Ulf Puder Leipzig, Germany, b. 1958

Ulf Puder was born in Leipzig in 1958. He lives and works between Leipzig and Liemehna.

He studied at the HGB (Academy of Visual Arts) in Leipzig and was a member of the Gloucestershire College of Art and Technology in Cheltenham. Puder is a cofounder of the artist group PIG (1982).

Puder’s paintings oscillate between abstraction and representation, in a body of work that also juxtaposes chaos and calm, treated by the artist as contiguous emotions. Beneath skies of muted tones, he reveals the desolation of an industrialized world in which human creations do not simply offer refuge.

Puder has had numerous international exhibitions, both solo and group, at galleries such as Marc Straus, New York; Moeller Witt, Aarhus; Jochen Hempel, Leipzig; Essl Museum, Klosterneuberg; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; Camden Art Centre, London; the Museum of Modern Art, Berlin; the Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; and Berggruen, San Francisco.

Puder’s works are part of important public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, the Hildebrand Collection in Leipzig, the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, and the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.