Nina Urlichs
Artist based in Germany
ABOUT
Nina Urlichs, a German artist, completed her studies in Fine Art in Paris. Since 2002, she has exhibited in art fairs and galleries across Europe. Her career includes notable residencies, such as 59 Rivoli in Paris, the Nongyuan Art Center in Chengdu, China, in 2015, and more recently at Castagnopit in Italy in 2021. Her paintings have been integrated into public collections, and she received the Drawing Award from the Fondation Taylor in Paris in 2021. In her collage-like works, Nina explores themes of femininity and the relationship with the surrounding nature. She employs a variety of techniques, including drawing, cyanotypes, and photography, to create layered compositions that evoke a world of silence and nostalgia.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My art creates a language showing relationships between the intimate universe and the human body. The 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 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 and papers are used within the artworks. The lightness of these materials matches perfectly in the search of light and depth. The balance in the composition is very important, as the open structure of the bigger wall- installations, where no frame will make borders. Horisons are goingt through the hidden layers from one picture to the other. I create here connections from one work to the other. They could be shown seperately by their own, or all together like in an ongoing story Abstract lines and forms, red and black , are showing up through my recent pictures. 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.
Website: https://nina.urlichs.de/
Instagram: @ninaurl