Uwe Kowski (born 1963 in Leipzig, based in Berlin, Germany) examines his interactions with his environment in paintings that turn imagery and symbols from everyday life into vibrant abstract compositions. Probing the medium’s potential, Kowski often works instinctively, where he employs a broad color palette, and frees himself completely from painting’s imperative to represent the visible world.
In doing so the skilled sign writer, who studied painting and graphics at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig from 1984 through 1989, extends the lines driven by color plains sometimes by text and writings. After a first impression of abundance and complexity, the seemingly accidental opulence appears as an intended composition scheme.
Uwe Kowski’s works have been shown in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions, including at the Kunsthalle Rostock, the G2 Kunsthalle in Leipzig, at the Kunstmuseum Bochum, at the RUIZ-HEALY ART in San Antonio, at the Kunsthalle Emden, at the Museum der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig, at the Seong-nam Art Center Foundation in Seoul, at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden or at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
His work is now for example in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, the Museum Junge Kunst in Frankfurt, the Collection Kunsthalle Rostock or the State Art Collections Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister.