ABOUT ME  – ÜBER MICH

G e t   i n   t o u c h

    B i o g r a p h i e

    URSULA MINARIK,
    born 26th November 1971

    Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
    (Antoni Gaudi)

    On this planet, people mostly communicate with words, but I converse through the colors of my artwork. The most beautiful thing is to leave inspiration or a message for the observer of my paintings.

    My work tends to focus on people in action. Life is action and without action life does not take place. That’s why I describe movements of body and soul by using intense colors. The activities I am searching for I often find in faces. Faces are for me like a TV-screen – colorful, exiting, full of stories and action.

    Every time I start my work, I create a relationship between colors, the chosen passion as well as the subject.

    Most paintings are made on canvas with acrylic colors, applied in different ways to produce a transparent or opaque effect. The variety of opaque and transparent colors is essential to describe movements in my pictures. Depending on the purpose, the painting was carried out usingbrushes of varying thicknesses – broader brushes for background and clothing, finer ones for delicate detailing. If it is necessary to point something out mixed media (spray, crayon, pigments and others) are used. The dimensions of artwork are mostly bigger than 100 x 100 cm.

    Each painting is unique just as the impression of each viewer is unique.

    P r e s s e c o r n e r

    E x h i b i t i o n    H i s t o r y

    2017
    Group exhibition „Unik.at“ – Vienna (5/17)
    Brief joint presentation of paintings in context of “Die Parkettmeister” – Vienna (5/17)

    2016
    Colosseum Award – Palace Brancaccio in Rome (5/16)
    Private exhibition “Malzeit” – Baden/Vienna (5/16)
    Contemporary Art exhibition – New York Sia Art Gallery in cooperation with Galerie Bruno Massa (9/16)
    “Salon Art Shopping” in Cannes, Frankreich (12/16) – Peterova

    2015
    Three-generation exhibition – Vienna “artopia”
    International Art fair „Artshopping“ – Carrousel du Louvre in Paris
    Group exhibition „Together Again“ – Titko Galeria Budapest

    2014
    Extract from „moments-movements- monuments“ – GEKKO IT-Solution GmbH, Vienna
    „moments-movements- monuments“ – „NÖ offenes Atelier“ in Falkenstein

    2013
    „faces“ – „NÖ offenes Atelier“ in Falkenstein

    2012
    „bewegte menschen“ (moved people) – Volksbank Baden/Vienna
    “bewegte menschen” (moved people) – Austrian Academy of Certified Public Accountants, Vienna
    „Pinsel trifft Farbe“ (brush meets color) – “NÖ offenes Atelier” in Falkenstein

    2011
    „farbe ist leben“ (color is life) – Falkenstein in the context of „Wein-Kunst- Kultur-Festival“

    2010
    fair ART 2010 – Tribuswinkel Castle
    Joint exhibition of paintings in the context of contemporary art – Zeichenfabrik in Vienna

    2009
    „Farb“ (color) – Falkenstein in the context of „Wein-Kunst- Kultur“
    „Frauen in der Wirtschaft – Frauen in der Kunst“ (women in business – women in art), Chamber of Commerce in Mödling/Vienna

    2008
    „fabelhafte Momente“ (marvellous moments) – Falkenstein in the context of „Wein-Kunst-Kultur- Festival“
    „Rose und nicht Mimose“ (rose and not mimosa), Chamber of Commerce in Mödling/Vienna

    2007
    „mit und ohne Huhn“ (with and without chicken) – Falkenstein in the context of „Wein-Kunst-Kultur- Festival“
    Exhibition „Real i tät“ (reality check) – Heimathaus in Brunn am Gebirge

    2006
    Exhibition of “Portrait” – Zentrum Gwölb, Vienna
    „Portrait“ – Orthopaedic Hospital in Speising

    2004
    Pictorial accompaniment of „patchwork fm“ album release at Planetarium Vienna
    „people“ – Falkenstein in the context of „Wein-Kunst- Kultur“

    2003
    „aufmüpfig und angepasst“ (rebellious and adjusted) – Kirchstetten Castle
    „Wolfsfrau“ (she-wolf) – Brief joint presentation of paintings in the context of the Summer Academy in Zakynthos, Greece

    BORN TO PAINT THE PEOPLE AND THE WORLD AROUND ME

    „If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint“
    Edward Hopper