ME - MALEREI Ulrike Pisch

In the exhibition "ME – Painting," young artist Ulrike Pisch presents a selection of her newly created paintings from the summer of 2012, running from June 21 to July 28. Everyday scenes, travel memories, and lived sexuality are just a few of the diverse themes found in her work. These are shaped by emotional moments, expressed through a gentle color palette and the choice of partly impasto painting techniques. Whether thickly applied or resembling watercolor, the mood of the paintings thrives on the artist's willingness to experiment.

Desires and experiences run like a red thread through the subjects of her works, accompanied by various forms of vitality present in each individual painting. Influenced by her personal travels and their lasting effects, works such as "Porta Bohemica" and "Memory" have emerged.

Characteristic of the artist's style are the occasional portraits of women, as seen in the paintings "Rote Punkte" and "Make up." Distinctive eyes define the faces of the protagonists, pointing to the artist's valuable engagement with East Asian culture. The viewer finds themselves amidst melancholic, nostalgically tinged images that transition into light, dissolving, and sketch-like scenes, with the choice of colors reflecting this transformation. One encounters a quiet and fleeting rendezvous in a long-gone era or a contemporary blind date on-site, during a journey, in a studio, a salon, on the street, in a crowd, an establishment, or a sacred place, palpably without a fixed outcome, open to encounters and communication.

Ulrike Pisch partially forgoes visible facial expressions: people without distinctly recognizable features shape the visual concept. These paintings appear very mysterious, leaving ample room for the viewer's interpretations. The use of repoussoir figures also finds its place in this context, offering the visitor a possible mirror of the artist's soul.

The exhibition "ME – Painting" opens up a freedom-loving painter for art enthusiasts, who touches and convinces with her individuality and artistic self-confidence.

Sylvana Trensch, Art Historian