W E N C K E   U H L   | | |   @winnovation

[lives & works – Germany ::: b.1979]

WENCKE UHL is a contemporary figurative paintress living and working in Germany. She draws inspiration from human beauty and the female form. As a teenager Uhl wanted to become a fashion designer and her fashion-forward aesthetic continues to shine alongside the deliberate and differentiated elements that define the vivacious and independent nature of her subjects. Uhl still likes to “dress” women in shapes and patterns, but her focus shifted from purely fashion-oriented to including elements of storytelling. 

Her works capture a situation, a moment, or an expression. Playing with concepts of identity and self-image, they’re reflecting the vibrant pop culture and mood of today’s transitional time. Emancipation, diversity, equality, and liberty are a natural and inherent part of her idea of how the world should be. Consequently, she is usually drawn to subjects displaying a certain independence, strength, and nonchalance.

Freed of the male gaze, Uhl celebrates femininity by capturing images of powerful women who have their own agenda and who defy objectification and subordination. Her subjects are dripping in bold colors and lush patterns that exude a compelling and vivid dynamic. She creates her paintings using acrylics, oil paint, and decoupage. Experimenting with different techniques, textures, and patterns, Uhl demonstrates mastery of graphic lines, composition, and color theory. While her themes, saturated color palette, and way of stylization employ the aesthetic vocabulary of pop art, her style also draws on realism, impressionism, illustration art, and photography and firmly places her in the pluralism of contemporary art.

Her work is sold internationally throughout Europe, the US, and Australia.

EDUCATION 

2012      MA American & English Cultural & Literary Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany 

2006      Semester At Metropolitan College, London (Media And English Studies), London, UK 

2008      Internship, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Agency, Frankfurt, Germany 

EXHIBITIONS 

2023      27th Annual No Dead Artists, Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, LA 

2023      The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA 

2023      Pink Party, Virgil Catherine Gallery, Hinsdale, IL 

2023      Herstory, Group Show, Virgil Catherine Gallery, Hinsdale, IL 

2023      All You Can Art, Group Show, + Salt Homestaging, Munich, Germany 

2023      Shadows And Light, Group Show, Maison 10, New York, NY 

2023      Augmented Reality, Group Show, All You Can Art, Munich, Germany 

2022      Les Femmes, Group Show, Maison 10, New York, NY 

2021      The Intersection Of Art And Fashion, Virgil Catherine Gallery, Hinsdale. IL 

2021      Stronger Together, Group Show, Virgil Catherine Gallery, Hinsdale. IL 

2021      IV Biennale D’arte Della Versilia Galleria Europa, Group Exhibition, Artexpertise, Versilia, Italy 

2020      Art In A Box, Group Exhibition, Blu Sky Lager, Frankfurt Main, Germany 

2020      Solo, Goebenhaus, Stade, Germany