Uta Richter

Uta Richter (*Berlin)
Painter

Since the 90s, Geneva-based German artist Uta Richter has worked on topics that deal with the inner driving forces of human nature. Mythological references and expressive female figures are reference points in her paintings.


Uta Richter tries to understand and deconstruct the essential mechanisms of human existence: What helps victory, of what does weakness consist.

Student of the Berlin artist Irmgard Suckau,
Studied theatre, cultural communication and literature at Humboldt-University Berlin, guest student at UdK and Kunsthochschule Weissensee
Residences and travel in Grenoble (France), Algeria, India, Havana (Cuba), Vancouver (Canada), Igea (La Rioja, Spain), La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland), Vietnam, Moscow (Russia), Ksar Ghilane (Tunisia)
1993-present: Individual and group exhibitions
1993-present coached by the art historian Claudia Wasow-Kania, Berlin
2002: Co-founder of the painting studio at MottattoM and the producers gallery Del Sol (former Artamis Hall 9), Geneva, Switzerland
2003-present: Member of the Swiss Visual Artists Society VISARTE (socité des artistes visuels)
2005-2009: Co-founder, project coordinator and committee member of the Geneva Artists Federation Act-Art
2007 co-founder of the artists association Affiche Sauvage (Wild Poster)
2016 co-founder of the producers gallery projetM, MottattoM, Geneva
Works by the artist are in private collections in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Neumünster, Kiel, Köln, Gera), Switzerland (Geneva, Meyrin, Sion, Lausanne, Zürich), France (Annonay, Grenoble, Strasbourg, Metz, Cluses), Austria (Vienna), Spain (Madrid), Israel (Tel-Aviv), Cub...