Ulrika Eller-Rüter

(* 1962 Hamburg)
1982 – 1988 Studied painting and graphics in the Department of Fine Arts/University of Wuppertal with Michael Badura, among others Vocal training with Claudia Visca (Wuppertal Opera, Vienna Conservatory of Music).
1989 Doctorate on "Kandinsky: Stage Composition and Poetry as Realisation of his Concept of Synthesis" with Prof. Dr. Donat de Chapeaurouge
2006 Professor of Painting and Art in a Social Context at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter/Bonn
2008 Foundation of the Institute for Art in Social Context ; since then intercultural, participatory, interdisciplinary projects in public space and performances in Romania, Palestine, South Africa, Russia, Nicaragua, China, Iran, Lithuania, Germany.
2019 Prize of the International Print Biennial Kazan/ Russia
in Wuppertal and Bonn

Ausstellungen (Auswahl)

2020 "Sea_Level", Meno Parka Gallery, Kaunas
2019 "Ausstellung und Performance", ASP Gallery Krakau, Krakau, Poland
2019 "von G.B. Pergolesi", Galerie Fiftyfifty, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 "SchattenLicht", Atelierhaus Vok, Dams, Germany
2017 A3 Gallery Moskau, Moskau
2016 "Second View", Aria Gallery, Teheran
2015 "Second Sight: Performance", Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2014 "Performance: „Leçons de Ténèbres; mit Gesang; Percussion; Lichtinstallation;Tanz", Köln / Bonn, Germany
2013 "KAS", Europaparlament, Brüssel, Belgium
2013 "Performance: Leçons de Ténèbres", Sant Anselmo und Pantheon, Rom, Italy
2012 Galerie H & H, Köln, Germany

Prof. Dr. Ulrika Eller-Rüter is a multimedia artist in her own right.
She realises her projects in various countries around the world such as Palestine, Poland, South Africa, Romania, Nicaragua, China, Iran, Russia and of course in Germany.
It is important to her that her projects are interdisciplinary, that they are performative and that they are participatory.
Another characteristic is that she works across genres. This means that she mixes painterly, graphic, installative, performative and musical elements.
In her artistic work, the artist investigates, as she says herself, the "subcutaneous", that which is hidden under the skin, i.e. the surface, the neuralgic points of social coexistence.
Our exhibition "Sea Level" with the artist is a prime example of this. As the title of our exhibition already suggests, the artist deals with "water", which almost independently "paints" the works of art with the pigments dissolved in it within the framework of the colour and aesthetic space provided by the artist.
The mere occupation with the different abilities of water sharpens our senses for this medium. The perspective with which we view it changes. The positive, luminous colouring of the artworks does the rest and cuts into our thinking. Thinking and feeling become one.
And suddenly we realise that our thinking and the resulting actions are of global significance. Water, available in so many different ways around the world, is our life.
That is why we find it important to look at this topic in a completely different way. Unbiased, without the raised forefinger, without "you should" or "you must not". And a gallery does this through the medium of art. Because art has a meaning, a relevance. It directs a critical gaze at the subject of "water", only much more calmly and subtly than the often lurid headlines of the news.

Visiting professorships
2015 Visiting Professorship at the Academy of Arts, Krakow, Poland
2015 Visiting Professorship in the Visual Arts Department of Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2016 Visiting Professor in the Fine Arts Department of Al Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestine
2017 Visiting Professor at the Visual Department of Sichuan China University, Chengdu, China
2018 Visiting Professor at the Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania