19. Uta Schotten - Illuminated No. 2

2026
Mixed media and charcoal on paper
15.5 x 10.5 x 1 cm (framed in a silver-plated frame with museum glass)
Signed on Verso

Uta Schotten is a contemporary German artist whose work explores themes of human consciousness, perception and emotional states that resist straightforward verbal expression. Living and working in Cologne, Schotten creates psychologically charged paintings that investigate the complexity of human nature through an introspective and often metaphysical lens.

A graduate of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Schotten studied under influential artists including Jörg Immendorff, Steven McKenna, Rissa and Siegfried Anzinger. Between 1997 and 1999, she worked as a tutor and assistant to Anzinger at the academy while also serving as an ASTA student representative during the application selection process. In 1998, she was appointed Meisterschülerin (master student) of Prof. Siegfried Anzinger before completing her Fine Art diploma in 1999. From 2003 to 2005, she worked as a sculptor in the studio of Tony Cragg in Wuppertal.

Schotten has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, both solo and in group exhibitions. Selected solo exhibitions include Reflections at Gallery Biesenbach, Cologne (2018), In Paradise at Gallery Michael Heufelder, Munich (2017), Resonance at the Städtisches Museum Kalkar (2017), My Kingdom Is Not of This World at the Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz (2014), and exhibitions at Gallery Thomas Zander, Cologne and Galerie Espace Canopy, Paris.

Her work has also appeared in major institutional exhibitions, including the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Royal Academy of Arts. In these exhibitions, she has shown alongside artists including Rosemarie Trockel, Leiko Ikemura, Andy Warhol, Marina Abramović, Anselm Kiefer and Thomas Ruff.

Schotten has received several notable grants and scholarships, including an Art Scholarship from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (2020), a scholarship from GVL (2021), and a Work Scholarship from Kunstfonds Bonn in 2022.