Nina Urlichs — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Sep 25

Sep 25 Nina Urlichs

Biography

Nina Urlichs, born in Nuremberg, Germany, began with studies in fashion design, as well as training and studies in visual art in Paris, Hamburg and Salzburg until 1995. In 1998 she started her black pigment -paintings and drawings as her research on transparencies, leading her to works on glass and pvc, supports allowing to broaden her reflection on ephemeral movements and imprints. Her career was marked by residencies, at 59Rivoli - Paris, the Nonguyen art center in Chengdou/China 2015, as recently the artresidency Castagnopit in Italy (2021), Her painting has integrated public collections in Sweden, South Korea and China and she was awarded with the Drawingaward of the Fondation Taylor Paris 2021.
Her shows brought her in the last years to New York (MVVO artfair 2017) London (New Artist 2016), Vilnius Littuany (Arkagallery 2019) Munich (2021) and all over Europe. She has upcoming shows 2023 in her Hometown Paris and Cologne. Since 2016 she also curated different international artshows in Paris (Biowoman- renaissance and the Biennale european de Blancs Manteaux, Paris.)

Artist Statement

NINA URLICHS some thoughts and directions

My art creates a language showing relationships between the intimate universe and the human body. My aim is to demonstrate the dual nature of our contemporary lives through the expression of our fears, our joys, our emotions. At first sight these may be captured in beautiful pictures, but gradually our realities are revealed and connections to contemporary events (war, destruction, human failures) are gradually coming into the mind. My work is based on the philosophy of a perpetual life cycle, characterized by an incessant appearance and disappearance. layers of faded traces of washed out paintings, destroyed collages, transparent canvas or paper are used within the artworks. The lightness of these materials matches perfectly in my search of light and depth. The research of balance in the composition is very important, as the open structure of my installations, where no frame will make borders.

Some lines, red and black , abstract or half figuratif are showing up in my pictures recently. These lines represent directions and horizons. Free to be interpretated in everybodys mind, free to suggest directions from the past and for the future. These lines are open, and seems to go far out of the frame, searching for new ways, like maps,
that only we can see, as we make our way into
the unknown territory of our own enlightenment.

Country France

Website http://nina.urlichs.de

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