Ursula Commandeur

1958 born in Dortmund
lives and works in Castrop-Rauxel

Strange thicket

Biography

1989 A-levels
2000 Graduated as a product designer at the FhN Krefeld
Working in own workshop since 1992

Since then numerous exhibitions at home and abroad and prizes, e.g:
2000, 2006, 2010 "Gold Coast Ceramic Award", Australia
2006 Prizewinner "100 % Fantasie", Ceramics Museum Westerwald competition
2007 NRW State Prize, Manufactum
2010 Winner of the "New Ceramics" award, International Ceramics Days Oldenburg
2010 "Primer Premio", first prize in the "Cerco 2010" international competition, Spain

Participation in trade fairs: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 art KARLSRUHE, ROOT Gallery

Artistic position

Ursula Commandeur uses wire to connect a large number of small individual modules made of white bisque porcelain to form the organic whole of a sculpture.
The decision to reduce, namely to the form of the respective individual modules and to the colours black and white, enables her to combine these individual components into an inexhaustible cosmos of forms of whimsical objects and structures again and again.

Like nature itself, Ursula Commandeur creates the individual modules of a sculpture according to the same blueprint, which, due to the handmade production of a large number of pieces, naturally exhibit deviations in form and bring tension to the modular sculpture.
The wire with which the modules are connected is always a significant part of the sculpture.

Ursula Commandeur is not only inspired by nature's blueprints in the creation of her designs, but also in her seemingly inexhaustible formal language, which has earned her international recognition and awards.
Her works are reminiscent of corals, animals from the deep sea, but also of enlargements from the microscopic realm of nature, such as viruses and spherical multicellular organisms, yet they are completely fictitious and spectacular inventions that cause a sensation in the world of objects.

Exhibitions

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Finds - Archaeology of the future

2019-2023 - Coloured pencil on index card, 10.5 × 14.8 cm each, framed, drawing

 

Land series

2017-2021 - Ink & watercolour on magazine paper, each approx. 20 × 27 cm, framed, painting

Blue archive

2023 - Mixed media on paper, variable formats

Interior views

2020 - Object collages and drawing, installation

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