das Büro im Museum, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

    • Fragments of Belief, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

    • Olympus scholarship in collaboration with Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Fotografie Forum Hamburg / Foam Amsterdam, Akademie der Künste Hamburg, Germany

    • Open House. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Fellowship, Final Presentation, Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany

    • Fuori Fuoco – The Summer Show 2018, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy

  • 2017
    • Out of Office. Büro-Kunst, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt

    • Triple Chance, korrekt, Frankfurt

    • La photographie contemporaine allemande, Goethe Institut Bordeaux

    • Still Searching – Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens

    • Rorschach – an Experiment, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

    • Collage I – Methode, Fotogalerie, Wien

    • basis.aperçu, Goethe-Institut, Paris

  • 2016
    • A Matter of Memory, George Eastmann Museum, Rochester, NY

    • IEPA#1, Basis, Frankfurt (with Béranger Laymond, duo), Germany

    • Second Hands, gallery binôme, Paris, France

    • Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

    • Circulation(s), festival of young european photography, 104, Paris, France

    • À Dessein, gallery binôme, Paris, France

    • Alptraum, RAE space for contemporary art, Berlin

  • 2015
    • Fotografia Contemporanea dall'Europa nord-occidentale, Fondazione Fotografia di Modena, Modena, Italy

    • Interdisciplinary, Galeri/MIZ, Istanbul, Turkey

    • Reframe Memory, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

    • RAY 2015, OFFM public art panels, Frankfurt, Germany

    • Alptraum (Nightmare), Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, Canada

    • Amigdala, Tart gallery, Zürich, CH

  • 2014
    • Nouvelles Aquisitions, Artothèque de Pessac, France

    • FdJT, curated by Roos Gortzak, Offenbach, Germany

    • Even my mom can make a book 4#, Project Room, Berlin

    • Les dérivés de la photographie, Artothèque de Pessac/Frac Aquitaine, France

  • 2014
    • Nouvelles Aquisitions, Artothèque de Pessac, France

    • FdJT, curated by Roos Gortzak, Offenbach, Germany

    • Even my mom can make a book 4#, Project Room, Berlin

    • Les dérivés de la photographie, Artothèque de Pessac/Frac Aquitaine, France

  • 2013
    • House of Vetti, gallery Koenig and Clinton, New York City, NY

    • All Hands Manöver, Kunstverein Speyer, Speyer, Germany

    • Ausgezeichnet, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Eschborn, Germany

  • 2012
    • Cartes Postales d´Artistes, Goethe Institut Lyon, France

    • Rethinking Reality, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

    • Spieglein, Spieglein, collaboration HfG OF / Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

    • ein Durchgang, RAY Fotografieprojekte Rhein Main, Frankfurt, Germany

    • Traces to find-Things to explore, FAK, Münster (with Magalie Levebvre, duo), Germany

    • Überqualifiziertes Material, Zeitraum Exit, Mannheim, Germany

    • L'espace de l'autre, Centre d'art et photographie de Lectoure, France

    • on-off-on, Naspa, Wiesbaden, Germany

  • 2011
    • Nouvelles Aquisitions 2011, Arthothèque de Pessac, France

    • Déballées, Gallery Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France

    • C'est le bon, 18:52, Offenbach, Germany

  • 2010
    • Tête à Tête, HfG Satellit, Berlin

    • COOP 1, ehemalige Diamentenbörse, Frankfurt, Germany

    • Even my mom can make a book, Manzara Perspectives, Istanbul, Turkey

    • Fresco Mundo, Forgotten Bar, Berlin

Public Collections

    • George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA

    • FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, NL

    • Fondazione Fotografia Modena, I

    • Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt

    • Art Collection DZ Privatbank, Nürnberg

    • Europäisches Patentamt, Munich

    • Sammlung SCHUFA, Wiesbaden

    • Historisches Museum, Frankfurt

    • Arthothèque de Pessac, F

    • Arthothèque de Pau, F

    • Arthothèque du Limousin, F

    • Art Vontobel, Zurich, Switzerland

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