Nina
Urlichs

Nina Urlichs 

born in Nürnberg, the German artist deals with themes revolving around the human and their expressions. Shortly upon graduating with a degree in fashion design (1992) , she turned toward the visual arts as a more appropriate means through which to continue and strengthen her research in body expressions. She continued formations and artstudies until 1996.

Her experience working with the “new figuration” movement in Germany opened her to the sensitivity and expression found within the gestures of the human body. She started her artcareer in 2000 and created her own visual language of figuratif and abstract calligraphy. Her work is based on the philosophy of a perpetual life cycle, characterized by an incessant appearance and disappearance. For this reason, faded traces of paintings, destroyed collages, and washed out colors on transparent canvas or paper  are heavily used within her artworks in multiple layers. The lightness of these materials matches perfectly in her search of light and depth. Through the creation process she explores the relationship between the intimate universe and the human body.

Nina Urlichs has recently exhibited within artshows at MVVO in New York City, in the Biennale d’art 4 in Paris, and New Artists in London. In 2015 and 2016 she completed artist residencies in Chengdu, China , 6 months at  59Rivoli in Paris and recently 2021 at CCT Pistoia Residency in Italy, Toscany . In 2021 she was awarded for her Drawings , Prix Roger Marage, Fondation Taylor Paris. Also the same year she won the Artprize for digital phorography in Germany.    in 1995 She won the young painting Award CAP, Paris and was awarded into the séléction of the artprize David Weill, the Fondation Feneon Paris 1998. She has been published in theAnnuaire OFF, and Artscene magazine in France, In Visually art New York 2022 and Le Monde Diplomatique, France 2021. She has upcoming shows in 2024 in  Cologne, Munich and Paris. Nina Urlichs lives and works between Paris and her hometown.