Chris Ui

For me art is a kind of science of the (sub)conscious that investigates reality and creates culture. Usually, I use a conceptual approach by becoming aware of my feelings, developing an idea and then work again intuitively. I am drawing/painting as well as taking photographs because I can get a deeper understanding of things which gives me calm and clarity.

My topics involve the human body, culture, architecture, mass phenomena and social criticism. I am interested how we perceive life, what we allow to enter inside and what we show to the outside. I like to work with text as a subject or literally in a work of art.
Architecture, its decay and the comparison with the human body is an important topic in my photography.

When painting, I love the variety of oil colors and the spontaneity of watercolor. Recently I experimented with pastel, acryl markers and calligraphy brushes for expressive sketching. I work with digital and analog photography.

2017:
Diploma student at kunstschule.wien, Vienna (Austria)
Workshop on caricature with Reini Buchacher
2016:
Foundation Class at the “Wiener Kunstschule”, Vienna (Austria)
Workshop/Course on art photography with Gabriele Schatzl, Vienna
Workshop on caricature with Reini Buchacher
2015:
Course on Oil paintings with Michael Fuchs
2005:
Course on Experimental oil paintings with Sophia Brandtner
Course on Nude and motion study with Udo Hohenberger
2004:
Course on Nude and portrait with Wolfgang Ammer
1996:
Course on watercolor with Robert Colnago

2018:
Installation and Performance, Markuskirche Ottakring, Vienna
"Nude", Kunstwerkstatt, Vienna
"Spontissage" in public space, Vienna
2017:
"Spring Pop-Up", Biennale Austria
"Polarity 1_3" (GalerieStudio38), Offspace CI, Vienna
"Inside and Out" (4 artists focus), kunstschaffen, Art Hotel Vienna. "Humor and Arts", ip.forum, Vienna
"Realise" (Wiener Kunstschule), KunstVHS, Vienna. "Liebe deinen Nächsten-Wer ist eigentlich mein Nächster" (with Ibrahim Barghoud and Beate Krempe/Caritas Viersen), Wiener Integrationswoche, Cafe CI, Vienna.
2016:
Exhibition of photographs, Analog-Dialog: Life and Still, „Komm und Schau eine Art“ Galerie, Mödling
"Approaching each other", Bezirksvorstehung Wieden, Vienna. "Borders and Migration 3_3" (GalerieStudio38), Offspace CI, Vienna. "The animal in me" (Exhibiton with Monika Grill representing literature), Xi Literaturcafe, Vienna. "100 years kunstschaffen", Art Hotel Vienna. "4 Elements", Kunstwerkstatt, Vienna
2015:
"Vienna at night“ (analog photographs), Frisör Thüringer, Meidling. Organization of the group exhibition „Decay and Creation“ (Photos and objects from the cement factory Perlmooser in Liesing), Bezirksmuseum Liesing, Vienna.