news, Pinsel und eine Lilie
Uwe Kowski
30 October – 20 December 2025
Opening: Thursday, 30 October, 5 – 8pm
The Berlin gallery is not barrier-free. But please feel free to call ahead at +49-30-2806605 and we are happy to assist you, so that it will be possible for you to enjoy the show.
"Something should happen that does not work verbally. I often put myself in uncharted territory, because although I have a rough idea of what I want to do, I don‘t actually know where it will take me. It doesn‘t always work; I want this pure form of painting, but I need a part of the story, the beginning, or the subject. (…) That‘s also why I often say that my painting isn‘t abstract; it comes from somewhere. For me, abstract is red, green, and yellow.
I don‘t find the term abstract painting very productive; it doesn‘t describe anything in particular. The message is: painting! The way there is always different."
- Uwe Kowski -
(From “When Art Takes Over – A Conversation Between Uwe Kowski and Christian Jost”, 2020)
Uwe Kowski was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1963. From 1984 to 1989, he studied painting and graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown. He currently lives and works in the Prignitz and Berlin, Germany. His work has been exhibited numerous times in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including at the Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany; the Millennium Gallery Sheffield, GB; the G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, Germany; the AKI Gallery Taipei, Taiwan; the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany; the Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany; RUIZ-HEALY ART San Antonio/Texas, USA; the Kunsthalle Emden, Germany; the Museum of the China Academy of Art Hangzhou, China; the CAFA Museum Beijing, China; the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany; the Seongnam Arts Foundation Seoul, South Korea; the Museum Frieder Burda Baden-Baden, Germany; and the Museum of Modern Art New York, USA.
Works by Uwe Kowski can now be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA; the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany; the Museum Junge Kunst in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; the Kunsthalle Rostock collection, Germany; the Sheffield Art Collection, GB and the Dresden State Art Collections, Galerie Neue Meister, Germany among others.
In his canvases and watercolours, Kowski combines objects and dissolution, linear structures and flatness. His works are created through an impressive painterly process that combines intuition and control, emotion and composition, constantly opening up new pictorial spaces.
