Untitled
Colored pencil on paper by Ulrike Zabel. The drawing dates from 2019/20 and measures 15 x 17 cm (sheet format). "Untitled" has already been sold.
Untitled
Colored pencil on paper by Ulrike Zabel. The drawing dates from 2020 and measures 15 x 17 cm (sheet format). "Untitled" has already been sold.
Untitled
Colored pencil on paper by Ulrike Zabel. The drawing dates from 2019 and measures 14 x 19 cm (sheet format). "Untitled" has already been sold.
curriculum vitae
Ulrike Zabel
*lives and works in Leipzig. (DE)
2018/19
Master student studies with Prof. Thomas Rug, Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle
2016
Diploma in Fine Arts, specializing in graphics with Prof. Thomas Rug, Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle
1988
born in Köthen/Anhalt
Exhibitions
2024
respectively, Goldwerk Gallery Rostock
Where I want to be today, UG Halle 14, Cotton Spinning Mill Leipzig
Paper Positions Berlin, Deutsche Telekom Capital Representation Berlin
Parasol, Galerie Paul Scherzer, Halle (solo)
2023
No dress code, Runddrei Kunstraum Kambs
Group show, Galerie Paul Scherzer, Halle
2022
Between liverwurst purple and tape yellow, ZfK @ Urbn Jungle, Leipzig
Something nice for your 25th, Galerie Borssenanger, Chemnitz
Summer Threads, Paul Scherzer Gallery, Halle
Image Fétiche, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden
Anonymous Illustrators, Gallery in Körnerpark, Berlin
Paper Positions, Deutsche Telekom Capital Representative Office, Berlin
2021
Image symbols, Gallery of the Kreissparkasse Nordhausen (solo)
Paper Positions Munich - The Show, Karl & Faber, Munich
Paper Positions, Deutsche Telekom Capital Representative Office, Berlin
Next Season, Art Museum Monastery of Our Lady Magdeburg
Cozy Quarters, Galerie Paul Scherzer, Halle (solo)
2020
Tiny, intermediate fish, Leipzig
11th Nordhausen Graphic Arts Prize, Kunsthaus Meyenburg, Nordhausen
Versus_Linie, Hoch+Partner, Gallery and Workshop for Woodcuts and Relief Printing, Leipzig
2019
Summer Salon 19, Borssenanger Gallery, Chemnitz
The future is the new thing, Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation, Halle
Master students of the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle, Blech, Raum für Kunst Halle eV, Halle
Oasis - Drawings from the Master Class, Alter Markt 25, Halle (solo)
Winter Salon, Galerie Borssenanger, Chemnitz
2018
artbook.berlin, Bethanien Art Quarter, Berlin
Anonymous Illustrators, Gallery in Körnerpark, Berlin
All:Mix, Galerie ff15, Leipzig
From the Depths, Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation, Halle
Event Printmaking 10, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
Druckfinitum, Charter Project Gallery, Leipzig
2017
Halle Graphics Market, Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle, Halle
6th Relief Graphic Symposium of the Association of Visual Artists Leipzig eV and the printing workshop Carpe Plum bum, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
Joseph and Anna Fassbender Prize, Behind the Scenes, Galerie am Schloss, Brühl
binocular, a room that..., Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
2016
Woodcut today, selected works at the art prize of the Foundation for Art, Culture and Education of the Kreissparkasse Ludwigsburg (catalogue)
Diplomas of Art, Volkspark, Halle (catalogue)
Depth Lines, Dornrosa, Halle (solo)
Depth lines, contour lines, Volkspark, Halle (solo)
2010-2015
Anniversary exhibition, dieHO Gallery, Magdeburg
Hunger drives the beast out of the forest, Galerie Die schöne Stadt, Halle
To be announced, Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts
Scholarships/Awards
2025
Residency scholarship Atelier Foundation Art and Nature
2022
Restart Culture grant, Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation
2021
Culture on the Net, working scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt
2020
Art purchase by the state of Saxony-Anhalt
Sponsorship award from the Kreissparkasse Nordhausen
Nomination for the 11th Nordhausen Graphic Design Prize
2019
Kinder-leicht scholarship from the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt
2017
Working scholarship from the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt and the Kloster Bergesche Foundation
6th Relief Graphic Symposium, Association of Visual Artists Leipzig eV in cooperation with the printing workshop Carpe Plumbum
2016
Studio grant a room that…, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
Recognition for the Saalesparkasse Foundation Art Prize
Works in public collections
Art Museum Monastery of Our Lady Magdeburg
Municipal Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen
Nordhausen District Savings Bank
Texts/Press
A fabric, a carpet. Woven in dark green, the individual strands tightly intertwined. Three individual threads are red: one ends in the middle, one almost reaches the other side, the other remains in between. But none makes it across. The green is so dense and deep that you want to linger for a long time. Like in a forest. / A checkerboard pattern, stretched outwards. A wall of flat brick, permeable: every other brick is omitted, offset. You can see through it as if through a grate. Behind it, below, something imprecise in motion. Fish, shadowy, in a pond. Something flashes briefly. / Lines, lines, lines. Drawn precisely parallel. At one point, then, a common bend: and suddenly a space. / Another wall. Not transparent, but checkered. The structure tapers downwards into two triangles. Coming from above.
Upside down. / Four circles break through the wall in a decidedly orange-red. / A green frame. In it, within, an airy net. Only an insect could have made something like this. So fine and even. The frame itself is a strong statement, but dissolving toward its outer edge. As if everything were gaseous. / Shreds,
Fragments. Remains of a very old map, the material of which has become brittle and broken over time. The pieces lie next to each other, one on top of the other. Below them are two red stripes, straight and clear. A small piece lies separately. / A fairly thin, transparent fabric. Two thin fabrics overlapping. In the middle, a single red thread.
Resolute in their restraint, Ulrike Zabel's drawings fluctuate between calm and irritation. They depict nothing, yet one can recognize all the more in them. Like clouds or coffee grounds. One moment strictly rhythmic, the next surprisingly playful, despite great precision, they never become rigid. The irregularities in the regularity betray the drawing hand, the body behind it. For drawing is manual work, and so it is not surprising that they repeatedly recall textiles. Densely condensed and growing over a long time. Like a thought that one can observe in the moment of its creation. There is great concentration in the drawings. Contemplating them leaves an impression that continues to have an impact later, beyond the paper. The webs are further woven.
Miriam Albert on the works of Ulrike Zabel from the exhibition Cozy Quarters at the Paul Scherzer Gallery
