Wolfram Ullrich

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Wolfram Ullrich (* 1961 in Würzburg ) is a German artist .

life and work

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Wolfram Ullrich

Ullrich grew up in Würzburg and moved to Stuttgart in 1980 to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . At the same time, he completed his studies in art history at the University of Stuttgart in 1985 .

Between 1990 and 1992 he won three grants, including two grants from the state of Baden-Württemberg and a work grant from the DAAD , which took him to New York, where he worked on extensive projects and large formats. In 2009 the artist won the Helmut Kraft Foundation Prize and the Messmer Foundation's André Evard Prize the following year.

Wolfram Ullrich lives and works as a freelance artist in Stuttgart.

At the beginning of his work, Ullrich's work concentrated on an expanded concept of painting. According to the artist, “every painting is also an object”. This becomes clear in the use of alternative materials, with which the artist already experimented in the 80s. Ullrich himself describes his work as a "sculptural structure" made of different materials. He paints them with strong, monochrome colors that emphasize their spatial presence and their status as objects. The “Relief” series from the late 1980s suggests a tendency towards three-dimensionality even in its name. His wall works have an effect far beyond their pictorial boundaries and change their spatial dimension depending on the location and perspective of the viewer. Their trapezoidal base surfaces oscillate between painting and sculpture and create the illusion of spatial weightlessness.

As a result, Ullrich's work is difficult to assign to a specific genre . The exhibition in the Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt shows Ullrich's work in the tradition of concrete art, in which perspective, color, shape, line and material are of particular importance. However, Ullrich's large-format works develop a peculiar physicality that changes the overall perception of their surroundings. Inspired by Mondrian , Ullrich limits the color spectrum to the primary colors and his use of industrial materials inevitably refers to the influence of American minimal art , especially Frank Stella .

The series “folds”, created in the nineties, are works of lacquered aluminum or steel that rise from the wall and physically conquer the room. Furthermore, in the nineties he finished and created works such as “Islands” and “Window”, all arrangements of geometric shapes whose shadow gaps create the expanded illusion of depth or height, depending on the viewer's position. As the artist himself explains, the works are literally built up by putting together different segments; the works differ in this respect from the sculpture, in the process of which subtraction is the key.

At the beginning of the 2000s, works were created from individual forms made of poly leather, the front side of which is covered with a monochrome layer of lacquer and acrylic paint, while the steel image carrier becomes visible at the edges.

An apparent corporeality culminates in the “Orbit” series, acquired in 2014: The perfectly luminous texture and the diametrical arrangement elevate the seemingly weightless elements, make them tilt or bend towards the viewer over narrow shadow gaps. The artist experiments and works on the next step from construction to perception.

Prizes and awards

  • 1990 Graduate scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg
  • 1991 Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
  • 1992 working grant from DAAD , New York
  • 2009 Prize from the Helmut Kraft Foundation
  • 2010 André Evard Prize, Messmer Foundation

Exhibitions (selection)

2019

2018

  • Dep Art Gallery, Milano, Wolfram Ullrich, Puro colore, pura forma
  • Lange + Pult Gallery, Zurich
  • Denise René Gallery , Paris

2017

  • Galerie Lange + Pult, Auvernier, Switzerland

2015

  • Galerie Lange + Pult, Zurich, Early Works
  • Galerie Kusseneers, Bruxelles, Progression

2014

  • Denise René Gallery, Paris
  • Galerie Lange + Pult, Zurich, formation

2013

  • Raquel Arnaud Gallery, S ã o Paulo, Planar
  • Michael Sturm Gallery, Stuttgart

2011

  • Denise René Gallery, Paris
  • Galerie Schlégl, Zurich, Responding Perspectives

2010

  • Galerie Linder, Vienna
  • C. Hjärne Gallery, Helsingborg
  • Gallery Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich
  • Galerie Une, Neuchâtel, Shift

2009

  • Michael Sturm Gallery, Stuttgart

2008

  • Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Float
  • Gallery Bernd Lausberg, Düsseldorf
  • Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm,

2007

  • St. Johann Gallery, Saarbrücken
  • Schlégl Gallery, Zurich

2006

  • Kusseneers Gallery, Antwerp
  • Galerie Une, Neuchâtel
  • Gallery Bernd Lausberg, Düsseldorf

2005

  • Michael Sturm Gallery, Stuttgart

2004

  • Pilar Parra Gallery, Madrid
  • Bergner + Job Gallery, Mainz
  • Gallery Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich

2003

  • Gallery Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm

2002

  • Pilar Parra Gallery, Helsingborg
  • Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen, segments
  • Michael Sturm Gallery, Stuttgart
  • Bergner + Job Gallery, Wiesbaden

2001

2000

  • Gallery Dr. I. Schlégl, Zurich
  • Gallery Job, Mainz

1999

Public collections

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Vita Biography". Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Wolfram Ullrich Artista Opere | Galleria Dep Art Milano. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ullrich, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg