about
Ulla Hase is primarily known for her drawings, which arise out of repetitive gestures. Most of her artworks are geometric with strong atmospheric values. Ulla Hase’s rigorous working process combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of what the final result could be, she creates complex abstract works, which ultimately have as their subject the process of their own creation. Although two-dimensional, the drawings exhibit a sense of depth and movement through the various layers of lines.
”In my drawings, I engage my body and my thoughts in the space-time of the drawing process itself. For me, drawing is a means of transforming the line, a physical and mental space in movement. This interaction of hand and mind on paper helps me to deepen and structure my emotions. The lines I draw make tangible the smallest changes that gradually become major ones. There are then gaps, small interceptions, irregularities that can range from the fragility of the lines to the bleeding of the ink.”
2024 Liquid Ice, NairsLab in Scuol (CH)
2023 Contemporary Art Fair Guangzhou (China) with Odradek-residence
2023 Solo show Multiples silences, Odradek, Brussels (BE)
2023 Solo show Gardening by the moon, Mont-de-Piété, Brussels (BE)
2021 Duo show with B.Bosch, Odradek, Brussels (BE)
2021 Duo show with L.Richter, Kreativgesellschaft, Hamburg (DE)
2020 Solo show Greetings to A&A, Mont-de-Piété, Brussels (BE)
2016 Solo show, Collectiv National, Antwerp (BE)
2016 Solo show, Anne Tack, Brussels (BE)
2015 Nominee FID Drawing Prize
2015 Pas de deux, Sabine Hermans, Brussels (BE)
2015 Helder Postiga, Brussels (BE)
2014 The Spring Exhibition 2014, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DEN)
2014 Een zaak van tekenen, De Zaak, Tilburg (NL)
2014 Parcours 2014, Molenbeek (BE)
2012 Connivences, WCC, Mons (BE)
2012 Punkt ohne Wiederkehr, Wesseling (DE)
2012 Landart, Stadthagen (DE)
2011 Symposium anders & begabt, Stadthagen (DE)
2011 Iles & La Lustrerie, Brussels (BE)
2009 Festival de l'Art, Ath (BE)
2008 La vie en Rond, H29 artist space, Brussels (BE)
2008 Park58 (Bruxelles-Congrès and Recyclart) (BE)
2007 Solo show, H29 artist space, Brussels (BE)
2006 Art dans la ville, Musée de la Tapisserie, Tournai (BE)
2003 Par-delà le paysage, Les témoins oculistes, Brussels (BE)
2023 3rd winner of the 9th Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg (LU)
2023 AIR, Nairs Foundation, Scuol (CH)
2022 AIR, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (BE)
2021 AIR, Musée Jenisch, Vevey (CH)
2021 AIR, Odradek-Résidence, Brussels (BE)
2015 Nomination FID Drawing Prize
2013-23 Transmission MC, Voot, aacb Brussels, AKDT Libramont, atelier(s) Les Avins (BE)
2013-14 Grundtvig, New approaches to socially engaged practices, MC Laeken (BE)
2010 Artist project, Iles, Brussels (BE)
2005-2006 Research, Centre de la Tapisserie, Tournai (BE)
1989 Year abroad, Circle Press, London (UK)
Ulla Hase, born 1966 in Kiel (DE)
1994-1996 Postgraduate, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
1986-1992 HAW Hamburg, Diplom-Designer, Hamburg (DE)