Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt

The performance artist Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt was born in Denmark and has lived in Berlin since 2008. She studied Comparative Literature in Copenhagen and Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen. Since autumn 2011 she is an artistic research associate on the BA course Dance, Context and Choreography at the HZT Berlin. She works in collaboration with colleagues such as Monster Truck, Boris Nikitin, Matthias Meppelink and deufert+plischke. Together with the Swiss performance artist Lucie Tuma she founded the artistic duo Chuck Morris, and with souvereines, made state visits to Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Denmark as the coming Queen.